On April 15, 2026, a US District Court judge in Maryland granted Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown's preliminary injunction halting ICE's conversion of the 820,000-square-foot former FRND-Hopewell warehouse in Williamsport, MD into a 1,500-bed detention facility. The ruling found ICE failed to conduct environmental assessments required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before the January 16 deed recording and before the March 6 award of a $113M retrofit contract to KVG LLC of Gettysburg, PA. Specific concerns cited: the facility has only four toilets; the nearby pumping station cannot handle capacity for 1,500 people (roughly 4x the design load); endangered species inhabit the surrounding area. The injunction halts all construction except HVAC repairs and perimeter security.
Attorney General Brown's February 23, 2026 complaint had accused DHS and ICE of conducting the purchase and planning "behind closed doors, without public input, state consultation or required environmental reviews." This is the first federal court to enjoin construction of a WEXMAC-TITUS-connected detention facility and the first successful legal challenge to the program on federal administrative-law grounds (as opposed to the tribal-sovereignty and local-ordinance routes that foreclosed Durant, OK earlier). Hundreds rallied at the Williamsport courthouse the same day. The Williamsport case now establishes NEPA as a viable litigation track against the program; at least eleven warehouse acquisitions in the program to date were made without documented NEPA compliance.