Which laws?
Where were the cameras installed?
Are the fines disproportionate?
Are subpoenas necessary to access footage/data? If so/not, who's accessed it?
Are there ways to FOIA the data to answer these questions?
There's a contingent of people on one side of the spectrum that wants to ban all cars ever. At the other end of the spectrum is the contingent that wants to go fast. Those two groups will never agree.
So did we kill a legislation that would have blocked Police license plate readers and Flock?
Or because the legislation is killed, we can block Police license plate readers and flock?
> IPVM verified that a bipartisan amendment that would have effectively blocked police LPR programs nationwide was killed at a House committee markup on May 21, 2026.
Maybe the minimal edit is something like:
“Killed Legislation Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock”
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That the amendment died quietly does not erase what its introduction signals: opposition to police LPR programs is reaching higher levels of the political agenda, and Flock is increasingly at the center of it.
> A recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling.
Okay, I'm glad that's killed. I love the speed cameras near my home. And hopefully the future has every red-light backed by a red-light camera.
Certainly I wouldn’t support such strict enforcement with the current usual driver approach of aiming for a bit above the limit under good road and weather conditions, nor if applied disproportionately against less privileged people.
Go en we're talking about the real world that already exists here and not some alternate reality, how often do you find these "if" conditions to be actually satisfied?
Only if you place cameras uniformly. What you need to do to not rock the boat is exclusively place the cameras in "high crime areas", and you get a twofer: rich lawbreakers stay with off the radar, and you get a perpetual-motion machine for crime statistics.