Posted on 04/24/2014 6:33:33 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Onondaga County has 5.2 million records showing where drivers have been over the past year. But if you'd like to know what the county has on your travels, you're out of luck.
Police cars throughout the county are outfitted with special cameras -- license plate readers -- that take hundreds of pictures of license plates a minute. Those records, showing the plate and where it was photographed, are warehoused in the county's database and held for a year.
Onondaga County denied a Freedom of Information Law request from me for all records they had on my license plate.
The reason: Turning over those records would "reveal criminal investigative procedures and techniques."
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New York earlier this month announced it would dole out $550,270 for police departments across the state to purchase 27 more license plate readers.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
PS I know of what I speak about. I worked at a company that did software for toll booths. Character recognition city.
You may, but what you wrote sure made it sound like you didn’t.
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