A Columbus homeowner defended his neighborhood's automated license plate readers with a specific, checkable, first-hand claim about a nightly walk. Reality Daily filed a public records request to test it. The cameras confirmed it on twenty-three of twenty-eight nights, in eighty-three rows, without a single misclassification.
By Tobias Wrenn · 14 min read
The Device — An automated license plate reader bolted to a treated wood utility pole in Valdosta, Georgia, the camera head below and a small solar panel canted above it on its own arm. This is a Flock Safety unit; the Blenheim Woods civic association declined to say which vendor supplied its seven, so we cannot tell readers whether the equipment on Fairholm Road is this make or another one. The bracket here is a two-bolt.
Forty-one months of incident data, every control the Data Desk could think of, and the entire regional effect collapses onto a single silver Nissan Altima with both rear quarter panels caved in and no front-end damage whatsoever. The driver has zero citations. Ninety-four witnesses agree on the car and none of them can tell us anything about the person in it.
