Colorado license plate reader law

Colorado has a cap, but a long one. A limit measured in months or years is a record of everywhere you went in that time. A private company logging your trips here has to delete them if you ask. You have no clear right to see what has been collected about you.

This state exempts this data from public records. The records branch dead-ends here, and asking will not change that.

Limit on how long data is kept: Weak

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-72-113. Passive surveillance records must be destroyed after three years. The cap is general rather than plate-reader specific. Source

Private cameras regulated: Yes

Colorado has a comprehensive consumer privacy law in effect carrying a right to delete, which reaches a private operator. Source

You can see your own record: No

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-72-113. No right of access to your own record is given. Source

Sharing restricted: No

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-72-113. The section governs how long passive surveillance records may be kept and places no restriction on who they may be shared with. Source

Audits required: No

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-72-113. No audit or report is required. Source

Graded on all five criteria. Read against the statute itself.