Nashville, Tennessee (WKRN) – Nashville’s discussion on the implementation of license recognition technology (LPR) across the city is underway. A member of the metro council encouraged companies in the region and owners of private property to install their own LPR technology.
Metro advice approved The permanent expansion of the cameras of the license plate reader in August 2023. However, the cameras and the LPR panels were turn off And removed following the six -month -old pilot program and would be broken unless the metro council approves a contract. However, the member of the Metro Council for the District 32, Joy Styles, has taken care of.
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“What I wanted to do is understand: what can we do as a community?” Said styles.
Styles said that she did not wait for the Citywide to launch program; Instead, she pressure it so that members of her district, who are in Antioch, to obtain one step ahead.
“My desire is to bring (LPR technology to) our local businesses, our local complexes, and our apartment complexes,” said Styles. “What it means for us is that you can always take images and give it to MNPD (the Metro Nashville police department).”
The LPR cameras scan license plates and compare them to state and federal databases to help locate stolen vehicles and disappeared and sought after.
“They don’t apply speed. They do not apply traffic. They do not make facial recognition ”, Alex Guth, the director of sales of the territory to Herd securitysaid. “You need a photo of the license plate, and it removes it after 30 days.”
The mayor of Nashville, Freddie O’Connell, said that the LPR debate could advance once another surveillance camera program, called FususGo to the metro council.
“(Metro Council) will reconsider the Fusus program,” said O’Connell. “Once it is done, we will continue to have both conversations with the community, with the police service and with the members of the council.”
O’Connell added that LPRs are on the right track for this year’s legislative calendar.
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LPR cameras have been successfully implemented in counties Surrounding Davidson. In a case SundayA one -year -old baby was killed in a shooting of Murfreesboro and the shooter fled. However, the license plate was reported by the herd’s flock camera system of the Sheriff of the County of Williamson.
“We were able to obtain justice for this mother,” said Guth.
Styles told News 2 that some companies in the region and apartments have already registered in the service. She hopes that more will make the same decision.
“I believe that if we are committed to our region, we will see a decrease in crime,” said Styles.
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