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Data spans varying periods in 2025 for each town. Agencies that could not be matched to counties are not represented.Map: Annie Xia / CT InsiderSource: Towns of Avon, Cheshire, Monroe, Southington and Windsor

Over the course of 2025, law enforcement agencies around the country from Maine to California ran millions of searches on Connecticut license plate camera data, records show.

The camera data was collected by Connecticut police departments and searched by out-of-state agencies for thousands of different reasons ranging from “suspicious vehicle” to “missing person.”

In February, CT Insider reported that Connecticut data was specifically searched thousands of times by out-of-state agencies for reasons identified as “immigration,” “ICE” or “ICE assist."

Read more here: https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ct-license-plate-camera-data-police-searches-22259752.php