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Is it illegal for a off duty police officer to run your license plate?
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Police officers aren't required to have probable cause or any level of suspicion to check the registration status of a license plate or determine if it is stolen. However, police data systems cannot be used for personal business. The officer must have a legitimate law enforcement purpose in making any inquiry to the database. If the officer performed such an inquiry while off duty, it wouldn't necessarily be unlawful. He would have to have a legitimate law enforcement interest to do so, as opposed to some personal reason for making the inquiry.
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