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How one tip exposed a hidden pattern of police surveillance misuse

The Washington Post · August 4, 2026 · Georgia

A follow-on Post story traces how an anonymous tip about a former southern Georgia deputy — charged with stalking a woman via license-plate readers — opened a wider pattern of ALPR misuse across agencies.

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Useful when arguing that abuse is not a one-off: one local arrest led investigators to a national pattern, not a single rogue department.

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