Between April 19 and May 5, 2026, ICE emailed the same non-disclosure directive to Texas 287(g) participating agencies that it sent to Florida agencies. Texas had 376 active 287(g) agreements as of May 5, 2026 — the largest 287(g) participating state in the country. Madan’s reporting documents the directive’s reach across “hundreds of participating Florida and Texas agencies.”

The verbatim memo language is identical to the Florida directive: information “obtained or developed” through 287(g) is “under the control of ICE” and cannot be released without federal approval; agencies must consult ICE’s FOIA office before responding to public-records requests, press conferences, press releases, media ride-alongs, or social media communications.

Texas’s transparency regime — the Texas Public Information Act (Government Code Chapter 552) — is the analogous statute to Florida’s Sunshine Law. The directive’s effect on PIA compliance in Texas is a distinct legal question from the Florida question.

Research gap: which specific Texas 287(g) agencies received the directive, on what dates, and whether any have published their copy of the memo. No Texas-side public records litigation reported as of May 6, 2026.

Source

Monique O. Madan, “A Secret ICE Directive Is Testing the Limits of State Public-Records Law” (Two Can Be True / The Florida Trib, May 6, 2026).

See also: FL statewide directive entry (canonical record), Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office directive entry.

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