United States, Nationwide
Criminal Division, US Department of Justice
Thomson Reuters CLEAR licence plate recognition, supplied by Thomson Reuters
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-7AF4E821
- Body
- Criminal Division, US Department of Justice
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Thomson Reuters CLEAR licence plate recognition
- 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-0048)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-7AF4E821
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0048, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Thomson Reuters CLEAR - License Plate Recognition' as deployed. The entry says investigators use CLEAR licence plate recognition to see the location history of plates and link addresses and individuals of interest to a vehicle's location, with object recognition, OCR and prediction as outputs. It gives an operational date of January 2024 and classes the use as high-impact.
Thomson Reuters CLEAR licence plate recognition elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationLicence plate readers (DEASIL programme and state, federal and commercial partner data) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| 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 | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesThomson Reuters Vigilant Vehicle Manager | United StatesNationwide | Motorola | — | Operational | |
| US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector GeneralAccess to the Nlets Nationwide Licence Plate Reader Pointer Index | United StatesNationwide | Thomson Reuters | — | Operational |