A Secretive State Gang Database Critics’s Nightmares Verified. An explosive state audit confirms many of the fears of the public and that San Diego Assemblywoman Shirley Weber have long expressed about the state’s gang database: that it cannot ensure individual’s€™ privacy, that people can be entered in the database without proper substantiation and that people are kept in the database long after their names should have been purged.

As a result of poor oversight, the CalGang database, which includes the names of more than 150,000 suspected gang members and affiliates, contains questionable information that may violate the privacy rights of many individuals, according to the audit.