Court cases for a wedding cake baker and a web developer for refusing to serve gay clients.

Crime fighting versus privacy rights.

That was the debate today during a Judiciary Committee hearing.

House Bill 58 would prevent law enforcement and others from keeping data from license plate cameras for more than 90 days.

As our Mackenzie Spink tells us, some lawmakers feel the measure doesn't go far enough to protect Kentuckians privacy.

>> Automated license plate readers take pictures of the plates of every car that passes by the camera.

According to House Bill 58.

The data recorded about those vehicles includes the license plate number and the car's make and model.

Law enforcement uses this data in several ways as a crime fighting tool, including to help find stolen vehicles and more.

Under House Bill 58 data recorded about your vehicle by the plate readers would disappear after 90 days.

>> The crux of the bill is that we are intending to limit the retention of that data to 90 days after, with certain exceptions, it should be destroyed, so it can't be used for future fishing expeditions, and also to strictly limit the sale or even giving away of that data to avoid invading people's personal privacy.

>> There are exceptions to the bill.

The data captured by a license plate reader can be held for longer than 90 days.

If the information is relevant in an investigation or open court case.

>> You mention in here that 90 day retention, I believe if I read correctly, is there an exception?

If there is a pending court case that needs that data to be retained until the conclusion of that court case?

>> Yes.

If there's an active criminal investigation, you can retain it as long as necessary.

And also an active insurance investigation or subpoena.

>> While the bill received unanimous support from the House Judiciary Committee, some lawmakers voiced opposition to the existence of automated plate readers at all.

>> This is a significant step in the right direction.

I don't trust automated enforcement of anything.

The error rates that we see on this has resulted in catastrophic results for innocent parties, including third parties, that had nothing to do with the topic of the investigation.

Simply put, the right to be left alone is one of those rights that sparked the revolution that created this country.

This gets us closer to that effort and ensures that there's at least guardrails in place to ensure that citizens are not constantly being spied on.

And that's not a right, and that's not a right to protect the guilty.

It's a right to protect the innocent.

>> Depending on where you are in the state, the location of automatic license plate readers may be public, like in Lexington, or they may be undisclosed, which is the case in Louisville.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Mackenzie Spink.

>> Thank you.

Mackenzie.

This month, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said that Louisville Metro Police do not need to reveal the locations of its license plate cameras.

He agreed with LMPD that publicizing their