license plate cameras

East Peoria on Tuesday night weighs a decision to add 10 more cameras to the 15 it already has. Opponents from Central Illinois anti-Flock groups hope to press council members by demonstrating in Levee Park before the meeting. The village of Creve Coeur has its own decisions to make.

Jack McQueen took questions from concerned citizens leading a campaign against use of Flock brand license plate reading cameras to solve crimes.

Ten of the 11 people who spoke during the public comments portion of Monday’s Bloomington City Council meeting voiced opposition to a perceived possibility of a data center development south of Central Illinois Regional Airport.

The region's only real-time data center collects and interprets information from license plate and public safety cameras. Bloomington Police plan to invest in crash detection tools and additional software and hardware upgrades.

The technology is a feature of Flock Safety cameras the department uses in select investigations. Flock came under scrutiny last year, when it was revealed federal agents were accessing data for immigration enforcement.

The McLean County Sheriff's department is fessing up to an error that allowed federal immigration agencies to search its database of Flock Safety license plate reading cameras for more than four months this year.

For several members of the city's Public Safety and Community Relations Board, it was their first time reviewing a complaint, leading to discussion about the board's function and role.

An automatic license plate reader company used by hundreds of police departments around Illinois broke state law by allowing federal border enforcement officers to access Illinois license plate camera data, according to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.

A bill passed in this year’s legislative session would rewrite the definition of a “forcible felony” to allow Illinois State Police to use images obtained from automatic license plate readers in cases involving human trafficking and involuntary servitude.

The suit alleged the use of license plate readers was a violation of the Fourth and 14th amendments.