SHREWSBURY – In a January taping of “Ask the Manager” hosted by Donna O’Connor on Shrewsbury Media Connection, Town Manager Kevin Mizikar said the town is considering implementing technology capable of reading license plates and identifying vehicles as they travel throughout Shrewsbury.
“This may be a little controversial,” said Mizikar. “I’m not saying we’re definitely going in that direction, but they were so effective in helping to locate the individual that killed the people on the Brown University campus. It was one of the key pieces of technology.”
The type of technology often uses infrared motion-detectors to take images of vehicles’ identifying information. From there, license plate numbers could be run through databases to see if that particular vehicle is wanted by the police. The idea, according to manufacturers, is to reduce crime…