FBI Increases Number of Digital Billboards Along Highways Nationwide
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI’s digital billboard program started as a one-city pilot in Philadelphia in 2007 and exploded into 3,200 locations nationwide today, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
The increase is due to the program’s success, the FBI said.
“We reach a wider audience,” said FBI Special Agent Barbara Woodruff, a spokeswoman for the Newark field office. “We have access to these billboards in times of extreme importance, to include national emergencies, fugitive-related cases and kidnappings.”
The idea is to reach millions of motorists who could help locate dangerous criminals and kidnap victims.
The digital billboards generally feature a photo of a fugitive, the crime and a phone number to call, the Dispatch reported.
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Posted: 10/14/13 at 9:03 AM under FBI, News Story.
Tags: crime, digital billboard, emergency, FBI, kidnapping, signage
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Comment from msfreeh
Time October 14, 2013 at 9:49 pm
Maybe taxpayer funded FBI agents can put this new book up on their bill boards
Just got this email from Ed Tatro
FROM AN OFFICE BUILDING WITH A HIGH-POWERED RIFLE — DON ADAMS
EX-FBI AGENT EXPOSES SPECIFIC AGENTS WHO COVERED UP THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
HE SHOWS SPECIFIC FRAUDULENT AND DOCTORED FBI DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE IN HIS BOOK.
I WILL BE INTERVIEWING HIM IN TWO WEEKS IN ILLNOIS VIA SKYPE.