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🌱 Why did Surprise pull the plug on its license-plate reader cameras?

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  • Why did Surprise pull the plug on its license-plate reader cameras?

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📰 News we're reading

• Tempe may ban ALPR cameras (yourvalley.net) — Surprise residents should know the city recently canceled its contract with Flock after an officer was accused of misusing license-plate reader data for personal reasons. The article focuses on Tempe's debate over banning ALPR cameras, but uses Surprise's decision, along with similar cases in nearby cities, to highlight growing privacy and oversight concerns around this policing technology.
   

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