Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrive to push protesters back as cars enter and leave the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center on June 12, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.
A demonstrator holds a sign to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol on May 5, 2022 in Madison, Wis. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
The agency’s Missing and Murdered Unit will use Clearview AI tools to “rapidly identify and locate missing persons, crime victims, and suspects nationwide,” contracting documents said.
A U.S. Secret Service robot dog manufactured by Boston Dynamics patrols the grounds at President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on November 18, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The planned $2 million investment follows increased use of the tech in law enforcement operations, such as to support security operations during the World Cup.
A U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officer assigned to the Special Operations Division K-9 Unit patrols outside the perimeter of the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on July 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
The Helix tool, which combines surveillance video, facial recognition tech and license plate data to monitor potential threats, is one of just a few PIAs posted by…
Surveillance towers stand between new sections of the primary and secondary steel bollard-style border wall along the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2021 in San Diego County, California. US-Mexico frontier. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
The agency has had four vendors pass an "autonomy test," Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said during a budget hearing Thursday.
Two ICE agents film the press using smartphones in the hallway outside the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York on July, 11 2025. (Photo by MADISON SWART/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Bipartisan legislation seeking to establish guardrails and add transparency are surfacing ahead of a statute’s expiration that allows spy agencies to bypass court authorization.
Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, speaks at a Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) press conference in Washington D.C., on Feb. 7, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The watchdog’s analysis of northern border facilities found staffing levels for information systems specialists below targets and no plans for remediation, though the agency is now working…
The plaintiffs say the agencies’ deployment of technologies that scour social media for “disfavored” speech violates the First Amendment and has chilled labor activities.
