Rhode Island Bill: Use License Plate Readers for Insurance Checkpoints

[TheCount]

A Rhode Island legislative committee has approved a bill that would greatly expand the surveillance state through the deployment of license plate readers. For the first time in the US, these devices would be attached along Rhode Island highways and roads for the stated purpose of catching uninsured motorists from any state.

The House Corporations Committee approved the bill on a 7-2 vote earlier this week. The legislation spells out that the contractor for the project would get 50 percent of the fines paid by uninsured motorists ensnared under the program. The state and the contractor would each earn an estimated $15 million annually. Fines are as high as $120.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...red-motorists/

[Ender]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...red-motorists/

NOT. GOOD.

[phill4paul]

They would have to come collect. Wouldn't be healthy.

[Keith and stuff]

But New Hampshire doesn't require auto insurance. That's discrimination against Granite Staters!

[oyarde]

There is no way you can read a license plate from my home state and check the ins. The police themselves send a letter for you to take to your ins co to fill out and send in showing proof of ins on date they issue a ticket to you.

[oyarde]

Sounds like rhode island does not desire out of state tourism dollars .

[Anti Federalist]

the contractor for the project would get 50 percent of the fines paid by uninsured motorists ensnared under the program.

Great, the authoritarianism of the state, complete with heavily armed enforcers, combined with the profit motive of the market, combined with the monopolist structure of government protected crony capitalism.

Triple Penetration!!!

[DamianTV]

Great, the authoritarianism of the state, complete with heavily armed enforcers, combined with the profit motive of the market, combined with the monopolist structure of government protected crony capitalism.

Triple Penetration!!!

... and they didnt even offer you a Courtesy Reach-around!

[Danke]

... and they didnt even offer you a Courtesy Reach-around!

Hence AF's displeasure.