Illinois automated license plate reader camera scans aren’t unconstitutional searches, judge says – Cook County Record

Illinois automated license plate reader camera scans aren’t unconstitutional searches, judge says – Cook County Record

In the March 31 ruling, U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold sided with the state of Illinois on the legal action's core legal question: Whether the license plate reader systems violate Illinoisans' Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless searches by law enforcement. In the ruling, Pacold said scans and data collection from license plate reader systems do not amount to police "searches" limited by the Fourth Amendment.

Professionals will scan the license plates of each vehicle and the receipts they issue via mobile phone, and the digital client list will be automatically updated.

Illinois automated license plate reader camera scans aren't unconstitutional searches, judge says

A federal judge has curbed, for now, a class action lawsuit that seeks to put an end to the widespread and growing use by police in Illinois of automated license plate reader systems to combat crime, which the plaintiffs say amounts to unconstitutional high tech "dragnet surveillance" against everyone who drives a vehicle in Chicago and anywhere else in Illinois such license plate reading cameras are deployed.In the March 31 ruling, U.S. Distric…