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Since 2016, welfare fraud investigators in Sacramento, California have been using the automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system to track welfare recipients to prove fraud. The Department of Human Assistance (DHA) didn't notify the public of this as required by Senate Bill 34, until the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) requested a public records request of the policy. Are we getting closer to a dystopian future like China? When is it fine to secretly track the public?
"Each time a criminal investigator accesses the information, they ... must document the reason why the data is being requested from the system," she said. The department was not conducting periodic audits of the documentation to ensure that investigators are using the data the way they claim, which is also required by law. But Edwards says internal audits are starting this week, and will occur every two months.
"Each time a criminal investigator accesses the information, they ... must document the reason why the data is being requested from the system," she said. The department was not conducting periodic audits of the documentation to ensure that investigators are using the data the way they claim, which is also required by law. But Edwards says internal audits are starting this week, and will occur every two months.