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ICE to Deploy License-plate Recognition Software
Technology news website The Verge reported on January 26, “The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has officially gained agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database, according to a contract finalized earlier this month. The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking.”
According to the General Services Administration website, ICE has awarded a contract “to obtain query based access to a commercially available License Plate Reader (LPR) database.” While the recipient of the contract is not identified on the website, the story published by The Verge indicates that Vigilant Solutions will be providing the license plate readers to ICE.
Vigilant Solutions, an LPR manufacturer that’s been the recipient of numerous government contracts, boasts of being a “trusted provider to tens of thousands of law enforcement professionals.” The Vigilant Solutions database reportedly “contains 2 billion entries,” with “70 million additional license plate photographs being added each month.”
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