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Officers are found abusing plate readers to stalk individuals

development2026-06-22

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The Institute for Justice found at least 18 US officers allegedly abusing license-plate readers to stalk exes and strangers, even as a nonprofit tied its AI dashboards across 19 state prisons to a 16% drop in recidivism and the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm won a case it drafted in full.

Reported metric: 18 officers / -16% recidivism

Reporting date: 2026-06-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 22, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Officers are found abusing plate readers to stalk individuals
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-22-plate-readers-used-to-stalk
Claim: The Institute for Justice found at least 18 US officers allegedly abusing license-plate readers to stalk exes and strangers, even as a nonprofit tied its AI dashboards across 19 state prisons to a 16% drop in recidivism and the UK's first regulator-approved AI law firm won a case it drafted in full.
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- Welcome to June 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-22-2026
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