From The Week Newsletter
Officials in Manalapan, Fla., population 321, want to photograph every person who enters the town. To prevent crime, town commissioners are preparing to vote on a plan to install surveillance cameras on every road leading into town and photograph drivers’ faces and license plates. Computers would automatically check the plate numbers against police databases. The plan is probably legal, said the local ACLU, but some residents are concerned. “I’d have to make sure I’m dressed up to go out to the mailbox,” said Marion Pulis.