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44 entries tied to a specific city or court. A missing city means we haven't checked a record for it, not that nothing happened there. Bulk third-party lists are held back until they're independently checked. Federal and statewide actions that don't happen in one place are listed below the map instead of pinned to a capital.
Norfolk, VA
- Sept 9, 2026Norfolk points the Fourth Circuit to a pending Supreme Court petition on plate-reader searchesverified
- Sept 8, 2026Schmidt appeal: argument tentatively set for Dec 8-11, with an unresolved conflictpartial
- Apr 20 and Jun 18, 2026Who filed briefs in the Schmidt appealverified
- Jan 27, 2026Schmidt v. City of Norfolk: federal judge holds Norfolk's Flock network is not a searchverified
- Oct 14, 2025Commonwealth v. Church: Virginia appeals court reverses Flock suppressionverified
- Aug 15, 2025Norfolk subpoenaed the Schmidt plaintiffs' phone location records; the court ordered one set destroyedverified
- May 10, 2024Commonwealth v. Bell: Norfolk court holds Flock collection is a searchverified
- undatedNorfolk's more favorable capture figure comes from its expert's report, now public with redactionsverified
- 2024–2026Norfolk's Flock retention: 30 days in 2024, 21 days after a 2025 Virginia lawverified
Washington, DC
- Sept 18–21, 2026White House bans CNN, MS NOW, and Politico; outlets sueverified
- Sep 8, 2026D.C. Circuit keeps block on IRS-to-ICE disclosure processverified
- May 2026U.S. Attorney Pirro subpoenas Reddit and X over anonymous ICE criticsverified
- Feb 26, 2026Court finds IRS unlawfully disclosed taxpayer data about 42,695 timesverified
- Feb 24, 2026D.C. Circuit says federal tax law permits IRS-to-ICE address sharingverified
Los Angeles, CA · Carson, CA · Culver City, CA · Santa Ana, CA
- Jul 24, 2026Lawsuit over DHS's "secret Protester Surveillance Policy"verified
- Jul 10, 2026LAPD Inspector General audit: 32.3% false alerts; LAPD declines renewalverified
- Feb 2020Historical: 99.9% of LAPD's stored plate images were not on any hotlist (2020)verified
- Sept 10, 2026Culver City and Carson: federal court denies suppression of two ALPR systemsverified
- Oct 2025ICE seeks contractors to monitor social media for deportation leadsverified
Minneapolis, MN
Boston, MA · Stow, MA
Chicago, IL · Evanston, IL · Oak Park, IL
Dayton, OH
Denver, CO
El Cajon, CA
Hillsborough, NC
Los Altos, CA · Los Altos Hills, CA · Los Gatos, CA · Mountain View, CA · Richmond, CA · San Francisco, CA · San Jose, CA · Santa Cruz, CA
- Sept 22, 2026227 local governments have canceled plate-reader contractsverified
- Feb 2, 2026Mountain View shuts down its entire Flock networkverified
- Feb 26, 2026 (amended Apr 3)Javorsky v. Flock Group: California class action over plate-data sharingverified
- Sept 9, 2026U.S. v. Riley Thomas: court orders a hearing on how Flock was usedverified
Lufkin, TX
Marco Island, FL
Melbourne, FL
Newark, NJ
Redmond, WA
Roseville, CA
Sedona, AZ
Tulsa, OK
Wichita, KS
Williston, VT
Wylie, TX
No single place · 56
Federal contracts, national programs, statewide actions, and funding.
- Data sharing · Jan 2023 – Sept 2026HIDTA hubs: a White House drug program collects local plate-reader data, and DEA's national system can draw on itverified
- Courts · Mar 2022 – Sept 28, 2026Schott v. Bexar County: jury finds county policy behind an unconstitutional stop flagged by a fusion centerverified
- Courts · Jun 22 – Sept 25, 2026Supreme Court stays order blocking expanded SAVE voter checksverified
- Courts · Feb 27 – Sept 25, 2026Pentagon vs. Anthropic: a district court vacates one designation, the D.C. Circuit upholds the exclusionverified
- Data sharing · Sept 21, 2026"Dying on Camera": migrants died in view of border surveillance towersverified
- Contracts · Sept 10, 2026DHS plans up to $440M in government-wide purchases of face, iris and fingerprint scanners, including border cameras that read every car occupant's faceverified
- Backlash · Florida (statewide)Florida revokes ALPR permits on state rights-of-wayverified
- Policy · California (statewide)California SB 1013 dies in the Assemblyverified
- Backlash · Aug 2026More than 200 cities and agencies ended plate-reader contracts in August 2026verified
- Contracts · Aug 27 – Sept 28, 2026ICE buys four Boston Dynamics robot dogsverified
- Contracts · Aug 26, 2026ICE's $16.7M no-bid contract for electric-shock glovesverified
- Contracts · Aug 2026Rapid DNA: $10.1M to SNA Internationalverified
- Policy · Aug 18, 2026ICE bans Meta smart glasses agency-wideverified
- Contracts · Aug 2026Not yet verified: ICE's reported $57M on skip tracing in one monthretracted
- Contracts · Jul 28, 2026ICE hires a contractor to run a national 287(g) coordination centerverified
- Funding · Data through Jul 26, 2026Brennan Center: DHS committed at least $2.9B to surveillance and dataverified
- Courts · Jun 29, 2026Chatrie: the citations both Schmidt briefs lean onverified
- Courts · Jun 18, 2026The sixteen-state brief leans on a two-camera, one-house caseverified
- Face & biometrics · June 2025 – June 2026Meta's smart glasses: border agents wear them on raids, and Meta licensed police-and-Pentagon face recognition for themverified
- Policy · Apr–Jun 2026Congress lets the Section 702 spy law lapse for the first timeverified
- Data sharing · Jun 4, 2026Treasury IG: IRS gave ICE addresses for nearly 47,000 peopleverified
- Policy · Jun 2, 2026Executive Order 14409: voluntary early government access to the most powerful AI modelsverified
- Data sharing · June 2026Palantir ELITE: ICE's raid-targeting app, and ICE's plan to load voter data into itpartial
- Funding · June 2026Secure America Act adds $70B to DHS; ICE and CBP funds pass $200Bpartial
- Face & biometrics · May 27, 2026ICE buys iris scanners from BI2 Technologiesverified
- Contracts · May 22, 2026DHS tells NPR ICE has "no relationship with Paragon"partial
- Policy · May 2026"CBP issued a May 2026 alert about civilian smart glasses"retracted
- Contracts · Apr 1, 2026ICE's acting director approves spyware tools to get into encrypted messagesverified
- Funding · April 2026ICE and CBP had $118B unspent from OBBBApartial
- Contracts · Mar 31, 2026ICE signs a no-bid contract for Penlink's PLX surveillance softwareverified
- Face & biometrics · Mar 20, 2026Army Special Forces command renews Clearview AI facial recognitionverified
- Data sharing · Mar 18, 2026FBI Director confirms warrantless purchase of Americans' location dataverified
- Policy · Mar 12, 2026Bipartisan bill would require warrants for Section 702 searches and data-broker purchases (S.4082)verified
- Data sharing · Mar 1, 2026Hackers leak DHS contracting data naming 6,681 companies and groupsverified
- Courts · Feb 23, 2026Maine suit: agents threatened legal observers with watchlist placementverified
- Protest surveillance · Feb 2026DHS subpoenas Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord for ICE critics' identitiesverified
- Contracts · Feb 12, 2026DHS signs a $1 billion buying agreement with Palantirverified
- Face & biometrics · Feb 11, 2026CBP and Border Patrol get Clearview AI accessverified
- Policy · Feb–Apr 2026CIA centralizes vendor vetting and plans "AI co-workers"partial
- Policy · Feb 5, 2026"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" (S.3779) introducedverified
- Face & biometrics · Sept 5, 2025ICE's $9.2M Clearview contractverified
- Funding · July 2025OBBBA: $170B to $191B for DHS, two confirmed scopesverified
- Face & biometrics · Feb 2025DHS takes down its facial-recognition directive, calls it website maintenance as use expandsverified
- Policy · Dec 3, 2024GAO: DHS lacks bias-risk policies for most public-surveillance technologiesverified
- Face & biometrics · OngoingMobile Fortify: ICE and CBP's face-scanning phone apppartial
- Data sharing · Since Apr 2025At least 25 states sent about 67 million voter registrations through SAVEverified
- Data sharing · undatedCensus report cross-referenced 128M voter records against federal datapartial
- Contracts · Since 2018Palantir's IRS work: $130M since 2018partial
- Courts · undated"D.C. Circuit halted DHS nationwide face database on Fourth Amendment grounds"retracted
- Data sharing · Summer 2026Federal officials use local Flock access for immigration lookupsverified
- Courts · undatedThe "ankle monitor" line is from Beautiful Struggle, not the Norfolk judgeverified
- Backlash · undatedCountervailing: some cities switch to Axon; Flock claims 7x more customers gained than lostverified
- Funding · FY2027 requestDHS budget: $19.5B in 2002 to a $118.39B FY2027 requestpartial
- Funding · 2025–2026ICE and CBP contracts with 11 surveillance companies: $310M to $513Mpartial
- Policy · undatedWarner and Kaine ask DHS Inspector General to audit immigration procurementsverified
- Policy · Oct 2025 – Sept 2026Other pushback from Congress, security experts and community groupsverified