[1]https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/06/27/document-unmasks-fusion-
   centers-participation-in-license-plate-surveillance/

Document Unmasks Fusion Center’s Participation in License Plate Surveillance

   By: [2]Mike Maharrey|Published on: Jun 27, 2020|Categories:
   A document pulled from the BlueLeaks trove reveals the Northern
   California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) collects automatic
   license plate reader (ALPR) information and stores it for up to a year,
   making it accessible to government agencies across the country.
   The Tenth Amendment Center has long suspected that fusion centers serve
   as surveillance data collection hubs. The NCRIC document confirms this
   and additionally reveals that the center owns surveillance technology
   it makes available to law enforcement agencies in its region.

   NCRIC is one of 78 [3]fusion centers across the United States. Although
   states own and operate their fusion centers, the U.S. Department of
   Homeland Security facilitates and coordinates their activities.
   According to the DHS website, “The National Network of Fusion Centers
   is the hub of much of the two-way intelligence and information flow
   between the federal government and our State, Local, Tribal and
   Territorial (SLTT) and private sector partners. The fusion centers
   represent a shared commitment between the federal government and the
   state and local governments who own and operate them.”

   The Tenth Amendment Center obtained NCRIC’s ALPR policy through a
   search of the BlueLeaks database. Distributed Denial of Secrets
   (DDoSecrets) published a 269-gigabyte collection of police department
   data that includes emails, memos, videos, audio files and law
   enforcement documents. In a tweet, DDoSecrets said the trove includes
   “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and
   other law enforcement training and support resources,”. The searchable
   database contains over 1 million files.

References

   1. https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/06/27/document-unmasks-fusion-centers-participation-in-license-plate-surveillance/
   2. https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/author/michael-maharrey/
   3. https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers