Sean Case
8:08 - 8:36
“if it does have some of those limiting capabilities that moves it outside of the exigent circumstance category, we would be able without this to use license plate reader to potentially find that vehicle, conduct a lower-risk traffic stop to confirm what we think may not be a bomb call, but still make contact and do that investigation”
- Speaker
- Sean Case
- Timestamp
- 8:08 – 8:36
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- November 4, 2026
From the transcript
It's different. I would just say that in the example that we're using of the bomb threat, it does— the facts and details of the call determine whether or not that in and of itself is exigent. So, for example, we have these calls that are called swatting calls or fake calls that come in. And we have little bits of pieces of information that if we act on the totality of that call and we kick in a door, do a felony traffic stop, do a whole host of things, and that's not a reasonable decision based on all the fine details, uh, that's, that's, that's going to be not a good search, not a good, uh, reason to point our guns at people and do a felony stop. However, if it, if it does have some of those limiting capabilities that moves it outside of the exigent circumstance category, we would be able without this to use license plate reader to potentially find that vehicle, conduct a lower-risk traffic stop to confirm what we think may not be a bomb call, but still make contact and do that investigation and use— Madam Chair, I need to move to extend debate again.
Related Coverage
Anchorage passes surveillance rules, rejects new limits on plate reader searches
The Assembly wrote police plate reader and crime center rules into code 11-1, but left the 14-day data limit in police policy and rejected new search limits.
