Author: staff

How license plate readers work: They record the plate number, make, model and color of every vehicle that passes, “and often compare them to the National Crime Information Center or a local police “hot sheet,” which may list stolen cars, suspended plates and people with outstanding arrest warrants or traffic violations,” McCoppin writes.

The evacuation comes two weeks after an explosion and massive fire at a chemical plant near Rockton, an Illinois community along the Wisconsin border, forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes for several days as the fire burned. Nobody at the plant or the surrounding community was injured by the June 13 fire that officials later determined was started accidentally during maintenance work.

“What we’re seeing now is an extension of the credit card fraud and the retail theft that goes on continuously, as these criminal organizations shift over to target unemployment agencies nationwide,” Adam Ford, the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology’s chief information security officer, said in March.

“Urban districts might be less likely to open for full-time in-person learning, in part because of higher COVID-19 community rates, and these districts generally include more students of color,” the study authors wrote. “Further, rates of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality have been higher in communities of color, and districts serving a larger share of these students might have faced more significant public health challenges as they made decisions about reopening schools.”