A County Commissioner in North Carolina refused to let dozens of members of the public to speak during a public meeting about Flock surveillance, reports @jasonkoebler.bsky.social.
Records show that Madison County Sheriff’s Office searches Flock about a hundred times per month.
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ICE relies heavily on local infrastructure, including jails, county governments and municipal law enforcement agencies.
This new MuckRock guide offers three areas of focus to start reporting on ICE: detentions and enforcement, collaborations with local law enforcement and courts.
Despite U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pointing to his “publicly available calendar,” @statnews.com has been unable to obtain the secretary’s calendar for more than a year via FOIA requests and emails to the press office.
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During a recent MuckRock FOIAFriday training, Danielle Ohl of Spotlight PA described the overlap between federal immigration enforcement and local government as “butter melted into toast.” The two…
None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.
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During a recent MuckRock FOIAFriday training, Danielle Ohl of Spotlight PA described the overlap between federal immigration enforcement and local government as “butter melted into toast.” The two…
