SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs Police have used the city’s contracts with a data collection firm to assist the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration investigations, according to public records and interviews with agency officials.
The practice of local agencies using Flock on behalf of federal partners in this fashion was first reported by 404 Media in May.
Data obtained through public records requests, “shows more than 4,000 national and statewide lookups by local and state police done either at the behest of the federal government or as an ‘informal’ favor to federal law enforcement, or with a potential immigration focus,” the outlet reported…