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At least fifty officers are accused of misusing plate readers

development2026-08-03

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At least 50 officers were accused of misusing license-plate readers, 26 to track exes and women they wanted to meet, with one chief querying his former partner 600 times on a network logging 20 billion scans a month.

Reported metric: 600 queries / 20B scans a month

Reporting date: 2026-08-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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At least fifty officers are accused of misusing plate readers
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-03-one-chief-queried-his-ex-six-hundred-times
Claim: At least 50 officers were accused of misusing license-plate readers, 26 to track exes and women they wanted to meet, with one chief querying his former partner 600 times on a network logging 20 billion scans a month.
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- Welcome to August 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-3-2026
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