The ACLU’s Radical Anti-ICE Campaign
avatar By Matt O'Brien March 13, 2019 4 Comments
You're kidding me
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken its campaign of endless harassment against the Department of Homeland Security to a whole new level of insanity. What’s the ACLU throwing a hissy-fit about this time?
According to Tech Crunch, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and received documents indicating that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased access to a commercial database that allows policing agencies to flag license plates and receive an alert when those plates are caught on traffic cameras.
It is not clear why this revelation required a FOIA action, since federal agencies are required by law to publish a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) any time they begin using a new data source. And the Tech Crunch piece specifically notes that ICE did, in fact, publish several PIA’s during its negotiations with the database service provider.
https://immigrationreform.com/2019/03/13/the-aclus-radical-anti-ice-campaign-immigrationreform-com/
