Too, “Big brother is watching,” or is it time to consider this?
Flock Safety says its license plate readers reduce crime. The system uses a proprietary algorithm to identify a license plate, vehicle make, type and color.
After being suspended a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Libertyville police have rebooted the process to install a license plate reader system.
Village officials recently approved an agreement with Atlanta-based Flock Safety to place cameras at five locations for a 60-day pilot period.
“It’s in the permitting process with the Illinois Department of Transportation,” said police Chief Ed Roncone, adding that it will be two to three months before the system is up and running.
The readers serve legitimate purposes, such as alerting police to the location of a car associated with a criminal investigation, Roncone said.
“It’s just another tool we’re using to locate missing people, solve crimes” and make the community safer, he said.
Libertyville will join a handful of other suburban departments, including Vernon Hills’ and Elmhurst’s, in using the fixed camera technology as a crime-fighting tool.
Illinois State Police also have begun installing license plate readers on Cook County expressways to try to solve roadway shootings. The agency plans to install about 300 cameras.
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Today the “Flock Safety” person with plates RZH1769 from Fulton Georgia took my Yellow sign that said “Please Slow Down” and would not give it back to me. He was wearing a yellow jacket, beard and sunglasses, backwards baseball cap. He said maybe his boss had it. I asked for it to be returned. He was parked in the exact location and the back door of his van was open about three feet from where it was. I don’t normally see license plates from Georgia parked there on the side of the road. He even had a photo of the sign on his cell phone because there was spray paint and flags on the side of the road. We have one sign at the top of the hill at the entrance of our driveway to our home and another sign that was at the bottom of the hill, which is in front of our driveway to our woods. We had the signs there because we have deer with fawns that cross those areas. We have people speed thru when popping over the hill and we worry about pedestrians, like walkers, joggers, bicyclists that can be on the other side of the hill on the road and people can’t swerve if another car is in the opposing lane. I noticed the spray paint on the road that had a line and the word FLOCK on it last week. I had to go look up the name on the side of the van because I was not sure what letter that tree branch in the logo was to represent. I did a search on the internet and then I found this article.