Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Webinar: In thousands of communities across the country, automatic license plate readers are surveilling people's movements on a massive scale. A sensible law-enforcement tool? Or an insane violation of personal privacy? We've put together a crack team of policymakers and advocates to weigh in, including the Montana senator who authored that state's landmark legislation on the topic. Please tune in on Tues., Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. EST.
Or head over to the Associated Press, which has a longform look at the Border Patrol's (until now) secret practice of using ALPRs to identify "suspicious" driving patterns and tipping off local law enforcement, a practice that is resulting in a lot of innocent people, like IJ client Alek Schott (featured in the story), getting pulled over on a pretext and harassed.
