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What is Austin Regional Intelligence Center?

The Lakeway crime analyst participates with the Austin Regional Intelligence Cen­ter (ARIC) as a threat liaison officer. As the Chronicle recently reported the work of the TLOs was exposed in a hack of APD and other police departments around the country, known as BlueLeaks. In a remnant of post-9/11 paranoia, local TLOs are encouraged to report "suspicious activity" to ARIC, which is one of 78 fusion centers nationwide that share data with each other and with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal authorities. According to APD Public Information Specialist Tara Long, ARIC currently uses approximately 800 TLOs, both inside and outside law enforcement, all of whom sign nondisclosure agreements in order to gain access to the fusion center database.

In a spreadsheet listing TLO reports dating back to 2016, the Chronicle found at least 39 reports from Central Texas from what TLOs describe as "Middle Eastern" persons. Among the more serious reports, some involved bomb threats from callers that TLOs described as having Middle Eastern accents. Another described a Middle Eastern male recording Easterwood Airport in College Station's "fence line, air traffic control tower" with a camera. According to the report, when confronted by police the subject was identified as a flight school student claiming he "simply wanted to become familiar with the airport." The report was referred to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a multi-law-enforcement agency.

However, the Chronicle found numerous TLO reports that "bear clear hallmarks of unconstitutional profiling," according to Brian McGiverin, director of the Austin Community Law Center. "Each report describes people engaged in otherwise mundane activity, but also identifies them by their race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion, which clearly seems to be the element that actually prompted each of the frantic reports."