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At the Dec. 8 Eugene City Council meeting, City Manager Sarah Medary read excerpts from the termination notice she sent Flock ...

The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to expand the city’s network of automated license plate reader cameras, overriding strong objections from privacy advocates who warned the move could expose ...

License plate readers scan cars at all times Credit: photo by Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0 Activists and the Austin Police Department argued over the automated license plate reader program for years.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Flock Safety, a company the Austin Police Department uses to run its automatic license plate reader program, put out a lengthy statement “setting the record straight” amid concerns ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A recent decision by the Gilbert Town Council to expand the Police Department’s license plate reader program has sparked a heated debate over privacy and surveillance. On June 10, ...

Coralville passed guidelines intended to "prevent unauthorized access to data" and "abuse" of automated license plate reader technology by a thin margin as the council debated canceling the ...

An automated license place reader camera atop a streetlight near the corner of First Avenue and Cedar Street near downtown San Diego. (Photo by Gabrielle Wallace/Times of San Diego) Automated license ...

Para leer en español, haz clic aquí. Hillsborough has cancelled a contract for license plate reader cameras after residents and Town staff raised concerns about data privacy. The Hillsborough Board of ...

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Activists and the Austin Police Department argued over the automated license plate reader program for years. Advocates called it “mass surveillance,” and feared that data from the readers might be ...