LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - When federal immigration agents arrested Melvin Varela Perez in the Omaha area on July 9, they were quick to thank the local cops and other federal officials who helped crack the case.

The Douglas County sheriff. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. All had assisted in the search for the Salvadoran man who’d been labeled an MS-13 kingpin by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.

But they didn’t mention one organization: Flock Safety, a private company whose surveillance cameras have quietly become an important piece of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Nebraska and across the U.S.

Search logs obtained by the Flatwater Free Pr

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