Doctor of laws, “Crusading against government officials and the immunity doctrines that protect them." -St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. Views mine
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Jared McClain retweeted
IRS agents seized over $450,000 from a small business in Arizona in February 2025.
The alleged crime? "Structuring" ... meaning engaging in cash transactions under $10,000.
Nearly 20 months later, the government has not filed a case, but still has the funds.
Jared McClain retweeted
Meanwhile, DOJ argues that federal employees can’t be named as defendants in lawsuits, as my @IJ colleague @jaredmcclain noted on the other site.
JUST IN: DOJ defends posting mugshots of defendants in MN church protest case. 'Not improper' or unduly prejudicial, say prosecutors, who are considering asking trial to be moved out of Twin Cities & claim defendants responsible for most publicity. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/…
Jared McClain retweeted
A 48-year-old man suffered a suspected broken leg after being struck by a vehicle operated by ICE agents during an immigration enforcement operation in northwest Houston, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. The incident happened around 7:20 a.m. Saturday near Clay Road and Highway 6 as ICE agents pursued a man driving a white Chevrolet pickup truck. Surveillance footage obtained by the Houston Chronicle captured the incident. The sheriff’s office is investigating the collision.
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Jared McClain retweeted
SWAT Raided Their Home Over the Wrong Car—#QualifiedImmunity Denied!
Learn more about this case here:
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Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity."
"ICE agents falsified official records," he says.
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Jared McClain retweeted
N.D. Okla. district court "finds that because the ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle’s historical location information intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements, it was a search under the 4th Amendment."
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Jared McClain retweeted
As St. Lucie County officials started removing their Flock cameras, they discovered 11 cameras that neither county officials nor police knew about. Nobody knows who can access these cameras.
This is what happens when you normalize mass surveillance.
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there.
No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery.
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Jared McClain retweeted
VICTORY: A federal jury found Bexar County liable for running an unconstitutional traffic-stop scheme fueled by license plate surveillance and pretextual stops.
This is a major victory for privacy, accountability, and the #4thAmendment.
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Jared McClain retweeted
Justin: Federal Jury Strikes Down Texas Sheriff’s Surveillance-Driven Traffic Stop Program ij.org/press-release/federal…
Jared McClain retweeted
Thanks to @IJ and the hard work of my colleagues Jaba, @jaredmcclain and @windyjosh92, @DHS can't:
1. Enter a construction site without a warrant;
2. Detain people without suspicion; or
3. Continue detaining anyone who has evidence of citizenship or lawful presence like REAL ID.
Jared McClain retweeted
Guess who just defeated qualified immunity again?
@IJ and our client, Mario!
In Rosales v. Lewis, cops stopped Mario without legal justification, extended the stop, patted him down, and searched his pockets.
Today, the 5th Cir. held that all violated clearly established law.
Jared McClain retweeted
A federal court has ordered immigration officers in Alabama to stop warrantless raids of private construction sites and to stop detaining workers without individualized suspicion.
The ruling comes after construction worker and U.S. citizen Leo Garcia Venegas was detained 3 times—even though he repeatedly presented a state-issued REAL ID.
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Jared McClain retweeted
You can read the court's order in Garcia v. Homan below. Huge congrats to my @IJ colleagues @jaredmcclain, @windyjosh92, Jaba Tsitsuashvilli, and @andrewwimer.
The order stays the government's enforcement of 3 unconstitutional policies DHS has been using to conduct warrantless construction-site raids. ij.org/wp-content/uploads/20…
Jared McClain retweeted
I have the absolute best job.
I'm so happy for our client Leo, who fought back after being unlawfully detained twice (and then a third mid-litigation). And I'm so thankful that my first time taking testimony in court was fighting for him.
Jared McClain retweeted
Significant lawsuit victory in Alabama, following a lawsuit brought by a Latino U.S. citizen who was detained and questioned by ICE three separate times.
Jared McClain retweeted
“This decision is a huge blow to DHS’s lawless enforcement practices,” said IJ Sr. Attorney Jared McClain (@jaredmcclain).
“The government stood up in court and argued that they don’t need warrants to enter private construction sites and round up all the workers, and that they can’t trust government-issued IDs. By setting aside those unconstitutional policies, the court has restored the rule of law. Construction workers like Leo can finally go to work in peace again.”
Read the decision here:
ij.org/wp-content/uploads/20…
Jared McClain retweeted
BREAKING NEWS. Federal judge in Alabama orders ICE and CBP to stop warrantless raids of construction sites, to stop detaining people without individualized suspicion, and to stop detaining people who present valid ID.
More coming shortly.
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In an unexpected twist, the D.C. Police Union has joined the ranks of those concerned with Flock license plate readers.
"Here we are, acting bizarrely and very secretive about this program," union leader Gregg Pemberton tells @jennygathright in the @washsunmetro newsletter.
