Why is the Department of Justice and Homeland Security allowing a foreign company to use covert license plate readers (ALPR), to spy on American motorists?
Selex ES and their sister company ELSAG a Leonardo company are using ALPR’s to spy on Americans in real-time. Fyi, Selex ES and Leonardo are an Italian owned corporation.
Did you catch that?
A foreign company is creating hot lists and white lists of American motorists. (Click here to see how the NHL secretly uses watch lists to spy on fans.)
ELSAG offers law enforcement six different ways to spy on motorists.
- Mobile Plate Hunter
- Fixed Plate Hunter
- Plate Hunter Custom Solutions
- Enterprise Operations Center
- Speed Enforcer Software
- Parking Software
One of the more disturbing things ELSAG offers are covert ALPR’s, hidden inside highway construction barrels.
ELSAG boasts about collaborating with partner agencies (police) to design creative ALPR’s to spy on everyone.
“These clever systems read license plates without drawing attention to overt hardware and help identify vehicles connected to auto theft, parking violations, toll evasion, insurance lapses and more”.
ELSAG also claims that law enforcement’s imagination is their limitation.
A U.S. DOT publication titled ‘Mitigating Work Zone Safety and Mobility Challenges through Intelligent Transportation Systems’ reveals how they secretly hide “smart traffic monitoring system” inside highway construction barrels.
An iCone is a device that beams real-time traffic information over the internet to a central web site for use by government officials, law enforcement and first responders.
ELSAG admits that they have a close working relationship with DHS and law enforcement.They have also created a grant list for law enforcement to use to purchase ALPR’s.
Six grants law enforcement can use to acquire ALPR’s:
Block or Formula Grants
Discretionary Grants
Federal Grants
Department of Homeland Security Grants
Corporate of Foundation Grants
Eventually law enforcement will run out of places to spy on motorists and ELSAG will stop profiting from spying on everyone right?
Wrong, DHS or ELSAG has come up with a disturbing new proposal.
Big brother’s appetite for spying on Americans could soon extend to car washes.
ELSAG wants to put ALPR’s in car washes…
“For example, an owner of a car wash could put up an ALPR camera at an automatic washing bay”.
How long will it take for DHS to offer car washes, gas stations and convenient stores, grants to purchase ALPR’s?
Make no mistake, DHS and law enforcement do not care about our privacy and have no qualms about using private corporations to achieve their goal of total surveillance.
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/01/will-law-enforcement-put-license-plate.html
this type of equipment should be regularly vandalized until it cost them way too much to continue fixing it
or just shove it up their ass sideways
I vote for the second choice
oh and look at all the “grants” for this
grants are not free money..its our tax dollars lent to them for this use ..were funding our own subjugation people!
American Traffic Solutions Offers Boynton Beach, Florida Free ALPR’s to Spy on Motorists:
The vendor Boynton Beach uses for its red light camera program is willing to give the city 23 automated license plate readers for free — an option first offered to commissioners as an add-on when they decided in August to rehire the company to help catch red-light runners.
But if Boynton takes them, the city will have to use the plate readers through May 2021 or else pay a $10,000 early termination fee.
That’s according to the contract offered by American Traffic Solutions that the City Commission is expected to vote on at today’s meeting. May 2021 is when Boynton’s red light camera contract expires, according to the city.
Mayor Steven Grant said the plate readers will “greatly increase” safety in the city.
“We will not have people coming into the city committing crimes and running away because they will know they will be caught,” he said.
He added police are sometimes told the make of a car seen near a crime without additional information. The plate readers could help find vehicles in those situations, he said.
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local/boynton-could-get-license-plate-readers-for-free-but-with-catch/AXTt0suCHxrhldB2KhZQSK/
Force Multiplier Solutions (an ALPR company) Guilty Plea In School Bus Camera Bribery Scam:
Just two days after Christmas, real estate broker Slater Washburn Swartwood Sr admitted his involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scam involving school bus ticket camera firm Force Multiplier Solutions and the Dallas County Schools (DCS). After tendering a guilty plea to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Swartwood faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
At the heart of the bribery scandal is the 25 year contract between the Dallas County Schools and Force Multiplier Solutions to provide automated ticketing cameras for school buses. The deal promised to bring millions to the school board, but the cameras fell far short of generating the expected windfall. The company’s primary competitor, Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia, itself caught in a bribery scandal, also found profitability far more difficult to achieve. The difference is that Force Multiplier Solutions collected $70 million while the school system fell into massive debt as a result of the program.
The real motive for the school bus camera’s loudest advocates proved to be personal gain. Ostensibly to make up for the bus camera program’s financial losses, the school board turned to a real estate deal with Swartwood, a longtime associate of Force Multiplier Solutions CEO Robert Leonard. The deal would provide $25 million in up-front cash to cover mounting DCS losses, but over time DCS had to make $48 million in loan payments, a fact exposed by the investigative reporters at KXAS-TV. Federal investigators conducted raids to gather evidence to find out what was going on, and they concluded that crimes had been committed.
“The ongoing business relationship between Company A [Force Multiplier Solutions] and the state agency [DCS] generated millions of dollars in revenue for [Force Multiplier Solutions], a portion of which Person A [camera company CEO Robert Leonard] illegally kicked back to Person B [DCS superintendent Rick Sorrells] in return for further agreements and camera-equipment orders,” assistant US attorney Andrew O. Wirmani wrote.
To help land the lucrative deal, Swartwood, his family members and Leonard poured thousands in cash into the campaign coffers of school board members. DCS Board President Larry Duncan, for example, pocketed nearly a quarter million in campaign cash.
Swartwood admitted that he used shell companies to funnel $2 million in cash from Leonard to Sorrells. Swartwood attempted to conceal the payments by creating fake loans that Sorrells was never expected to pay back.
The Dallas City Council last week began reviewing its options after 58 percent of voters in November decided to shut down Dallas County Schools. The city council finds itself in a tough spot since it voted in 2015 to extend the bus camera contract through the year 2040 as a means of evading possible statewide legislation that could shut down the cameras.
“Company A [Force Multiplier Solutions], which was owned and controlled by Person A [Robert Leonard], sold cameras and related services for school buses,” assistant US attorney Andrew O. Wirmani wrote. “[Force Multiplier Solutions] entered into various contracts and a licensing agreement with a Texas state agency [DCS] acting through its superintendent, Person B [Rick Sorrells]. Under these contracts and the licensing agreement, the state agency purchased millions of dollars of camera equipment from [Force Multiplier Solutions].”
http://thenewspaper.com/news/63/6373.asp
time to cover your plates until you see a cop rolling in your vicinity
do not allow your plate to be viewed while traveling , there are devices made to remotely control a cover over your plate .. time to get one
“… there are devices made to remotely control a cover over your plate .. time to get one.”
Link?
I like this one
but there are many
https://www.ebay.com/i/162800473001?chn=ps
Thanks, EotS.
First I’ve ever heard of it.
I plan on putting one on my Van
Sounds like a good plan for a van. 🙂
NICE!!! The flippers are cool, too, but more $ :-/
I asked at my local car wash only 5 days ago about a “book” for many washes keeping the cost down. I was told an RFID reader would go on the front windshield to make the process faster and of course more convenient. Immediately I thought how there goes more of my privacy for some database to know where I am and record it.