Additional Information

AI Usage

AI tools (ChatGPT Codex and GitHub Copilot) were used to brainstorm the site design, write code, and parse data for this website. When prompting, I instructed these models to write the code but leave content placeholders for me to fill in. However, some short labels and small bits of prose that remain on this site were written by Codex and Copilot (e.g., "same protected private space" on the house diagram).

If you have further questions about any aspect of AI usage, I would be happy to provide further details or chat logs (there are a lot, so I cannot easily link them here).

Sources

Major sources are cited throughout the project (for example, pins on the nationwide surveillance map are clickable to view sources). Consolidated list:

• Times News / YouTube clip (Reno rally, December 18, 2023)
• Human Rights Watch: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles
• Block Club Chicago: Operation Midway Blitz
• New York Magazine: Following ICE in Minneapolis
• PBS NewsHour: North Carolina crackdown
• PBS NewsHour: Maine operation reporting
• Nathan Bernard video post (X)
• Hilton v. Noem et al. complaint (Protect Democracy PDF)
• C-SPAN: Senate session (Sen. Robert Byrd remarks)
• EBSCO: Creation of the Department of Homeland Security
• USAspending: 2008 ICE/L-1 Identity Solutions contract
• ACLU: DHS purchase/use of cellphone location data
• American Dragnet (main report site)
• American Dragnet finding on early biometric contract
• American Dragnet executive summary anchor
• Washington Post: ICE and utility records
• The Intercept: ICE social-media surveillance and DMV data
• Marketplace: ICE funding figures and OBBBA context
• ICE mission statement
• ICE about page (HSI role)
• Washington Post: ICE mission shift reporting
• American Immigration Council: AI surveillance mission creep
• Biometric Update: Clearview AI contract reporting
• Washington Post interactive: ICE surveillance tools
• Lofgren House press release: Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2026
• 404 Media: Airlines data-broker program shutdown
• Wall Street Journal opinion: Fourth Amendment / data broker debate