Vigilant Solutions

Vigilant Solutions is part of Motorola Solutions. It makes automated license plate readers, facial recognition software, and body camera manufacturers. According to Investigate, Vigilant equipment is used by U.S. police forces which then share this data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to facilitate deportations.

Vigilant Solutions manages and operates a network of automated license plate readers— high-speed, computer-controlled cameras that automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, along with location and timestamp data—across “the most populous 50 metropolitan areas” in the U.S. These cameras scan at least 1.24 million vehicles per day.

Data from these scans are stored in Vigilant’s database which receives license plate data from more than 500 government agencies in the U.S., namely police departments, and includes some 1.5 billion records as of 2019. This data is automatically shared with all law enforcement agencies that have access to the system, including ICE, which uses it to conduct investigations. Vigilant claims that sharing data through its database is “as easy as adding a friend on your favorite social media platform.”. Vigilant Solutions’ commercial database contains over 5 billion records as of 2019 and grows by an average of 150 to 200 million scans each month.

Sources:

• Investigate Motorola Solutions Inc