WA may pump the brakes on police license plate readers

Privacy in public is getting rarer and rarer because cameras are everywhere – including on police vehicles. 

They have the ability to snap your license plate and let the system run the number.

But this month some lawmakers are questioning: when do these license plate readers, mounted on roadways across the state, go too far?

Investigate West reporter Daniel Walters joins us to break down the arguments on either side.

Read his reporting here.

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