Meg Anderson
Meg Anderson is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. She covers criminal justice issues, including gun violence in America and its solutions; conditions in prisons and detention centers; how police officers do their jobs; and how the criminal legal system treats the nation's most vulnerable. Previously, as part of NPR's Investigations team, she reported on delays in medical care within the federal Bureau of Prisons and served as a producer on the series Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. That series won a Peabody award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. She has also reported for NPR's politics and education desks, and for WAMU, the local Member station in Washington, D.C. She is based in the Midwest.
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DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings. -
DHS allegedly conducted a huge surveillance operation during the ICE surge in Minnesota last winter, sweeping up activists, labor unions and others.
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Around the country, people are vandalizing Flock cameras. The surge in this type of activity underscores the widespread resistance to this police surveillance technology.
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In dozens of states around the country, people are vandalizing, blocking and taking down Flock cameras. A surge in such activity underscores the growing resistance to this police surveillance technology. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain.
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The company that makes the gloves, Compliant Technologies, says they're a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain. Immigrant advocates are concerned.
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The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists. -
The DOJ is offering state and local police $3 billion to cooperate with ICE on federal immigration enforcement, part of a broader effort to expand the administration's mass deportation campaign.
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The recent fatal shootings by ICE officers in Texas and Maine come at a time when the federal agency has hired a huge number of officers quickly. Some law enforcement experts worry that this kind of a hiring spree can lead police agencies to cut corners in vetting new hires.
