License plate cameras are already watching your car — in most towns, you have no idea who looks you up, why, or how often. This portal shows you when a person searched your plate at an agency running TRAICE.
TRAICE is investigative software for police departments. It works with the license-plate-reading cameras a town already owns, and detectives use it to solve real cases — burglaries, stolen cars, hit-and-runs, missing people.
What makes it different is that the rules are built into the code, not written in a policy binder. No one can search plates casually: every search requires a documented case and a written, signed reason. A policy engine automatically blocks overbroad sweeps before they run. Supervisors approve what needs approving. And every single action — every search, every approval, every look — is permanently recorded in a log that cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, including the company.
TRAICE is not a camera network. It does not own the cameras, does not own the data, and never pools information between towns or sells it to anyone. The department owns everything; TRAICE only licenses the software. And because the public should be able to verify all of this rather than take our word for it — this portal exists.
Download the Public Brief (PDF)Cameras photograph thousands of plates a day; that's a machine. What matters is human access. This portal discloses exactly that, and nothing else.
Your plate came up in the results of a documented vehicle search — one that required a case, a written justification, an officer's signature, and (when required) a supervisor's approval before it could run.
Your plate matched an agency alert list — for example, if your car was reported stolen. Every alert entry requires a stated lawful reason, reviewed before it's active.
A person at the agency opened your plate's profile and reviewed it. Machines scanning in the background don't count — a human choosing to look at your car does.
Two deliberate limits protect you and your neighbors. We'd rather explain them than hide them.
This portal never shows where any car was seen. A public map of plate sightings would let anyone track any car — an abusive ex, a stalker, anyone. So scans and locations are never publicly disclosable. Only human access events are.
Events appear after a disclosure delay (typically 90 days). If a detective is actively working a case, an instant portal would tip off the exact person being investigated. The delay means you still get the truth — without turning transparency into a lookout service.
A person cannot search plates casually. Every search requires a documented case and a written justification, signed by the officer — and a deterministic policy engine blocks overbroad sweeps before they run.
Every action lands on a tamper-evident, cryptographically chained audit record. There is no delete button — not for officers, not for chiefs, not for us. Every 30 days the entire dataset is frozen into an immutable, downloadable version.
Data is never sold, shared, or pooled into a national network. Your town's data belongs to your town — a founding commitment, in writing, in every agreement.
This page is the point. If your town runs TRAICE, you can see when a person accessed your plate. No records request. No lawyer. Just the truth, on a delay that protects active cases.
Straight answers to fair questions: TRAICE is a new company — no certifications are claimed; the platform is designed to align with CJIS standards and is validated with each agency. This portal only shows activity from agencies running TRAICE. It cannot see — and does not excuse — any other system.
If your community is debating license plate readers — or already regretting them — the question isn't cameras or no cameras. It's secret access or accountable access. Share this page with your council, your chief, or your neighborhood group. We'll show any town, in writing, exactly how accountable this technology can be.
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