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Chandler shut down its license plate readers. Here is what every neighbouring council should ask.
Arizona's largest city to end a Flock partnership did it after its own audit found unexplained use. The details matter more than the headline — especially the 88-to-1 search ratio buried in the reporting.
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Thirty identified cases: what one review of ALPR abuse actually found
The Institute for Justice has identified 30 reported incidents in which law-enforcement personnel allegedly used license-plate-reader systems to stalk romantic interests — a list its reviewers describe as almost certainly an undercount.
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Unsurveilled is live
A nonpartisan civil-liberties project opposing warrantless government surveillance of people suspected of no crime — starting in Arizona's East Valley.