State leaders form task force to discuss potential Automatic License Plate Reader legislation

Our Take

Credit to 13WMAZ for flagging this early: Georgia state leaders are putting together a task force to talk about Automatic License Plate Reader legislation. Nothing's been drafted yet, and the earliest any bill could move is the 2027 session. That's a long runway, and it's exactly the kind of gap that lets ALPR networks like Flock Safety keep expanding unchecked while "task force discussions" happen behind closed doors.

Here's the thing about task forces: they can be genuine first steps toward accountability, or they can be a way to look responsive while kicking real oversight down the road for years. Two years is plenty of time for more Georgia cities and counties to sign Flock contracts, stack up billions of plate scans, and normalize a surveillance dragnet before a single law exists to govern it. Retroactively reining in infrastructure that's already built and already habit is always harder than stopping it before it spreads.

If you're in Georgia, this is the moment to pay attention, not wait for 2027. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to push your local officials and state reps for real transparency and limits now, before the task force's "someday" becomes everyone's permanent normal.