Slippery Slope: DHS taps database of license plate snapshots to hunt fugitives

More than 685 million continually updated images of license plates gathered in a commercial database soon will be available to federal authorities for pinpointing the hideouts of escaped illegal immigrants, according to a contract slated to be finalized Tuesday.

The National Vehicle Location Service program, commonly used in law enforcement, is intended to replace manual field surveillance of fugitives, Homeland Security Department officials said. Fugitive aliens are non-U.S. citizens who have not complied with deportation orders.

The geo-tracking data largely will come from commercial camera operators who capture license plate information on behalf of lenders trying to recover collateral from borrowers, according to the vendor, Vigilant Video. Also, law enforcement agencies themselves increasingly are deploying license plate readers to share photographs through the service.

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Slippery Slope: DHS taps database of license plate snapshots to hunt fugitives

Slippery Slope: DHS taps database of license plate snapshots to hunt fugitives

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