Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accidentally posted a document online Monday containing personal information of more than 6,000 noncitizens seeking protection, the agency announced.
ICE said in a statement on Wednesday that the document was posted on its website for about five hours while the agency was performing routine updates and it took “swift action” to fix the mistake once it was notified. The Excel spreadsheet included 6,252 immigrants’ names, immigration information and other personally identifiable information.
“Though unintentional, this release of information is a breach of policy and the agency is investigating the incident and taking all corrective actions necessary,” ICE said.
The Los Angeles Times first reported ICE’s inadvertent disclosure.
The nonprofit Human Rights First, which advocates for the United States to protect human rights, first notified ICE of the information, and it was taken down about 10 minutes later.
ICE said it is notifying those impacted or their attorneys of the disclosure, which will allow them to determine if it will impact their claim for receiving protection from the U.S. government. The agency notified the Department of Homeland Security’s chief privacy officer and other oversight bodies and is monitoring the internet for any reposting of the document.
It also placed alerts on all people whose information was made public to ensure that the agency does not take further action on their claim before determining if the disclosure affects it.
ICE plans to identify any entity that accessed the information through their IP addresses and will send them a letter requesting that they destroy the document.
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The NYPD was “blindsided” by Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement that cops will starttaking unhinged homeless people into custodyfor psychiatric evaluations and potential hospital committal — and scrambled Wednesday to start making it happen, The Post has learned.
Multiple high-ranking law enforcement sources said they weren’t alerted before Adams unveiled his plan Tuesday in a speech that followed a recent surge in horrifying subway attacks.
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell — who skipped the Adams announcement — as well as newly named acting Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and other top brass huddled with the NYPD’s lawyers Wednesday to review the new directive, sources said.
“It’s kind of a hot mess,” one source said.
The source, who described the NYPD as “blindsided,” also said that City Hall “sort of jumped the gun on this,” adding: “Not sure why they did it.”
Another source said, “Like everything else, it gets dumped in our lap and we’re expected to solve the problem without any guidance.”
Mayor Eric Adams’ announced that cops will start taking unhinged homeless people into custody for psychiatric evaluations and potential hospital committal.AP
The situation is complicated by the fact that NYPD is without a deputy chief for legal matters following what sources described as Sewell’s September ouster of the last person to hold that job, Ernest Hart.
Asked about Sewell’s glaring absence Tuesday, the mayor said during a Q&A afterward, “I spoke to her this morning and she’s a little under the weather.”
But less than two hours later, Sewell attended a farewell ceremony at 1 Police Plaza for retiring Chief of Department Ken Corey and The Post saw her outside afterward, smiling and joking in the cold while waiting for Corey to leave the building.
In his speech, Adams said there was a “misconception” that mentally ill people “must present as ‘imminently dangerous’ in order to be removed from the community,” adding: “This is not the case.”
“The first training to this is going to be incorporated today,” Adams said. “This new focus took place this morning and we will soon roll it out to all current members of the mobile crisis teams and the NYPD.”
Several NYPD supervisors told The Post they hadn’t been told anything about the training and only learned about it from media coverage of Adams’ Tuesday speech.
The mayor’s remarks dovetailed with a February memo in which the state Office of Mental Health said law enforcement officials were authorized to force psychiatric examinations of people who appear unable to “meet basic living needs, even when there is no recent dangerous act.”
A spokesperson for the state OMH said Wednesday that training for the NYPD, as well as FDNY EMTs, was “being discussed” with the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the mayor’s office.
Adams and Gov. Hochul previewed plans for the training during a news conference.Newsday via Getty Images
In late October, Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul previewed plans for the training during a news conference announcing a “Cops, Cameras, Care” program to increase subway safety.
In a prepared statement Wednesday, the NYPD said it was “currently in the process of aligning its policy, guidance and training in conformance with the mayor’s directive which the department received on Tuesday.”
The department issued a subsequent statement hours later that said, “To be clear, every city agency received this directive yesterday, however, we have been working with the mayor’s office for months regarding this important initiative.”
Around the same time the second statement was released, City Hall press secretary Fabien Levy told The Post: “Your sources are wrong.”
“The final directive was just issued yesterday, but we have been working for months with [the NYPD] on this initiative.”
