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    California Officials Admit To Using License Plate Readers To Monitor Welfare Recipients

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/08...are-recipients

    According to a report from the Sacramento Bee, officials in Sacramento County have been accessing license plate reader data to track welfare recipients suspected of fraud. The practice dates back to 2016. Gizmodo reports:

    Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance Director Ann Edwards confirmed to the paper that welfare fraud investigators working under the DHA have used the data for two years on a "case-by-case" basis. Edwards said the DHA pays about $5,000 annually for access to the database. Abbreviated LPR, license plate readers are essentially cameras that upload photographs to a searchable database of images of license plates. If a driver passed by an LPR four times throughout a city, an officer with access would know where and at what time of day. Anyone with access to that data could use it track where someone drove and when, provided they were scanned by the LPR.

    It's not immediately clear how travel patterns might reveal welfare fraud. As noted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, welfare fraud is statistically speaking, extremely rare. In 2012, the DHA found only 500 cases of fraud among Sacramento's 193,000 recipients. Following an inquiry from the EFF, the DHA has instituted a privacy policy (one that didn't exist before their initial inquiry) requiring investigators to justify each request for LPR data. The Sacramento Bee reports the DHA accessed the data over a thousand times in two years.
    Poor have no Rights. Not that Im a fan of welfare, but Rights are the one thing that should equalize both rich and poor.
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    500 welfare cases out of 193,000 were fraudulant, huh?

    Sounds legit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DamianTV View Post
    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/08...are-recipients



    Poor have no Rights. Not that Im a fan of welfare, but Rights are the one thing that should equalize both rich and poor.
    I'm all for preventing fraud and abuse but so often government resources get mismanaged and appropriated for things they weren't intended for. These same officials end up profiting off these boondoggles.

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    Thanks for sharing... have to spread rep... yadda yadda

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    I think Automated License PLate Readers are unconstitutional. But that's just me
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    Quote Originally Posted by kcchiefs6465 View Post
    500 welfare cases out of 193,000 were fraudulant, huh?

    Sounds legit.
    If they don’t prosecute it, it doesn’t exist.
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    But people who work for the govt can do what ever they want with "their" money! Its "fraud" if a person uses food stamps to pay rent, but not fraud if an elected govt official uses "taxpayer dollars" to fund the drug cartel!
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.

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    Once CalExit is complete california welfare receivers can be publicly caned once a month before getting benefits .
    Do something Danke



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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Once CalExit is complete california welfare receivers can be publicly caned once a month before getting benefits .
    Great! Can we start with the political leaders?
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.



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