Maine towns are installing AI surveillance systems despite privacy concerns

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

At 4:24 p.m. on March 10, Sanford police got a report of a stolen vehicle. At 7 p.m., they asked law enforcement in New Hampshire and Massachusetts to search using their arrays of roadside cameras. The car was found the next day and three people were arrested.

Stolen vehicle investigations generally take months, if they are solved at all, said Sanford police Maj. Mark Dyer. But within hours of the reported theft, officers were able to locate the car using automatic license plate readers that scan, log and track every vehicle that drives past them using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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