LAS VEGAS – American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada executive director Athar Haseebullah released the following statement in response to new court filings in which attorneys for the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles seek to correct the court record, admitting that the agency has used the private, encrypted messaging app Signal to conduct official DMV business, including to communicate with ICE.
ACLU of Nevada executive director Athar Haseebullah (he/him) said:
“The DMV’s most recent filings demonstrate that the agency has, in fact, used Signal to communicate before and also has used the application to communicate with ICE. It’s not clear to me how the DMV can simply walk back its erroneous representations about not using Signal to communicate as recently as two weeks ago. It’s even more bizarre that they’d expect the public to just take their word for things. They need to turn over the records to the public and make clear the full extent of what they’ve hidden for a year as they’ve attempted to stall this process out. This is your government at work.”
A copy of the court filing can be downloaded here. (Links to dropbox.com)
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