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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

OGDEN — Utah’s license plate reader law won’t change this year, but both law enforcement officials and civil rights activists say it could use some tweaking in their respective favors. While other ...

The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge over how long police can keep data from automated license plate readers, which police say can provide valuable investigative information and ...