Riverside County approved a new contract that will nearly double the number of license-plate recognition cameras in the county.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a new contract with a company that operates license-plate recognition cameras throughout the county.
But there are some who are concerned about what the technology means for their own privacy, or that it will be used for nefarious purposes. In a statement, the ACLU of Southern California called the technology "invasive, dangerous, and unnecessary intrusions" for communities. Law enforcement said it doesn't give officials the capability to monitor live feeds from each camera. Instead, a computer records still images of each and every vehicle that passes by a particular camera and stores that information in a database for 30 days.
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