I now know I am OFFICIALLY on some sort of watchlist! Yippee!

The list is supposedly not exhaustive, but I recommend everyone to search your plate to see if you’ve been tracked. I worry for the safety of the women who have been searched more than 50 times by the same user.

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    Holy shit one officer in my town has 309 searches on one plate.

    He(?) has the top number of searches in total, and (practically) the only person to search for the top four plates in my town. The rest have like 1-2 searches from other officers in the same or adjacent town.

    Wtf is so special about these 4 plates?

    We only have two cameras in my town (afaik), and they are on the highway on ramps.

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        I contacted the police oversight committee. They report to the Governor and AG.

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      Ex gf or wife or a chick who turned him down. Or a trans woman he is obsessed with.

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      He’s divorced and those are his Xwife, her new boyfriend, and his two kids.

      Maybe. But rolling the dice, that’s my 7.

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      On the page, USA Today have a section saying if you see a plate that has a lot of searches they want to hear from you. Might be worth letting them know which plates/officer.

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        If they have the database that’s a simple query to execute against it.

        Don’t tell me USA today actually reads at the level they write at? Jeez.

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      Seems worthy of contacting the reporter’s mentioned on the site:

      What if I’m in these records?

      If your plate has been searched frequently or you recognize an officer frequently searching the same plate, we want to hear from you.

      Contact reporters Austin Fast and Kenny Jacoby.

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      Is he like the desk guy the others call to have him check plates? Only somewhat reasonable explanation I can think of. Not that there’s any reasonable explanation for these things to exist in the first place.

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        And somebody called him 309 times on the same plate?

        That’s once every workday for over an entire year. It’s nuts. Stalker-level behavior.

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          I think it would be a huge breach of privacy and it shouldnt exist but the one scenario that people might argue this is fine if it was like a pariole officer.

          Like if someone has conditions stating they can only go to work and such, so the officer checks to see if he was breaking his parole the day before.

          Once again, I don’t think it should exist… But I know a lot of people who would say that is for the betterment of society.