A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to the Boston Police Department’s controversial gang database:
Sgt. Det. John Boyle, a Boston police spokesperson, declined to comment on Monday’s ruling but pointed tothe department enacted last year, including a new process to review and purge the names of persons considered “inactive” gang members.
Despite the new policy, some community groups continue to call for the outright abolishment of Boston’s database, which city officials said last year listed more than 2,650 suspected gang members affiliated with some 101 gangs. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which had been among civil rights groups that sued the department to make more information about the secretive database public, said the ruling represents a “vital examination of how Boston police’s gang database destroys lives” based on racist assumptions.
Federal immigration officials arrested Diaz Ortiz in 2018 and moved to deport him, based largely on his listing as a “verified” member of MS-13 on the gang database.Among the evidence cited in the database was that Diaz Ortiz was a student at East Boston High School, which many reputed MS-13 members attend, and that he'd been observed in neighborhood parks where MS-13 members frequently gather, according to the ruling.
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