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  • 1919–2026

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Period Collection Sources Description
Historical
COINTELPRO
1968–1971 "New Left"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault FBI counterintelligence against anti-war and campus organizing.
1967–1971 "Black Extremists"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault The "Black Nationalist-Hate Groups" program targeting Black freedom organizing.
1964–1971 "White Hate Groups"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Operations against the Klan and allied white-supremacist groups.
1960–1971 "Puerto Rican Groups"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Surveillance of Puerto Rican independence organizing.
1961–1971 "Socialist Workers Party"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Long-running disruption of the SWP.
1956–1971 "Espionage"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault COINTELPRO-CPUSA counter-espionage files.
1962–1970 "Cuban Matters"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Cuban-related counterintelligence material.
1966–1968 "Operation Hoodwink"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault FBI scheme to provoke conflict between the CPUSA and organized crime.
Case Files
1968–1978 American Indian MovementSource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault FBI surveillance and investigative files on the American Indian Movement (AIM).
1966–1973 Black Panther PartySource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault FBI investigation files on the Black Panther Party leadership and local chapters.
1968–1970 Fred HamptonSource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault File on the Illinois Black Panther chairman killed in a 1969 police raid.
1969–1977 Weather UndergroundSource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault FBI files on the radical left-wing organization Weather Underground.
1962–1968 Martin Luther King Jr.Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault The FBI file on Dr. King.
Anti-Communist Apparatus
1939–1978 FBI "Security Index"Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault The FBI's master watchlist of persons to be detained in a national emergency. Used against Communists, civil rights leaders, and antiwar activists across four decades.
1938–1969 HUAC HearingsSource: Internet Archive Internet Archive Transcripts, reports, and annual summaries from the House Un-American Activities Committee, the primary engine of anti-communist surveillance in Congress.
1950–1954 McCarthy InvestigationsSource: U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings under Senator Joseph McCarthy.
1947–1974 AGLOSOSource: Internet Archive Internet Archive The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations — the administrative mechanism that made HUAC findings actionable for federal employment screening and loyalty reviews.
1995–2003 FBI Automated Case Support (ACS)Source: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Records on the design and deployment of the FBI's central case management system.
1950–1953 The Lavender ScareSource: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Files documenting the purge of homosexual employees from the federal civil service.
Labor
1919–1928 Industrial Workers of the WorldSource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Bureau of Investigation files on the IWW from the WWI-era prosecutions.
Recent
Public Assistance
2023–2026 Federal Benefits RegsSource: U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office Federal regulations governing SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF benefits.
2023–2026 Public Housing RegsSource: U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office Federal regulations governing public housing, Section 8, and eviction procedures.
2023–2026 Disability RegsSource: U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office Federal regulations governing SSI, SSDI, and ADA disability accommodations.
Fusion Centers
1992–2023 Fusion CentersSource: Glass Government Glass Government Intelligence-sharing agreements and policies from state and regional fusion centers.
2012–2012 WI & IL Fusion CentersSource: Web capture Web capture State and major urban area fusion centers fact sheet published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, listing designated fusion centers in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Surveillance Policy
2008–2016 FBI DIOGSource: FBI Records: The Vault FBI Records: The Vault Internal guidelines governing FBI domestic intelligence collection and surveillance operations.
PFAS Contamination
2023–2026 Dane County PFASSource: Glass Government Glass Government PFAS contamination and remediation records, Dane County.
Public Records
2024–2026 Public Records ResponsesSource: DeflockDane DeflockDane Agency responses to open-records requests, including Flock/ALPR contracts.
2025–2025 UW CDISSource: Glass Government Glass Government UW data-sharing records.
2024–2025 UW Library Mall EncampmentSource: Glass Government Glass Government Recently released correspondence and planning records on the 2024 pro-Palestinian solidarity encampment at the UW-Madison Library Mall.
Surveillance Vendors
2020–2021 Clearview AISource: Glass Government Glass Government Police records and correspondence on the Clearview AI facial recognition service.
2021–2024 Axon EnterpriseSources: Glass Government, American Civil Liberties Union, Axon Enterprise, Inc. Glass Government, American Civil Liberties Union, Axon Enterprise, Inc. Records on Axon products and related police artificial intelligence policy.
2023–2024 Voyager LabsSource: Glass Government Glass Government Social media monitoring records involving Voyager Labs, including the LAPD proposal and the Meta litigation.
Public Health
2026–2026 Gender-Affirming CareSource: Glass Government Glass Government UW Health's internal records on its January 2026 suspension of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for patients under 18, obtained under Wisconsin's public records law.
2026–2026 Public HealthSource: Glass Government Glass Government Health data reports published by local public health agencies.
Civil Rights Policy
2013–2023 Race to EquitySources: Kids Forward, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Kids Forward, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Baseline and ten-year data on Black/white racial disparities in Dane County. Published by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, now Kids Forward. These are not government records.
2019–2026 Hate Crimes PolicySource: Glass Government Glass Government Agency policy statements on prosecuting and responding to hate- and bias-motivated crimes.
ALPR / Flock
2022–2026 Joliet ALPRSource: Glass Government Glass Government Automated license plate reader records.
Police Accountability
2026–2026 Civilian OversightSource: Glass Government Glass Government What civilian police oversight offices publish in their own name: statements, findings, memos, and their own account of the authority they hold. Kept as the office issued them, so the record shows what the oversight body said at the time, and what it said it could and could not do.
Subversive Designations
2026–2026 Cuba: "Capital of 21st Century Communism"Source: Glass Government Glass Government A State Department report naming currently operating U.S. nonprofits, legal organizations, and activist groups as instruments of Cuban foreign influence. The characterizations are the Department's own.
Other
Uncategorized
UncategorizedSource: Glass Government Glass Government No description available.

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