American Oversight in the News

How DHS created a workaround to turn Guard members into immigration officers

Time

The Department of Homeland Security devised an unusual legal tool last year that made it possible for National Guard members to participate in immi…

Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report

The Guardian

Also on Thursday, the government watchdog group American Oversight sent a letter to the justice department requesting that it immediately open an i…

Trump administration endangering national security with records law stance: Former archivists

The Hill

Former officials with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration…

Former US archivists warn that Trump’s effort to ignore records law jeopardizes national security and government continuity

CNN

Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court t…

The Trump administration says it’s investigating these Colorado institutions. Here’s what’s really happening.

Denver Post

Colorado has been targeted by the Trump administration “through a coordinated campaign of federal investigations, funding cuts and other punitive a…

DHS to Undocumented Immigrants: Don’t Fly Within the U.S. Unless You’re Self-Deporting

Latin Times

A data-sharing agreement signed by TSA and ICE in May 2025 allows immigration authorities to obtain traveler information, including names and birth…

ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back

Time

The operations have been aided by expanded sharing of travelers’ information between federal agencies. Since May 2025, ICE has been obtaining trave…

ICE hasn’t paid UCHealth hospital since last year for immigrant health care

CPR News

The Department of Veterans Affairs had always paid outside providers on behalf of DHS for detained immigrant medical care, but stopped abruptly las…

Trump Promised Transparency. His Administration Keeps Finding New Ways to Hide Records.

Reason

Recordkeeping junkies, on the other hand, saw an attempt to erase an important conversation from the archives. The nonprofit American Oversight, wh…

Dallas Woodhouse deleted texts subject to records requests, NC auditor’s office says

The News & Observer

This week, American Oversight, a left-leaning nonprofit watchdog organization focused on public records, published over 900 pages of documents it r…

NC auditor’s office liaison invoked state GOP wishes in some county early voting plans

NC Newsline

A staff member in the North Carolina auditor’s office used mentions of the wishes of his boss and the state Republican Party in an attempt to sway …

‘Surge’ in Immigration Arrests at Airports Targeted in New Bill

Newsweek

The proposal follows reporting by The New York Times in December 2025 that the TSA was providing ICE with passenger information for immigration enf…

Tlaib introduces bill to prevent data sharing from TSA to federal immigration authorities

Michigan Advance

The legislation was introduced after American Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog organization, released a Memorandum of Agreement between TSA and IC…

Chicago-based DJ Tunjo and partner in ICE custody after arrest at Midway Airport

CBS News

A Chicago-based DJ from Colombia and his partner are in ICE custody on Sunday, federal immigration officials confirmed.

ICE’s healthcare payment system collapsed. Are detainees still getting off-site care?

LA Times

For years, Homeland Security relied on a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs, its financial services center, to process claims for detainee …

Judge throws out DOE’s blanket ‘still interested’ FOIA policy

Federal News Network

A federal judge has tossed out the Energy Department’s proposed policy that would have required people to re-confirm their interest in older Freedo…

NC auditor’s liaison advised county elections board members on how to fire directors

NC Newsline

Last fall, Republicans on at least two county boards of elections in North Carolina received instructions on how to fire their executive directors….

Johns Hopkins researcher released after arrest by ICE at BWI amid increased airport enforcement

CBS News

A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University was arrested by immigration officers while boarding a domestic flight earlier this week. A l…

Election denier Cleta Mitchell granted DHS elections official Heather Honey a lot of money

Democracy Docket

In October 2025, the government watchdog group American Oversight (AO) sued DHS for failing to respond to records requests it submitted for informa…

ICE is expanding its arrests at airports to new targets, lawyers say

The Washington Post

Six immigration lawyers interviewed by The Washington Post said immigration officials have stepped up enforcement at the three airports that serve …

TSA Is Helping ICE Ramp Up Arrests At Airports

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are working together to arrest foreign visitors at a…

Public Records Requests Are Surging. The Government Is Falling Behind.

The New York Times

The federal government turned away a record number of document requests from the public and accumulated the highest-ever backlog of cases in fiscal…

New ICE tactic targets travelers at US airports

USA Today

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun arresting some travelers at U.S. airports, according to reports from The New York Times and ABC News,…

Reports of airport immigration arrests come amid increased TSA-ICE collaboration, sources say

CBS News

Recent reports of immigration arrests at U.S. airports, some of them captured in videos that have gone viral, stem from increased collaboration bet…