Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program

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In some cases, data that goes to HIDTA is then also shared to a larger program run by the Drug Enforcement Agency called the “National License Plate Reader Program” (NLPRP). Through HIDTA systems, local license plate data can be accessed by various federal agencies, including those who may not have contracts themselves with the ALPR companies. No doubt this database contains license plate reader data from Flock as well as from other providers of license plate reader technology.

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