License plate recognition cameras have become vital tools in helping police solve serious crimes, but some Utahns have ...

Pennsylvania's redesigned "Let Freedom Ring" license plates feature slashed zeros—but toll cameras see eights, triggering ...

Police in South Dakota logged fewer theft reports in 2025 than the previous year, but made more arrests for theft. The ...

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Police in South Dakota logged fewer theft reports in 2025 than the previous year, but made more arrests for theft. The figures suggest surveillance technology ...

Michigan state lawmakers are pushing to regulate automatic license plate readers after years of debate over the surveillance technology in metro Detroit communities.

Imagine you’re preparing to drive home from a doctor’s appointment when a law enforcement officer approaches your vehicle, takes a photo of your car, and sends it to federal law enforcement, as well ...

At least 16 states have adopted policies aimed at regulating the use and retention of data collected by license plate readers, which capture pictures of vehicle license plates every time a car ...

Just weeks after Mountain View police revealed that they had allowed hundreds of law enforcement agencies unauthorized access to license plate data, Palo Alto will consider an audit of the city’s own ...

Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to regulate law enforcement departments’ use of automated license plate readers. They heard constituents’ perspectives on the technology and reviewed studies ...

State senators gave preliminary approval to what proponents say would be the first guardrails on the use of automated license plate readers by police in Arizona.

Baltimore police will soon have access to license plate reading technology with 10 years of data on residential vehicles, allowing the department to access pers ...