Emerging Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Examines automated license plate readers, drones, real-time crime centers, facial recognition and civilian oversight. Twelve findings and twelve recommendations distinguish County, municipal and Metro responsibilities. The County supplies substantive responses on County matters and explicit jurisdiction disclaimers for other agencies. Those disclaimers are not responses from the named cities or Metro. Privacy safeguards and effectiveness claims remain attributed. Physical PDF pages 339–394 of the unchanged 519-page annual. All report downloads open that same complete original, not extracted chapters.
Response available · Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)
Adopted County response: Emerging Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement Agencies
County describes COC technology activity, defends ALPR retention and distinguishes Board appointments from LASD station advisory groups. Municipal and Metro finding replies expressly disclaim County jurisdiction; they are not those agencies’ substantive responses. No audit is invented for absent recommendation entries R9.4–R9.11. Download opens the same unchanged 70-page consolidated County packet used by all eight collections.
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