You know how when you are watching some British crime drama on TV, you are frequently reminded that seemingly every city block in the UK has a closed-circuit camera focused on it, so that no one gets away with any shenanigans?

We’re sure that has its advantages. It is also literally the definition of a surveillance state. And that’s a state our own California is heading toward more and more each day.

Gov. Gavin Newsom kept us hurling toward that “1984”-ish world when he recently vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature to tighten rules on how law enforcement in our state can use automated license plate readers.

The governor says he nixed the proposed regulation that would have required police agencies to regularly purge their databases of license plate data because doing so would impede

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