Thursday, February 13, 2014

Homeland Security to Activate ‘National License Plate Recognition Database’

              
       
                               UK version of spy system was used to target political activists

 The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”.

The details are included in a PDF attachment uploaded yesterday to the Federal Business Opportunities website under a solicitation entitled “National License Plate Recognition Database.”

The system will “track vehicle license plate numbers that pass through cameras or are voluntarily entered into the system from a variety of sources (access control systems, asset recovery specialists, etc.) and uploaded to share with law enforcement” in order to help locate “criminal aliens and absconders.”

10 comments:

  1. I wonder what took them so long?

    The plate scanners have been in cop cars for years now, someone finally decided they had enough connectivity to create a national database?

    That rapid clicking noise you hear isn't a camera shutter, it's the ratcheting down of the police state controls.

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    1. That rapid clicking noise you hear isn't a camera shutter, it's the ratcheting down of the police state controls.

      Guess there needs to be some return ratcheting.

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  2. This is actually very concerning. Maryland State Police already have this system. They stopped and detained a man with his family from Florida simply because he had a concealed weapons permit from Florida. His weapon was safely secured in the safe at home. He was detained for four hours.
    The next time I pass through N.J. where hollow point rounds are lawful only for active law enforcement, and the state trooper realizes I have a concealed weapons permit from a state where hollow point rounds are permissible, will I be detained and searched ? I could be, as NJ fines anyone with a hollow point round, a minimum of a mandatory one thousand dollars per round. Sounds like a way to make up their revenue shortfall.

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    1. They stopped and detained a man with his family from Florida simply because he had a concealed weapons permit from Florida

      I remember that. Really screwed up. I guess we must obey our betters..........

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  3. Time to use the "extra full chokes" on all red light cameras.

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  4. Cook your plates. Microwave your stamps. Deny.

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    1. They even sell a revolving license plate holder on-line.

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  5. Is there a way to have a ghost finger flip put on our plates? That'd be fun. They've been doing it down here in the Beaumont / Port Arthur area for a while now. Those don't miss shit with them either....

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