Florida's Department of Transportation is revoking permits for automated license plate readers on state highway roads. The devices must come down within 30 days of a memo issued Monday. The cameras photograph and store plate numbers for police investigations. Flock Safety, their main supplier, faces mounting public opposition across the country. Critics cite privacy concerns, misread plates and wrongful stops. Flock said its cameras helped find missing children and arrest a murder suspect in Florida. It called for privacy and accountability rules rather than bans. The Jacksonville sheriff then ended plate reader use across Duval County. Sheriffs in Franklin, Liberty and Putnam counties said they would stop too. Tempe, Arizona shut down its network last week, and Los Angeles police let their contract lapse in July.

• removal within 30 days of memo
• 71% of Roseville alerts misread
• 33 Flock cameras shut off in Tempe