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Crow's Nest tracks license-plate readers, facial recognition, police surveillance and the wider civil-liberties beat, town by town. One free email each weekday morning, every line linked to the reporting it came from.

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Carey bans ALPRs and facial recognition

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The pattern
Lawmakers in three jurisdictions introduced bills or proposals to restrict police use of automated license plate readers.
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