Two weeks after criminal justice reporter Ali Winston revealed the City of New Orleans Police Department had a secret predictive policing program with Palantir Software that neither the public nor the City Council knew about, outgoing mayor Mitch Landrieu…
Category: Immigration and ICE
SF ICE Spokesperson James Schwab Quits Citing False Statements
James Schwab, spokesperson for the ICE Northern California headquarters located at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco has resigned from his position. Scwab said the Trump Adminstration including Acting ICE Director James Homan and AG Jeff Sessions made false and…
CIVIC Immigrant Support Group Kicked Out of West County
In a shocking move, Contra Costa sheriff David Livingston kicked immigrant support group CIVIC (Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement) in what the group says is a retalitaory action after they drew attention to conditions in the jail, which…
On March 13 Berkeley Can Become A City Of Refuge
The City Council is on the verge of implementing significant reforms aimed at protecting the civil liberties of all Berkeley residents, including immigrants. Full article here. The vote will be held at the March 13 City Council meeting at Old…
ICE At Urban Shield
A public records request by Oakland Privacy member Mike Katz Lacabe for pictures from the Urban Shield 2017 counterterrorism drill revealed Homeland Security Investigations/ICE participated in Urban Shield, despite there being no listing for HSI or ICE in the participant…
2010-2012 FOIAS – ICE/HSI and National Vehicle Locator Service (NVLS)
EPIC and ACLU acquired via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documentation of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) trial access to the National Vehicle Locator Service (NVLS) license plate reader database in the 2010-2012…
City of Alameda Rejects ALPR Contract With Vigilant
In the wake of recent revelations that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after years of trying, had successfully gained enhanced access to Vigilant’s private automated license plate reader database, the City of Alameda cancelled a planned expansion of their Vigilant…
In The Wake Of Oakland’s Decision
ICE Director Thomas Homan issued a condemnation of the Oakland City Council. The full text is here: https://twitter.com/daviddebolt/status/953810452118515712 And Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf spoke to the media about Oakland’s decison.
Inappropriate Actions Alleged by City of Oakland Investigator
Signatories to the November complaint against Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for untruthful statements relating to the August 2017 West Oakland ICE raid issued a letter on January 16 asking for City of Oakland investigator Joan Suape to be…
Oakland Deports ICE
By JP Massar. Originally published on Daily Kos On the day Homeland Security announced planning for a major immigration raid in the Bay Area in response to sanctuary city laws… U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep…