LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Vigilant Solutions and Watch Systems announce today that they have worked together, and in close collaboration with mutual customers, to provide improved abilities to manage registered sex offender compliance efforts throughout the country. Full Press Release
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As predicted a few years ago by commenters on this site “We are now being monitored by license plate recognition” whenever we travel. Recommendation: Rent a car if you plan on taking a vacation. Hopefully the rental agency doesn’t have to report your contract to the monitoring authorities.
Vigilant Solutions and Watch Systems team to deliver solution for improved registered sex offender compliance
LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Vigilant Solutions and Watch Systems announce today that they have worked together, and in close collaboration with mutual customers, to provide improved abilities to manage registered sex offender compliance efforts throughout the country.
Vigilant Solutions is the leading license plate recognition (LPR) technology provider in North America, and maintains the largest database of commercially-generated LPR data of over 3.5 billion detections. Watch Systems provides the nation’s leading offender management and community notification solution managing over 60% of the nation’s registered sex offenders and sending over 10 million notifications every year.
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This one just screams ACLU lawsuit….
Big Brother is watching…always
This is all tailored only to those registered citizens who are actually registered and have also registered their vehicle(s) to law enforcement. Not to mention that it discriminates against otherwise compliant RC’s that happen to own a vehicle.
My concern is that my wife and I have two vehicles, both of which I drive and so are listed on my registration. She could potentially be caught up in this by mistaken identity (she travels by car periodically for work) resulting in a substantial amount of embarrassment and humiliation for us both.
These companies are getting bigger and more influential because nobody is suing them when they are small.
They are collecting information on ever American they can, not just sex offenders’ whereabouts. They are pushing the Orwellian Prediction more quickly into reality by targeting “criminals” and especially those dangerously monstrous sex offenders that loiter behind bushes next to schools and playgrounds trying to prey on your little snowflakes.
These companies know they are not in it for the long haul, but if they can gain enough ground while they can, by the time the wheels of Justice work against them, they may be in the same position as many other shady companies are: Like the mugshot industry, the GPS tracking industry, the 3rd party background check companies, loan shark companies.. you name it. All it takes it to take advantage of the slow wheels of justice, the lack of willingness of people to hire a good lawyer or two and sue them into oblivion when they are small.
What’s scary beyond the registered citizen is how far are the powers that be are willing to go with this kind of technology?
I need more political activist trainees to train to make up to $100,000 in the field with me and others. This is not a gimmick. we need to show up, stand up and speak up.
I need trainees for all areas of the state but you need to be off probation and parole to allow you freedom to be most effective. If you’re not off paper I am willing to train someone close to you possibly a family member or other loved one.
The money is great but it’s the political involvement part that will empower and motivate you. the 2016 elections are around the corner so lets roll up are sleeves and go to work kicking some serious *#%. Robert Curtis (949) 872-8768
I think this could present a legal challenge.
Clearly, in order for Vigilante Systems, sorry…Vigilant Systems to provide law enforcement with alerts, Vigilant Systems would require access to information which is not generally made public – specifically, license plate information.
Penal Code 290.45 states, in part, the following:
290.45. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
except as provided in paragraph (2), any designated law enforcement
entity may provide information to the public about a person required
to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290, by whatever
means the entity deems appropriate, when necessary to ensure the
public safety based upon information available to the entity
concerning that specific person.
(2) The law enforcement entity shall include, with the disclosure,
a statement that the purpose of the release of information is to
allow members of the public to protect themselves and their children
from sex offenders.
(b) Information that may be provided pursuant to subdivision (a)
may include, but is not limited to, the offender’s name, known
aliases, gender, race, physical description, photograph, date of
birth, address, which shall be verified prior to publication,
description and license plate number of the offender’s vehicles or
vehicles the offender is known to drive, type of victim targeted by
the offender, relevant parole or probation conditions, crimes
resulting in classification under this section, and date of release
from confinement, but excluding information that would identify the
victim.
The key statement here is, “…when necessary to ensure the public safety based upon information available to the entity concerning that specific person.”
In order for this system to work as advertised, information is provided as a blanket, and concerns anyone registered. It is one thing to use Vigilant to track down a specific person who presents a specific threat. It’s an entirely different issue when it’s a blanket program targeting everyone.
I would say that, unless they have specific information concerning specific registered citizens who pose a specific threat, there is a significant legal challenge available here.
Am I wrong?
This whole sex offender thing is getting really sick. I guess this is just one more group of people that are so disconnected from the facts surrounding this largely manufactured issue that they actually think they are doing something needed. I’ll bet there was allot of federal funding involved.
I just made a comment on another post the other day about this! It’s all about the $$$$$ NOT “safety.”
I just had a scary thought; what if LE decided that it’s OK for the public to have this information? Most of our private and personal information is already plastered all over the world anyway, and every time some registrant or innocent family member gets murdered because our information has been made public nobody seems to notice or appears to be able to draw the glaringly obvious conclusion about why this happens, and any press coverage simply turns into a platform for all of the hatemongers to spew their filth. I can see someone writing an app that would be available on the play store! It’s already a life threatening experience being on the registry, the danger to our very lives would increase tenfold and beyond!I can also see some poor excuse for an elected official writing and pushing a bill to make this public, and then acting like he’s protecting everyone.
I agree that this company is getting info without a warrant, plus their telling people to contact the states that don’t use their system and Ask for it. perhaps someone should stand by their front gate and record all the plates going in.
Go after their stock holders.
We knew this was coming, now didn’t we? The government operates on the principle that, if it is technologically possible, then it must be done.
As with the travel restrictions on RSOs to foreign locales, the technological capability necessary to to provide such tracking creates the demand for its eventuality.
In this case, our government masters are working with a private company to foment a sense of urgency in the public. Soon, it will be of such an order of expectation that any sex offender not being so-tracked will evoke shrieks of self-righteous fury and demands for closing the inevitable but egregious “loop-hole”.
Perhaps only tangentially related is recent news that Uber is being sued by the City of San Francisco and Los Angeles for HIRING FORMER SEX OFFENDERS and other ex-felons as drivers. http://www.kpax.com/story/29845277/sex-offenders-convicted-murderers-find-jobs-at-uber#.VdeXZ89yGnI.twitter
As with everything else, technological capability is creating the expectation by the public for wrap-around security from forces both real and imagined and for its limitless hunger for revenge to be continuously sated.
These are expectations never before imposed upon government which, in turn, dutifully fulfills its ever-expanding obligations.
New Person wrote “this to the 21st century, that would also include the internet as it is digital paper. This would also include a person’s effects such as a vehicle.”
Is your car getting searched? Still on parole?
“fourth amendment rights? I thought registering was for probation and parole. After that’s completed, one still doesn’t have fourth amendment rights, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable search and seizures, shall not be violated.”
Is your house or person being searched? If off parole, this should not be happening.
“Citizens have rights… I feel as though we have no rights, and thus aren’t citizens.”
Are you basing that statement on fictitious conditions of registrants not having their 4th Amendment rights?
It looked like the poster I was responding to was saying registrants aren’t citizens and basing that statement on the fictitious conditions of registrants off parole having their cars, homes and persons searched without warrant or probable cause. Their post was kind of unclear. Do you think that registrants off parole are having their cars, homes and persons searched with no warrant or probable cause? If that was really happening , then its just business as usual to take away the 1st Amendment right of anonymous speech in the cyber-world. What I am saying is that SB 448/Prop 35 internet clause is going furthur than any other restriction. Registrants do not get searched in their bodies, homes, cars without warrant or probable cause when they are not on parole. They should not be linked to their anonymous comments and have their anonymity destroyed and free speech chilled when off parole either. This is why it’s important to be accurate when describing conditions of registrants.
And Justice For All said “Every other citizen has the right to travel where they wish, whenever they wish, Registrants don’t.
Citizens can leave the country freely, registrants can’t.”
Registrants are citizens. Don’t be so quick to give up your citizenship. See below.
‘experimentation, see Nuremberg Code.
Title page of RGB I No. 100 proclaiming the laws, issued 16 September 1935
The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze) were antisemitic laws ….. and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens; the remainder were classed as state subjects, without citizenship rights. …. Jewish citizens were harassed and subjected to violent attacks. They were actively suppressed, stripped of their citizenship and civil rights, and eventually completely removed from German society.’
With citizenship gone, oppression increases.
“Citizens can live wherever they wish to live, registrants can’t.”
I agree it’s wrong. As citizens, some success has been seen to reverse this.
“Citizens have the right to privacy, registrants don’t.”
With SB 448, we must not regress in the cyber-world to a fictitious status quo on par with fictitious conditions of registrants off parole getting their persons, homes or cars searched without warrant or probable cause. SB 448 must be stopped. This is new territory of unacceptability
“Citizens have a right to due process AFTER committing a crime, registrants are held in civil commitment JUST IN CASE they MIGHT commit a crime in the future.”
The only thing I implied was fictitious is registrants off parole being legally subject to searchs of their persons, cars or homes. Everything else, I agree is wrong and happening.
I m thinking of just going to rent a car.
Register that car under my name to the LE.
and let see how the next renter feel about not being able to enter parks because they are scanning the car LP.
Legislatures hate to have their home Addresses posted for all to see, they get very upset. Run with that info.
A radio news story this weekend stated that San Jose is considering adding license plate scanners to all their garbage trucks. The story said quite a few other cities were considering similar actions.
I’m thinking stealth license plate camera countermeasures are in order. That, and/or another vehicle that’s not in your name and that you don’t use “regularly” (whatever that means). I refuse to be tracked in my daily business.
Reference CA Vehicle Code: 5201(6)(2)(C)
Just had my new work truck vandalised sunday night and monday night. Thinking someone found me on line and is attacking me the only way they think they won’t get caught. Its not legal for me to face a camera at the street where i am forced to park and i work 12 hour days and just don’t have it in me to stay up all night to catch them. Police will do nothing. So here it is. I have a brand new truck that will be hit with bats or pipes or whatever they use and it will be on going unless i do something on my own to stop it. Not sure why i am posting this just wanted to vent. There are a lot more important issues than me and my truck. Been living with things like this for the last 14 years. Wasn’t this bad until my name and address went public. Gotta get used to it eventuality. (288.8a) no hope of things changing for me. Good luck to all who RSOL CAN help!