ICEBlock, a mobile app that allows users to share sightings of ICE agents, is being targeted by the Trump administration, while ICE agents continue to operate in secrecy, using their anonymity to hide their actions and avoid accountability.
As Americans celebrate Independence Day, they must confront the reality of a deepening crisis of freedom and democracy, with elected officials being arrested and targeted by ICE and Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship and build mass repression infrastructure.
California lawmakers are introducing SB 627, the No Secret Police Act, to prohibit law enforcement officers from obscuring their identities during operations, requiring them to wear uniforms and markings clearly identifying their name or badge number, in order to enforce the most basic standard of democratic law enforcement.