LOS ANGELES --- The man suspected of taking potshots at vehicles on Kansas City highways from March 18 to April 6 may now be in custody largely because digital cameras mounted atop police cruisers had randomly taken pictures of an Illinois license plate at least four times. After a witness saw the driver of a green Dodge Neon behaving
License Plate Readers: Another Step Toward “Big Brother” Surveillance?
Automated license plate readers aid in arrests and other police work, but civil liberties activists and advocates see the technology as a “serious” threat to privacy.