The Columbia police department has been offered a couple of police car mounted license plate scanning systems, free of charge. As noted before, this scanner technology is on the verge of becoming widespread in Missouri law enforcement, in the search for stolen cars and driver’s who may have outstanding criminal warrants.
KOMU.com reports that the gift is not without controversy in Columbia, as the Columbia city council has wrestled with similar surveillance issues in approving downtown surveillance cameras.
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