The plate readers were sold as a crime tool, but residents from Troy to Oakland are calling them a surveillance machine ...

Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

Concerned residents and members of the Costa Mesa City Council Tuesday requested an in-depth audit of the police department’s use of automated license plate readers and a study of alternatives to ...

Chief Administrative Officer Justin McCarthy, Mayor Justin Elicker, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Acting Police Chief David Zannelli, and Asst. Chief Bhagtana celebrate $750,000 federal funds for ...

License plate readers indiscriminately collect information on every car they see and store that information in a police database. Credit: Scott Olson / Getty The Cook County Board of Commissioners on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Automated license plate readers have created an extensive surveillance network across Northeast Ohio. A ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s push to expand the network of automatic license plate readers under his control prompted hours of debate and opposition from county commissioners Wednesday concerned ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — More than 1,700 license plate cameras in Cuyahoga County take photos of every car that passes. They’re perched on utility poles at major intersections, highways and buildings. The ...

(TNS) — When Waterford Township Police Chief Scott Underwood asked the township's Board of Trustees earlier this year to approve technology that would improve his department's license plate reader ...

Waterford Township — When Waterford Township Police Chief Scott Underwood asked the township's Board of Trustees earlier this year to approve technology that would improve his department's license ...