Springfield, Ill. (AP)-Illinois State Secretary on Thursday has requested an investigation by the suburban police department in Chicago after learning that he violated state legislation by sharing data from readers of automatic licenses with Sheriff in Texas, who was looking for a woman who had an abortion.
Secretary of State Alexi Janulias asked the Prosecutor General to review the issue. He also creates an audit system to ensure that police departments do not adhere to a 2023 law, prohibiting the distribution of license data to track women who seek abortions or find undocumented immigrants.
The incident emphasizes the fears that led to the law: more special that he stated that access to the access of abortion after ROE against Wade is overturned, will use the technology to follow and possibly pursuit of women who are looking for the procedure, moving to Illinois, where it is easily accessible.
“Readers of registration plates can serve as an important tool for law enforcement, but these cameras must be regulated so that they are not abused for monitoring, tracking the data of innocent people or criminalizing legal behavior,” the democrat said.
The data on what countries have an Illinois-shaped ban on sharing licensing data are not easily accessible. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, however, Illinois is one of 22 states and Colombia County, who have laws to protect laws for the protection of abortion and suppliers from criminal or civil action from countries that limit the procedure.
However, an expert on privacy law said that while countries share the data, there would be abuse. This is because the process relies on police departments that tell the truth about why they want the information, said Albert Fox Kahn, CEO of the observation technology project based in New York.
“In principle, we just ask the cops of the pink and the whistles that they will not abuse this data and then act shocked when they do it,” Kahn said.
According to Janulias, Police Police, 24 miles (39 kilometers) northwest of Chicago, shares data on a sheriff license in Johnson County, Texas, who was looking for a woman whose family was worried because she was subjected to an abortion.
Giannoulias says Mount Prospect has also shared data outside Illinois about undocumented immigrants in violation of the law. Between mid -January and April, there were 262 searches on immigration issues only in Mount Prospect, he said.
Telephone and email messages were left for Mount Prospect Michael Eterno police chief. Mount Prospect violations can lead to a loss of state funding, said Deputy Secretary of State Scott Burnam.
The incident was discovered by a website called 404 Media, which announced that the Sheriff of Texas has sent a national data request for 83,000 cameras managed by the private safety of the private company’s herd, including those in Mount Prospect.
At the request of Giannoulias, the safety of the herd blocks access to 62 agencies outside the state who have sought data related to abortion or immigration, Bernam said. The company has also created a program to mark the conditions of “abortion” and “immigration” in requests for access and to refuse these applications.
Police agencies will also be obliged to comply with the secretary of the Secretary of State to note the trends or lifts in certain requests, Bernam said.
The herd safety cameras take pictures of passing signs thousands of times a day. The technology, called automatic recognition of registration plates, is useful in tracking stolen vehicles or destruction, missing persons in other authorized cases.
The technology allows police agencies to read thousands of registration plates per minute of images captured by cameras on the roads.
The Law on the First National Law, restricting the reasons for sharing Gannulias was one of the few cases of the legislative democrats who control the General Assembly of Illinois, adopted as legislators in after ROE against Wade World, enhanced the availability and accessibility of abortion.