Washington – The Department of Homeland Security is
searching for a company that can provide a national license plate tracking
system, giving the agency access to information from commercial and law
enforcement tag readers.
As reported by The Washington Post the license-plate
recognition database could help catch fugitive illegal immigrants, but the
database would also be able to attain more than 1 billion records that could be
shared with other law enforcement agencies.
That idea raises concerns from advocates that about possible abuse of a system that has access to information about law-abiding citizens.
That idea raises concerns from advocates that about possible abuse of a system that has access to information about law-abiding citizens.
A DHS spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency (ICE) stated that the database would only be used to find
those involved in ongoing criminal case and it would help law enforcement
better locate suspects and would reduce surveillance time.
The DHS search for a license plate tracking system comes
about as some states question policy issues around the subject. Currently,
about 20 states have passed or proposed legislation that restricts the use of
readers storing the data found using readers.
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