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NewsChannel 11 Lubbock  Federal grant could mean more license
plate readers  Posted: Updated:  A federal grant could allow the
Lubbock Police Department to add more license plate-reading
cameras to Parking Enforcement vehicles.  "It's nice that it
gives us another tool, so when somebody's car comes up missing
we can recover it. The computer keeps track of times whenever
cars are illegally parked," said Lubbock Police Sgt. Jason
Lewis. "Stolen vehicles, and if an Amber Alert maybe goes out -
something like that - we can put in if there's a suspect vehicle
tag that we have, then we can put that in and as it would drive
through parking lots, it would alert us to where that vehicle
was when it went past."     It will only happen if the city
approves a federal grant worth more than $160,000 at Thursday
night's city council meeting. If passed, the grant will be split
between the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office and the Lubbock
Police Department.  The cameras