DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
ID: 26b81975-b7e7-5b0f-949f-cd83caa83f6a
STIX ID: report--26b81975-b7e7-5b0f-949f-cd83caa83f6a
Feed Name: WIRED Security
The report details how DHS field intelligence officers quietly deleted a cache of Chicago Police Department gang-related records in November 2023 after they were improperly retained on a federal server for seven months despite an oversight body’s deletion order. Originating from a 2021 request tied to a test of feeding local intelligence into federal watchlists, the dataset and the pilot collapsed amid mismanagement and oversight failures, compounded by Chicago’s notoriously error-ridden and biased gang data that carried serious legal and immigration consequences.
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