Politics & Government
Report: $430K Parking System at Archives II Didn't Work for Years
The College Park facility ran into constant flaws and failures with the program.
A $430,000 program designed to quickly verify the license plates of vehicles parked at College Park's Archives II failed to function properly for years, according to investigative website MuckRock.
In a June 2012 report, the Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration laid out the many flaws, inconsistencies, and implementation failures of the automatic license plate recognition system.
"The LPR system has encountered, and continues to encounter, obstacles that have prevented the system from operating consistently at AII [Archives II]," the inspector general wrote.
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The report also notes that a contractor overseeing the LPR program "accessed the system to obtain and use PII [personally identifiable information] for personal reasons."
The inspector general's report was obtained by MuckRock through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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