ICE consists of three directorates to accomplish the agency’s mission, including Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Management and Administration (M&A).
ICE's primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.
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ICE executes its mission through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes, focusing on preventing terrorism, immigration enforcement and combating transnational crime.
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The Office of Information Governance and Privacy (OIGP) oversees the management, sharing, protection and access to ICE data, and ensures the information ICE maintains meets legal and policy requirements. The ICE Chief Data Officer is responsible for lifecycle data management and leads the implementation of the Evidence Act and the Federal Data Strategy requirements at ICE. OIGP’s components include the Performance Management Office, the Records and Data Management Unit, the Privacy Unit, the Information Governance Unit and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Unit.
The Performance Management Office (PMO) tracks, reports and aligns all OIGP projects to M&A strategic goals and OIGP’s key mission areas. Additionally, the PMO supports the Chief Data Officer (CDO) in utilizing ICE data to support the missions of the Performance Improvement and Evaluation Officers, in addition to CDO liaison duties with the Office of Management and Budget as well as other agencies when ICE data is used for statistical purposes. The PMO utilizes aggressive tracking of unit operations and tactical plans to give leadership timely, forward-looking data that feeds routine decision-making and out-year planning by means of modem reporting tailored to each unit’s operational needs.
The ICE Privacy Unit oversees the implementation of privacy protections and the transparency of government operations while supporting the ICE mission. Privacy is the concept that personal information about individuals should be respected and properly safeguarded as required by federal law and policy.
The ICE Records and Data Management Unit is responsible for providing operational and policy oversight of Records and Information Management (RIM) functions across ICE and ensuring the agency is compliant with the Federal Records Act. Records and information management is the systematic application of management principles, chiefly control, to the recorded information needed and used in the normal course of an agencies business.
The ICE Information Governance Unit’s mission is to assist the ICE Chief Data Officer by implementing the Evidence Act, overseeing data and information governance policy, and developing the ICE Data Strategy. The unit ensures a high level of data quality and exchange through the development of data policy, guidance and standards for consistent exchange across ICE information technology systems.
OIGP's mission is to lead ICE in enterprise information management, ensuring the maximum integrity, usability, protection and sustainability of the agency's records and data, and to ensure that individual privacy is protected.
Dr. Kenneth N. Clark serves as the Assistant Director for Information Governance and Privacy (IGP) and is the ICE Chief Data Officer (CDO). With over three decades of combined professional experience in the federal government and private sector working with diverse organizations from the homeland security, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and diplomatic communities, Dr. Clark brings a wealth of knowledge to his role.
Dr. Clark leads the office in advancing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) enterprise information management program efforts in privacy, records management, data and information governance, and Freedom of Information Act compliance.
Prior to this position, Dr. Clark was the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Director, IGP, and the Deputy Assistant Executive Director, Law Enforcement Information Sharing Initiative in the Homeland Security Investigations directorate, where he was responsible for planning and coordinating operational, administrative resources, and functions related to law enforcement information sharing and statistical reporting programs.
Dr. Clark received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in public policy from The George Washington University and his Master of Engineering degree in electronic engineering from California Polytechnic State University. He is certified as a Chief Information Officer through the Department of Defense and holds a Senior Level Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and served as the Presidential Communications Officer under Presidents Clinton and Bush and Commander of the National Reconnaissance Office headquarters’ telecommunications and information technology operations and maintenance organization.
Dr. Clark joined the Senior Executive Service in 2012 and served as the Director of Information Sharing and Intelligence Enterprise Management in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis. In this position he led strategic program planning and priorities development efforts to guide interagency intelligence sharing and analysis, program management for multi-mission threat-information sharing, and homeland security enterprise resource planning, which included partnering with the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
