6/18/20264:56:59PM Sent: From: Edward Criado<Criado To: "Mark"，"Jake"，"WendyStratton" Cc: Bcc: Importance Normal Subject: WISN All, I have investigated the concerns reported about the Flock data sharing between the Western States Information Network(WSiN) and the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRlC). It's important to note that both organizations receive state funding and work with trafficking and other harmful threats such as terrorism. They serve as a fusion center between localstate andfederal agencies. In this instance, WiSN had two analysts assigned to NCRIC as part of the fusion center, like a task force. These two analysts believed they were doing their jobs when they accessed and but they did not fully understand the restrictions on any out of state or federal sharing due to SB34.AlthoughBenicia cameraswereincluded insome of thesesearchesthatwere searches were related to immigration or reproductive rights. The searches they shared were for Homicide, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), Drug trafficking (Fentanyl) and other serious criminal investigations. They provided clear reasons for each inquiry. We have clear expectations of the agencies we share our data with and NCRiC has a signed MOU with Benicia. The upside to this story is that the auditing process works and discovered a training and personnel issue within NCRIC. NCRIC did not make an intentional decision to violate the MoU. They had two analysts assigned to their fusion center that had not been properly trained to completely understand SB34 and its restrictions. This knowledge gap mistakes. Instead, transparency is the surfacing of misuse or mistakes so we can better manage and use the system correctly. Mistakes will happen. Employees will make wrong decisions or perhaps, an employee may violate policy. We have systems in place to identify these instances and address them when they appear. Flock has systematically improved upon thesystemtomakeit easier toidentifyinstancesofabuseormisuse.Withoutthesesystemsin place, this audit likely would not have discovered this issue. SFPD certainly could have done a better job with their press release and explaining what actually happened.Ted
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