New patented process empowers communities to align public safety with civil liberties by dynamically retaining vehicle data based on the severity of crime, marking a definitive shift from time-based ...

Flock Safety, the company behind one of the largest automated license plate reader networks in the United States, retains vehicle surveillance data for 30 days across roughly 90,000 cameras before ...

Minnesota is making some progress addressing the concerns of residents who don’t like cops holding onto data taken from license plate scans. Law enforcement officials would only be able to store the ...

OAKLAND, Calif.—Weeks after Ars published a feature on the scope of license plate reader use, the Oakland Police Department unilaterally and quietly decided to impose a data retention limit of six ...

Minneapolis' database of license plate tracking information just got a whole lot smaller. A police department spokesman, Sgt. William Palmer, said this August that the department stores location data ...

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ATLANTA - A device mounted on patrol cars that instantly scans every license plate it sees is the focus of a debate over personal rights, government data collection and law enforcement, but a recent ...

The Yakima Police Department has been using patrol vehicle-mounted cameras since 2015 to scan license plates in an effort to solve car thefts and other crimes. Since then, the technology has helped ...