PHOENIX -- Officer David Callister was about to drive past the 1991 Nissan sedan when an alert sounded inside his cruiser and an image of a license plate flashed on his laptop. It was a signal that ...

A crime crackdown in Freeport using license plate scanners has proved so successful at nailing criminal suspects and identifying stolen vehicles that village officials said Monday they want more of ...

MAUMEE, OH It's all being done through automated license plate readers. It's new technology located right on the officer's vehicle. The tool scans license plates as it passes cars. Maumee police chief ...

"The plate reader would get you stuff you wouldn't normally be thinking about." An estimated 400 of the nation's 18,000 police agencies own at least one license plate scanner, and police officials ...