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Senate amends bill to regulate automatic license plate readers in VA, pumps the brakes on expanding the technology to state highways

With just a few days left in the 2025 Regular General Assembly Session, lawmakers continued to grapple with how to regulate and perhaps expand the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in Virginia. 

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – With just a few days left in the 2025 Regular General Assembly Session, lawmakers continued to grapple with how to regulate and perhaps expand the use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in Virginia. 

“We had a member of our General Assembly’s father who was found because of a license plate reader just a few weeks ago,” House Majority Leader Delegate Charniele Herring (D-Alexandria) told 8News.