More than 170 police surveillance cameras—including more than 40 in and around Chicago—broadcast real-time video and license plate data directly onto the open Internet, according to information ...

In October 2024, automated enforcement cameras in Chicago caught a dark-colored Nissan Sentra with New York Plate NCC1701 speeding along Kedzie Avenue through Marquette Park and running a red light at ...

License plate readers indiscriminately collect information on every car they see and store that information in a police database. Credit: Scott Olson / Getty The Cook County Board of Commissioners on ...

The Illinois secretary of state’s office said Thursday it will conduct an audit of the state’s automated license plate reader system after it was allegedly used illegally by law enforcement in Texas ...

In 2022, a teenager accused of fatally shooting a young mother in the back of the head in Morris was caught driving a stolen car with the help of a license plate camera. That same year, a man wanted ...