EL CAJON, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The City of El Cajon is being sued by the State of California over its police department sharing information obtained with license plate readers with out-of-state agencies.

State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit at a press conference on Friday, implying that the mayor and police department are violating the constitutional rights of citizens by sharing data collected by automated license plate readers, also known as ALPRs.

“It’s very clear if you read the law, there is just no prohibition from sharing data with other agencies,” El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas.

“They just decided that this is the law because they’re paranoid that somehow we’re going to stop people from coming into El Cajon to have abortions, or they’re going to stop people from coming in for transgender surgeries. And of course, the immigration issue. So they’re they’re reading something into the law that’s just not there,” he added.

Bonta argues that the city of El Cajon and the mayor are violating the law established by Senate Bill 34, which was passed by the state legislature in 2015.

The mayor went on to say they have roughly 100 cameras in place. He gave examples of the positives that law enforcement has seen from implementing the cameras and how they have helped them in several situations.

“Sometimes people don’t respect state borders,” Wells stated. “We have people that commit crimes here that go to other cities throughout the United States. We want them to be picked up in other cities as vice versa. It happens that people commit crimes in cities outside of California. And we want to know when they’re those people are here in our city.”

From here, El Cajon’s mayor says that the city council will look at the lawsuit and decide whether or not to fight it.