Speak Out: Lilburn Police License Plate Readers

Are these keys to law enforcement an invasion of privacy?

Speak Out: Lilburn Police License Plate Readers

Are these keys to law enforcement an invasion of privacy?

Like some other municipalities, the city of Lilburn employs the use of license plate readers to capture the bad guys. Bad guys include those who are driving around in stolen cars, people wanted for previous crimes, those who have abducted babies, and more. In August, for example, the city used the special devices to alert them to a stolen car, which led them to eventually find a suspect hiding in the freezer of an Ingles grocery store. -- Do you think the use of these license plate readers is justified, even if the plates of law-abiding citizens are also capture? Let us know in the comment section below. -- Typically, three automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are mounted to patrol cars, and cansnap pictures of thousands of plates each …

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Thor Johnson

9:07 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Mike, Mike, mike… you can trust government. They never do anything behind your back.   more ›