The Cornell First Amendment Clinic filed a public records suit yesterday with co-counsel Ben Rundall on behalf of news outlet The Intercept seeking access to government surveillance records that the public has the right to know about. The Intercept is suing Arizona’s attorney general and the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), a nonprofit the AG’s Office established in 2014, for access to records regarding a database housing millions of wire transfers sent between Mexico and U.S. border states. As Shawn Musgrave reports in a story about the suit linked below, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a top user of TRAC’s data and also serves as a data pipeline, via subpoenas that have alarmed civil liberties watchdogs.
Thanks to our co-counsel at Zwillinger Wulkan, alumna Yifei Yang, students Zachary Jacobson, Danielle Mimeles, and Alexander Venditti and extern Nyssa Kruse for their work on the suit. Read more about the suit in The Intercept here.