ALPR Program

Attorney General Law Enforcement Directive No. 2022-12 (“the Directive”) was issued by Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin to all New Jersey law enforcement chief executives and county prosecutors, updating the 2010 Directive on Regulating Use of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology. The Directive created the State ALPR Coordinator position responsible for administering the New Jersey Statewide Networked ALPR Program (NJ SNAP).

Agency ALPR Coordinators and the Annual Audit

The Directive also requires every law enforcement agency in the state to designate an Agency ALPR Coordinator. Under the Directive, every Agency ALPR Coordinator is required to perform an annual audit of their agency’s ALPR program and provide it to the County and State ALPR Coordinator. The current audit policies require Agency ALPR Coordinators to certify the following:

• The agency has an ALPR policy in place;
• Only authorized users have accessed ALPR data;
• The date of each authorized user’s last ALPR Directive training;
• That a random survey of ALPR accesses revealed no misuse;
• After the random sampling, documentation for select users’ ALPR Activity has been requested, received and reviewed to reveal or detect any misuse;
• A description of any known significant violations and citizen complaints, and whether they have been forwarded to the County and State ALPR Coordinators and the County Prosecutor or Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) Director; and
• The agency is in compliance with Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) requirements and is allowed to receive Hotlists.

In addition to setting minimum audit certification requirements, the Directive requires the State ALPR Coordinator to publish annually a report that lists agencies that have completed audits, and the number of significant violations and citizen complaints reported by each agency.

The audit for the following reporting years are available here:
2023 NJ SNAP ALPR Audit Report
2024 NJ SNAP ALPR Audit Report