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wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

State’s attorneys’ offices shared sensitive personal data about the people they were prosecuting without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight. People flagged to ICE were detained and deported, tearing families apart.

wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

Sometimes, prosecutors volunteered information on their own. Other times, they simply answered DHS agents’ enquiries. The collaboration typically happened without the knowledge of defendants or their attorneys.

wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

The TRUST Act bars police and other agencies from helping federal agents deport people absent a federal criminal warrant. But the law doesn’t squarely answer whether prosecutors and their staff are bound by those same restrictions.