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Gainesville police add license plate reader to arsenal
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If you’re driving around and see a Gainesville police patrol car with an unfamiliar device mounted on the back, you better hope you don’t have warrants out. The Gainesville Police Department recently acquired a sophisticated new enforcement tool. A new license recognition system allows officers to record and run license tags using a character recognition software, a technology previously unavailable to the department.