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OngoingIllinois

Hundreds of police departments use camera company accused of breaking state law

Published by
Capitol News Illinois
Author
Andrew Adams
Date
Location
Illinois
Status
Ongoing

Capitol News Illinois reports that Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias accused Flock of violating a 2023 Illinois law barring licence plate reader operators from sharing data to enforce immigration or abortion-related laws, by allowing US Customs and Border Protection access to Illinois data through a pilot programme. Flock's chief executive acknowledged the company had "clearly communicated poorly" and had not built adequate compliance safeguards, saying it had not created distinct permissions and protocols for federal users. The company paused its federal pilot programmes.

From the reporting

  • Law enforcement organisations in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana were reported to have had access to Illinois licence plate data.
  • The admission is unusually direct: the company's position was not that the sharing did not happen, but that its own system lacked the permissions to prevent it.

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