SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP/WGN) — The Illinois secretary of state on Thursday asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data ...

Everyone loves a vanity plate that means something special, but sometimes that clever wit goes too far and is deemed offensive. That's where the Illinois Secretary of State's office steps in. Illinois ...

Last week, police in Texas illegally used Illinois Automatic License Plate Reader data to track down a woman in connection with an abortion-related matter, according to Illinois Secretary of State ...

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Some Illinoisans could be receiving a lump of coal for Christmas from the Illinois Secretary of State this year after their vanity plate submissions made the naughty list. That's right. Secretary of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — A lawsuit accuses the Illinois State Police of operating a “dragnet surveillance” system through its use of license plate scanning cameras. The Illinois State Police, ...

Texas law enforcement accessed license plate reader data in Illinois to track a woman for “an abortion-related matter” in a northwest Chicago suburb, according to state officials. Jacksonville police ...

Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois' widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) ...