#Kansas Town Uses #LicensePlateReaders to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Police in #Lenexa , Kansas used automated license plate reader ( #ALPR ) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station #KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of #abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like #licenseplate readers.
#surveillance #privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer

Thought the police could do no wrong, as everyone assumes?

LE is really just a criminal

#Hack reveals years of police misconduct
#GiglioList #DDOSecrets

Operation Sticky Fingers
#DOJ #AG #Corruption
https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-11-03/former-and-current-kansas-city-kansas-police-officers-on-hacked-misconduct-list
#Wired #KCUR #NPR #SCORE #SWAT #RobbedBySecurity (by #police not just DHS) #KansasCity #KC #Kansas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giglio_v._United_States

they must have found out what Vader was up to in #KCMO . . .

Thought the police could do no wrong, as nearly everyone seems to assume?

#Hack reveals years of police misconduct
#DDOSecrets

Operation Sticky Fingers
#DOJ #AG
https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-11-03/former-and-current-kansas-city-kansas-police-officers-on-hacked-misconduct-list
#Wired #KCUR #NPR
settled the #SCORE #SWAT #RobbedBySecurity (by #police not just DHS) #KansasCity #KC

#GiglioList
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giglio_v._United_States

How about some good news? KCUR, #KC's NPR affiliate held an emergency funding drive following the slimy Republicans axing money that was approved bipartisanly just a few months ago.

The drive seems to have been a success.

Wouldn't it be great if #PublicMedia turned out stronger after this trial? I'll tell ya what, as a recurrent donor to various public media entities, I have a vested interest in them all. Seems I'm in good company.

#KCUR #Missouri #NPR

I’ll be looking to #PubicMedia for my election updates tonight. Hope you folks will consider the same. Where you put your eyeballs matters.

Nothing flashy, just the facts. And with local context. For us in the bistate #KC area, that’s #KCUR and #KansasCityPBS (formerly #KCPT)

Pretty disappointed in #NPRone, and the forced ads lately. Apparently #NPRplus will let you skip the BS, but it’s only available on a per-station basis.

I reached out to my #KCUR membership coordinator to see if/when we’ll get it and they offered to let me test it when it starts in a month or so. That’s pretty cool. 😎 #KC #npr

#KCUR interviewed my former partner as part of this article on how workers at the #KansasCity Half Price Books stores have come together to stand against HPB's anti-labor antics, including company-wide raises that were never even offered to unionized stores.

“'Their words are not aligning with their actions, and they just have been refusing to take accountability for that. We are the ones suffering because of it.'”

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-11-20/half-price-books-workers-kansas-city-national-union-effort