ICE Wants to Connect Its Facial Recognition System With a Pennsylvania County’s Gang Intel App – By Aaron Boyd (Nextgov) / March 26 2020
Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to develop an offshoot of Lehigh County’s Gang Intelligence App over the next year.
Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement want to leverage a transnational gang intelligence app developed by a Pennsylvania county district attorney’s office to improve data collection and coordination and connect with the agency’s facial recognition program.
The Gang Intelligence Application was developed by the Office of the District Attorney of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, through a $1.1 million grant from the Homeland Security Department, according to a report in LehighValleyLive.com. Last year, the county’s Regional Intelligence and Investigations Center and local app developer Computer Aid Inc. released the app after three years of development, the site reported.
Now, ICE officials are looking to take advantage of that resource with a one-year contract for “software development, data analytic support, and cloud migration of a web-based application for use by Homeland Security Investigations to identify, track, disrupt and dismantle transnational gangs,” according to the solicitation.
The app is currently being used to combat gangs operating in Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. metro area.
However, while HSI and ICE already have access to the GIA database, “HSI’s use of the GIA is limited by the scope of information that ICE can securely upload, share and control within the GIA,” according to the statement of work.
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