Somebody already did the digging.

There’s a good chance a camera photographed your car today. Not a red-light camera — a device whose only job is to read every passing plate, log the time and place, and hold it where police can search it later. You weren’t asked. You weren’t told. In most places, no judge signed anything.

You could find the rest yourself. It would take weeks — the court files, the security disclosures, the vendor’s own contract terms — and then you’d still have to work out which claims circulating online are true and which will get you dismissed the moment you repeat one in public. Most people never get that far.

This is the file. The documented record on automated license plate readers, assembled and cited: the officers charged with misusing these systems, the audits that didn’t catch them at first, the cameras that turned back on after towns voted them off, and the technology that no longer needs your plate at all.

It’s also a method. More than two dozen American communities have ended their contracts — not by breaking anything, but through public records requests, council votes, and residents who kept showing up. That process has steps, templates and a 90-day sequence. All of it is here.

Every hard claim traces to a court record, an agency statement, a vendor’s own page, or mainstream reporting. Where the courts went against the argument, the book says so.

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