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Automatic license plate readers like the one seen here are mounted atop a police cruiser and utilize both an infrared and a color camera. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)<span class="source" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"></span></div>
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The Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies reportedly awarded contracts to a license plate-tracking company to provide access to license-plate recognition databases or technology used to collect plate information. </div>
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Bloomberg News reported that the IRS and other government agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to Livermore, Calif.-based Vigilant Solutions before the Department of Homeland Security dropped a plan for similar work after privacy concerns were raised.</div>
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In June 2012, the IRS awarded Vigilant a $1,188 contract for "access to nationwide data," according to federal procurement records compiled by the news agency. The contract ended in May 2013, according to the records. </div>
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"The IRS uses a variety of investigative tools similar to other law-enforcement agencies to assist with criminal cases," Eric Smith, an agency spokesman, told Bloomberg, declining to say how the IRS used the records in its investigations. </div>
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The Air Force’s Air Combat Command awarded the company a contract for license plate readers valued at as much as $114,000 in 2011, the report said. A command spokesman said the readers help make base access "easier and more secure."</div>
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Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Forest Service awarded Vigilant a contract valued at about $47,019 for a product that scans and captures license plate numbers and compares the data collected to police databases of wanted vehicles.</div>
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The Forest Service also awarded the company a contract valued at as much as $7,500 last year for a subscription to its license plate database and other services, according to federal contracting records obtained by Bloomberg. </div>
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The Justice Department’s Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, DHS and U.S. Marshals Service have also awarded contracts to Vigilant for access to its records or tracking tools, according to the report.</div>
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License plate readers – essentially cameras that snap rapid-fire pictures of license plates and vehicles as they pass – are in use in a host of locations, by private companies and law enforcement. </div>
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The readers – whether they are mounted to police cars, traffic lights or toll booths – record the date, time and location of the vehicle when the picture was taken.</div>
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Law enforcement has been using license plate readers for several years, but privacy advocates have raised concerns that the unchecked collection of such information could allow for the tracking of an average citizen’s every movement. </div>
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In February, Homeland Security officials dropped plans to establish a national license-plate recognition database to collect information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers after concerns were raised over privacy and how the data would be scrutinized.</div>
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The contract proposal said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was planning to use the license plate data in pursuit of criminal immigrants and others sought by authorities.</div>
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According to the proposal, the government wanted “a close-up of the plate and a zoomed out image of the vehicle" and instant and around-the-clock access to records through a smartphone app. </div>
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In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union criticized the collection of license plate scanner data and warned that millions of records were being collected with little or no safeguards for people’s privacy. </div>
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Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney with the San Francisco-based civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Bloomberg the contracts represented privacy concerns.</div>
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"Especially with the IRS, I don’t know why these agencies are getting access to this kind of information," Lynch said. "These systems treat every single person in an area as if they’re under investigation for a crime -- that is not the way our criminal justice system was set up or the way things work in a democratic society." </div>
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State's Data Practices Act had made license plate reader data public to anyone.</h2>
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A Minnesota state agency decreed on Monday that a vehicle’s location data as captured by <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/" style="color: #dc322f; text-decoration: none;">license plate readers</a>, which under existing state law had been completely public, should now be kept private. This comes more than four months after a <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/minneapolis-police-pushing-for-more-license-plate-data-privacy/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Minneapolis public committee lobbied</a> to change the state’s policy. The new temporary measure will expire in 2015.</div>
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According to the <em><a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.startribune.com/local/west/198885241.html?src=news-stmp" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Minneapolis Star-Tribune</a></em>: “The Department of Administration ruled Monday that the following data generated by license plate readers would be private: plate numbers; times, dates, and locations of vehicle scans; and vehicle photos.”</div>
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As we <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/found-secret-location-of-minneapolis-police-license-plate-readers/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">reported earlier</a>, Minnesota has a rather liberal open records state law known as the <a checklongurl="true" href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=13" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Data Practices Act</a>, which makes all government data public by default. <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/minneapolis-police-pushing-for-more-license-plate-data-privacy/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">That means that anyone </a><a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/minneapolis-police-pushing-for-more-license-plate-data-privacy/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">(up until now)</a> could request the entire data set—including license plate data—from any law enforcement agency.</div>
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In December 2012, Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/183453451.html?refer=y" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">requested</a> to a state committee that the data be immediately re-classified as “non-public.” The new proposal resulted from increased scrutiny of the practice in Minneapolis after a local reporter managed to <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/166494646.html?refer=y" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">track the mayor’s movements</a> in August 2012 by filing a request with the police.</div>
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One of those requests was granted to Mark Pitts, who runs a local firm called Datalytics LLC. Pitts<a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/found-secret-location-of-minneapolis-police-license-plate-readers/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">claimed</a> that he had determined the location of the city’s stationary license plate readers, which collected more than 2 million records in 90 days.</div>
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The Minnesota Commissioner of Administration this week made his ruling on a request from the city of Minneapolis for a temporary reclassification of data from its Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR). The ruling was only a partial victory for the city of Minneapolis.</div>
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The <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.ipad.state.mn.us/docs/tcfindingsmpls.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">commissioner said</a> that license plate numbers; the date, time and location of vehicles; and pictures taken with the cameras can now be temporarily classified as private, non-public data.</div>
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However, the commissioner also ruled that a whole list of other things the city wanted to cut off from the public must remain open because there is not currently a statute on the books that allows them to be made non-public. He also said the city ” did not provide any argument or documentation to fulfill the requirement that the applicant must clearly establish a compelling need exists for immediate temporary classification, which if not granted could adversely affect the health, safety, or welfare of the public, or the data subject’s well-being or reputation.”</div>
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• Date and time of any report run from ALPR data, the name of the person running the report, and the date span of the report.<br />
• The locations of any ALPR camera, whether mobile or stationary.<br />
• The device number for each ALPR camera.<br />
• Number of times a vehicle was captured by the ALPR system for a period of time.<br />
• Any hit information, including but not limited to, the following categories: stolen vehicle, Stolen license plate, wanted person, Canadian Police Information Center data, protection order, missing person, violent gang and terrorist organization, supervised release, convicted sexual offender registry, immigration violator files, Keep Our Police Safe (“KOPS”), Minnesota warrants, suspended driver’s license, revoked driver’s license, canceled driver’s license, disqualified driver’s license, Be On The Lookout (BOLO), Hotsheet (stolen vehicles in Minneapolis), and scofflaw (5 or more outstanding parking tickets).</div>
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court is being asked to decide if the government must obtain a warrant before placing a GPS tracker on a suspect's car.</div>
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The case before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia involves three brothers suspected of robbing pharmacies. A GPS device led to their arrests in 2010.</div>
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Lawyers representing the trio told a three-judge panel Tuesday that warrantless tracking violates the Constitutional guarantee against unreasonable searches.</div>
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But a federal prosecutor contends that authorities followed relevant legal precedents in attaching the tracker without a warrant. He says authorities had probable cause to suspect illegal activity.</div>
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A lower court previously ruled in favor of the brothers. The Justice Department appealed based on a recent Supreme Court ruling. It's unclear when the appeals court will rule.</div>
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The Obama administration will argue before a federal appeals court on Tuesday that law enforcement must regain the ability to use GPS tracking devices without a warrant, which it says is necessary to continue the fight against terrorism.</div>
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The use of GPS devices in warrantless snooping has been illegal since January 2012, when <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/23/supreme-court-warrant-needed-for-gps-tracking/" style="border: 0px; color: #1e4554; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Supreme Court ruled that vehicles are private property</a> protected by the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. If the Obama administration is successful on its appeal however, GPS devices will be fair game for police nationwide.</div>
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Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, the president’s attorneys contend the original arguments are invalid because the so-called “automobile exception” to search warrants also applies to data showing where that vehicle is and has been, not just what may be inside.</div>
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The brief contends that passing on warrantless GPS tracking when it is a potential investigative tool has a “minimal” effect on safeguarding privacy, but a “great expense” to law enforcement and public safety. “Requiring a warrant and probably cause before officers may attach a GPS device to a vehicle, which is inherently mobile and may no longer be at the location observed when the warrant is obtained, would seriously impede the government’s ability to investigate drug trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes.”</div>
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The brief adds that the legal standard for “slap-on” GPS tracking devices should not be “<a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/probable-cause/" style="border: 0px; color: #1e4554; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">probable cause</a>” as the Constitution sets out for searches of private property, but “<a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/what-is-reasonable-suspicion/" style="border: 0px; color: #1e4554; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reasonable suspicion</a>,” a lesser standard that allows an officer to begin a search for probable cause.</div>
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“Just because a technology wasn’t around when the Constitution was written doesn’t mean that it’s not covered,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Catherine Crump said in an advisory. “The fundamental privacy rights established by the Fourth Amendment require that police justify their actions and show probable cause to a judge before they can conduct invasive surveillance like constant location tracking. The ‘automobile exception’ was created so police could find contraband hidden in cars, not so they could monitor a person’s movements nonstop for days or even months on end.”</div>
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A Texas Bill Would Bar Warrantless Collection of Cell Phone Location Data</h1>
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The Supreme Court may have approved the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/warrantless-wiretaps-forever">for just about forever</a>, but the good old state of Texas isn't going to take that lying down. Texas lawmakers don't believe that cell phone location data is fair game for law enforcement, and a couple identical bills filed in Texas's <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB1608">House</a> and <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=SB786">Senate</a> would provide sweeping protections for private cell users.<br />
Currently, the DoJ and Supreme Court have said that cell users have no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to location data and other data gleaned from cell transmissions. So while <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-warrants-needed-in-gps-tracking/2012/01/23/gIQAx7qGLQ_story.html">warrantless GPS tracking</a> is out of bounds, cell location data can provide a fairly comparable analog, and additionally allows lawmakers to track when and where calls were made, and even <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/federal-court-rules-cops-can-warantlessly-track-suspects-via-cellphone/">gain access to text messages</a>.<br />
The new bill, which was authored by a group called the <a href="http://txepc.org/press-release-hb-1608-protects-cell-phone-customer-privacy/">Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition</a>, which includes the Texas branches of the ACLU and EFF. The bill is designed to require law enforcement to get a standard warrant before gleaning any cell data. That means that law enforcement <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB01608I.htm">can only breach cell privacy</a> "if there is probable cause to believe the records disclosing location information will provide evidence in a criminal investigation."<br />
“Surveillance has become so easy, thanks to the data collected and stored by your cell phone company, that it’s now ripe for abuse,” ACLU of Texas's Matt Simpson <a href="http://txepc.org/press-release-hb-1608-protects-cell-phone-customer-privacy/">said in a release</a>. “In a free society, there have to be limits on the government’s ability to monitor people’s activities and associations – that’s just a basic premise of liberty. This bill simply requires a judge to take a look, and make sure a request for location data is reasonably likely to turn up evidence of crime in an investigation.”<br />
One key aspect of the bill, as <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/texas-proposes-one-of-nations-most-sweeping-mobile-privacy-laws/">Cyrus Farivar at Ars noted</a>, is that it also would require carriers to disclose when they release cell data to law enforcement. That's an important privacy provision, especially when the current laws have allowed for rampant data collection. Remember, a Congressional investigation found that in 2011 alone, carriers r<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/massive-phone-surveillance/">esponded to 1.3 <em>million</em></a> subscriber information requests from law enforcement, which generally wouldn't require warrants. Carriers have actually begun complaining about the rising costs of complying with such requests, which would suggest that they've certainly not slowed in frequency.<br />
In step with the Texas bill, a similar electronic privacy bill <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57572957-38/police-would-need-warrants-for-e-mail-phone-tracking-bill-says/">has been introduced</a> in Congress by Rep. Zoe Lundgren of California. That bill isn't solely concerned with cell phones, and includes email and other forms of electronic communication under its warrant requirements. Of course, a similar bill from Lundgren failed last year amidst opposition from law enforcement officials.<br />
Still, it's heartening to see lawmakers finally recognize that the Fourth Amendment <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/bad-news-the-government-is-spying-on-you">has largely been gutted and ignored</a> as our communication increasingly becomes wireless and in the cloud. It's <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works">taken a long time for legislators</a> to grasp the fact that, even if your data is stored somewhere outside your home or is being beamed through the air, it's still yours, and you do have a reasonable expecation of privacy. It's important to remember that these bills are still only proposed, but the fact that they exist is a step in the right direction.<br />
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The City of Piedmont appears to be well on its way to buying license plate readers to be used by the city's police department.</div>
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</figcaption></figure>PIEDMONT, CALIFORNIA—In the early 20th century, a group of wealthy Oaklanders separated from their city to found Piedmont. Large, stately homes and a handful of businesses defined the city. Today, the town-on-the-hill has only 11,000 residents.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont%2C_California">Piedmont</a> is entirely surrounded by Oakland, and is one of the few towns in America to be entirely contained within another city. Despite the recent <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-Piedmont-borders-at-issue-4060364.php">efforts of a small group to “Liberate Piedmont”</a> and return it to Oakland, it’s likely going to stay this way.<br />
But if the local police chief has her way, Piedmont will become even more unique. The chief is pushing for Piedmont to become one of the few cities in America to install <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/">automatic license plate readers (LPR)</a> at its city borders—in this case, they would be mounted above each of the 30 roads leading into town. If successful, Piedmont would be the second wealthy Bay Area community with such a system. (Tiburon, in nearby Marin County, approved LPRs more than three years ago for the only two roads leading into and out of town. Sugar Land, Texas, <a href="http://e/">approved</a> <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Plan-for-cameras-pits-safety-versus-privacy-in-4003433.php">similar measures</a> for its municipal borders in November 2012.)<br />
“I think there's a good chance we will do it to some level,” Rikki Goede, the police chief, told Ars on Monday. “It's an investigative tool being used as a force-multiplier. That's what tech is all about, helping us be more efficient and at the end of the day, keeping our technologies safe. If technology can help with that, we should be for that.”<br />
As in Tiburon, Piedmont’s <a href="http://piedmont.patch.com/articles/license-plate-readers-for-all-roads-in-and-out-of-piedmont-under-study">proposed system</a> could create a de facto electronic border fence around the city. It would <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/found-secret-location-of-minneapolis-police-license-plate-readers/">scan the license plate</a> of every car going into or out of town and retain that information for a year. However, the LPR data would also be transferred “nearly instantaneously” to the <a href="https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center</a> (NCRIC), which feeds law enforcement intelligence to the federal government.<br />
The Piedmont Police Department is currently awaiting a proposal from <a href="http://pipstechnology.com/home_us/">PIPS</a>, a leading LPR vendor, and hopes to present that plan to the city government in the coming months. The PPD already has one mobile LPR, positioned on a patrol car.<br />
As we <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/">reported</a> last year, <a href="http://www.federalsignal.com/">Federal Signal Corporation</a> (FSC), which sells LPRs under its <a href="http://pipstechnology.com/products/fixed_mobile_cameras/">PIPS brand name</a>, says it has sold 20,000 mobile systems across North America and another 15,000 fixed devices across the United States and the United Kingdom.<br />
"We work with the 25 largest cities in the United States, over 100 cities in the US and over 200 in North America, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and in Mexico," said Tim O'Leary, a company vice president, in an interview with Ars in 2012. "We think the market is growing at eight to 10 percent, adjusted growth rate, annually."<br />
In a <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277509/000119312512115045/d281202d10k.htm#tx281202_5">filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2012</a>, FSC said its sales of LPRs were up by $2.1 million in 2010 alone.<br />
Piedmont has budgeted <a href="http://www.ci.piedmont.ca.us/finance/budget/12-13/12-13_approved_budget.pdf">$5.4 million for its police force this fiscal year (PDF)</a>. Assuming 60 cameras for 30 roads at an average of $14,000 per camera, that would work out to $840,000 in purchasing costs alone.<br />
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Burglaries on the rise</h2>
As <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/your-car-tracked-the-rapid-rise-of-license-plate-readers/">we reported last year,</a> the scanners can read 60 license plates per second, then match observed plates against a "hot list" of wanted vehicles, stolen cars, or criminal suspects. LPRs have increasingly become a mainstay of law enforcement nationwide. Many law enforcement agencies tout them as a highly effective "force multiplier" for catching bad guys, most notably burglars, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/license-plates-scanned-at-border-data-shared-with-car-insurance-group/">car thieves</a>, child molesters, kidnappers, terrorists, and—potentially—<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/license-plates-scanned-at-border-data-shared-with-car-insurance-group/">undocumented immigrants</a>.<br />
Today, tens of thousands of LPRs are being used by law enforcement agencies all over the country—practically every week, <a href="http://bit.ly/RVWLqL">local media around the country</a> report on some LPR expansion. But the system's unchecked and largely unmonitored use raises significant privacy concerns. License plates, dates, times, and locations of all cars seen are kept in law enforcement databases for months or even years at a time. In the worst case, the New York State Police keeps all of its LPR data indefinitely. No universal standard governs how long data can or should be retained.<br />
So what worries Piedmont enough to call for LPRs? Burglaries.<br />
Chief Goede said the number of burglaries jumped from 90 in 2011 up to 135 in 2012. While that may be peanuts compared to what she experienced in her last job as assistant police chief of the San Jose Police Department (and its population of nearly 1 million), it’s still important for a community like Piedmont.<br />
“You have to keep in mind, what Tiburon can do and Piedmont can do—San Jose can't do [because of its size and financial constraints.]” Still, she didn’t think that LPRs would instantly solve Piedmont’s problems. She sees them as part of the “three prongs” of good policing.<br />
“You've got to have a good well-staffed police department that does problem solving,” she said. “You’ve got to have community collaboration, and a community that's invested in the community and calls the police and reports suspicious activity. The third is technology. Those three are what creates a safe community. One's not going to get rid of the other, they have to be equally strong.”<br />
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Not surprisingly, the expanded use of LPRs has drawn the ire of privacy watchdogs. In late July 2012, the<a href="http://www.aclu.org/automatic-license-plate-readers-threat-americans-privacy"> American Civil Liberties Union and its affiliates</a> sent requests to local police departments and state agencies across 38 states to request information on how LPRs are used.<br />
Part of the fear is that a police officer could potentially have a substantial record of movement for specific cars moving in and out of the city.<br />
Goede said that for now, her department had not consulted with any civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She acknowledged that it was a “challenge” to balance the two concerns.<br />
“ALPR cameras can be used with minimal impact on individual liberties, but they can also be used to record each time a visitor or resident enters or exits a city, retain that information indefinitely, allow that information to be used without restrictions or oversight, and even share that information with other agencies in order to build a robust profile of an individual’s whereabouts, activities, and associations,” said <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/author/chris-conley">Chris Conley</a>, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.<br />
“We would be happy to talk with the Piedmont police department to discuss the costs as well as the benefits of an ALPR system, and to encourage the department to establish policies and safeguards that recognize the potential impact on individual privacy of ALPR prior to purchasing or using cameras.”<br />
Still, Chief Goede feels confident that her department would impose adequate privacy restrictions to keep the LPR database from being abused. She said this includes limiting access to such data for criminal investigations only.<br />
"[But] communities are not going to just want technology to make them safer, they're going to demand that we use technology to make them safer,” she added.</div>
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<span class="BodyCopy">A federal judge in D.C. declared a mistrial Monday against a D.C. nightclub owner at the center of a Supreme Court ruling that curbed police use of a warrantless GPS tracking.</span><br />
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If signed into law, cops would finally need a warrant to get location data.</h2>
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If the bill passes, Austin, Texas could lead the nation in mobile privacy protection.</div>
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Privacy experts say that a pair of new <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/no-warrant-no-problem-how-the-government-can-still-get-your-digital-data/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">mobile privacy</a> bills recently introduced in Texas are among the “most sweeping” ever seen. And they say the proposed legislation offers better protection than a related privacy bill<a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/bill-would-force-cops-to-get-a-warrant-before-reading-your-e-mail/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">introduced</a> this week in Congress.</div>
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If passed, <a checklongurl="true" href="http://txepc.org/press-release-hb-1608-protects-cell-phone-customer-privacy/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">the new bills</a> would establish a well-defined, probable-cause-driven warrant requirement for all location information. That's not just data from GPS, but potentially <a checklongurl="true" href="https://ssd.eff.org/wire/govt/pen-registers" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">pen register, tap and trace</a>, and tower location data as well. Such data would be <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB01608I.htm" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">disclosed</a> to law enforcement "if there is probable cause to believe the records disclosing location information will provide evidence in a criminal investigation."</div>
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Further, the bills would require an annual transparency report from mobile carriers to the public and to the state government.</div>
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Under current federal case law and statute, law enforcement generally has <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/federal-court-rules-cops-can-warantlessly-track-suspects-via-cellphone/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">broad warrantless powers to not only track suspects</a> in real-time based on their phone data, but also to access records of where and when calls were made or text messages were sent or received—and all of this is provided by the carriers.</div>
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“Location information can reveal a great deal about an individual’s professional and personal life—her friends and associates, her participation in political or religious activities, her regular visits to a health clinic or support group, and more,” said <a checklongurl="true" href="https://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/chris_conley_biography.shtml" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Chris Conley</a>, an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.</div>
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“That’s why we think it is essential that the government get a search warrant, approved by a judge, before demanding this kind of information from cell phone providers. The Texas bill would require just that. In addition, the Texas bill would also require companies to report how often they receive such demands from law enforcement and how much information they disclose. This kind of transparency is essential to carry on an informed dialog about appropriate law enforcement powers in the modern world.”</div>
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The unanimous 2012 Supreme Court decision on <em><a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/supreme-court-holds-warrantless-gps-tracking-unconstitutional/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">United States v. Jones</a></em> ruled that law enforcement did not have the authority to track a suspect using a GPS tracking device put on a car without a warrant. But cops frequently use similar tactics with lower legal standards, including using the suspect’s own phone against her. Last year, the <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/aclu-to-fbi-tell-the-public-how-you-interpret-gps-tracking-ruling/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">American Civil Liberties Union sued</a> the Department of Justice to release GPS tracking-related memos.</div>
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The bills, which were introduced in the <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB01608I.htm" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Texas House of Representatives</a> and the <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/SB00786I.htm" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Texas Senate</a> last month, are <a checklongurl="true" href="http://txepc.org/press-release-hb-1608-protects-cell-phone-customer-privacy/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">endorsed</a> by the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition. That's an umbrella group that includes the <a checklongurl="true" href="http://effaustin.org/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin</a>, <a checklongurl="true" href="http://gritsforbreakfast.org/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Grits for Breakfast</a>, <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.tagtexas.org/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Texans for Accountable Government</a>, and <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.aclutx.org/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">the ACLU of Texas</a>. They will need to pass both houses and be signed by the state governor, Rick Perry, before becoming law.</div>
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Ars reached out to the four major mobile carriers in the United States—AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile—for their comment on this new bill. None of them responded on Wednesday except for Verizon, whose spokesperson, Debi Lewis, said the company had no comment.</div>
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Not surprisingly, other civil libertarian and digital rights groups are looking with a hopeful eye that such legislation can influence other states and perhaps the federal government. According to the ACLU, 11 states have already introduced similar bills this year.</div>
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“What the states do on this issue will certainly influence what Congress does,” said <a checklongurl="true" href="https://www.cdt.org/personnel/greg-nojeim" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Gregory Nojeim</a>, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It's clear to me that because the location of a cell phone is mobile and because phones cross state lines routinely it's probably that if the states start acting then Congress would need to enact a uniform rule.”</div>
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Various states have tried to implement versions of such privacy protections in the past. <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/california-state-legislature-approves-location-privacy-act/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">California’s</a> was famously <a checklongurl="true" href="https://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/blog/governor_brown_vetoes_location_privacy_act.shtml" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">vetoed</a> by the governor in September 2012. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) introduced <a checklongurl="true" href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/frankens-location-privacy-bill-to-close-mobile-tracking-loopholes/" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">legislation</a> in 2011 that would have also imposed similar restrictions, but none as strong as what’s been proposed in Texas.</div>
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“Although Senator Franken’s Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011 [<a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.franken.senate.gov/files/documents/121011_LocationPrivacyProtection.pdf" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>] and these Texas bills all seek to protect cell phone user’s location information, the Texas bills differ from Franken’s bill in scope, function, and specific objective,” <a checklongurl="true" href="https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/woodrow-hartzog" style="color: #699fb3; text-decoration: none;">Woodrow Hartzog</a>, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School, told Ars. “Senator Franken’s bill is narrowly tailored to ensure that companies obtain consent before collecting or sharing location data from a consumer’s mobile device. The Texas bills are broadly aimed at the government’s collection of location information.”</div>
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He added that these bills were among the “most sweeping mobile location protection bills I've seen,” and he wondered if and to what degree they will become law.</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The FBI used National Security Letters -- a form of surveillance that privacy watchdogs call “frightening and invasive” -- to surreptitiously seek information on Google users, the web giant has just revealed.</span></div>
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Google’s disclosure is “an unprecedented win for transparency,” privacy experts said Wednesday. But it’s just one small step forward.</div>
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“Serious concerns and questions remain about the use of NSLs,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin wrote. For one thing, the agency issued 16,511 National Security Letters in 2011, the last year for which data was available. But Google was gagged from saying just how many letters it received -- leaving key questions unanswered.</div>
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“The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant’s customers,” Wired’s <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/google-nsl-range/" rel="external ext-linked" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">David Kravets wrote</a><img src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 4px 0px 0px 4px;" />. He described the FBI's use of NSLs as a way of "secretly spying" on Google's customers.</div>
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National Security Letters are a means for the FBI to obtain information on people from telecommunications companies, authorized by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and expanded under the Patriot Act. It lets the agency seek information on a subscriber to a wire or electronic communications service, although not things like the content of their emails or search queries, Google said.</div>
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And thanks to secrecy constraints built into NSLs, companies that receive them usually aren’t even allowed to acknowledge the request for information. Citing such extreme secrecy, privacy experts have decried the use of these letters in the past.</div>
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“Of all the dangerous government surveillance powers that were expanded by the USA PATRIOT Act, the National Security Letter (NSL) power … is one of the most frightening and invasive,” the EFF wrote. “These letters … allow the FBI to secretly demand data about ordinary American citizens' private communications and Internet activity without any meaningful oversight or prior judicial review.”</div>
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Thanks to negotiations with the government, Google finally opened the smallest chink in the armor, allowing the search giant to reveal the fact that it had received these requests for data, as well as some general information about them.</div>
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“Visit our page on user data requests in the U.S. and you’ll see, in broad strokes, how many NSLs for user data Google receives, as well as the number of accounts in question,” Richard Salgado, Google’s legal director of law enforcement and information security, <a checklongurl="true" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-shedding-more-light.html" rel="external ext-linked" style="color: #183a52; cursor: pointer; outline: none 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote in a Tuesday blog post</a><img src="http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png" style="border: 0px none; margin: 4px 0px 0px 4px;" />.</div>
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“People don’t always use our services for good, and it’s important that law enforcement be able to investigate illegal activity,” Salgado wrote.</div>
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No other technology company presently disclose such basic information about government requests, experts noted.</div>
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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones Homeland Security's specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: "signals interception" and "direction finding" for electronic surveillance.<br />
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones,originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.<br />
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Homeland Security's specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems [http://www.ga-asi.com/] , say they "shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not," meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify "signals interception" technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and "direction finding" technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.<br />
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained a partially redacted copy [http://epic.org/2013/02/epic-foia---us-drones-intercep.html] of Homeland Security's requirements for its drone fleet through the Freedom of Information Act and published it this week. CNET unearthed an unredacted copy http://politechbot.com/docs/dhs.uav.drone.specification.030113.html] of the requirements that provides additional information about the aircraft's surveillance capabilities.<br />
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LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – Little Rock may not be a likely terrorism target or a gang crime hotspot, but the Arkansas capital has decided to follow the example of high-security cities by expanding electronic surveillance of its streets.<br />
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A police car with a device that photographs license plates moves through the city and scans the traffic on the streets, relaying the data it collects to a computer for sifting. Police say the surveillance helps identify stolen cars and drivers with outstanding arrest warrants.<br />
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Though authorities in Washington, D.C., London and Chicago conduct extensive electronic surveillance of public areas to detect security threats or deter gang crime, "Today, increasingly, even towns without stoplights have license plate readers," said Catherine Crump, a New York-based staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.<br />
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In Little Rock, even some city officials wonder about keeping data on drivers' movements. "It bothered me particularly if someone wasn't guilty of a crime or didn't have any active warrants or hadn't committed a crime," city director Ken Richardson said. However, Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said the law enforcement benefits outweigh any concerns about possible abuse of the information, which, as a public record, is legally available for anyone to see. He said the department may get more of the devices.</div>
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"Should that potential of misuse therefore eliminate the capacity of law enforcement to collect data which has a legitimate purpose for the safety of our officers or the appropriateness of enforcement actions? I don't think so," he said. Little Rock police bought the tracker last year for about $14,000, as interest in the technology began spreading in law enforcement circles. The purchase didn't require city council approval and didn't attract much attention in town. "There was no public notice or anything," police spokeswoman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said.</div>
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"I don't feel like they should keep the data for six or 12 months," Weston said.Lawmakers in several states, including Minnesota and Utah, have suggested setting a time limit for their departments, but Little Rock has no policy yet. The department now has a growing archive of license plate photos, along with time stamps and the locations, showing where motorists were at certain times.</div>
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"Given how few rules are currently on the books to protect our privacy, it's plausible that private investigators and data-mining companies could acquire this location data," Crump said. So far, the organization has requested more information from government agencies, but hasn't filed any lawsuits, Crump said.</div>
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Little Rock's license plate reader is mounted in Officer Grant Humphries' patrol car. He said it's led to dozens of arrests and the recovery of a number of stolen vehicles and vehicles and license plates, although the exact number isn't known.</div>
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<a checklongurl="true" href="http://nj.com/gloucester-county" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">FRANKLIN TWP.</a> — Ptl. <span style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mike Neher</b></span> fired up the automatic license plate reader, then pulled the new police cruiser out of Franklin Township Police station’s parking lot.</div>
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One after another, photos of vehicle plates in front of the cruiser and on each side popped up on the mobile data terminal screen on Neher’s dash as he patrolled Delsea Drive from Malaga to the Clayton border.</div>
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In 40 minutes, the ALPR scanned the plates of more than 180 vehicles on Route 47, Route 40 and side roads in the township.</div>
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Franklin’s November installation of the $18,000 plate reader is among the most recent in the county. Monroe Township’s force purchased its first ALPR more than two years ago.</div>
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“The first day we turned it on we popped a fugitive,” said Franklin Township Police Chief Mike Rock.</div>
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The equipment is expected to pay for itself in less than six months. Between Nov. 13 and 30, the plate reader helped officers issue about 173 more summonses with an average of about 300 to 400 extra summonses issued in Franklin Township every month, according to Rock.</div>
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“It’s not just about tickets and revenue. It’s about getting people off the road who shouldn’t be on the road,” Rock said.</div>
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Drivers with suspended licenses, like the driver of the gray Hyundai Elantra, are a risk to other drivers on the road, Neher said.</div>
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Plus, suspended registrations and drivers licenses that show up on Neher’s ALPR screen could be indicators of other criminal offenses like outstanding warrants.</div>
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“If I pull him over I can call dispatch and find out if he it’s suspended because he has a warrant,” said Neher, tailing the Hyundai.</div>
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Each license plate scanned is timestamped, dated and logged with the vehicles location. The information can be stored in the database for up to five years.</div>
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While Rock said the information can be used to corroborate a suspected criminal’s alibi in some cases, others say the scanning of innocent drivers’ plates could be an infringement of personal privacy.</div>
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Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey chapter requested information from 21 police departments in the state — including Vineland, Cherry Hill, Camden and Atlantic City — regarding the use of information logged by the plate readers.</div>
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“The ALPR technology scans the license plates of every car passing within view of its camera,” said Tom MacLeod, open governance attorney for the ACLU-NJ. “Ordinarily, to stop somebody, similar to needing a warrant to search someone, (an officer) generally needs some type of suspicion they are engaged in some type of wrongdoing.”</div>
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“There could be a neighborhood police believe experiences a great deal of crime,” MacLeod explained. “Perhaps you go there frequently because your mom lives there. There is no distinguishing motivation for being a particular location for a particular period of time.”</div>
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Rock, however, said the equipment and database information has lead to arrests of fugitives.</div>
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“I understand people’s concerns with privacy, but I just don’t see it that way because it’s a two-step process,” the chief said.</div>
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When a license plate is scanned, only limited information — the license plate number, make, model and color of the car, and warning about suspended licenses or vehicle registration — is initially available to the officer. The driver’s name, address and driving history are not immediately displayed.</div>
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The ACLU has not issued an official opinion on ALPR privacy invasion complaints, MacLeod said.</div>
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Neher, who has been working with the ALPR since the start of the year, said the equipment is “a lot safer” for officers patroling the road.</div>
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“It helps you observe more than you would with radar,” Neher said. “You can look around more because you’re not just concentrated on the radar.”</div>
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<img alt="In this 2007 file photo, a Salt Lake City Police Officer uses a license plate reader on his patrol car. A bill requiring the deletion of data scanned on a license plate reader received a favorable recommendation Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, from a Senate committee. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)" src="http://www.deseretnews.com/images/article/contentimage/1089284/1089284.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); height: 290px; width: 464px;" /> <span style="font-size: 12px;">In this 2007 file photo, a Salt Lake City Police Officer uses a license plate reader on his patrol car. A bill requiring the deletion of data scanned on a license plate reader received a favorable recommendation Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, from a Senate committee. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)</span> </div>
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SALT LAKE CITY — A bill requiring the deletion of data scanned on a license plate reader received a favorable recommendation Wednesday from a Senate committee.</div>
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Law enforcement agencies across the state commonly use data of a motorist’s whereabouts from license plate scanners in tracking down criminals.</div>
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<a checklongurl="true" href="http://le.utah.gov/~2013/bills/static/SB0196.html" style="color: #648eac; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SB196</a>, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, would bar law enforcement from retaining the data for longer than six months to guard against divorce lawyers or police who may misuse the scanners.</div>
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"This type of technology is impressive, but it's also creepy," Weiler said.</div>
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The bill was amended by the Senate Transportation and Public Utilities and Technology Committee to require private entities to delete the data within seven days of the reading. Public entities would have nine months to do so.</div>
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Marina Lowe, legislative and policy council for the ACLU of Utah, said the bill is a great idea but doesn't go far enough.</div>
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The bill would also bar a person or governmental entity from using an automatic license plate reader system, except under certain circumstances. The bill now moves to the full Senate for consideration.</div>
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<span fd-id="default" fd-type="start"></span>On Saturday, Feb. 23 at approximately 11:30 a.m. a Eureka Police officer, who was operating a patrol unit outfitted with the Automated License Plate Reader, received a “hit” on a vehicle, which was traveling north on “E” Street near Sonoma Street in Eureka.The officer broadcasted the information to other EPD units and the vehicle was quickly located still traveling north on “E” Street. A traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle, which failed to yield for several blocks, traveling at low speeds, but failing to stop at posted stop signs and driving erratically.<br />
The driver eventually pulled into a parking lot at the Eureka Inn and a high-risk traffic stop was conducted. The vehicle was occupied by two subjects who were taken into custody without incident.<br />
The driver, identified as Thomas Dale Applewhite, 18 years old, from Eureka was arrested and booked at the Humboldt County Jail on charges of possession of stolen property, failure to yield, driving under the influence of a controlled substance and or alcohol, driving without a license, and probation violation. Applewhite was released from jail on a promise to appear later.<br />
The passenger, identified as Kristina Rosaamelia Campos, 25 years old, from Eureka was arrested and booked on a violation of public intoxication.<br />
The registered owner of the vehicle was contacted and their vehicle was returned to them at the scene.</div>
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DALLAS — The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361919242_0">Dallas City Council</span> moved forward Wednesday with the purchase of software and cameras that can read vehicle license plates and transmit data to the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361919242_1">Dallas Police Department</span>.<br />
Fort Worth, Grapevine and Arlington already use the cameras. The Dallas decision, however, was not without controversy and concern over the privacy of law-abiding drivers, whose license plates will be scanned and then retained by police.<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">The Council approved spending $3.2 million with vendor Iron Sky to provide software and cameras for 14 fixed locations around Dallas and 14 police patrol cars initially, with the order potentially up to 140 cameras over five years.</span><br />
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But Council member Angela Hunt, who cast the lone vote against the decision, said she was "extremely concerned" about police going on a "fishing expedition" of data that the department says it will retain for up to six months of the license plates belonging to drivers not listed in any law enforcement computers.<br />
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Brown said the American Civil Liberties Union has approved police agencies retaining such data for non-suspicious vehicles for three to six months. Brown said data on suspicious or stolen vehicles would be retained indefinitely, or limited perhaps to five years.<br />
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Council members Delia Jasso, Jerry Allen and Pauline Medrano joined Hunt in expressing some concern about privacy matters and the retention of license plate data by police.<br />
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But a City Council majority sided with Mayor Mike Rawlings, who pushed for a vote Wednesday. Rawlings said that technology is "powerful, but also a terrible responsibility" that police must accept. He added that police must "use power in a thoughtful and disciplined manner."<br />
With Brown's assurance that the technology would not be abused, the Council approved the purchase. However, a committee will review how long the data on law-abiding drivers should be retained and then the full Council will have to vote on that policy.<br />
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Police hope to get the cameras and software operating by April.</div>
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York says his department is getting automatic license plate readers that will help police find stolen vehicles and could help in serious crimes like homicides.<br />
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The Journal Gazette reports the department is using a<span style="background-color: yellow;"> $56,000 government grant</span> to equip two cars with four cameras, allowing license plates to be read from all sides of the vehicle. These readers store information and then crosscheck it against a database of stolen vehicles.<br />
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But York says if a homicide witnesses remembered the license plate number, police could theoretically comb through data collected by the readers to see if that car was spotted at any other place on another day.<br />
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The American Civil Liberties Union questions whether police will use the readers to track law-abiding citizens.</div>
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Chico Police are looking to get an "OK" from the city council Tues. night to buy a device that would make it easier for officers to read license plates.</div>
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Chico Police have been working on this proposal for months now and they say it won't cost the city a dime -- at least for now.</div>
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City leaders and officers are on board with the idea but some concerned citizens have said that this could be an invasion of privacy.</div>
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"I understand there are pros and cons, but to me it's getting a little personal," said John Skytte, who opposed the idea. "I think it's a good idea but then you stretched that line of black and white."</div>
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Chico Police have a different view. They said they are eagerly awaiting the green light to get the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) .</div>
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“We are being asked to accept the contribution of this community in order to provide ALPR," said Councilman Randall Stone.</div>
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Stone is one of the seven people this proposal has to go through on Tuesday night. He said this would not cost the city anything for about three years.</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">A private business fund raised nearly $23,000 to buy the reader. It would sit right on top of the light bar on a Chico Police patrol car.</span></div>
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It can read up to 240 plates a minute and tell officers if the plate is linked to any criminal activity.</div>
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"It's called a force-multiplier because it almost acts though as we have multiple police officers," added Stone.</div>
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The device would cost the city $1,000 a year after three years, but there has been speculation that this device could be an invasion of privacy.</div>
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"That info cannot be maintained any longer than 60 days. It's also can't be viewed by anyone outside of law enforcement with a search warrant," said Stone.</div>
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With the sudden spike of crime in Chico over the past month, Stone said it is a step in the right direction and that his fellow council members feel the same way.</div>
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"We want to give them the tools that help them and I think they'll value the ALPR," said Stone.</div>
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The meeting will be held Tues. night at the city council chambers and Stone is confident the proposal will pass.</div>
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WESTTOWN — A stolen car was recovered and a suspected car thief was arrested after they were identified by a patrol vehicle equipped with real-time license plate reading technology, police said.<br />
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According to the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department, 41-year-old Salvatore Giacona, of Claymont, Del., was pulled over after he drove past a patrol vehicle equipped with an automated license plate reader system in the 1100 block of Wilmington Pike (Route 202) around 4:45 p.m. Saturday.<br />
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Police said the vehicle was rented from a car rental company at Philadelphia International Airport last August, but Giacona allegedly never returned the vehicle.<br />
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But when he drove past Officer Peter Keegan’s marked vehicle Saturday, a rear-facing camera captured the registration tag of the blue Ford Fusion and automatically alerted the officer that the vehicle was stolen.</div>
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Police officials said Keegan alerted backup units he had located a stolen vehicle, and followed behind until they arrived. Keegan and the assisting units from several area agencies pulled over the vehicle without incident and made contact with Giacona.<br />
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Investigators said they determined Giacona had stolen the vehicle from the Philadelphia rental location, and the Philadelphia Police Department and the rental company were both notified of the arrest.<br />
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Giacona was charged with receiving stolen property, unauthorized use of an automobile and driving with a suspended license, police said. He was transported to Chester County Prison overnight and released Sunday after posting bail, according to court records.<br />
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Arresting officers were assisted by members of the Birmingham Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.<br />
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The Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department is one of several departments in Chester County that has a patrol car equipped with the license plate reader technology. The department obtained the system through a federal grant just over a year ago, and it has led to the recovery of three stolen vehicles, police said.<br />
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The system employs the use of three high-resolution cameras, two pointing forward and one to the rear, that automatically run passing license plates through a database and instantly determines if the vehicle is stolen.</div>
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The Coatesville, West Chester, and West Whiteland police departments are among the other county police force’s that have patrol vehicles equipped with license plate reader technology.</div>
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The Bell Gardens City Council has approved a request from the police department to purchase permanent license plate readers to assist them in solving crimes.</div>
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Six permanent license plate readers will be installed at the intersections of Garfield and Eastern and at Eastern and Watcher, where they will read the license plates of cars driving through the intersections.</div>
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Bell Gardens Police Department’s Traffic Sgt. Efren Aguirre told EGP the license plate readers will help police track cars coming in and out of the city.</div>
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The readers automatically search the DMV’s computer system as a car drives by to determine if the vehicle has been reported involved in a crime. The readers will send a photograph of each vehicle and the accompanying information to a dispatch center for review.</div>
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The purpose is to recognize any type of vehicle involved in a crime, spot stolen cars, wanted vehicles, or cars being investigated, said Aguirre.</div>
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The city council voted during the Feb. 11 meeting to waive the formal bid process and authorized the police department to purchase six fixed automatic license plate readers from PIPS Technologies using funds from a $100,000 grant the city received from the Homeland Security Grant Funding Program in August 2012.</div>
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According to Aguirre, the project must first be approved by the County, but he anticipates the license plate readers will be in place within two months.</div>
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The Bell Gardens Police Department currently has two mobile license plate readers affixed to police cars.</div>
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The <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.northjersey.com/emerson" style="color: #1f3b8c; text-decoration: none;">Emerson</a> Police Department is waiting on the delivery of an automatic license plate reader, a device that can instantaneously read six plates in a matter of seconds.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">According to Police Chief Donald Rossi, the reader, </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">funded by the Department of Homeland Security,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> will cost between $15,000 and $20,000.</span><br />
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"Anything that can read 1,000 license plates in an hour is phenomenal," said Rossi, who has communicated with officers using the device in departments throughout <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen" style="color: #1f3b8c; text-decoration: none;">Bergen County</a>, including <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.northjersey.com/westwood" style="color: #1f3b8c; text-decoration: none;">Westwood</a> and <a checklongurl="true" href="http://www.northjersey.com/oradell" style="color: #1f3b8c; text-decoration: none;">Oradell</a>.</div>
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There have been up to four arrests documented in one hour, noted Rossi. "You sit on the side of the road and flag every vehicle."</div>
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Rossi further explained that in a standard vehicle stop, the patrol officer manually inputs the license plate number in their vehicle's computer terminal. They then call dispatch to notify them of the location of the license plate check and the make and model of the car.</div>
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Usually this process requires a vehicle stop, but through the plate reader's camera attached to the police car the process would be automatic. The reader, which is constantly scanning all of the plates in its view, is capable of picking up plates on a car traveling up to 35 mph, which would be difficult for an officer to manually input.</div>
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With the new system, patrol officers can keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel, noted the chief.</div>
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Supplied by GTMB, a company that designs and develops software products for law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey, the plate reader notifies the officer of any red flags.</div>
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The reader can also detect suspended licenses and outstanding violations and warrants, noted the chief, calling the reader "an up and coming tool."</div>
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The license plate information the reader collects is compiled in databases that can only be accessed by law enforcement officers.</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">N</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">EW YORK </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">— </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aug. 8</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 201</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">2</span></span><span style="background-color: #ececec; font-weight: bold;"> — </span><span style="background-color: #ececec;">New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced a partnership with Microsoft Corp. designed to bring the latest crime prevention and counterterrorism technology capabilities to worldwide law enforcement, public safety and intelligence agencies, among others. </span></div>
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The NYPD teamed with Microsoft to develop the Domain Awareness System (DAS), a sophisticated law enforcement technology solution that aggregates and analyzes public safety data in real time, providing NYPD investigators and analysts with a comprehensive view of potential threats and criminal activity.</div>
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For example, analysts are notified of suspicious packages and vehicles, and NYPD personnel can actively search for suspects using advanced technologies such as smart cameras and license plate readers.</div>
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The NYPD and Microsoft jointly developed the DAS by bringing together Microsoft’s technical expertise and technologies with the day-to-day experience and knowledge of NYPD officers. The result is a solution that is uniquely tailored to meet the specific needs of its users. As part of the agreement, the NYPD will receive 30 percent of revenue from the sales of the DAS system to other customers worldwide.</div>
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“Part of the reason we have been able to continue driving down crime to record lows while devoting considerable resources to counterterrorism is our heavy investment in technology and our willingness to develop new, cutting-edge solutions to keep New Yorkers safe,” Bloomberg said. “This new system capitalizes on new, powerful policing software that allows police officers and other personnel to more quickly access relevant information gathered from existing cameras, 911 calls, previous crime reports, and other existing tools and technology. It will help the NYPD do more to prevent crimes from occurring and help them respond to crimes even more effectively. And because the NYPD built the system in partnership with Microsoft, the sale of the product will generate revenue for the city that will fund more new crime-prevention and counterterrorism programs.” </div>
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“The system is a transformative tool because it was created by police officers for police officers,” Kelly said. “Its development is a testament to the talent and experience of our officers. And this agreement with Microsoft will allow the NYPD to continue to fund innovative counterterrorism and crime prevention programs.”</div>
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DAS combines NYPD operational knowledge with Microsoft technology expertise, and Microsoft is now bringing the solution to market in an effort to extend these capabilities to other jurisdictions. Public safety organizations interested in deploying DAS will go through a process of customization based on unique organizational and regional requirements.</div>
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“Microsoft is honored to partner with the NYPD to provide these important public safety capabilities to other jurisdictions,” said Kathleen Hogan, corporate vice president of Microsoft Services. “The NYPD is a respected leader and is continually innovating to help ensure the safety of New York’s citizens. It is a privilege to support its work with our technology and professional services.”</div>
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LOWER MAKEFIELD, Pa. (CBS) – Several police departments in Bucks County now have a new high-tech tool to help in the fight against crime.</div>
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Thanks to a grant from Homeland Security, eight police departments now have an automatic license-plate reader.</div>
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High-tech cameras are attached to the rear of a police car and they can scan up to 1,800 license plate images per minute.</div>
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It quickly identifies wanted or stolen vehicles, fugitives and potential gang members or terrorists.</div>
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“These cameras help the officer by increasing the number of tags that are actually captured and an alarm goes off in the officer’s vehicle that indicates that a tag is on a list and is wanted,” says Lower Makefield police chief Ken Coluzzi.</div>
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Each unit costs about $18,000.</div>
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A total of 38 plate readers are being awarded to police departments throughout the five county Philadelphia area. They are being strategically selected because they are in high traffic areas.</div>
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