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“Literally every police department in America” uses unmarked vehicles, says one DHS official. Help find out if that’s true.
In defending his agency, the acting deputy head of Homeland Security insisted every police department in America uses unmarked cars. File a request in your community to find out how many they have and how they use them.
Federal Register publishes final rule on changes to Flores Settlement Agreement
Changes to the detention of non-citizen minors and families entered the Federal Register today, despite tens of thousands of public comments in opposition to the changes and serious concerns about its effects on migrant families and children.
This Week’s FOIA Roundup: Documents show DHS officials’ concern that black activists would join ISIS following Ferguson and 2012 DIA Damage assessments regarding WikiLeaks have been finally released
In this Week’s FOIA Roundup, documents show the Department of Homeland Security officials’ baseless concern that Black Lives Matter activists would join ISIS following Ferguson protests, Pentagon damage assessments on the 2012 WikiLeaks revelations spurred by Chelsea Manning are finally available after FOIA lawsuit and a public records request from Carbondale, Illinois undermines the mayor’s account of domestic disturbance.
Homeland Security claims it can’t find border wall records posted on its website
In late February 2017, the Trump Administration took some of its earliest steps towards implementing a new border wall policy with an executive order and several memos issued by the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership. In response to the policy, MuckRock filed a FOIA request was filed for “memos relating to executive orders signed by Donald Trump,” including but not limited to memos described in a specific article. Just under 17 months later, DHS responded with a letter saying that they were unable to find any such memos. Despite these claims, two of the memos which DHS said they were unable to find had aleady been posted to their website.
Washington State Fusion Center accidentally releases records on remote mind control
When you send thousands of FOIA requests, you are bound to get some very weird responses from time to time. Recently, we here at MuckRock had one of our most bizarre gets yet - Washington State Fusion Center’s accidental release of records on the effects of remote mind control.
3 Requests
Fix Required
Documents pertaining to two Charlotte, NC TSA Agents at CLT Airport
Beofotch Beofotch sent this request to the Transportation Security Administration of the United States of America
Rejected
William Green sent this request to the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America
Completed
Seattle Police Wireless Mesh Surveillance Network Steering Committee
Phil Mocek sent this request to the Seattle Police Department of Seattle, WA