New Jersey says automated license plate recognition technology will help police combat auto theft.
Nearly three dozen police departments and other law enforcement agencies will split a $10 million grant to purchase or expand on their automated license plate recognition technology in a continuing quest to combat auto theft, officials said.
The state Office of the Attorney General made the announcement Friday, saying car theft dropped 16% from September 2022 through March in part due to help automated license plate readers provide police. It wasn’t immediately clear if that dip was compared to six months before it or a different time frame.The high-speed automated camera networks capture and store computer-readable images of license plates in a centralized data base accessible to law enforcement.
“This information assists law enforcement in identifying, locating, and recovering stolen vehicles; interrupting auto theft networks; and apprehending individuals involved in vehicle theft and other violent crimes,” the attorney general’s office said in its statement State Police will receive the largest grant — $3,014,329.00 — though at least one agency in all 21 counties received funding.expressed concern about how the information collected by police would be usedPolice have been permitted to manually “run the plates” since a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling in State v. Donis, the attorney general’s office said previously.
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