{"id":62,"date":"2026-05-09T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bouldermovingguide.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:33:14","slug":"amabile-pulls-colorado-bill-limiting-flock-and-other-license-plate-readers-we-didnt-have-the-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bouldermovingguide.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Amabile pulls Colorado bill limiting Flock and other license plate readers: \u2018We didn\u2019t have the votes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"136px\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_NKDzNiYeEXP?client=wp&amp;client_version=3.1.7\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Boulder state Sen. Judy Amabile on April 29 pulled her bill to limit the use of automatic license plate readers and other technologies that collect location data, including systems like Flock, after concluding it lacked the votes to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bouldermovingguide.com\/?p=61\">Thousands rally against Trump in Boulder as \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests spread nationwide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have the votes,\u201d Amabile said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bill was drafted with Flock in mind. The company\u2019s cameras capture identifying details about vehicles and store that information in a database shared with agencies across the state and sometimes the country. Law enforcement agencies can search that data without a warrant, using AI-assisted tools that allow queries based on characteristics\u00a0such as vehicle color or accessories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amabile said the bill aimed to place \u201cguardrails\u201d on that system, particularly by limiting access to aggregated historical data that can track a person\u2019s movements over time. She contrasted that with tools like speed cameras, which capture a plate number in a single instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said the bill ran into strong opposition from law enforcement organizations, which influenced lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of my colleagues say, \u2018I just can\u2019t vote for this because I\u2019m getting hammered by law enforcement,\u2019\u201d she told Boulder Reporting Lab, adding that some legislators were hearing directly from their city managers or police chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, Colorado District Attorney\u2019s Council, Colorado State Fire Chiefs, County Sheriffs of Colorado as well as several city governments opposed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>She also encountered confusion about what the bill would do. Some worried it would limit the use of speed cameras, red light cameras, dash cams or body cameras. \u201cNone of that was in the bill,\u201d Amabile said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bouldermovingguide.com\/?p=60\">UCAR asks court to stop Trump\u2019s NCAR breakup while legal challenge plays out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had somebody say, \u2018this will set back law enforcement by 40 years,\u2019\u201d Amabile said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t even had these technologies 40 years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In February, she amended the bill to try to find a middle ground, allowing police longer periods of data retention and expanding the window of time for warrantless searches from one day to three. The compromise cost her some\u00a0progressive votes, she said, while not winning enough moderate votes to advance the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amabile said she was also told that Gov. Jared Polis would veto the bill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsuring that law enforcement has the tools they need to solve crimes and keep the public safe is a top priority for the Governor,\u201d a spokesperson from his office said. \u201cGovernor Polis has consistently said that he would support codifying best practices into law as it relates to license plate readers. However, SB26-070 went much further than that, and would have negatively impacted public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amabile said she did not want to push the bill forward without a clear path to passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plan was to come back next year and do more work in the interim to make the bill more clear, in terms of what it didn\u2019t do,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd hope for a governor who thinks it\u2019s okay to put guardrails around mass surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bouldermovingguide.com\/?p=59\">Furloughs canceled at Boulder NOAA Global Monitoring Lab after $4 million in federal funding released<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition from law enforcement and concerns about surveillance limits stalled effort to restrict how police use vehicle location data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing","tag-flock"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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