CHICAGO -- 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 from automatic ...

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) ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --"JAGWEED," "MUNCH," "BADARSE." Those are just a few of the more than 300 requests for vanity Illinois license plates that were rejected last year. Every year, the Illinois Secretary of ...

A company that installs license plate-detecting cameras to aid law enforcement has halted operations with federal agencies because of ongoing concerns among officials in Illinois and elsewhere.

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 ...

One of the nation's leading operators of automated license-plate reading systems announced Monday it has paused its operations with federal agencies because of confusion and concern — including in ...

If you’re opting to pay extra for a personalized or vanity license plate in Illinois, you might want to check this list of rejected requests before sending in your inquiry. More than 54,000 Illinois ...

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has received complaints about the newly designed Illinois license plates being too difficult to read. The new ones will have a sharper contrast, but the 140,000 ...