Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hold up, say ICE officials. A solicitation for a company to compile a database of license plate information was canceled just a day after the Washington Post revealed the plan. “The solicitation, which was posted without the awareness of ICE leadership, has been cancelled,” ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told the Washington Post…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security hopes to build a national database based on information gathered from license-plate readers, the Washington Post reports. The idea is to help locate and arrest “absconders and criminal aliens” while also reducing surveillance hours. DHS spokesman Gillian Christensen emphasized that the database would “only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A local police department in Texas credited tag readers for the arrest of a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of child molestation, the Loganville Patch reports. The alert from the license plate reader indicated the owner of the car had an outstanding warrant. Under the system, a camera reads license plates of…
