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In a video shared on TikTok in September, a masked man in a tactical vest runs across a street in Chicago toward a Ford SUV. More people in tactical police vests get ...

Drivers in Los Angeles County have a powerful new privacy advocate after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors pushed to restrict how their license plates are scanned by law enforcement. The board ...

Drivers in Los Angeles County have a powerful new privacy advocate after the Board of Supervisors pushed to restrict how their license plates are scanned by law enforcement. The board recently voted ...

“You guys are separating families,” one woman shouts at the car, which is flashing red and blue lights. “And for what?” The woman tells others not to come ...

The Capitola chief of police chief confirmed that the department had inadvertently violated multiple state laws after recent ...

Federal and out-of-state law enforcement agencies accessed databases with information collected by Capitola’s automated license plate readers on behalf of immigration officials between 2024 and early ...

Sharon Jackson questions the legality and constitutionality of license plate readers in Missouri, warning they may infringe ...

The Bureau of Motor Vehicles is adding a Purdue University Northwest license plate to its collection of special license plate ...

Norfolk casino operator Boyd Gaming wants to install automatic license plate reader cameras at locations surrounding the project site and Harbor Park.