State lawmaker may push for LPR legislation
The short version: A Tennessee lawmaker's push for ALPR legislation shows even elected officials are starting to question how much trust these cameras deserve.
Our Take
When a sitting state representative says out loud that he's not fully confident in license plate reader technology, that's worth paying attention to. WBIR Channel 10's report on Rep. Jason Zachary suggests Tennessee may be inching toward actual legislative scrutiny of ALPR networks — something most states have avoided entirely while Flock Safety and its competitors blanket neighborhoods with cameras under the radar of any real oversight.
We don't know yet what Zachary's proposed legislation will actually contain, and we're not going to pretend we do. But the fact that a lawmaker is publicly airing doubts about accuracy and reliability matters, because it cracks open a conversation that police departments and vendors would rather keep closed: these systems log your movements whether or not they're even working correctly, and the burden of proof has always been on the public to find out how badly.
If you live in Tennessee or anywhere else, this is the moment to make noise with your own representatives before the vendors write the rules themselves. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your drives, and hit up take action for ways to push back before 'confidence' in ALPR tech becomes law without a real debate.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WBIR Channel 10, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.