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Law enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law more than 100 times last month by sharing information from automated license plate readers with federal agents, records show.
Under a 10-year-old California measure, known as Senate Bill 34, state law enforcement agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.
Dreyer sent out emails to a bunch of his neighbors and asked if they’d be interested in paying for their own license plate reader cameras. In just a few days, he got 30 families to sign on.
Wait, the Department of Motor Vehicles can run out of license plate numbers? Yes, and here is what they plan to do next.
It was bound to happen eventually; California is about to run out of license plate numbers. That’s according to reporting from nonprofit newsroom LAist, which spoke to the Department of Motor… ...
The Golden State will run out of automatically generated license plate numbers sooner than expected, but there's a simple solution.
California is running out of license plate numbers. Here’s what comes next Prior to 1980, California license plates followed a different, shortened format.
California is running out of license plate numbers. Here's the new sequence you can expect to see on the road next year.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles is set to launch a new series of alphanumeric license plates next year.