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By The Center Square Staff
https://justthenews.com/center-square-staff
With the database originally set up nearly a decade ago under the stewardship of a Republican attorney general, the so-called Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC) act was billed as a voluntary agreement with Western Union aimed at combating drug trafficking that has now expanded to touch more than 600 law enforcement agencies.
In a statement released to Arizona’s Family, Mayes’ office defends the program as “an effective tool in fighting money laundering, sex trafficking, and drug trafficking cases.”
Officials from Mayes’ office added, “courts have held that customers using money transmitter businesses do not have the same expectation of privacy as traditional banking customers.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/arizona-attorney-general-maintain-database-tracking-international-money
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