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License Plate Readers Are a Privacy Concern Lacking Oversight

Bluegrass Institute · Caleb O. Brown, Alasdair Whitney · March 31, 2026

The Bluegrass Institute's CEO and the Institute for Justice's legislative counsel argue that Kentucky lacks any warrant requirement, restrictions on outside agency access, or meaningful oversight of license plate reader technology. They call on the state legislature to enact basic privacy guardrails as Louisville and Lexington expand ALPR deployments.

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