Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 9, 2008.
Civil Liberties advocates want to know more about New York's new surveillance program - Operation Sentinel. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday after the NYPD refused to release information on the controversial program – in which the department would photograph the license plates of all vehicles entering New York City, store them in a database and screen them against potential threats. The vehicles would also be scanned for radiation and other menaces, and although the cost of Operation Sentinel has not yet been estimated, it would accompany another security initiative focusing on Lower Manhattan, estimated to cost $90 million. The latter program would include the installation of 3,000 cameras in the area around Ground Zero. To see how New York City drivers are responding to this proposal, we sent FSRN reporter Zoe Sullivan to the lower East Side of Manhattan.
