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Los Angeles City Council is considering sending "Dear John" letters to the registrants of cars seen in an area of San Fernando described as having a "thriving street prostitution problem". The plan would use automated license plate readers to identify vehicles that stopped in the area. Council member Nury Martinez claims "If you aren't soliciting, you have no reason to worry about finding one of these letters in your mailbox. But if you are, these letters will discourage you from returning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/01/the-age-of-pre-crime-has-arrived/
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 02 2015, @07:15PM
> Need to make up some fake plates for officials in the state and see if they keep the program going after the mayors and such get those letters.
Easy-peasy. Just get the right font and print it on a piece of paper. Those cameras can't tell the difference between a real plate and the cheapest facsimile. Vehicle registration records are usually public information too. Or at least public enough that the state will sell a copy of the database to anyone with a couple of thousand dollars so any of the data brokers should let you look it up in their copy for a couple of bucks.