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Who runs license plate readers in Josephine County?

On the map

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Verified by us
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Community-reported

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What we do not know

Josephine County Sheriff

  • The contract itself: start date, terms, and the year-one payment, none of which appears in the readable board record.
  • The SB 1516 section 7 publication for the months the system ran after 31 March 2026, and the section 6 vendor figures: camera locations, search counts, and every agency with access.
  • The termination record, and what happened to the collected data when the program ended.
  • The ALPR policy in force while the cameras ran (the published manual is unreadable scans).

What license plate readers are

An automated license plate reader photographs every passing vehicle and records the plate, the time and the place. It does not watch suspects. It logs everyone, and the record is usually kept on a vendor’s servers.

How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →

What you can do

Civic action

Show up

This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have not yet confirmed where each of them meets in Josephine County.

Go to the Josephine County hub →

Personal protection

Protect yourself

Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.

Surveillance Self-Defense ↗