Savannah Police Department fired officer Amber Harpe after an internal investigation found she gave her Flock license-plate reader login to her husband, Tyler Harpe, an ICE agent, violating department security rules against sharing such data with ICE. Using her credentials, he ran 983 searches tied to 97 license plates, most registered to Hispanic drivers, according to local station WJCL. The couple said the searches were for law-enforcement purposes only, not personal use.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-18
A Savannah police officer was terminated after allowing her husband, who works as an ICE agent, to access the department's Flock license-plate reading system through her login credentials. The city of Savannah had not authorized sharing this surveillance data with federal immigration authorities, even though Georgia law may not explicitly prohibit it.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-18
Newly released documents show a joint task force of 14 officers—six local Chicago-area police and eight Homeland Security Investigations agents—conducted undercover surveillance of an April 2 gathering of Minneapolis mutual aid organizers. The operation, detailed in an HSI report called 'Antifa Roadshow,' used undercover agents, electronic surveillance, license-plate readers and Chicago's CCTV network to identify attendees and tie them to other anti-ICE protests. The records emerged from the defense of 15 Minnesota activists facing federal conspiracy charges tied to resisting Operation Metro Surge.
wired.com
· 2026-10-16
ICE is accelerating a $100 million program called ERO ONE that would station 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen U.S. cities plus Washington, D.C. Procurement documents posted in September describe agents analyzing classified and unclassified data to spot patterns and threats, with a solicitation expected in December and a contract award likely by February, according to contracting experts.
prospect.org
· 2026-10-14
A new BioScience paper led by Oregon State University's Bill Ripple finds seven of 16 planetary vital signs monitored by researchers are at their most extreme levels ever recorded, including atmospheric CO2, which is 50% above preindustrial levels, and record-low Greenland and Antarctic ice combined with record-high ocean heat. The study also reports warming has accelerated from roughly 0.05°C per decade between 1880-1970 to 0.36°C per decade since 2010.
wired.com
· 2026-10-14
Researchers led by biochemist Ido Braslavsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a reinforced ice material called BioPykrete by combining plant-based crystals with a custom protein. The material is reported to be 10 times stronger than ordinary ice and can absorb 70 times more energy before breaking, with findings published in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces.
sciencealert.com
· 2026-10-13
Elgin Community College installed six Flock Safety surveillance cameras in April 2025, but asked the company to remove them in October after learning Flock had shared Illinois camera data with federal immigration authorities and after ICE detained a student on campus. Flock rejected the removal request, and when the college offered in December to pay out the remaining five months of the contract just to have the cameras taken down, the company did not respond.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-11
WIRED reports that the ICE agent seen brandishing a rifle at Thursday's Marble Hill shooting, where agents shot Oscar Belgal near a car with a 5-year-old inside, is Brenden Cuni, a supervisor with ICE's National Fugitive Operations team. Court documents and public records reviewed by WIRED show Cuni has previously been accused of unlawful arrests and excessive force in New York and during Minneapolis's Operation Metro Surge, including allegedly using a Taser on a handcuffed man and being among agents who forced a pregnant woman to the ground.
wired.com
· 2026-10-09
Documents obtained by Democracy Forward via a FOIA request reveal that DHS officials examined using a Palantir-supported tool to investigate alleged illegal voting. The records show ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division, through its Innovation Lab, has been developing systems that combine DOJ voting rolls and USCIS data, with plans to later add criminal history records. The same document cache shows DHS has investigated more than 150 nonprofits over suspicions they helped noncitizens register to vote.
wired.com
· 2026-10-08
Four detainees at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia used the facility's video conferencing tablets to record a five-minute video describing dysfunctional immigration court proceedings and conditions inside, including a work program paying $1 a day. Attorney Samantha Hamilton said all the men in the video were subsequently placed in segregation as retaliation. Following the video's release, 45 detainees signed an open letter and about 73 are reportedly on a hunger strike.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-08
Genetic analysis indicates that humans arrived in the Americas at least 21,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. However, the data remains inconclusive and continues to be debated among researchers. The findings challenge previous timelines but require further evidence for confirmation.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-07
Meta has partnered with Walmart, Stripe, Sierra and other companies to publish what they call a 'personal agent protocol,' an open standard meant to govern how AI agents interact with businesses and consumers. The move comes alongside other items in CNBC's Morning Squawk roundup, including the S&P 500 closing at a record before futures pulled back, and new research tying ICE immigration raids to localized economic slowdowns in cities like Minneapolis.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-07
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