Shawn Segal — Investigative Journalism

I report on the infrastructure of surveillance: the contracts, the data flows, and the quiet agreements that turn local government records into commercial assets and federal investigative tools.

The work centers on primary documents — FOIA returns, signed contracts, technical exhibits — and on making them legible to people who weren't supposed to find them.

Current Projects

Accurint Files Tracking which U.S. law enforcement agencies feed local data into LexisNexis's private surveillance database — and where it goes from there.
Launching
CSV Project A public database tracking commercial surveillance vendors, the people behind them, and the incidents in their wake.
Active

Beats

Police data brokers
Federal surveillance contracts
Sanctuary law circumvention
Commercial spyware
Public-records investigations

Tip Line

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