A recent state auditor’s report documented a shocking lack of transparency, accountability, oversight and data security in CalGang, the database of (supposedly) known gang members used by law ...

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A recently launched hacking site has published the member database of RaidForums, a notorious hacking forum taken offline in 2022. Founded in 2015, RaidForums operated on the regular internet and was ...

A community meeting Tuesday night in St. Paul drew more than 50 people for a discussion about “The Gangs of St. Paul” and focused primarily on a law enforcement database of gang members. Jeff Martin, ...

The Massachusetts attorney general’s office is investigating possible racial bias by the Boston Police Department’s gang unit and its associated gang member database, which has been criticized in the ...

A recent California State Auditor’s report documented a shocking lack of transparency, accountability, oversight and data security in CalGang, the database of (supposedly) known gang members ...

Update added on 5/30/23 at end of article. A database for the notorious RaidForums hacking forums has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and security researchers insight into the people who ...

While consumers are usually the ones worried about their information being exposed in data breaches, it's now the hacker's turn, as the notorious Breached cybercrime forum's database is up for sale ...

A top NYPD official defended the department’s use of a controversial “gang database” Wednesday, calling it a “misunderstood” and crucial investigative tool meant to save lives. Chief of Detectives ...

A California gang member database administered in part by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office contains inaccuracies that reduce its effectiveness as a law enforcement tool and may violate privacy ...

An audit of a law enforcement database of gang members found problems with about 5 percent of the entries sampled, which amounts to 14 people. Those people will be removed from the database, said ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Portland Police Bureau plans to stop documenting people as gang members amid community concern that the label disproportionately affects minorities. The bureau announced the ...