>> Illinois State Police maintain a database of suspected gang members and they make that information available to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement despite state law prohibiting data sharing agreement between state law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

Btw News reporter Blair Paddock joins us now with more Blair.

What is in these data sharing agreements?

Yeah.

So we got agreements between Illinois State Police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department of Homeland Security and then DHS says enforcement and removal operations who actually detains and removes people for data within the state statewide computer system, which is known as leads or the law Enforcement agency's data system.

And that contains a member file we've seen the Trump administration used oftentimes flimsy evidence to deport people on alleged ties in.

So there's a concern that.

There could be information shared.

What's the Illinois state law that prohibits these data sharing agreements.

So the trust act was passed in 2017 and it's generally prohibit generally prohibits state law enforcement and local law enforcement from assisting federal immigration authorities.

And there's a line explicitly prohibiting local law enforcement agencies from entering data sharing agreements with federal immigration authorities.

We asked the Illinois attorney general who enforces the trust act.

As to whether or not this breaks the trust act they did not respond when we provided these Governor JB Pritzker is testifying about this law next week.

How did he react to this?

Yeah, we heard from a spokesperson for the governor who sent us a statement saying all all our agreements with law enforcement agencies are standard criminal justice information sharing agreement.

Leeds is not designed to collect immigration status information.

Any agency, including ICE using leads for purposes in violation of state or federal law would be violating the terms of our standard leads agreement.

The Pritzker administration operation of Leeds is fully in compliance with state and federal law.

Okay.

So that's that's the governor.

What was the concern then from civil Liberty and immigration advocacy groups?

Yeah.

We heard from the ACLU who brought up Chicago's Fulton Gang database, for example, it's now decommissioned, but at the time when it was operating, it contained people who were 0, 217 years old, alleging that they're a gang members and there wasn't a system for people to remove themselves with gang databases.

It can you speculative information.

2 alleged gang ties such as tattoos or emblems on T-shirts.

And so they're concerned that speculative information could get people on this database and then ice could use that information to deport people.

And like I said at the beginning, Trump administration has been used flimsy evidence to deport people on King ties.

Okay.

Where Paddack.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

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