NC police errors with license plate cameras brought wrongful arrests, $70K to women
By Tyler Dukes Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article287381160.html#storylink=cpy Updated April 27, 2025 4:57 PM Jacqueline McNeill was heading home to get ready for her goddaughter’s funeral when the lights started flashing. Even ...
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The Human Toll of ALPR Errors
By Adam Schwartz November 1, 2024 Imagine driving to get your nails done with your family and all of a sudden, you are pulled over by police officers for ...
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Automated License Plate Readers: A Study in Failure
Groundbreaking report reveals high-tech cameras fail to catch criminals or recover stolen vehicles—but stick municipal taxpayers with huge costs. By Jonathan Hofer, Independent Institute November 30, 2021 Summary This new ...
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What Are ALPRs and How Do They Work?
What Are ALPRs and How Do They Work? Brandon Moore Updated on Apr 27, 2022 What are ALPRs? What’s done with ALPR data? How are insurance companies using ALPR ...
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS
DECEMBER 12, 2022 ACLU Massachusetts Automatic license plate reader technology is unregulated in Massachusetts (and in Ohio)—and it implicates civil liberties. What is an automatic license plate reader? Automatic license ...
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Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding
By: Rob Natelson The reverse side of the dollar bill reproduces the Great Seal of the United States. On the left is the back of the seal. It features two ...
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The Partisan Road to Tyranny: George Washington’s Fatal Prediction
By: Michael Boldin “A frightful despotism.” George Washington knew what was coming. His Farewell Address, published on September 19, 1796 in the American Daily Advertiser, wasn’t just a retirement notice. It was ...
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American Cincinnatus: A Victorious General Refuses a Crown
By: Joe Wolverton, II On December 4, 1783, at Fraunces Tavern, the popular public house located at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets in Manhattan, General George Washington delivered ...
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The Republic was not Kept: Benjamin Franklin’s Constitution Day Prediction
By: Michael Boldin “A republic … if you can keep it” September 17, 1787 – the day the constitution was signed. We all know Benjamin Franklin’s famous line. But he ...
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The Great Bypass: How the Constitution Was Built to Sideline the States
By: Michael Boldin “This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, states, in their political capacity.” With that one sentence, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth identified the single most ...
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