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California Highway Patrol Bought 216 Vigilant Video License Plate Readers
According to documents from the California Highway Patrol (CHP), it has purchased 216 Vigilant Video license plate readers between June 2011 and April 2015. In addition, an undated document on...
View ArticlePiedmont License Plate Reader Analysis Shows 99.97% of Data Collected is Useless
In 2013, the City of Piedmont, California, spent almost $600,000 to purchase 39 license plate readers covering most of its border with Oakland. With a population of less than 11,000 people, these 39...
View ArticleLicense Plate Reader Data Sharing at Northern California Regional...
Shortly after Palantir’s successful bid, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) began gathering and sharing license plate reader data from law enforcement agencies throughout...
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Northern California Fusion Center Has 3 Covert ALPR Trailers to Loan Out
The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NRCIC), the fusion center for Northern California, has three trailers with automated license plate readers that it loans out to other agencies. The...
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Larkspur Installs License Plate Cameras for Mass Surveillance
Three stationary license plate cameras were recently installed on East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Larkpur as part of a Regional Automated License Plate Regional Network (also called strategy and...
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Solano County Sheriff Gets Initial Funding for Project Skynet
With a nod to Terminator’s self-aware computer network, the Solano County Sheriff in Northern California has applied for and received partial funding for Project Skynet, a network of surveillance...
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Alameda County Sheriff Installed License Plate Reader at Highland Hospital...
The Center for Human Rights and Privacy recently discovered that the Alameda County Sheriff installed a license plate reader at the entrance to Highland Hospital’s emergency room. The information was...
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Fremont: 14.5 million vehicles scanned in 11 months
License plate readers on Northbound Fremont Boulevard According to data from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC), the city of Fremont collected 14.5 million license plates and...
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Vallejo Cites Ferry Terrorism to Get $30,000 Grant for License Plate Readers
The Vallejo Police Department cited ferry terrorism as part of its $30,000 grant application for license plate readers, calling the ferry “a viable threat for a terrorist act.” According to the grant...
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