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Connecticut's new license plate camera law: What changes Oct. 1
www.newstimes.com

... New regulations on automated license plate cameras go into effect Oct. 1 in Connecticut. But in the four months since legislators in Hartford approved those rules, the debate on the technology has only gotten louder. ...

The new law changes who Connecticut departments can share data with. Starting Oct. 1, Connecticut law enforcement agencies can only opt into sharing license plate data with towns in Massachusetts, New York and/or Rhode Island, given those towns agree to Connecticut's usage policies. This can be done with specific cases or with automatic sharing agreements. Police in other states will only be able to search Connecticut data if they receive a judicial warrant to do so.

The law also changes what Connecticut data can be used for. Local departments, and the neighboring states with which they can share data, will be prohibited from using the data for immigration, reproductive care or gender-affirming healthcare investigations. The data also cannot be searched to identify someone "engaged in a First Amendment-protected activity," such as attending a protest.

The data collected by the cameras will only be retained for 21 days unless it is used for an active investigation, to comply with a warrant or for highway usage fees. Departments must also now follow a model policy developed by the state's police council and create annual reports on how they are using the technology.

"The law, for a first bite at the apple, is not bad," said Ken Barone, the manager of the University of Connecticut's Racial Profiling Prohibition Project that focuses on equitable roadway safety. "It puts limits on retention periods, prohibits certain locations for cameras, restricts how the database can be used and who you can share data with."

The law bars public agencies from collecting license plate data near a reproductive or sexual health facility that primarily provides gender-affirming healthcare services, or organizations that primarily serve immigrant communities. ...


@#5 ... Hegseth's wife has NO business inserting herself into our national security apparatus. ...

Maybe she's why Sec Hegseth wants nobody besides military hunks at his upcoming meeting.


Service members must meet weight, grooming standards for Hegseth event
thehill.com

... The Pentagon is requiring troops to meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit "impeccable" grooming standards in order to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's State of the Force address later this month, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill on Thursday. ...



There is a book called Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.
~ DonorBot

Already read it. Thank you very much.

You never saw my reply to your previous dropping name of his book, Corky actually claims Andersen was in Fantasyland; I doubt you read it or you'd understand that blamed Boomers.

His critique of "Do your own thing / pursue your own truth." is interesting and popularized personal freedom, but the book claims it legitimized in your mind that subjective experience supersedes empirical reality.
ie you're the one in Fantasyland.

Here's some of reading you're missing out on ....

The injury alleged by the Sierra Club will be incurred entirely by reason of the change in the uses to which Mineral King will be put, and the attendant change in the aesthetics and ecology of the area. Thus, in referring to the road to be built through Sequoia National Park, the complaint alleged that the development "would destroy or otherwise adversely affect the scenery, natural and historic objects and wildlife of the park, and would impair the enjoyment of the park for future generations." We do not question that this type of harm may amount to an "injury in fact" sufficient to lay the basis for standing under 10 of the APA. Aesthetic and environmental wellbeing, like economic wellbeing, are important ingredients of the quality of life in our society, and the fact that particular environmental interests are shared by the many, rather than the few, does not make them less deserving of legal protection through the judicial process.
Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U. S 1972

What damage did that do to the ability to develop a railroad, a building, a park, a datacenter or a house?

But I wanted to limit my reply to the thread topic, i.e., public works projects.

You can't do it intelligently without understanding the history of how you got here. I see many posts proposing/blaming policies and people, that will take us back to the same place to why it changed to what it is today.

This is known as a Chestertons fence.
theknowledge.io

Measles Cases and Outbreaks
www.cdc.gov

... As of September 17, 2026, 3,471 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States in 2026. ...

For the full year of 2025, a total of 2,289 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. ...


... and those are CDC numbers ...

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