Kansas lawsuit challenges Wichita law enforcement’s reliance on license plate reader cameras

Wichita Machinist Sues City to Shut Down Flock License Plate Camera Network

If you’re tired of censorship and surveillance, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Mason Grimmett, a machinist from Wichita, has sued the city over its network of nearly 200 Flock automated license plate readers, asking a Kansas court to declare the program unconstitutional and stop it. The Kansas Justice Institute, a public interest law firm, filed the...

Kansas lawsuit challenges Wichita law enforcement’s reliance on license plate reader cameras

TOPEKA — Machinist Mason Grimmett criticized the Wichita Police Department’s reliance on high-speed equipment that reads, logs and converts into searchable files the license plate of everyone driving in range of nearly 200 specialized cameras in the city.

LTE: Automated License Plate Reader Issues

BY CHRIS LUCHINICandidate for Los Alamos County Council What is the daily number of license plates processed by the existing LRP? How many queries of the data are done per day/week/month?  What are the ‘wins’? A detailed list of incidents: That were used as a justification of a ALPR data set query That an ALPR query produced information useful for that investigation.  The data should  be broken down per officer (anonymized is fine). Are some of…