Convenient parking, liquor license availability, a large potential customer base accustomed to visiting the destination, as well as the opportunity to build out spaces to specifications and size requirements have created an environment where operators are looking as much at Malls as Malls are looking for operators.

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To track how frequently residents flee high Huntsville fares, airport officials count license plates of county residents in airport parking lots in Nashville, Tenn.

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They are also sweeping parking garages for explosives and using digital license plate readers to check for stolen vehicles, officials said.

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The license plate alone, which can help with courthouse parking, is not intrinsically unethical and doesn't necessarily create an appearance of impropriety, though judges who invoke their judicial status when pulled over by police are misbehaving, the report said.

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And license-plate readers mounted on patrol cars scan traffic and parking lots, comparing a list of known stolen plate numbers to what the camera sees.

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