35 Alerts From the ALPR Tag

A Car’s Black Box and a City’s ALPR Program Put to the Test in two Different Courts: NMA E-Newsletter #566

November 17, 2019 • ACLU, ALPR, BLACK BOX, EDR, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, EVENT DATA RECORDER, FLORIDA, FOURTH AMENDMENT, GEORGIA, ILLEGAL SEARCH, LICENSE PLATE, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PRIVACY

Two motorists recently won Fourth Amendment decisions. Both cases will likely be appealed, and will have major privacy rights implications for how and where we drive our vehicles. ALPRs in Florida Raul Mas Canosa was mad and decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore. The city where he lives, Coral Gables, Florida, tracked his […]

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Massive 30-State, Real-Time ALPR Database Revealed: NMA E-Newsletter #558

September 22, 2019 • ALPR, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, infrastructure, LICENSE PLATE, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Technology, TRAFFIC STOP

By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the Massprivatel Blog Our worst fears about automatic license plate readers (ALPR) are coming to fruition, and no one in public understands just how much our privacy will be invaded. This summer, I warned everyone on my blog, and in the NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #554, that police in Arizona […]

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Law Enforcement is Using License Plate Readers to “Grid” Entire Neighborhoods: NMA E-Newsletter #554

August 25, 2019 • ACLU, ALPR, ARIZONA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Facial Recognition, MASSACHUSETTS, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, Technology

By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog What does gridding mean? The Arizona Mirror recently described it this way: “As part of the training for the ALPR (automated license plate readers) systems, Chandler police officers are taught to “grid” neighborhoods during their downtime – systematically driving up and down every street in an area, indiscriminately […]

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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 1—the National Landscape: NMA E-Newsletter #549

July 21, 2019 • ALPR, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, GPS TRACKING, infrastructure, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Road Usage Charge, Technology, TOLL ROAD, VMT, VMT Tax

A road user charge or RUC (also referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax and Mileage Based User Fees or MBUF) currently permeates nearly every discussion of how our country will pay for infrastructure in the future. Many transportation planners and elected officials seem to agree the time has come to […]

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Paying More for Less Service: NMA E-Newsletter #534

April 7, 2019 • ALPR, Bicycle, CALIFORNIA, Congestion Pricing, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, infrastructure, MASS TRANSIT, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, New York City, NEWSLETTER, OREGON, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, Scooter, TOLL, TOLLING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, UTAH, VMT Tax

By 2021, New York City will begin charging drivers who enter Manhattan below Central Park under the guise of congestion pricing. No one is surprised. City and state officials have been trying to make this happen for years. The rare alignment of views between the governor, the mayor, and the state legislature─each likely motivated by […]

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