It is quite common for debt collectors, repomen, process servers creditors, background checkers, skip tracers, private detectives, reporters and other professionals to subscribe to online information services which provide car license data. Time and location of the vehicle can offer a plethora of clues about it's ownership, use, and likely situation. In the hands of data analysis experts, property can be retrieved, liened or claimed using this and other clues. All in all, photography is an invaluable tool for many people who stand to lose this tool thanks to Senate Bill 893. Introduced in January, it has undergone minor revisions thanks to an intense lobby campaign by Private Investigators and their professional associations. However, this is a slippery slope issue whereby the goverjment regulates license plate readers one day followed by other jurisdictions banning cameras from capturing images of public records in public offices.