Springfield, Ill. (AP) -Lolino’s Secretary asked for a investigation by the Chicago suburban Department on Thursday, finding out that he had violated state law by sharing data from automatic licenses with Texas Sheriff, a woman looking for an abortion.
State Secretary Alexi Giannoulis asked the Attorney General to review this issue. He also develops an audit system to ensure that the police departments do not execute in 2023. A law prohibiting the distribution of license plaque data to follow women looking for abortion or find immigrants without documents.
The incident emphasizes the fear caused by the law: first and foremost, these states, which restricted the entry of abortion after the Roe was abolished against Wade, will use technology to follow, and possibly prosecute women looking for a procedure to go to Illinois where it is easily accessible.
“Readers of the license plates may be an important means of law enforcement, but these cameras must be regulated so that they are not abused by observation, observing the data of innocent people or criminalizing lawful conduct,” the Democrat said.
Data on what states have Illinois -style insurance to share licensed plates are not easily accessible. However, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Illinois is one of the 22 states and Colombia district, which has shield laws protecting abortion patients and providers from criminal or civilian actions from states that limit the procedure.
However, the privacy law expert said that as long as the states are sharing data, it would be abused. This is because the process is based on police departments telling the truth about why they want information, said Albert Fox Cahn, Executive Director of the New York Observing Technology Supervision Project.
“We just just ask the cops that Pinky-Swear will not use these data, and then behave shocked when they do,” Cahn said.
According to Giannoulius, Mount Prospect, 24 miles (39 kilometers) northwest of Chicago, shared a license plate data with sheriff Johnson County, Texas, who searched for a woman who was excited because she survived an independent abortion.
Giannoulias say the Mount Prospect also shared data outside Illinois because of immigrants without documents in violation of the law. He said there were 262 search for immigration issues from mid -January until April alone.
Phone and email The messages of the letters were left to Michael Eterno, Chief of Mount Prospect. Mount PROSPECT violations may lose public funding, said Scott Burnham, Deputy Secretary of State.
The incident was revealed by the 404 Media website, which reported that Texas Sheriff had sent a request throughout the country for 83,000 cameras owned by a private company Flock Safety, including Mount Prospect.
At the request of Giannoulas, Flock Safety blocked access to 62 non -governmental agencies who were looking for data related to abortion or immigration, Burnham said. The company also established a program to mark the conditions of “abortions” and “immigration”, seeking access and rejecting these applications.
Police agencies will also have to demand that the audit of the Secretary of State be followed by certain requests to mark trends or ups, Burham said.
Flock safety cameras take pictures of the number of license plates thousands of times a day. This technology, known as the automatic license plate recognition, is useful in monitoring stolen vehicles or cars, missing persons and other authorized cases.
This technology allows police agencies to read thousands of state license plates per minute of images captured on the camera roads.
The first state law restricted by the sharing data that Giannoulis pushed, the reasons were one of several legislative Democrats controlling the Illinois General Assembly adopted as legislators in the case after Roe before Wade World strengthened the availability and availability of abortions.