Then ICE turns around and uses that to find them," Alvaro Bedoya, the center's director, said Monday. ICE spokesman Matthew Bourke did not directly address written questions, including whether the agency used the scans to arrest or deport anyone. In Utah, ICE asked to search the database containing license images 49 times between October 2015 and November 2017, said Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Marissa Cote. A spokeswoman for Vermont's Republican governor, Phil Scott, said Vermont officials stopped sharing facial-recognition information with federal immigration authorities in May 2017. Jay Inslee, said "at no point do federal agencies have access to that database."

Source: ABC News July 09, 2019 00:15 UTC