In 2018, Brian Hofer and his younger brother were driving to visit their parents for Thanksgiving. It should have been a routine trip. But that evening they found themselves held at gunpoint by a ...

When Anne Arundel County Police announced in August that their crime rates had dropped since the beginning of the year, they attributed it in part to the technology at their fingertips, including ...

OVIEDO, Fla. – All seven cities in Seminole County have license plate readers, but as Oviedo – the latest city to use this technology — is installing these cameras, some cities in Washington state are ...

The white work van lurched through downtown Santa Monica, ducking through traffic and blowing red lights. Simi Valley police officers followed on its tail. They had picked up the vehicle, reported ...

License plate readers recently installed around Austin by the Texas Department of Public Safety are drawing pushback from some privacy advocates and local leade ...

While license plate readers have been around for decades, the cameras now capture, not just license plates, but vast troves of information. That information is fed into a national database, where it ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At The Ohio State University, Satoru Persons has learned firsthand ...

The nondescript black cameras are mounted near each entrance of the Las Americas Premium Outlets, capturing the license plate, make and model of every car that enters the mall parking lot. “As soon as ...