FBI employee snoops through confidential police databases [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   CRM
> THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2004     (202) 514-2007
> WWW.USDOJ.GOV   TDD (202) 514-1888
>
>
> FBI LEGAL TECHNICIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO
> UNLAWFULLY ACCESSING THE FBI'S COMPUTER SYSTEM
>
>         WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray 
> of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Roscoe C. Howard of the 
> District of Columbia announced today that Narissa Smalls, a legal 
> technician in FBI Headquarters, was sentenced to 12 months in prison 
> today on charges stemming from her unlawful access of the FBI's Automated 
> Case Support (ACS) computer system.
>
>         Smalls, sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge 
> Gladys Kessler of the District of Columbia, pleaded guilty to the felony 
> charges in December 2003 and resigned from the FBI as part of her plea 
> agreement.
>
>         Smalls was assigned to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act 
> Unit in FBI Headquarters, and her duties included searching ACS for 
> information in response to FOIA requests and for other administrative 
> purposes.  Smalls admitted that between September 2002 and November 2002, 
> she conducted several searches in ACS for information regarding 
> individuals who were subjects of ongoing drug investigations in the FBI's 
> Washington Field Office.  In one instance, she printed out the 
> information and took it to her residence.  Smalls admitted she then 
> shared the results of her ACS searches with individuals who were 
> associated with the subjects of the FBI's drug investigations.
>
>         The case was investigated by the Department of Justice, Office of 
> the Inspector General, and the FBI.  The case is being prosecuted by 
> Acting Deputy Chief Raymond Hulser and Trial Attorney Sabrina Houlton of 
> the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice, 
> headed by Section Chief Noel Hillman, with assistance from the United 
> States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
>
> # # #
>
> 04-118
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