{
  "version": "3.33",
  "compiled": "2026-10-09",
  "site": "https://stateofwatch.com",
  "corrections": [
    {
      "id": "c-3.32-centro-ruling",
      "version": "3.32",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The D.C. Circuit did rule on IRS-to-ICE address sharing",
      "was": "Retracted as \"D.C. court initially allows IRS sharing\" (Feb. 25/26, 2026) because no matching ruling had been found.",
      "now": "On Feb. 24, 2026, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction and held that federal tax law permits IRS to disclose taxpayer addresses to ICE only in response to written requests that meet the statute's requirements.",
      "why": "The ruling is Centro de Trabajadores Unidos v. Bessent, No. 25-5181. A later D.C. Circuit opinion cited it, leading us to the full opinion. The old date and \"initially allows\" wording were inaccurate, but the underlying event was real.",
      "claims": [
        "dc-court-allows-sharing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.32-dhs-fr-policy",
      "version": "3.32",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "DHS took down its facial-recognition directive in February 2025, then expanded use",
      "was": "DHS deleted its facial-recognition oversight policy, dated February 2026, without explaining what happened before or after the takedown.",
      "now": "DHS removed Directive 026-11 from its website in February 2025. It called the removal routine website maintenance and denied a policy change, but had not publicly replaced the directive a year later. DHS fast-tracked Mobile Fortify less than two months after the directive disappeared, and the Brennan Center still found no clear public governing policy as of July 2026 while biometric deployment and spending expanded.",
      "why": "Direct reads of WIRED, Biometric Update and the Brennan Center corrected the date and supplied the missing sequence. The earlier proposed correction overemphasized the technical distinction between public removal and formal rescission; that distinction did not explain the continuing absence of public guardrails or the expansion that followed.",
      "claims": [
        "dhs-fr-policy-deleted"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.32-brennan-tally-date",
      "version": "3.32",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Brennan surveillance tally: publication date and current category totals",
      "was": "The entry was dated July 29, 2026, remained partial because the report had not been fetched directly, and included a $1.36 billion second-term total and $95 million social-media figure that are not in the current report.",
      "now": "The Brennan Center published the report Sept. 16, 2026, using data current through July 26. Its current chart reports more than $2.9 billion total: $1.1 billion biometrics, $793.2 million video surveillance, $622.8 million data analytics, $228.6 million data purchases, $130.4 million phone-content access and $44.8 million location tracking.",
      "why": "The live report and interactive charts were read directly Oct. 3, 2026. The entry now reports the source's own current figures and distinguishes publication date from the data cutoff.",
      "claims": [
        "brennan-surveillance-tally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-287g-confirmed",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "ICE's 287(g) coordination center exists",
      "was": "Listed as unconfirmed. Unconfirmed. Related but distinct: the Javorsky complaint alleges California ALPR data reached over 300 out-of-state agencies including 287(g) participants. That is about Flock data sharing, not evidence for a dedicated \"287(g) coordination center.\"",
      "now": "ICE hired Koniag Services to run its 287(g) National Coordination Center: task order signed July 28, 2026, $17.5 million obligated, up to $63.0 million with options through August 2030.",
      "why": "Federal award record 70CDCR26FR0000034 (USAspending), found through Project Salt Box's Sept 18 report and Tennessee Lookout's Aug 11 report.",
      "claims": [
        "287g-center"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-palantir-agencies",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Palantir's DHS deal: which agencies were named for what",
      "was": "CBP, ICE, FEMA, and CISA skip competitive bidding. The CTO pitched expansion to the Secret Service and TSA internally.",
      "now": "Orders under the agreement need no separate competition; WIRED named CBP and ICE as able to \"essentially skip the competitive bidding process.\" Palantir's CTO, Akash Jain, named the Secret Service, FEMA, TSA and CISA in an internal email as places to expand.",
      "why": "WIRED's article puts FEMA and CISA on the CTO's expansion list, not the bidding list.",
      "claims": [
        "palantir-dhs-bpa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-leak-genuine",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "TechCrunch did not report that the leaked DHS files look genuine",
      "was": "DHS never confirmed a breach; cybersecurity researchers told TechCrunch the files look genuine.",
      "now": "DHS and ICE did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment, and we have found no independent authentication of the data.",
      "why": "TechCrunch's article, in its first archived copy (Mar 2, 2026) and as updated Mar 4, has no such statement. The line came from stateofsurveillance.org, which attributed it to TechCrunch.",
      "claims": [
        "dhs-oip-leak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-dia",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The DIA did not confirm buying location data",
      "was": "DIA confirmed the same.",
      "now": "Asked the same question, DIA Director James Adams did not say whether DIA still buys location data; he said its purchases of commercially available information go through legal channels and follow the law.",
      "why": "Biometric Update's account of the hearing: Adams \"did not give a yes-or-no answer on current purchasing.\"",
      "claims": [
        "patel-data-broker"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-clearview-analysts",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The Army's Clearview licenses are not documented as \"analysts only\"",
      "was": "Scale: 5 licenses, about $339k, analysts only.",
      "now": "Five licenses, bought through the reseller Octaris Technologies: $78,750 for the first year, up to $339,415 with options through March 2030. The records do not say who uses them.",
      "why": "\"Analysts\" was Biometric Update's inference from the seat count and delivery address; the Army's award record and solicitation do not say it.",
      "claims": [
        "green-berets-clearview"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-penlink",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Penlink PLX: signed March 31, and what it does is disputed",
      "was": "Dated Apr 1, 2026. PLX intercepts and aggregates calls, texts, and web activity for real-time location tracking.",
      "now": "Dated March 31, 2026, the signing date; work began April 1. Prism Reports wrote that PLX \"could enable DHS to track people's movements in real time\"; Penlink says PLX does not provide real-time communications or location data.",
      "why": "The federal award record gives the signing date. Prism changed \"enables\" to \"could enable\" on May 4, 2026 and added Penlink's denial on May 5; our wording followed the original.",
      "claims": [
        "penlink-plx"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-fortify-citizens",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Mobile Fortify: two separate cases, not misidentified US citizens",
      "was": "Documented misidentifications of US citizens (Oregon, Oct 2025).",
      "now": "A CBP official testified that the app returned two different, incorrect names for a woman detained in Oregon (404 Media). Separately, a US citizen in Chicago told Reveal agents scanned his face.",
      "why": "404 Media's Oregon report does not say the woman was a US citizen or give a month; Reveal's US citizen was scanned, not reported as misidentified.",
      "claims": [
        "mobile-fortify"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-dying-wording",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "\"Dying on Camera\": two phrasings were stronger than the investigation",
      "was": "138 California deaths, 81 in direct camera view. CBP has never audited tower effectiveness against deaths, and plans $1B for 1,497 more towers by 2034.",
      "now": "At least 138 California deaths from 2022 through 2025 within a tower's nominal range, at least 81 of them most likely within a camera's field of view. CBP has done little to assess how its towers are working or how many people have died where they keep watch.",
      "why": "Those are the investigation's words; \"in direct camera view\" and \"never audited\" went further than it does.",
      "claims": [
        "dying-on-camera"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.31-gloves-date",
      "version": "3.31",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "ICE signed the shock-glove contract Aug 26, not Aug 27",
      "was": "Dated Aug 27, 2026. $16.7M no-bid award to Compliant Technologies (KY) for 6,000 pairs of electric-shock gloves. Sixteen senators urged cancellation the same day; DHS called critics \"despicable.\"",
      "now": "Dated Aug 26, 2026, the signing date in the federal award record. Aug 27 is the day it was reported and the day sixteen senators urged ICE to cancel it.",
      "why": "The USAspending award record gives the signing date as Aug 26, 2026; the earlier date came from news coverage.",
      "claims": [
        "shock-gloves"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.30-klein-counts",
      "version": "3.30",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Klein search counts: not three measures of different things",
      "was": "Three different search counts measure three different things, not one contested number: about 45,000 total Flock queries across all purposes; \"more than 10,000\"; and more than 3,400 searches on a single plate over 10 months.",
      "now": "The reported counts are given beside the official ones: about 45,000 (Yahoo/Newsweek; haveibeenflocked.com 45,318), 22,813 queries in the audit logs Lufkin PD released to us, and more than 25,000 non-law-enforcement inquiries per the District Attorney.",
      "why": "Lufkin PD's released logs and the District Attorney's release both count total queries well below 45,000, so the figures do not measure different things.",
      "claims": [
        "klein-lufkin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.30-lin-confirmed",
      "version": "3.30",
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "Judge Lin's Aug 27 ruling: 59 pages, \"illegal and baseless\"",
      "was": "Sourced to news reports (CNN, TechCrunch).",
      "now": "Checked against the order itself (N.D. Cal. No. 26-cv-01996, Dkt. 250): 59 pages, finding the broad measures \"illegal and baseless.\"",
      "why": "The court record was read directly for the Sept 25 D.C. Circuit update.",
      "claims": [
        "pentagon-anthropic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.29-good-confrontation",
      "version": "3.29",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Renée Good's killing was not a \"confrontation\"",
      "was": "Renée Good (ICE, Jan 7, a vehicle-involved street confrontation, not a routine traffic stop).",
      "now": "Renée Good (ICE, Jan 7, shot in her car as she backed up and then pulled forward steering away from the agent, moments after telling him \"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you\"; not a routine traffic stop).",
      "why": "No source we hold describes a confrontation. The ICE agent's own video, published by Alpha News and captioned by The Washington Post, shows Good telling the agent \"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you.\" ABC News' analysis of the videos shows her car backing up a few feet, then moving forward with the wheels turned away from the agent, just over a second before the first shot.",
      "claims": [
        "minneapolis-shootings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.29-similar-case",
      "version": "3.29",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Norfolk's \"similar case\" is Porter, not Chatrie",
      "was": "Norfolk says a similar case is pending elsewhere, without naming it. Working hypothesis, not confirmed: Chatrie v. United States.",
      "now": "Norfolk named Porter v. United States, No. 26-5121, a pending Supreme Court petition on whether accessing plate-reader data is a Fourth Amendment search.",
      "why": "We read Norfolk's filing (Doc. 63) directly. It names Porter. Our working guess was wrong.",
      "claims": [
        "schmidt-similar-case"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.29-schmidt-ppsa",
      "version": "3.29",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The Schmidt amicus list was missing one brief",
      "was": "Plaintiffs-side amicus briefs listed without the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability.",
      "now": "The Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability also filed for Plaintiffs-Appellants (Doc. 27).",
      "why": "A recheck of the Fourth Circuit docket found the brief we had left out.",
      "claims": [
        "schmidt-amici"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.29-schmidt-capture",
      "version": "3.29",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Norfolk's capture figure comes from an expert report that is now public",
      "was": "Norfolk's more favorable capture figure rests on a sealed declaration, quoted as \"top 5% of vehicles... photographed no more than once a day.\"",
      "now": "The figure cites the report of Norfolk's expert, Valentin Estevez, refiled publicly with redactions (Doc. 180-1). The brief's full wording: \"even the 5% of vehicles that were most photographed were on average photographed no more than once a day.\"",
      "why": "The report was refiled publicly on Nov 21, 2025, which our earlier text missed, and our quote of the brief was shortened.",
      "claims": [
        "schmidt-capture-frequency"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.29-norfolk-retention",
      "version": "3.29",
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "Why Norfolk cut Flock retention to 21 days",
      "was": "30 days in 2024, 21 days by 2026; when and why not found.",
      "now": "Norfolk's 2023 order set 30 days. A 2025 Virginia law (Va. Code § 2.2-5517) requires a 21-day purge, and Norfolk's General Order OPR-493 (June 30, 2025) adopted it.",
      "why": "Both police orders (Schmidt Exhibits 16 and 18) and the statute were read directly. The earlier explanation was likely right; now it is sourced.",
      "claims": [
        "norfolk-retention-change"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.28-ij-count",
      "version": "3.28",
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "IJ cancellation count confirmed at 227",
      "was": "IJ Flock cancellation count now 224 as of Sept 21. Not corroborable; last confirmed figure 163 as of Sept 3, 2026.",
      "now": "227 local governments as of Sept. 22, 2026, confirmed by direct fetch of IJ.org's own live database.",
      "why": "The earlier figure outran our ability to verify it at the time. It was likely right, not wrong. The live database page, read directly, settles it.",
      "claims": [
        "cancellation-count"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.27-klein-dates",
      "version": "3.27",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Klein's charged conduct runs to May 2026, not December 2025",
      "was": "The alleged searches ran from July 2024 through December 2025.",
      "now": "The 100 individually dated counts run from 07/31/2024 to 05/19/2026.",
      "why": "The county register of actions, a primary court record, supersedes the next-day news report on the end date. The start date matched.",
      "claims": [
        "klein-lufkin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.26-kzac",
      "version": "3.26",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The \"K. Zac\" Flock operator is Zachary Klein after all",
      "was": "The haveibeenflocked.com operator \"K. Zac\" (45,318 searches) is almost certainly NOT Officer Klein, because the site's naming convention would render his name as \"Z. Kle.\"",
      "now": "\"K ZAC\" is Klein. USA TODAY's own database ties this exact operator, plate, and count to the agency investigation described in its article.",
      "why": "We treated \"doesn't fit one site's naming pattern\" as \"is not this person,\" even though the site itself warns names don't always follow the pattern. A direct source settled it. How the name came to render as \"K. Zac\" is still not confirmed.",
      "claims": [
        "klein-lufkin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.20-carson-retention",
      "version": "3.20",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Carson's five-year retention is the agency's choice, not Motorola's limit",
      "was": "Carson, CA's Motorola ALPR system has a five-year retention period.",
      "now": "Five years is Carson's own configured policy. Motorola's platform has no vendor-side retention ceiling at all. (v3.24 adds: LASD's written policy deletes at 5 years.)",
      "why": "The court order only said the data \"was maintained for five years.\" We assumed a system limit without saying so. Motorola's own FAQ, fetched directly, says retention is set by the agency.",
      "claims": [
        "riley-holly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.10-brief-date",
      "version": "3.10",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The sixteen-state brief was filed June 18, not the day Chatrie was decided",
      "was": "Sixteen-state brief filed June 29, 2026, the same day the Supreme Court decided Chatrie.",
      "now": "Filed June 18, 2026, eleven days before the Chatrie decision.",
      "why": "The brief's own cover page and signature block read June 18. June 29 was the publish date of an article about it.",
      "claims": [
        "states-brief-gregory",
        "chatrie-citations",
        "schmidt-amici"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.8-footnote4a",
      "version": "3.8",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "A citation we called dead was a wrong URL path",
      "was": "footnote4a.org/blog/schmidt-amici does not exist as cited.",
      "now": "The article exists at footnote4a.org/news/schmidt-amici. The domain was right; the path segment was wrong.",
      "why": "A 404 means the exact URL is dead, not that the source is fabricated. We stopped at the first failed fetch.",
      "claims": [
        "schmidt-amici"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.8-ankle-monitor",
      "version": "3.8",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "\"Ankle monitor\" is not the Norfolk judge's phrase",
      "was": "The court rejected [the ankle-monitor] comparison.",
      "now": "The phrase is a verbatim quote from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Dep't (4th Cir. 2021), invoked in the Schmidt appeal's briefing.",
      "why": "Checked against the district court opinion itself, which discusses Beautiful Struggle but does not use the phrase.",
      "claims": [
        "ankle-monitor-origin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.7-gao",
      "version": "3.7",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "One GAO report, not two",
      "was": "GAO (2x): DHS lacks internal controls, privacy enforcement, oversight of surveillance tech.",
      "now": "One on-point report: GAO-25-107302 (Dec 3, 2024), on bias risk and privacy protections for DHS technologies used in public.",
      "why": "The only GAO product first located was a general management report with no surveillance content. A second search found the real one. It predates this timeline's 2026 window.",
      "claims": [
        "gao-25-107302"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.7-javorsky-docket",
      "version": "3.7",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Javorsky's federal docket number",
      "was": "3:26-cv-02382",
      "now": "4:26-cv-02382-HSG",
      "why": "Confirmed by direct fetch of the CourtListener docket.",
      "claims": [
        "javorsky-complaint"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-javorsky-name",
      "version": null,
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The California Flock class action's case name",
      "was": "Gibbs Mura v. Flock Safety",
      "now": "Javorsky v. Flock Group, Inc., confirmed from the complaint itself.",
      "why": "The earlier name came from secondary reporting. The complaint's caption settles it.",
      "claims": [
        "javorsky-complaint"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-side-door",
      "version": null,
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "\"Side door\" belongs to the reporting, not the lawsuit",
      "was": "The \"side door\" framing attributed to the Javorsky litigation.",
      "now": "The mechanism is real, but the phrase appears to come from 404 Media and NPR reporting. Attributed there.",
      "why": "The phrase does not appear in the complaint text searched.",
      "claims": [
        "flock-side-door"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.5-social-media",
      "version": "3.5",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "ICE social-media monitoring: an RFI-stage plan, 28 people",
      "was": "ICE hiring 30 social media workers.",
      "now": "ICE is seeking contractors for an RFI-stage plan with 28 planned personnel across two centers (12 in Williston, VT; 16 in Santa Ana, CA).",
      "why": "\"About 30\" was journalistic rounding, and \"hiring\" overstated a contractor solicitation. Framing corrected v3.1, headcount v3.5.",
      "claims": [
        "ice-social-media-rfi"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.5-shontel-brown",
      "version": "3.5",
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "Rep. Shontel Brown's Penlink letter is real",
      "was": "Rep. Shontel Brown's Feb 19 Penlink letter is unverified.",
      "now": "The letter is real, primary-sourced from shontelbrown.house.gov.",
      "why": "Checked directly; the doubt was wrong.",
      "claims": [
        "pushback-list"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.4-beckham",
      "version": "3.4",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "A tower-range statement was Anduril's, not CBP's",
      "was": "CBP's Hilton Beckham said tower range varies with terrain and obstructions.",
      "now": "That statement is Anduril's.",
      "why": "Misattributed. CBP's and Anduril's statements have been attributed correctly since v3.4.",
      "claims": [
        "dying-on-camera"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.3-glasses-alert",
      "version": "3.3",
      "kind": "retraction",
      "title": "Retracted: a CBP alert about civilian smart glasses",
      "was": "CBP issued a May 2026 alert about civilian smart glasses.",
      "now": "Retracted. It stays cut.",
      "why": "No support found.",
      "claims": [
        "cbp-glasses-alert"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.0-ice-clearview-date",
      "version": "3.0",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "ICE's Clearview contract was signed in 2025",
      "was": "ICE Clearview $9.2M contract, June 2026.",
      "now": "Signed September 5, 2025.",
      "why": "Date corrected against contract reporting.",
      "claims": [
        "ice-clearview-9m"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.0-penlink-quote",
      "version": "3.0",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "Wyden's Penlink quote, word for word",
      "was": "\"invasive surveillance dragnet\"",
      "now": "\"surveillance dragnet\"",
      "why": "The earlier wording was a paraphrase presented as a quote. Corrected to Wyden's verbatim text.",
      "claims": [
        "penlink-plx"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.0-minneapolis",
      "version": "3.0",
      "kind": "correction",
      "title": "The Minneapolis shootings were not traffic stops",
      "was": "Fatal shootings during traffic stops.",
      "now": "Fatal shootings of US citizens during Minneapolis immigration enforcement operations: a vehicle-involved street confrontation (Good) and a man shot on foot while filming (Pretti).",
      "why": "Neither was a routine traffic stop.",
      "claims": [
        "minneapolis-shootings"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-3.0-fr-halt",
      "version": "3.0",
      "kind": "retraction",
      "title": "Retracted: a D.C. Circuit ruling that halted a DHS face database",
      "was": "D.C. Circuit halted DHS nationwide FR database on Fourth Amendment grounds.",
      "now": "Retracted as likely fabricated. Do not cite.",
      "why": "It traces to one low-quality site with no docket number, a fabricated case name, and an uncorroborated quote.",
      "claims": [
        "fr-database-halt"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "c-702-date",
      "version": null,
      "kind": "confirmed",
      "title": "Section 702 lapsed June 12",
      "was": "Section 702 lapse actually happened June 15, not June 12.",
      "now": "Checked: the statute lapsed at midnight on June 12, 2026.",
      "why": "The challenge was checked and found wrong.",
      "claims": [
        "section-702-lapse"
      ]
    }
  ]
}