trump政府正利用1980年代的反毒走私奖励计划，迫使全国各城市将其持续收集的自动车牌读取器数据输送至白宫管辖的大型联邦监视中心，根据404 Media审核的公共记录和法院文件所知。
记录显示，这一复杂系统的运作方式，联邦政府正通过“高强度毒品走私区域”(HIDTA)计划，从当地警察的Flock、Axon及其他ALPR摄像头获取数据，并在联邦政府服务器上聚合处理，其中 then accessible to other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. In some cases, data that goes to HIDTA is then also shared to a larger program run by the Drug Enforcement Agency called the "National License Plate Reader Program" (NLPRP).
Through HIDTA systems, local license plate data can be accessed by various federal agencies, including those who may not have contracts themselves with the ALPR companies. The program raises significant privacy and transparency concerns; as cities begin to place restrictions on how their Flock data can be used, it represents an end-around for federal law enforcement to access data that it might not normally be able to, and to do so without any obvious oversight body.
HIDTA falls under the jurisdiction of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and it recently won an award from the Trump White House for "managing an automated license plate reader platform that brings together all levels of law enforcement." Many of the documents used in this article were obtained using public records requests by Cris van Pelt, the creator of the website Have IBeen Flocked.com and its associated investigative blog, Footnote4a.
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