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The governor’s pen recently halted an Inland Empire state senator’s attempt to rein in how police use data from automated license plate readers. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, Oct. 1, vetoed SB 274, ...

FILE a license plate reader. A suburban police department under investigation by the Illinois Secretary of State's office said that license-plate reader data shared with a Texas law enforcement agency ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - License plate reader data from some Bay Area police departments has been shared with federal law enforcement via a shared database, a new report found. The San Francisco Standard ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to increase oversight of data gathered by devices known ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from ...

Police rely on license plate cameras to help solve crimes. Recently, lookups of this data have surged by federal agencies, who are potentially using it for immigration enforcement in sanctuary states.

The Illinois secretary of state’s office said Thursday it will conduct an audit of the state’s automated license plate reader system after it was allegedly used illegally by law enforcement in Texas ...

You are not alone on the road. Each day, Kansas City motorists in our six-county region have their vehicle data collected by cameras known as automated license plate readers, or ALPRs. These cameras ...

OVIEDO, Fla. – All seven cities in Seminole County have license plate readers, but as Oviedo – the latest city to use this technology — is installing these cameras, some cities in Washington state are ...