Emails from the city of Chicago and its police department are among the documents stolen from Jones Day in a hack of its file transfer vendor, Accellion.
The emails reveal that Chicago started a drone program using money from forfeiture proceeds, which aren’t included in the Chicago Police Department’s official budget, report the Chicago Sun-Times (here and here) and Reuters.
The emails also show that Chicago isn’t complying with a state law requiring police officers to investigate shootings by police, according to another Chicago Sun-Times story. In Chicago, a civilian agency instead investigates whether an officer violated department rules in a fatal shooting.
