March 5, 2026 Dozens of streetlights on Interstate 84 near Halsey Street in Northeast Portland aren't working, thanks to copper-wire thieves, leaving a stretch of freeway dark at night — and the state with hundreds of thousands of dollars in repair costs. Thieves made about 60 streetlights inoperable when they tried to extract the copper […]
Month: March 2026
man accused of smashing nearly $10K worth of license plate reader cameras – Clarkston, MI
March 3, 2026 A Southeast Michigan man was arrested on charges relating to nearly $10,000 of damage to license plate reader cameras in Oakland County's Waterford Township. Police said the investigation began Feb. 23, when they learned that several devices known as Automatic License Plate Readers in the township were no longer active. When they […]
Gunman Admits Blasting 10 City Traffic Cams – Portland, OR
March 6, 2026 A Portland person who set out to, in his own words, "destroy the eyes of extortion" has admitted to shooting up the city's traffic cameras in a 2024 vandalism spree. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to charges that close a costly and disruptive case for Portland's traffic safety system, after multiple cameras […]
Someone vandalized a speed enforcement camera again – Phoenix, AZ
March 12, 2026 Phoenix drivers still have two weeks to go until speeding citations officially start flowing from the city's new speed enforcement cameras. But some people appear intent on getting ticketed much sooner than that. Last week, somebody toppled and beat up one of the cameras placed at Thunderbird Road and 19th Avenue. A […]
List of New and Proposed ICE Detention Centers Across the US
In mid-January, government officials went on a series of site visits at the following locations of proposed ICE detention centers. Their plan is to retrofit industrial warehouses to save time and money. If all of these facilities were built it would add up to over 15 million square feet of space and increase bed space […]
DOC Office hit by vandalism amid false ICE facility claims – Pasco, WA
February 20, 2026 The Washington State Department of Corrections' newly relocated field office in Pasco has become the target of vandalism after false claims on social media that it is an ICE facility. The Department of Corrections has dozens of field offices across the state where offenders check in with probation officers. In Pasco, the […]
Fresno patrol vehicle vandalism – Fresno, CA
February 21, 2026 Three people were arrested after allegedly vandalizing a police vehicle in Fresno in late January. The incident occurred Jan. 30, when police received a vandalism report. Officers responded to the scene and found damage to the roof and hood of a patrol vehicle. Authorities estimated the damage at approximately $6,000. The three […]
Portland auto-shop owned by prominent ICE ally vandalized – Portland, OR
Last night we gave Dean's Car Care in NE Portland a redecorating under cover of darkness. Dean's is owned and operated by fascist sympathizing power-couple Dean Gluesenkamp and Washington State representative Marie Perez Gluesenkamp, a Democrat who voted in January for additional funding for ICE, enabling them to continue kidnapping and murdering our neighbors and […]
ICE warehouse targeted by arsonist days after massive community protests – Surprise, AZ
February 21, 2026 Someone tried to burn down a Surprise warehouse that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to turn into a 1,500-bed detention center, according to the federal agency. On Saturday, "an individual committed arson on a newly purchased ICE building" by breaking a window, igniting a fire and throwing a propane tank into […]
Camover Communique – Philadelphia, PA
February 28, 2026 Serendipity… Blind spot, solar panel — strike! Surveillance lessens Found on Philly Anti-Cap
Traffic Cameras Sabotaged – Philadelphia, PA
February 19, 2026 We sabotaged all four traffic cameras at a major intersection in Philadelphia. We opened the panels at the bases of the camera's poles and cut sections of the wires. We also painted over the fronts of the cameras to make it clear to passersby that the cameras were broken. We carried out […]
Speeding Cameras Vandalized – Rio Rancho, NM
January 28, 2026 After the city of Rio Rancho launched new technology to crack down on speeders, it didn't take long for vandals to strike. Just this week, two of the city's new speed camera boxes were spray-painted. In years past, speed vans were vandalized with graffiti, and some vans were even set on fire. […]
Flock Cameras Destroyed – La Mesa, CA
February 16, 2026 At least two Flock automatic license plate reader cameras were vandalized over the weekend along Fletcher Parkway in La Mesa, with one device cut down and smashed and another removed with parts missing, according to on-scene observations. At Fletcher Parkway and Dallas Street, a camera was found lying in the center median. […]
Flock Cameras wrecked nationwide
Between April 1 and Oct. 12 last year, a man in Suffolk, Virginia, allegedly destroyed 13 AI-powered license plate reader cameras built by the surveillance company Flock Safety. He is charged with 13 counts of felony destruction of property, six counts of possessing burglary tools and six counts of petit larceny. An analysis by SAN of […]
Flock Camera Vandalized and Removed – Bandera, TX
February 25, 2026 One lone license-plate reader outside the Tractor Supply on State Highway 173 has turned Bandera into a battleground over surveillance. The Flock Safety camera the city installed there was vandalized and removed, and officials have now slammed the brakes on the rest of the rollout while police sort out what happened. That […]
damaged Flock camera – Greenview, IL
January 2, 2026 The Menard County Sheriff's Office is investigating after one of their Flock cameras was cut down over the weekend. A burglary and theft were also reported nearby, and the Sheriff's Office is investigating that too. The sheriff's office said their Flock camera was located at the intersection of Illinois Route 29 and […]
Damaged Flock Cameria – Lisbon, CT
January 8, 2026 State police said Thursday that a Flock camera, which is used by police to track vehicles and collect data on drivers, was damaged on South Burnham Highway in Lisbon, also known as Route 169. Troopers responded at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Police did not say who damaged the camera and said […]
Vandalism to Flock cameras – Eugene, Springfield, OR
October 15, 2025 Vandals have damaged recently installed pole-mounted license plate reader cameras in Springfield and also in Eugene, police said Wednesday, Oct. 15. In Springfield, "three poles were cut down and the cameras damaged." No arrests have been made. Similar technology has been in use elsewhere in the state and across the country for […]