Earlier in April, the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office started gathering community input about using the technology to curb crime.

A new crime-fighting tool in Ypsilanti Township has some people concerned about privacy. The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office is presenting a plan to use license plate readers to help fight crime.

SHANGHAI - Asian markets were slightly higher as China took the next, critical step in a long-awaited money management reform, and as the United States gave the Chinese tech company Huawei a slight reprieve in Washington's ongoing trade war with Beijing. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was up 0.1% after being lower earlier in the day. On Tuesday morning the People's Bank of China set its new Loan Prime Rate at 4.25% slightly lower than its existing benchmark one-year lending rate, which hasn't changed in years. The LPR is supposed to better reflect changes in market rates, and has been described as effectively a rate cut. It showed the policymakers believe it's "reasonable" for interest rates to stay low for an extended period to support economic growth.