Dozens of accounts have job titles like “Designated Immigration Officer” and “287(g) Officer,” which mark local law enforcement personnel authorized to carry out some immigration enforcement duties. Many list county sheriff's offices and jails as their workplaces. The records also include roughly 4,400 “associates,” whose jobs range from IT developers and data scientists to nurses and detention officers. Of those, 145 are named as a “contractor” or “high risk contractor.”
More than 300 records reference senior titles associated with DHS headquarters, from Noem down through deputy undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, and chiefs of staff to officials overseeing intelligence, technology, biometrics, and privacy. Most records also name a supervisor, which could allow anyone analyzing the dataset to reconstruct reporting relationships across the department.
The Trump administration has prosecuted protesters for posting information about individual ICE officers and warned others for doing so. In June, 15 Minnesota residents were charged under laws related to stalking and threats of violence, which prosecutors linked to their participation in ICE-opposition activities. More than 100 HSI agents, including undercover operatives, took part in an operation that included widespread surveillance and infiltration of group chats.
Adam Steinbaugh, a senior attorney at the nonprofit civil liberties group FIRE, says that the Trump administration has taken an expansive view of 18 USC 119, a law that prohibits people from sharing “restricted personal information” about federal officers or their families with the intent to threaten them.
"This is information that would be on a business card,” says Steinbaugh of the names and basic work details included in the archive. “That's not something the government can criminalize."
Despite the potential sensitivity of other records in the leaked data, the creators of Icepick do not consider it doxing. They see it as an accountability tool.
“The DHS especially as an agency completely lacks accountability, despite many parts of it being incredibly unpopular. The people who work there know this too, for example some of their LinkedIn bios simply say ‘stuff at US Government,’” says crimew. “If they weren't hiding their involvement in the repressive arm of the US government there would be no need for us to expose them in the first place.”