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License plate scans at issue

The ACLU of Connecticut has initiated public and legislative review of recent police practice: Scanning license plates in places like shopping malls.

ACLU-CT insists that any such digital records of innocent citizens be erased.

A series of news and opinion accounts in the Hartford Courant tell the story:

February 21 2012:  Plate Scanning Data Being Saved by Police

February 23 (Editorial):  Police License Plate Scans Must Have Kill Date

March 11 (Opinion Page) -- by David McGuire, ACLU-CT Staff Attorney

          Feels Like You're Being Watched?  It's Because You Are

March 11 (Opinion Page) -- by Douglas Fuchs, president, CT Police Chiefs Association

           License Plate Data Used for Fighting Crime, Nothing Else

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