2013) (reasonable suspicion supported a vehicle stop where a plate reader gave an officer a “‘wanted person’ alert” after detecting a license plate associated with a person who had previously failed to appear in court the officer noted that the wanted person was a male as was the driver of the vehicle) People v. In light of the devices’ fallibility, when an officer receives an alert from a plate reader mounted on her police vehicle, may she rely on the alert to stop the vehicle identified by the reader?Īt least in many circumstances, the answer may be yes. ![]() 23, 2011) (unpublished), a civil suit arising out of a plate reader’s mistaken determination that plate 5SOW- 3-50 matched stolen plate 5SOW- 7-50, and the resultant “high risk felony stop” at gunpoint of an innocent motorist. City and County of San Francisco, 2011 4434801 (N.D. Plate readers aren’t perfect, as illustrated by Green v. ![]() In a few years, every police vehicle may be topped with a plate reader. Survey data suggests that a majority of all law enforcement agencies already use the readers, and I assume that even more agencies will do so in the future as the technology becomes better known and less expensive. I don’t know how the ACLU identified agencies to query, or how it decided which responses to post online, but a substantial majority of the agencies whose responses it posted acknowledged using plate readers. Other agencies such as the Fayetteville Police Department and the Greenville Police Department, have experimented with or are exploring the use of plate readers.
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