A law enforcement push for more license-plate scanners is gaining steam, with a popular East Coast beach destination announcing plans to deploy the technology at essentially every point of entry and the scanners being credited elsewhere for helping fight crime.
With the expansion, though, comes mounting privacy concerns as critics continue to raise questions about law-enforcement agencies’ legal authority to collect and store the data.
The latest to join the ranks of U.S. municipalities expanding the technology was Maryland’s Ocean City. Officials last week said they would deploy the scanners at all major entry points, with the addition of a second and third camera by next year — town officials argued they are needed to fight a persistent heroin-trafficking problem and other crimes.
They are joined by other advocates who say the technology has helped reduce and solve an array of other crimes — including by helping cut the number of nationwide auto thefts and assisting in the capture last week of the man who killed two Virginia journalists during a live broadcast. The killer later died in the hospital after shooting himself.
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