State Audit Finds Forest Park Police Shared License Plate Data With ICE for Over a Year
The finding intensifies scrutiny of license-plate vendors under a two-year-old Illinois law that empowers state audits.
Overview
- Forest Park’s mayor said the sharing began in April 2024 and ended this week after Motorola Solutions alerted the village and cut off federal access.
- A detective investigating an arson case accepted more than 200 data-sharing requests, including from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which the village describes as human error.
- Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office conducted the audit under the Illinois TRUST Act, which limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
- The village has not disclosed how many plate scans were shared, the officer has not been disciplined, and the state has not announced penalties.
- Two weeks earlier, a separate audit found vendor Flock Safety shared data with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a partnership the company said it ended in mid‑August.