Automated license-plate readers (ALPRs) have quietly expanded across the U.S., and nowhere has that growth sparked as much debate lately as Colorado. Cities and sheriff’s offices say ALPRs — many supplied and operated by companies like Flock Safety — help solve auto thefts and locate suspects. Privacy advocates and journalists, […]
Daily Archives: September 23, 2025
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At GoVia Highlight a Hero, our mission is to build safer interactions between communities and law enforcement through technology, transparency, and trust. Part of that work includes helping our community understand how policies—whether local safety rules or national immigration laws—impact people’s daily lives. Recently, there has been confusion around new […]
Deep-research, fact-checked briefing with 10 pain points for young Black teens, tech & legal needs, pilot timeline (3-/6-/12 months), cost/revenue projections, and concrete solutions you haven’t asked for. Alabama’s SB 143 (the “gang”/criminal-enterprise law) was passed in 2023 and signed into law; it broadens the state’s ability to label people […]
An evidence-based, systems-level look at how real-time law + mental-health video access can protect people and police — and why new “gang” laws like Alabama’s SB143 make that protection urgently needed. GoVia is a community-policing safety app that gives people instant, recorded video-chat access to attorneys and mental-health professionals at […]