Massachusetts High Tech Parking Enforcement
Newton, MA is now using the latest high tech law enforcement tools to increase parking ticket revenues. Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems are being widely deployed by Massachusetts police departments for tracking down stolen vehicles, drivers with outstanding warrants, and suspended driver’s licenses.
But this is the first reported usage of this technology to specifically target parking violators.
According to the Boston Globe, these systems consist of multiple cameras mounted on police cruisers. The cameras are able to scan and track thousands of license plates per minute within the line of sight of the cameras, even when both vehicles are moving in opposite directions.
The on-board computer system matches plate numbers with a database of parking scofflaws. It will also save the date, time and location of where you are parked, and when they circle back, if you are in the same spot, for example, after a two hour limit, the system can track that violation, even if you’ve been back to “feed the meter”.
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