First Amendment

A Judge Ordered ICE Agents To Stop Retaliating Against an Ohio Videographer. ICE Moved the Agents Out of Town.

After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing him out of town.

C.J. Ciaramella | 9.11.2026 3:27 PM

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A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) last Friday barring federal immigration officers from retaliating against a Springfield, Ohio, man for recording them. But the government says the man's First Amendment lawsuit should be tossed because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already moved most of the officers accused of trying to intimidate him out of town.

Sean Moorman filed a lawsuit last week alleging that federal immigration officers launched an escalating intimidation campaign against him for his activity recording and monitoring ICE operations in Springfield, which has become a target of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign because of its large number of Haitian immigrants.

Moorman, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, is seeking the names of seven immigration officers listed as defendants in his suit. However, in court filings, ICE says it has already transferred six of those seven defendant officers out of Springfield.

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