| 2026-08-20 | Church Plaintiffs File Non-Compliance Motion Against DHS, Attaching a Whipple Shield ROI Documenting an Undercover Agent Inside University Baptist Church Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Intercept: ICE Coordinated With Iranian Government to Deport 100+ Iranians Across Four Flights, Launched During the Twelve-Day War U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Lake Worth Beach Faces Vote on 10-Year, $16M-Per-Year PBSO Contract Advocates Say Deepens ICE Collaboration | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Memphis Committee Advances 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as Greensboro Hearing Anchors Spreading NC Wave | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M Offering Exemption and a Safe Harbor That Sunsets Securities Status Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ's Minnesota Voter-Roll Suit as a 'Fishing Expedition,' Pushing the Department to 0-23 in Court Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Flock Safety Adds Privacy Controls as Cities and Legislatures Exit ALPR Contracts Across Its 6,000-Community Network Flock Safety · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | The $150M Award Collapses From the Recipient's Side: Burke Law Group Withdraws From ORR's Single-Source Children's-Counsel Agreement, and ORR Never Says Why Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | 140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO GEO Group | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · +1 | 4 |
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| 2026-08-14 | Cornell Reverses Protective Pledge, Threatens to Cut Funding Unless Targeted Grad Students Return to ICE Risk Cornell University · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | DHS AI Inventory Passes 200 Use Cases Including Palantir ELITE Deportation 'Confidence Scores' and Bulk 911 Call Ingestion Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Nassau County Defies NY Deadline to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements as AG Prepares Legal Action New York Attorney General · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Niagara and Cattaraugus Sheriffs Miss NY Compliance Deadline as Seven Agencies Defy 287(g) Ban Ahead of Aug 25 Letitia James · New York Office of Immigrant Trust · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing Oracle · OpenAI | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar U.S. Department of Justice | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Court Filings Expose 'Operation Puppet Master': HSI Infiltrated Minnesota Unions, Churches, and Activist Groups After Alex Pretti Killing Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Pam Bondi · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region Gregory Bovino · ACLU · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Fort Worth Advances Data Center Moratorium Unanimously; Louisville Passes Six-Month Freeze 24-1 Two Days Later ERCOT | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | The Motion Behind the Exhibits: HSI Agent Desmond Garcia Told the Grand Jury No One Is Investigated for First Amendment Activity Kevin Riach · Homeland Security Investigations · Patrick Schiltz | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Department of Homeland Security | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus Meta Platforms · Sierra Club | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap CoreCivic | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · General Services Administration · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | ICE Bodycam Rollout On Track for August, But Footage Release Left to Agency Discretion David Venturella · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death' U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Human Rights Watch | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules Meta Platforms | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | NYT: Trump's World Liberty Financial Took $100M From UK Money-Laundering Suspect Bobby Zhou; SEC Has Not Acted World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-09 | Fulton County Votes 5-0 to Halt Data Center Tax Abatements Citing $1.1B Statewide Revenue Loss as Microsoft Unwinds Atlanta Deals Microsoft | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Thune Files Cloture Setting Sept 15 CLARITY Act Showdown After Senate Misses Its Own August Deadline John Thune · United States Senate · Securities and Exchange Commission | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | GOP Congressional Candidate Calls US Citizens Shot Dead by ICE 'Collateral Damage' Renee Good · Alex Pretti | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ORR Awards Our Rescue a $158.1M Non-Competed 'Urgency' Contract to Represent Migrant Children — One Day After a Federal Judge Found No Mechanism Existed for Injunction Compliance Burke Law Group PLLC · Acacia Center for Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left Donald Trump · United States Senate | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora' | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ACLU Suit Against DOJ National Voter Database Proceeds as 12 States Comply Voluntarily, Courts Dismiss 5 State Challenges Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Advocacy Groups Rally Broome County Courthouse as 287(g) Termination Deadline Nears New York Office of Immigrant Trust | 1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal | | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed Government Accountability Office · Gary Peters · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ICE Operates 42 Internal AI Tools But Disclosed Only 23; Delaney Hall Logs Third Death ICE Never Announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Austin Kocher · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ORR Announces Intent to Hand a Three-Year-Old Houston Energy-Law Boutique up to $150M, Single-Source, to Represent Unaccompanied Children — Citing the Court Injunction It Was Under Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |