A federal judge in Norfolk sided with the city on Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging that its use of Flock license plate reading cameras is a violation of Fourth Amendment rights.
Norfolk’s Automated License Plate Recognition (APLR) camera network operates nearly 200 cameras in the city, which capture images of plates and can employ their use in crime investigations.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge Mark Davis cites other court rulings at the state and federal level which, he said “have almost uniformly concluded that neither taking photos of the license plate of a vehicle on a public roadway nor maintaining and querying a database of ALPR photos constitute a warrantless ‘search.'”…