An NYPD officer violated New York sanctuary city laws limiting the department’s assistance to federal immigration agencies by accepting a request from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to flag individuals facing deportation, a new Department of Investigation (DOI) report charges.
The officer set the alerts, but ultimately kept that information within the NYPD and did not share it with Homeland Security, according to the report. But the officer was removed from a federal task force because he did not notify his supervisor of the request to provide information to the feds.
In the report, released Wednesday, DOI revealed it looked at five interactions between the NYPD and agencies, including Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that raised questions about whether the department had broken New York City laws that prohibit the NYPD from participating in civil immigration enforcement with limited exceptions…