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Engineering’s Erman Ayday says lack of universal rules leaves gray areas in police use of license plate readers

Media | October 27, 2026 | Story by: Editorial Staff

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WKYC: Erman Ayday, associate professor in the Case School of Engineering, said there is no universal set of rules that govern how police agencies use license plate readers like Flock, which have become more sophisticated and powerful as the technology powering them has advanced. "There's a black part, there's a white part, but the gray area in between is extremely big," Ayday said. "So who is going to decide when something happens in that gray area?"