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The FDOT has revoked permits for automated license plate readers (LPRs) installed by local law enforcement on state highways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially since there are concerns over misuse, data privacy, and over-surveillance, and Governor DeSantis has remarked on the widespread use of LPRs (Flocks, etc.) and the need to prevent Florida from becoming a surveillance state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judd has been a supporter in the past and it’s a little concerning if you do the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are only mandating their removal on state highways right now, and Polk has them in a lot of rural areas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is he allowing us to become a surveillance county?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The FDOT has revoked permits for automated license plate readers (LPRs) installed by local law enforcement on state highways. Especially since there are concerns over misuse, data privacy, and over-surveillance,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcL0dlbWluaV9HZW5lcmF0ZWRfSW1hZ2VfczM2dDZpczM2dDZpczM2dC53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNzE3JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiVGhpbmsgUG9sayBDbyBTaGVyaWZmIHdpbGwgdGFrZSBkb3duIHRoZWlyIDc4KyBGbG9jayBDYW1lcmFzPz8_IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.4z1on4WN8bPY9q0QiAwPnHZdgVEwuuxWWquz6KM2VEYMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcL0dlbWluaV9HZW5lcmF0ZWRfSW1hZ2VfczM2dDZpczM2dDZpczM2dC53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNzE3JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiVGhpbmsgUG9sayBDbyBTaGVyaWZmIHdpbGwgdGFrZSBkb3duIHRoZWlyIDc4KyBGbG9jayBDYW1lcmFzPz8_IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.4z1on4WN8bPY9q0QiAwPnHZdgVEwuuxWWquz6KM2VEYMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[15647,16690,15776,15238,16067,16679,16947],"class_list":["post-78965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-fdot","tag-flock-cameras","tag-florida-law-enforcement","tag-grady-judd","tag-license-plate-readers","tag-privacy-rights","tag-surveillance-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78992,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78965\/revisions\/78992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}