The Alamo Heights Police Department policy states, in part, that the photos are used as identification for potential suspects involved in crimes that have yet to be reported.
– Award-winning KSAT reporter Jonathan Cotto was nearing the end of a 10-hour drive home from visiting family out of state on Sept. 4 when he was pulled over near Alamo Heights High School.
revealed the image is one of potentially thousands taken of motorists by AHPD in the past two years. The images are kept off-site by a third-party vendor, AHPD officials confirm. “I believe that he was subjected to an unconstitutional search,” said Webber, who pointed out that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
AHPD officials said it would cost KSAT $2,800 plus unknown additional costs for the department to download and process for release the 10,690 citation records.
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