Automatic License Plate Reader Privacy Act
Nebraska ALPR Privacy Act
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This law limits government use of automatic license plate readers to listed purposes such as traffic enforcement, stolen vehicles, warrants, missing persons, parking, secured-area access, tolling, and weigh stations. It caps retention at 180 days absent evidentiary need, requires posted use and privacy policies and annual reports, and keeps captured plate data out of public records.
- Where
- Nebraska
- Citation
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3201 to 60-3209
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2018-07-19
- Last amended
- 2025-09-03
- Enforced by
- Courts (civil damages; evidentiary exclusion); Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice receives annual reports
- People can sue
- Yes
- Penalties
- Violators are liable for damages proximately caused to the business, person, or reputation of another (60-3208); captured plate data obtained in violation is inadmissible (60-3207).
- Applies to
- Governmental entities (state, federal, other state, and local agencies and their agents) using automatic license plate reader systems (60-3202(4), 60-3203)
- Operators of ALPR systems, as to data preservation requests (60-3205(1))
- Any person who violates the act, as to civil damages (60-3208)
What a privacy notice must say
- Governmental users must adopt and post a use policy and a privacy policy and publish an annual usage report.Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3206
Practices it requires
- Governmental entities may use ALPR systems only for listed law enforcement, parking, secured-area, tolling, and weigh-station purposes.Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3203
- Do not retain captured plate data longer than 180 days unless it is evidence, subject to a preservation request, or covered by a warrant, subpoena, or court order.Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3204(1)
- ALPR operators must preserve captured plate data on a sworn request from a governmental entity or criminal defendant pending a warrant, subpoena, or court order.Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3205(1)
- Captured plate data is not a public record and may be disclosed only to the registered owner, with the owner's written consent, by court order, or on a match; protection orders further limit disclosure.Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3209
Sources
- Official text
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3201 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3203 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3208 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3209 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Revisor cross-reference table of effective dates, 2018 session (LB93: July 19, 2018)
- Revisor cross-reference table of effective dates, 2025 session (LB80: September 3, 2025)
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Research reference, not legal advice.