#Ice driver program license#
Georgia’s Department of Driver’s Services said they provide data to law enforcement in response to specific requests related to law enforcement matters but said ICE has not requested, nor has DDS provided, access to the Georgia driver’s license data base. "HSI’s work to combat online child sexual exploitation and human trafficking has been widely recognized by law enforcement agencies around the world, and facial recognition technology is critical to identifying the perpetrators of these crimes.” "ICE’s use of facial recognition technology is primarily used by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents investigating child exploitation, human trafficking and other cases that HSI special agents investigate," the agency said.
ICE has been sued over allegations it has not turned over records on data collection, including facial recognition searches, and the agency said it cannot comment on pending litigation.īut the agency said it "does not routinely uses facial recognition technology for civil immigration enforcement." “Law enforcement or ICE doesn’t even need to have an actual valid reason to obtain this information, they need an alleged belief that there might be unlawful activity happening and that is such a horribly low bar.” “It’s also alarming that Georgia law is so broad in allowing this to happen,” Bhatt said. “I think this is alarming that the Department of Driver’s Services does not even require any type of proof, any type of administrative warrant, any type of judicial warrant or detainer before handing over significant information like where people live and license pictures,” Priyanka Bhatt, a staff attorney of Project South, said. The Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Project South and Innovation Law Lab said based on the data they received it appeared the department fulfilled ICE’s requests “without any supporting evidence for the request.”
Georgia’s Department of Driver’s Services has shared information, including facial recognition searches, about the state’s residents with immigration authorities, according to data from an open records request.īetween September 2017 and last June, the department processed more than 250 requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies “to gather and share information on hundreds of immigrants living in Georgia,” advocacy groups said Wednesday.
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