Why are some license plates blurred in Latvian police traffic violation videos?

A resident reached out to the Latvian television program "Bez tabu" with a question about an inconsistency noticed in videos published by the State Police on social media.

The viewer expressed confusion over the fact that in some videos showing traffic violations, the license plates of the vehicles involved are deliberately blurred, while in other similar recordings the plates remain fully visible.

This inconsistent practice has raised questions about what criteria or rules determine when police choose to protect a violator's identity by obscuring the license plate, and in which cases no such blurring is applied.

The question was directed specifically at the program in hopes of clarifying this uncertainty, which touches on the boundaries between privacy protection and public disclosure of information in cases of traffic violations.