Observed arrival · 2026-09-29
Watch the Watchers’ ALPR abuse index
A public case index and map documenting alleged misuse, failures, and accountability issues involving automated license-plate reader surveillance.
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- Local investigators, reporters, and surveillance researchers
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- The map withholds locations it cannot reliably resolve instead of guessing or placing incidents at a state's center.
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The page organizes cases under categories including personal tracking, wrongful stops, retaliation, and institutional misuse, with filters for state, category, and system. It says its 244 incidents combine material imported from the Institute for Justice index with independently verified local and official sources. The map includes incidents only when a community-level location is verified, and withholds unresolved locations rather than guessing.
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