Advocacy groups said a records request shows Georgia’s Department of Driver’s Services has shared information, including facial-recognition searches, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, NBC News reports. The Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Project South and Innovation Law Lab said between September 2017 and June 2019 the department processed more than 250 ICE requests “to gather and share information” on immigrants living in the state. Project South Staff Attorney Priyanka Bhatt called it “alarming.”
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