This presentation highlights strategies that both policymakers and philanthropists can pursue to improve the criminal justice system to enhance public safety, empower and restore victims, better reintegrate ex-offenders into society, and control costs to taxpayers.
License plate readers can aid police — but Texas needs guardrails
Earlier this summer, two Texas law enforcement agencies announced investigations involving the alleged misuse of Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology. In Fort Bend County, a sheriff’s lieutenant admitted to conducting repeated searches unrelated to official law enforcement duties nearly 200 times. Shortly thereafter, Baytown Police opened internal affairs and criminal investigations into allegations that an...