California Police Share License Plate Data with ICE Police in Pasadena and Long Beach broke their vows to not share data with ICE. However, the departments released vehicle license plate information to the agency. by Suhauna Hussain, Johana Bhuiyan, Los Angeles Times / December 21, 2020 Shutterstock (TNS) — When the city of Pasadena approved the police department's request to purchase three new automatic license plate readers, Commander Jason Clawson promised the city's public safety committee the department wouldn't share any data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "Robust policies and procedures are in place to prevent the system and the information it gathers from being used inappropriately or differently from its intended purpose," Clawson told the City Council's public safety committee at the time.