License Plate Reading Software has a new Home: Your Neighborhoods

What’s happening? Software companies that make license plate reading software has a new home as the companies are approaching neighborhoods.

Why is this important? local governments and states are not adopting the software, so the new message is license plate readers is a tool for neighborhood watch.

How will this be important? There is no empirical data that license plate readers reduce crime and the operation of the readers has little oversight in the hands of a neighborhood. A San Antonio neighborhood raised concerns of stalking fellow neighbors.

Electronic Frontier Foundation | Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader