The Illinois State Police and several state officials were hit with a lawsuit Thursday over the “warrantless” monitoring of drivers in Cook County, Illinois, through automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
The suit names Illinois State Police, along with its director, Brendan F. Kelly, Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker, and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, accusing them of wielding ALPR systems—which capture and store images of license plates for law enforcement purposes—to unconstitutionally track millions of citizens, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The state has installed hundreds of such systems ...
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