U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been leveraging vast networks of license plate readers to track and monitor immigrant movements, even in sanctuary jurisdictions that have enacted policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, according to documents obtained by The Guardian.
"Local agencies across the country use license plate readers, high-speed cameras that scan and capture images and videos of every vehicle that passes, to collect information on vehicular activity, including the direction a vehicle is moving," explains the sprawling report. "They store those details in databases that are often shared with other local law enforcement agencies as well as federal ones."
