License plate recognition technology is a tool used by law enforcement to help solve crimes and find missing persons. The author, a former sheriff, argues the technology helps victims by speeding up ...

Massachusetts held a lottery Thursday, but the prize was not cash. It was a low number "MA 250" blue license plate. It's the most popular specialty plate in Massachusetts, with MassDOT saying nearly ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

A production-oriented Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system built with OpenCV, YOLOv8, and Tesseract OCR. The application detects vehicles in real time, locates license plates, extracts ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — A proposal moving through the Illinois General Assembly would place sweeping new limits on how police departments and government agencies use automated license plate reader ...

Massachusetts residents seeking a low number have until 5 p.m. Friday, April 17, to fill out an application for the new "250 Years of Independence” license plates. The new license plates are now "the ...

Florida law enforcement agencies are giving license plate data to ICE. Flock Safety is a private company that tracks all vehicles that drive past it. Police don't need a warrant to track people, and ...

SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office can no longer use certain automated license-plate readers in the West Valley communities of Cupertino and Saratoga following a vote by the Board of ...

The Milwaukee officer used the technology to run searches on his partner’s plate 124 times, officials said, and he also tracked the person’s ex. By Hannah Ziegler A Milwaukee police officer was ...

There's a big demand for Massachusetts' new "250 Years of Independence” license plates, and you can score a coveted low-number plate if you act fast. The new license plates are now "the most popular ...