(Illustration by Joe Dworetzky/Bay City News)

Across America, from tiny rural towns to major cities, cameras called Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are stationed at key intersections, gathering information from every vehicle that passes by. Each camera is part of a huge network, and each image is added to a centralized searchable database.

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