U.S. Homeland Security Officials to Scan DC Area License Plates

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via WTOP.com (AP).

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Homeland security officials in the Washington area plan to dramatically
expand the use of automated license plate readers to prevent possible
terrorist attacks.

Officials from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia have agreed
to install 200 license plate readers on police vehicles, at airports and
along roads. The plan announced Friday will be funded by federal homeland
security grants for the area.

Britain used the readers in the 1990s to deter Irish Republican Army
attacks. But in the United States, the devices have mostly been used to
regulate parking or catch car thieves.

The readers will scan every license plate that passes by and will run the
numbers through federal criminal and terrorist databases.

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More:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1461567

- - ferg

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