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Florida Highway Patrol Tapping Private Surveillance Raises Alarm
Florida Highway Patrol has tapped a vast private surveillance network — searching hundreds of license plates scanned by cameras controlled by a surveillance company — to aid immigration crackdowns.
For example, in a hit-and-run case, an officer might search the software to learn where the offending vehicle regularly drives and then go to those locations to catch the driver.It is unclear at what stage of immigration investigations FHP troopers are using Flock and whether information is shared directly with federal agents. “It’s bad enough when law enforcement engages in such mass surveillance, but to have such data flowing through a private company creates an additional set of incentives for abuse,” warned ACLU researcher Jay Stanley. According to records reviewed by Suncoast Searchlight, state troopers routinely tag searches with keywords like “criminal investigation,” “fleeing,” “stolen vehicle” and “crash.” But in recent months, they’ve increasingly cited immigration-related terms.
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