[johndubchak]

How solid is it?

You can easily keep license plate data much longer by simply stating, "we are using it as evidence". For what? "An on-going investigation."

Done. Now you have it for much longer than 60 days.

[toomuchtodo]

It’s substantially better than no governance and oversight, and additional reporting of deviations can be mandated (require documentation of what ongoing investigations data retention extension requests are tied to).

You have to start somewhere.