[FYI] Ohio's Turnpike Scanning System
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~ The Ohio State Highway Patrol will be using two scanners on turnpike
gates and two scanners in patrol cars for four months, as they test a new
system that recognizes license plates and matches them with a national crime
database. The scanner company, Elsaq SpA, is based in Genoa, Italy. Jeff
Gamso of the Ohio ACLU worries that the scanners will invade the privacy of
ordinary citizens: "It's a free society, and we're supposed to move as we
like without the government tracking us everywhere." State Highway Patrol
superintendent Paul McClellan says that if the scanners had been in place
earlier this year, they might have detected the individual responsible for a
number of sniper shootings on state highways.
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