This article out of Maryland describes the use of their new license plate scanning technology

“LPR technology is used to scan for stolen vehicles, identification of persons with active warrants for their arrest, and monitoring for Amber alerts,” she said. “Information from LPR reads may be matched against databases for wanted persons, protection orders, missing persons, gang members, known and suspected terrorists, supervised releases, immigration violators and national sex offender lists.…the LPR technology provides law enforcement with automated detection of a vehicle’s license plate as it passes the reader. The LPR system consists of a high-speed camera, either at a fixed location or mounted to a patrol vehicle, and a computer to convert data from electronic images of vehicle license plates into a readable format, and then compare the information against specified databases of license plates.”

Police offices in Florida already have and use this technology.

In Florida, citizens are required to register their vehicles (including license plates) with the State and this information is added to the sex offender list. Not only are they required to register THEIR OWN vehicles, but the vehicles of anyone who lives in the house with them, including their non-sex-offender spouse, children, family, roommates or anyone who visits for 5 or more days.

That means, that “registered vehicles” which don’t even belong to a sex offender will be flagged as “sex offender vehicles”. Can you imagine a child being pulled over and interrogated just because their parent is on the registry?

This is another of the irrational laws that we need to fight back on!