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The cameras will be at or near intersections in Chatsworth, Northridge, Granada Hills, Sherwood Forest, Porter Ranch, West Hills and North Hills.
A project to document automated license plate readers arrives as more police agencies are using the surveillance technology.
Orange will install license plate readers and video cameras throughout the city to catch criminals traveling through the area and prevent future crime, city officials say.
Flock has defended itself against "myths" about license plate readers. [52] Although Flock Safety claims their cameras reduce crime, opponents argue that there is no clear evidence for this. [53] In 2023, Atlanta police (Cobb County) credited a Flock license plate recognition system for helping them track down a gunman. [54]
The software aspect of the system runs on standard home computer hardware and can be linked to other applications or databases.It first uses a series of image manipulation techniques to detect, normalize and enhance the image of the number plate, and then optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the alphanumerics of the license plate.
The platform works by merging data from crime and arrest reports, automated license plate reader (ALPR), rap sheets and other sources. [22] This platform uses “tagging,” which allows officers to tag people, vehicles, addresses, phone numbers, documents, incidents, citations, calls for service, ALPR, and field interview cards of interest.
An investigation by The News & Observer, a sister publication of The Sacramento Bee, found more than 20 agencies that let non-California departments access license plate reader data collected by ...
Perceptics is the exclusive license plate recognition provider for CBP. Perceptics operated as a subcontractor to Unisys for the license plate reader contract, worth $229 million over several years. As of 2019, Perceptics has worked on CBP contracts for "nearly 30 years".