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There is growing national momentum against ALPR mass surveillance. In the past year, dozens of cities have ended their contracts with Flock and other vendors. In the past week, Florida has ordered the removal of ALPRs from some roads, and Texas has ended its funding of city ALPRs. (1/2)

wesh.comAll license plate readers must be removed from state-maintained roads, FDOT saysAll license plate readers must now be removed from state-maintained roads, the Florida Department of Transportation said in a memo obtained by WESH 2 News.

31/8/26, 10:19 pm48 reposts186 likes

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@eff.org

31 Aug

EFF will continue to work with community groups to keep ALPRs off their streets, and urge judges and state legislators to impose enforceable restraints on this mass surveillance. (2/2)

eff.orgEFF's Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its HarmsTheir indiscriminate collection and retention is why ALPR-fed surveillance systems can be easily weaponized against immigrants, political dissidents, and other targeted communities. There is no config...

Gordon Hundley

@drgoon.bsky.social

1 Sept

FDOT runs its own sensor array fleet and doesn't want competition.

Gordon Hundley

@drgoon.bsky.social

1 Sept

It's probably more about the positive publicity, but in any case, FDOT has been running its own array of cameras including IR occupancy scanning for about a decade. For some uses, there will be no coverage gap.

Diogenes 🍷

@communistspy.bsky.social

1 Sept

Does that include the Sunpass bill-by-plate system?

Ukemike

@ukemike.bsky.social

1 Sept

"Most of the license plate readers in Central Florida were never on state roads to begin with; they're on city streets and county roads, at HOA entrances, apartment complexes, and shopping center parking lots. Today's order doesn't touch a single one of them."