Drivers' license photos, other state photo IDs to be core of system jointly run by Bureau of Motor Vehicles &Maine State Police
Despite claims to the contrary, newly passed legislation LD 1585 does NOT prohibit govt surveillance by the state of Maine or even other states with facial recognition system. It CENTRALIZES it, provides some checks and balances, but we will find out how long those last....
Maine will formally activate its statewide facial surveillance program on October 1, 2021. All requests must meet Maine State Police approval standards before being forwarded to the BMV, which will run the face scanners and their software,
Requests can from from local state and federal agencies, including requests by other states (these latter must also be vetted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Sourcing
(A) Like every American state, every six years (less for some) Maine's Bureau of Motor Vehicles takes high quality photos of the faces of new or renewing Maine driver license holders and others requiring state photo identification at its 13 branch offices as well as sixteen Mobile Units to fill in the gaps in our vast "small state". These photos are a primary sources for the state facial recognition system
Maine State Police will be the gateway for requests for operation of facial recognition tech. Requests must be for specific regions of the state and be for a specific length of time.
(C) Requests by police, marine wardens forest Rangers or state, town and local enforcement agencies and others to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. That agency will operate the facial recognition action, in conjunction with the state police
LD 1585 An Act To Increase Privacy and Security by Regulating the Use of Facial
Surveillance Systems by Departments, Public Employees and Public Officials
LD 1585 An Act To Increase Privacy and Security by Regulating the Use of Facial
Surveillance Systems by Departments, Public Employees and Public Officials
Official summary of LD 1585' original "Prohibits, for a variety of reasons, the use of facial surveillance by public employees and public officials subject to certain exceptions"
Official Summary of Amended bill
* "provides a structure for requests from state, county and municipal government agencies, public employees and public officials for facial surveillance searches and allowed uses of the results of facial surveillance searches and specifies the manner in which requests for searches must be made to the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of State Police. "
* "continues current authority in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to perform facial surveillance searches and to receive requests for searches.
* " requires the Bureau of State Police and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to maintain de-identified records of searches requested and performed and designates those records as public records.
* states that facial surveillance data does not, without other evidence, establish probable cause justifying arrest, search or seizure. The amendment includes enforcement provisions in case of a violation.
The amendment includes a delayed effective date of October 1, 2021.
Public Hearing Testimony, 16 items
| Bellows, Shenna | Maine Secretary of State | (101 KB) |
| Brown, Julia | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | (140 KB) |
| Carroll Sheriff of Knox County, Sheriff Tim | Maine Sheriffs' Association | (171 KB) |
| Collins, Jan | East Wilton | (768 KB) |
| Crockford, Kade | ACLU of Massachusetts | (246 KB) |
| Drew, Janet | York | (12 KB) |
| Graham, Rebecca | Maine Municipal Association | (97 KB) |
| Johnston, Michael | Maine State Police | (171 KB) |
| Kebede, Michael | ACLU of Maine | (337 KB) |
| Lombardi, Anthony | GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders | (212 KB) |
| Lookner, Grayson | Portland | (109 KB) |
| Scott, Brian | Maine State Police and the Department of Public Safety | (113 KB) |
| Sewell, Sydney | Maine, American Academy of Pediatrics | (147 KB) |
| Walsh, Nathan | Freeport | (53 KB) |
| Ying, John | Brunswick | (625 KB) |
| Zuboff, Shoshana | Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, Harvard Business School | (135 KB) |
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