Minnesota is making some progress addressing the concerns of residents who don’t like cops holding onto data taken from license plate scans. Law enforcement officials would only be able to store the ...

Minneapolis' database of license plate tracking information just got a whole lot smaller. A police department spokesman, Sgt. William Palmer, said this August that the department stores location data ...

The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge over how long police can keep data from automated license plate readers, which police say can provide valuable investigative information and ...

OAKLAND, Calif.—Weeks after Ars published a feature on the scope of license plate reader use, the Oakland Police Department unilaterally and quietly decided to impose a data retention limit of six ...

Coralville continued to add to and clarify its policies surrounding the use of automated license plate reader technology amid ...

The Yakima Police Department has been using patrol vehicle-mounted cameras since 2015 to scan license plates in an effort to solve car thefts and other crimes. Since then, the technology has helped ...

Despite near-unanimous support in both houses of the Virginia state legislature, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) recently amended a significant license plate reader data retention bill, sending it back to ...