The department said it has disabled the system’s “National Lookup” feature and that access happened “without our permission.”
MUKILTEO, Wash. — The Mukilteo Police Department said it has shut off a national data-sharing feature of its automated license plate cameras after learning that federal agencies accessed the system without local approval.
The access was revealed in a University of Washington Center for Human Rights report that showed immigration officials conducted searches with data from 31 Washington police agencies.
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In a statement Wednesday, police officials said they recently discovered that U.S.
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