Major cities to get FBI digital billboards

Published: Dec. 26, 2007 at 6:36 PM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The FBI plans to install new digital billboards in 20 major U.S. cities to disperse information on fugitives or security.

The federal agency said Wednesday that through a partnership with the advertising firm, Clear Channel Outdoor, large digital billboards in those major cities would broadcast updated information on a daily basis.

Based on a rudimentary billboard campaign in Philadelphia that netted fugitive information based on simple billboard photographs, the new effort simply adds a technological twist.

Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Miami will be among those cities provided with the new billboards, along with Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

The FBI said Atlanta, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Memphis and Minneapolis will also get the billboards, as will Akron, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Albuquerque, N.M.; El Paso, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; Newark, N.J.; Wichita, Kan.; and the Florida cities of Tampa and Orlando.

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