“No Kings” protests, the ice trackers managed by citizens unleash intelligence warnings

While the protests continue to inflate in the United States in response to aggressive immigration and customs application actions, civilians are turning to digital tools in the house to trace ice arrests and real -time raids. But the limited government documents, obtained from the ownership of the non -profit guard dog of the people, show that the US intelligence agencies are observing the same tools as potential threats. Apparently also an investigation into the police involving the maps.

The details on the protest of “No Kings” on Saturday – in particular those in California – are also under control from domestic intelligence centers, in which analysts regularly distribute assessments of speculative threats between federal, state and local agencies, according to an internal notice obtained exclusively from Wired.

A bulletin at the end of February distributed by a regional merger center based in Vermont highlights several websites that host interactive maps that allow users to drop the “pin” that indicate meetings with ICE agents.

The bulletin is based on information initially shared by a monitoring center for the threats of the American army known as Artim. Although it recognizes that most of the users seem to be civil that work to avoid contacts with federal agents, it still increases the spectrum of “harmful actors” potentially by relying on these open source transparency tools to physically affect law enforcement.

Artic, who operates under the umbrella of the army intelligence and safety command, was not immediately reached for a comment.

The property of people, a non -profit organization focused on transparency and national security, has attempted to obtain further details on the maps using public registers laws. The group was informed by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) that all the relevant information is “associated with the active investigations of the police”.

The NCRIC did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment.

“Law enforcement officers play the alarm for non -plausible and hypothetical risks presumably placed by these localization platforms of the RAID Ice,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of the ownership of people, Wired. “But transparency is not terrorism and the real threat to security is the militarized secret police who invade our communities and abduct our neighbors.”

The documents identify maps and shared information on Reddit and the website padlets, which allows users to collaborate and create interactive maps. An “Opsc” notice concerning the maps was also issued separately in February by the Wisconsin State Wide Intelligence Center (WSIC). This report indicates that the sites are treated as a “strategic threat” and are in monitoring by a special operational division.

Wsic, who could not be immediately reached for a comment, warned in his report on the persistent online threats aimed at Ice’s officers, highlighting the posts on the apps on social media such as X And Tiktok who include messages asking Americans to accumulate weapons and “shoot”. While some posts have been judged to contain “explicit threats”, most seem to reflect cathartic indignation for punitive tactics on the application of the immigration of the Trump administration, with analysts of intelligence who noticed that many of the users were “discussing hypothetical scenarios”. However, analysts have reported the volume and tone of authentic content as a true concern for the safety of officers.

Each document is marked only for the eyes of the police: a warning not to discuss details with the public or the press.

A separate ratio obtained from Wired and dated in mid -May shows the monitoring plans of the Central California Intelligence Center (CCIC) for the next protests of “No Kings”. Identify Sacramento, Fresno and Stockton, between dozens of other protest sites. The information is widely available online, as well as on the No Kings website.

The bulletin notes that protests are promoted as “non -violent actions”, but says that the agency provides for producing further intelligence relationships for “threats connection officers”. He concludes with the language of the boiler which states that CCIC recognizes the right of citizens to assemble, speak and present a petition to the government, but frames the need to collect information on “activities protected by the first amendment” as essential to “guarantee the safety of the first rescuers and the public”.