Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., requested the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to examine the Shared Responsibility Committees to ensure they don’t violate civilian privacy, The Hill reports. These groups exist to create “voluntary collaborations between law enforcement and community leaders,” but Thompson argues they are poorly defined and disclosed boundaries could lead to privacy breaches. “Referrals to the committee do not end or preclude the FBI from conducting concurrent criminal investigations,” he said in an April 29 letter to the PCLOB’s David Medine, who recently resigned. “Moreover, intervention leaders are not protected from becoming a part of ongoing investigations and future criminal and judicial proceedings.”
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