The article itself has a high amount of emotional content, but the idea is to use license plate reader data to trace potential solicitors of prostitution.

Idea posed by Nury Martinez, a 6th district Los Angeles city councilwoman, to access a database of license plates captured in certain places around the city, translate these license plates to obtain the name and address of each owner, and send to that owner a letter explaining that the vehicle was seen in, “an area known for prostitution.”

via Los Angeles Just Proposed the Worst Use of License Plate Reader Data in History. — Medium.