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If you're ever wondering why it might not be a good idea to use some kind of loophole or out-of-state solution to get a title for your vehicle just because in your state it might be too hard or might be too expensive. Here's why.

There are what's called ALPRs. In this article they call it license plate cameras. ALPR stands for automated license plate readers. It's not just a camera that takes a picture. It reads the digits off the license plate and then runs a trace on that plate. And there are hundreds and thousands of them all over the place. You'll never see them. They're hidden in parking lots. They're on taxi cabs. They're on lift vehicles. They're on police cars. Uh they're on the side of the road. And as you drive by, these ALPR readers will capture every plate that goes by.

And some of them are on private property. If you're a private property owner, you can actually put an ALPR on your property and get income because you're generating data. And what happens is the government agencies, law enforcement, DMVs, tax authorities, revenue departments, they're buying up this data to find out what cars are driving by their areas.

And if they find that there are out-of-state vehicles that keep passing back and forth every day or every week for weeks and months at a time, they're going to figure, well, that's not just somebody on vacation visiting our town. That may be somebody who improperly registered a vehicle in another state because they wanted to avoid taxes, avoid inspection, avoid smog, whatever it is. And they're going to look into it and they're now they know where you go cuz you drive by there. They're going to arrange to have you pulled over and they're going to do an investigation.

And already just in the state of Denver, they've arrested 300 people. And they're going to do more. Now that they see it worked, they're going to do more. And many times the vehicle may not be stolen, but it might be one that has some type of title problem that was glossed over or papered over with a fake title.

It may be something where uh a person lives in the area but didn't want to go through the title process in their state because it's too hard or it's too much bureaucracy or the DMV gave you the runaround so they said I'll just go to an easier state or I'll do some kind of fake title loophole. They're catching up to these people.

They may also find that your insurance isn't with the right address. For example, when you get insurance, you have to tell your insurance agent where you are garaging your vehicle. Now, it doesn't mean you have to have a garage. It means where you're domiciling your vehicle, where you park it. And if you say you're parking it in one town, but really you live somewhere else, you might be able to get a cheaper price on your insurance premium because some places are more dangerous. They're higher risk of crime, theft, accidents. So, you might get cheaper insurance, but if you're really not parking it there, then they can match up your insurance records.

Or even worse, if you have a claim, if you get in an accident, the insurance company can look at this ALPR data and find out that no, you didn't have your car parked over here in the safe place. You were using it in the dangerous place, and they can um deny your claim.

One of the companies is called Flock Cameras. You can look them up. You can you can order one for your subdivision, for your neighborhood, for your HOA, and it doesn't have to even control access through a gate. You can just collect the data.

Look, when you're driving in public, you are in the public realm. Your information is not necessarily private because you're out in public. Your license plate number is out in public. and these agencies are using it to enforce making sure that people aren't doing shady things with titles or registrations or trying to evade proper procedures for things like vehicle inspection, safety inspection, smog, sales tax.
So, think twice before you use some type of shady or questionable loophole to get a title because at some point it may come back to haunt you and it'll cost you way more money. In some cases, they're impounding and seizing vehicles from people that did something improperly.

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