York City Police Department to Deploy Automatic License Plate Scanners

[schmol]

the matrix has you, so resistance is futile...

[JohnUSCG]

How is Michael Helfrich still on city council in the first place? Didn't he plead guilty to a felony? Making him unable to hold public office?

-Chaz

Felony conviction does not automatically disqualify a person for public office. The standard in PA is if it is an "infamous" crime you are convicted of. The courts ruled the circumstances of his did not fit that standard.

[Shomari]

Felony conviction does not automatically disqualify a person for public office. The standard in PA is if it is an "infamous" crime you are convicted of. The courts ruled the circumstances of his did not fit that standard.

Narrowly. I don't support the infamous crime nonsense used for drug cases, but either way the current state of affairs is in disarray. Gary Mitchell, councilman elect in New Castle, was barred from office under similar circumstances and charges just months before Helfrich was granted his seat.

Guess the original thread topic is dead. I'm out.

[unclejumbo]

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/08/.../?intcmp=hpbt1

License plate reader technology picked up Vester Lee Flanagan’s car after he shot and killed two TV journalists in Virginia early on Wednesday.

A license plate reader in the vehicle of Virginia State Trooper Pamela Neff picked up Flanagan’s Chevrolet on Interstate 66 at approximately 11:20 a.m. ET.

During a press conference Neff explained that the car was quickly identified after she entered its details into her license plate reader. "As soon as it was entered, it came up with a positive hit that that vehicle just passed me less than three minutes earlier," she said. "I let my dispatch know that the vehicle has passed me and I attempted to catch up with the vehicle, which was travelling eastbound on 66."

[Grey Bearded One]

License plate reader technology picked up Vester Lee Flanagan’s car after he shot and killed two TV journalists in Virginia early on Wednesday.

So? Does that one act justify monitoring the activities of millions of Americans?

[phill]

Please not again.

[Mitch10mm]

I don't like them but won't cry that it helped find this jack hole.

I wonder if three hitch balls would obstruct enough to keep me off the grid.

[Deleted]

I don't like them but won't cry that it helped find this jack hole.

I wonder if three hitch balls would obstruct enough to keep me off the grid.

No.. But a horse, straw hat, and changing your last name to Yoder will.

[greenjohn88]

I wonder if three hitch balls would obstruct enough to keep me off the grid.

Having installed ANPR systems, visibly transparent IR-reflective/IR-opaque spray or plate cover and if you can be bothered infrared LEDs.

To clarify, you can't legally get close to 100% ANPR protection. If they filter out infrared, don't use a flash, or filter out the infrared light from the flash it will do precisely jack shit. There's only so much you can do without actually blocking visible light, which would be illegal. The closest you can get is a directional plate cover (passive), electrochromic plate covers (generally unpowered = opaque), or I suppose for a normally-transparent cover a mechanical series of rotating horizontal rectangular prisms with two opaque and two transparent sides. The legality of any of this is sketchy at best so it's best not to discuss here.

At least we live in a state that doesn't require front plates or fingerprints for permits.

[Mitch10mm]

Having installed ANPR systems, visibly transparent IR-reflective/IR-opaque spray or plate cover and if you can be bothered infrared LEDs.

At least we live in a state that doesn't require front plates or fingerprints for permits.

I thought about LEDs