The Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee has tentatively rejected Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong’s bid for the continued use of automated license plate readers to solve crimes.

Councilmember and Chair Carroll Fife and Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan voted to send the request back to the city’s Privacy Advisory Commission before the committee considers the idea again. Fife said she needs more time to decide.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.