Riding along with Illinois State Police to see license plate readers in action 05:59. CHICAGO (CBS)-- Summertime in Chicago is electric – festivals, fireworks, the lakeside breeze providing a ...

The Illinois State Police have recorded 61 expressway shootings in Cook County this year. That compares with 52 for all of 2019, 43 in 2018, 51 in 2017 and 54 in 2016, a year when gun violence in ...

Last August, the Illinois State Police reported to Gov. J.B. Pritzker that the agency’s ALPR network scanned more than 1.5 billion license plates over the previous year.

State police welcomed the decision to dismiss the case, saying in a statement that the license plate readers are “one of the most effective tools ISP uses to solve crimes, especially expressway ...

A lawsuit accuses Illinois State Police and state officials of operating an unconstitutional “system of dragnet surveillance” through license plate reading cameras which track motorist’s ...

State police released new data Tuesday, and said that in 82% of interstate shootings, the automatic license plate readers have helped them identify a suspect or person who witnessed the shooting.

With two fatal expressway shootings in less than a week, Illinois State Police, along with city and state transportation agencies, is poised this week to begin installing license plate-reading ...

An increase in the number of shootings on expressways in the Chicago area are behind a police push for license plate scanners. So far, there have been 61 expressway shootings in Cook County this year.