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2026 Events (2)
Public records showed out-of-state agencies searched Twin Falls, Idaho Flock network 631 times for immigration enforcement, violating state law
Public records obtained by DeFlock Idaho and reported by the Idaho Capital Sun on August 11, 2026 show that Indiana State Police, Georgia's Lawrenceville Police Department, Florida's Bay County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission searched the Twin Falls, Idaho Police Department's Flock automated license-plate-reader network for immigration-enforcement purposes at least 631 times across March, May and June 2026. The searches, made through Flock's national network-sharing system, evaded Idaho Code 49-1432's restriction of ALPR use to specific crime categories and Twin Falls PD's own policy barring immigration-related queries. Twin Falls PD said the searches produced no data pulls and ended its participation in the national lookup system in late July 2026.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission used law enforcement database to secretly surveil at least 16 environmental advocates and critics
Beginning no later than 2023 and continuing through 2025, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers repeatedly accessed the state's Driver and Vehicle Information Database under false "criminal investigation" pretexts to pull the private records of environmental advocates who had publicly opposed the agency. At least 16 critics had their records accessed. FWC chair Rodney Barreto admitted the practice while framing it as a security measure, but some of the surveilled individuals had never attended an FWC meeting. The agency spokesperson later acknowledged no criminal investigations of the targets existed.
2025 Events (1)
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission fired three employees over Charlie Kirk-related social media posts
On September 15, 2025, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced on its official social media account that it had fired biologist Britney Brown after the account Libs of TikTok circulated her private Instagram repost mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination. FWC separately terminated employees Haley Massung and Taylor Ozimek that same week over their own social media comments about Kirk's death; Ozimek's termination letter is also dated September 15, 2025. FWC Executive Director Roger Young was later named as a defendant when all three sued the agency over the firings.