Hyattsville buys more cameras

Hyattsville police send over half a million license plate images per year to a Maryland database; federal immigration officials have previously accessed Maryland databases "without outside approval"

At Monday night’s city council meeting, the Hyattsville City Council unanimously voted to expand its license plate camera system, purchasing 12 units from ELSAG, which advertises that its cameras can send data at the company’s “enterprise operations center” and store it “for future analysis.” These 12 units expand Hyattsville’s existing license plate ca…