Waterford Township, a suburb of Detroit, is a town full of Flock license plate readers — cameras, often installed illegally, that cops and ICE use to track anyone and everyone they feel like. The ...

Rep. Brad Tabke announced legislation aimed at restricting how license plate data is collected, shared and accessed across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. License plate reader mounted on a lightpost with solar panel, San Francisco, California, February 5, 2026. (Photo by Smith ...

Backers of tighter controls also point to fights unfolding elsewhere. In California, a lawsuit has accused a city of sharing ...

In Martinez's case, the face scan didn't find a match and it wasn't until he produced his U.S. passport, which he said he carried for fear of such an encounter, that federal agents let him go. "I had ...

Ohio could become the latest US state to introduce blacked-out license plates for local motorists. The design is proving popular elsewhere in the country, and it also happens to be rather effective at ...

A 20-year-old San Joaquin Valley woman is expected to spend more than a decade in state prison in connection with the death of her 1-year-old child who died after being left in her vehicle in summer ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Flock Safety has not only marketed its plate readers to law enforcement as a vital crime-fighting tool, but ...

(CNN) — As investigators raced to find the person responsible for three killings in rural Wayne County, Utah, they used automated license plate readers and a victim’s own vehicle key fob to track ...

A Florida father received a 37-year prison sentence after his 15-year-old son caused a fatal crash. The father knowingly allowed his son, who did not have a permit, to drive unsupervised. The 2023 ...

(This story has been updated to add comments from Port Hueneme Police Department and correct the number of searches conducted by out-of-state agencies.) A failure in the automated license plate reader ...