Despite some public backlash and a lawsuit from the California Attorney General, El Cajon City Council members made it clear Tuesday that they have no plans to stop sharing license plate surveillance data with out-of-state police agencies.

Mayor Bill Wells said at the council’s regular public meeting that the city will only stop the controversial practice if a state judge orders them to do so.

El Cajon is the only police department in California that shares data from its automated license plate reader (ALPR) system with law enforcement agencies outside the state, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta.

that data collected in El Cajon has been used in hundreds of immigration-related searches nationwide. California sanctuary laws generally prohibit local resources from being used for fed

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