Dayton suspends automated license plate readers after 'egregious' data sharing violations

The Dayton Police Department indefinitely suspended its fixed ALPR program after an internal review found 7,100 search requests citing immigration-related purposes had been made against city data despite policy prohibitions. City Manager Shelley Dickstein called the failures 'egregious violations of policy' and Mayor Shenise Turner-Sloss agreed with public calls to disband the program entirely. The city is hiring an independent firm to audit the full Flock program.