United States, Nationwide
US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
Access to the Nlets Nationwide Licence Plate Reader Pointer Index, supplied by Thomson Reuters
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-10EDF766
- Body
- US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Access to the Nlets Nationwide Licence Plate Reader Pointer Index
- Supplier
- Thomson Reuters
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DOJ-0198)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-10EDF766
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0198, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Nlets Nationwide License Plate Reader Pointer Index' as deployed. The entry says JWIN gives access to the Nlets pointer index to licence plate reader repositories kept by states and federal agencies; the data are managed by other entities. It names Thomson Reuters as vendor, gives an operational date of October 2019 and classes the use as high-impact.
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Access to the Nlets Nationwide Licence Plate Reader Pointer Index elsewhere in United States
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Police DepartmentANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) | United StatesCalifornia | Axon | 2026 | Trial | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionPredictive Intelligence Program: licence plate reader networks with a travel-pattern algorithm | United StatesBorder Patrol: southwest and northern borders and interior highways | — | — | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementLicence plate reader data: commercial database queries and AI plate capture and analysis | United StatesNationwide (Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations) | Motorola Solutions (per the DHS inventory); West Publishing (Thomson Reuters) for commercial plate data, per Biometric Update | — | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionLand Border Integration: licence plate and occupant face recognition at land ports (Rekor) | United StatesLand ports of entry | Rekor | 2021 | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionAirship Outpost identification of conveyances | United StatesNationwide | Airship | 2023 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationLicence plate readers (three inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
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| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to ELSAG licence plate readers run by HIDTA partners | United StatesNationwide | Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions LLC | — | Operational | |
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