Las Vegas police have quietly rolled out what amounts to a near citywide web of automated license-plate readers, roughly 200 cameras in all, with almost no public fanfare. The system logs license plates and distinctive vehicle “fingerprints” that can be searched across jurisdictions, and public audit records already show thousands of lookups. The mix of scale, cross-agency reach and private funding is now sparking questions about who approved it and what safeguards really exist.
How the system was paid for
Metro told The Nevada Independent it runs about 200 Flock cameras that sit on city or county infrastructure, and that it shares data from those devices with hundreds of other state and local law-enforcement agencies. Public audit logs compiled on…..