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A handful of Washington jurisdictions paused, hooded, or disabled Flock Safety automated license-plate readers this autumn amid public alarm about immigration-enforcement access and a recent court rul...
Multiple investigative reports and public records document instances where U.S. immigration authorities accessed license-plate data that flowed through systems not by a direct Flock– contract but by u...
Available reporting shows remain widespread in —an estimated network covering dozens of cities—yet many municipalities have paused or disabled systems after revelations about federal access; definitiv...
Public records reviewed by University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) and reporting by local outlets show that multiple Washington cities and at least one county law-enforcement agency h...
Litigation by journalists and public-interest groups — chiefly public-records suits and FOIA lawsuits — forced the release of use‑of‑force logs and related materials, producing new transparency about ...
ICE’s FOIA releases have long suffered from selective withholding, technical extraction problems, summary closures and chronic delays that impede reproducing enforcement statistics; courts and litigan...
Merging ICE detention datasets across years is feasible but requires careful handling of changing identifiers, dataset boundaries, and processing quirks: Vera’s ICE Detention Trends team documents lin...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not show a single, authoritative ICE policy statement saying that a state-issued driver’s license or ID card proves legal immigration status; several l...
The available materials do not provide a comprehensive, state-by-state tally of lawsuits filed specifically against ICE agents in 2024; reporting instead focuses on a nationwide bond-withholding class...