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By Ventura Forward Staff | Ventura, California VENTURA — Over the past month, Ventura has found itself in the middle of a growing national conversation. E-bikes. What started as a push to get kids outside, off screens, into fresh air, and exercising, has quickly evolved into something more complicated. Across the country, cities are wrestling with how to manage safety without shutting down opportunity. In Ventura, that conversation is no longer theoretical. It’s happening in real time. Recent...

By Ventura Forward Staff | Ventura, California VENTURA — A network of more than 20 automated license plate-reading cameras quietly watches over the streets of Ventura, part of a rapidly expanding national system designed to help law enforcement solve crimes in real time. But following a recent security breach and mounting national controversy, the same technology is now at the center of an urgent public debate: How much surveillance is too much—and at what cost to privacy? The cameras are...