Fair enough. To prevent problems, only Cronin and Hutton can add plates to the hot list. Each time a plate is run for historical data by either an officer or r

Fair enough. To prevent problems, only Cronin and Hutton can add plates to the hot list. Each time a plate is run for historical data by either an officer or requested by an outside agency, the requester has to inform the chief by e-mail. Requests are tallied in an annual report for the town council. The system parses license plates and matches them against a hot list. If a match is made, then a human gets notified. Some database somewhere knows the cars that have come and gone. But there is nothing to indicate that each license plate that gets captured is matched up to a person. The screen shot they have only shows the basic info captured from the camera. So unless your plate is on the hot list or someone with the authority requests to pull historical data about your plate number this does seem like a reasonable degree of anonymity. It would be nice if this was regulated a bit. Data should get purged in a reasonable time frame. Solid auditing for data retrieval requests.