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Automated license plate reader (ALPR)

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 13901 Report
DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

2026-01-21

Two plaintiffs alleged that DHS personnel used purportedly AI-enabled surveillance to identify people recording immigration enforcement and threatened to add them to a "domestic terrorist" database or watch list. The complaint reportedly includes video in which an agent appears to reference a "database," and another alleged warning that agents would "come to your house later tonight." DHS has reportedly denied that such a database exists while acknowledging threat monitoring.

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United States Department of Homeland Security

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Unknown surveillance technology developers

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Elinor Hilton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Colleen Fagan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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General public of the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Legal observers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Unknown surveillance technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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Facial recognition technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1390
    1 Report

    DHS Agents Reportedly Threatened Legal Observers With 'Domestic Terrorist' Database While Using Purportedly AI-Enabled Surveillance During ICE Operations

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