The documents that support your claim are ICM entries, facial-recognition logs, protest intelligence files, and ankle-monitor directives. Investigative Case Management, or ICM, is Palantir-built software for storing photos, identifiers, and lookup results.
Maine and Minnesota filings point to observer photos, plate lookups, and Clearview AI searches. These records matter if you observed enforcement, were stopped at the border, or wore a monitor. Match your dates, places, and devices to the record types below.
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Table of Contents
- Maine observer records: photos, plates, and border stops
- Protest monitoring: facial recognition and intelligence files
- Ankle monitors and SmartLink check-in logs
- Voter data, ELITE claims, and what to save now
Maine observer records: photos, plates, and border stops
In Hilton v. Noem, a partially unsealed Oct. 2, 2026 filing makes the central claim. It alleges an HSI agent called J.C. created ICM records for at least six Maine observers of January 2026 Operation Catch of the Day. UMA Technology reports those records included photos, identifiers and a license-plate lookup Maine filing analysis. The same motion traces one plate from Jan.
20, 2026. TechTimes UK reports J.C. used driver Polyxenia Pantos's plate to identify owner Carlyn Williams through Accurint. It reports J.C. then created ICM records on Williams, who was held about an hour at the Jackman crossing on March 16, 2026. This pattern helps observers connect presence to later action. A roadside photo alone proves little. A photo paired with a plate lookup, an ICM entry, and a border-stop record tells a sequence.
Protest monitoring: facial recognition and intelligence files
Newly disclosed exhibits in Minnesota protest cases describe a wider toolkit. Biometric Update reports Homeland Security Investigations used Clearview AI facial recognition plus undercover infiltration, monitoring of encrypted communications and intelligence files on immigration-enforcement protesters court-records report. A separate ACLU action seeks the written rules behind street encounters. The ACLU, ACLU of Northern California and MacArthur Justice Center filed a June 10, 2026 FOIA complaint.
PetaPixel reports it seeks DHS, ICE, CBP and USCIS policies on targeting, surveilling, arresting or using force against people who photograph or film agents. For readers, these are two different paper trails. One trail is what agents collected about you. The other trail is what policy allowed them to collect it.
Ankle monitors and SmartLink check-in logs
A 2026 suit by Carolina Migrant Network and Amica Center seeks a June 9 ICE memo and field guidance. MacArthur Justice Center reporting describes the guidance as requiring GPS ankle monitors for Alternatives to Detention enrollees. It also describes SmartLink facial-recognition check-ins, movement limits and curfews. Stanford Immigrants' Rights Clinic's earlier ATD FOIA litigation shows scale and duration. Stanford Law School reports 12 DHS releases between Oct.
2020 and Feb. 2022 totaled over 6,000 pages. Those pages indicated expanded prolonged ankle-monitor use, often unremovable until the immigration case ends. Keep every device record if this applies to you. Monitor wear dates, removal denials, SmartLink alerts, failed check-ins, curfew notices, and travel approvals can support your timeline.
Voter data, ELITE claims, and what to save now
Internal documents obtained by Democracy Forward through FOIA litigation add another system. Democracy Docket reports ICE prepared voter data from at least six states for potential entry into Palantir's ELITE immigration-enforcement tool in summer 2026 voter-data documents report. ICE sourcing and whether entry occurred remain unclear.
The Maine ICM and ELITE claims are plaintiffs' allegations, not court findings. DHS disputes a domestic-terror database framing. UMA Technology notes readers should preserve contemporaneous proof to corroborate presence and surveillance.
- Save dated photos, videos, timestamps, plate numbers, and witness names
- Save GPS and SmartLink logs, curfew orders, check-in failures, and removal requests
- Save detention-location records, border-stop slips, badge numbers, and receipts
- Save FOIA requests, appeals, delivery confirmations, and agency replies