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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 108, No. 36
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A great escape PAGE 3
SEPTEMBER 10, 2025
Officials discover Forest Park license plate data shared with ICE
Rat outbreak in Forest Park
ICE access was granted by human error and was restricted last week
Steve Glinke, director of the village’s department of public health and safety, says the number of rodents is unprecedented
By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
On Sept. 3, Mayor Rory Hoskins got a call from someone representing Motorola Solutions — a technology company that provides security products and services — who alerted him that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had unauthorized access to Forest Park’s automated license plate reader data. Hoskins immediately contacted Village Administrator Rachell Entler, who pulled together Forest Park police leadership and someone from Motorola Solutions to address the situation. “It was determined that, on April 5, 2024, a Forest Park Police Department detective, while conducting an arson investigation, inadvertently accepted over 200 data-sharing requests from various law enforcement agencies. Among these requests was one submitted by ICE,” village officials said in a Sept. 5 statement. “As soon as we realized [this week] that this error occurred, [Motorola Solutions has] taken measures to shut off access, so ICE no longer has access to data from
By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
While rats are active year-round, sightings tend to increase from late summer to early winter, as the animals prepare to find a warm place to nest and gather a food stash for colder months. That’s no different in Forest Park, where Steve Glinke, director of the village’s department of public health and safety, says he’s hearing an increasing number of reports of rats around town. “We’ve had an outbreak of rats that’s literally without precedent. It’s randomly distributed from north to south, east to west,” Glinke told the Review. “Never have I seen anything like this,” he added, saying that residents are reporting rats in locations that historically haven’t experienced them. Glinke said the spike in the number of rats
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