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		lexicality on April 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforc... I'm neither a lawyer nor american, but couldn't you use this case as precedent that looking up the numberplate in a database is also "gathering information to ultimately impose a government sanction"?

jefftk on April 23, 2019 [–]

The "trespassing upon a privately-owned vehicle" seems pretty relevant, and I doubt it would apply to reading the plate.

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