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A Citizens Guide to Automated License Plate Technology

ALPR. Image via Wikipedia
Have you seen cameras like this on police cars near you lately? You will. The technology is called ALPR- Automatic License Plate Recognition, and it's going to be almost everywhere in the US in the near future. ALPR allows the automated scanning of over a hundred plates a minute. That plate information is matched versus databases like NCIC (FBI database) in the US. That database will indicates vehicles reported stolen, criminal warrants, and so on. Local departments can add their own data to check against, including unpaid fines and tickets (scofflaws), and so forth.