A federal judge in Chicago on Friday converted a preliminary injunction into a permanent order that the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security take no action to pressure Facebook or Apple over two platforms that report Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity⁴.

U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso's Nov. 13 order in Rosado v. Blanche directs defendants not to demand or pressure Facebook to suppress Kassandra Rosado's ICE Sightings – Chicagoland group, or Apple to suppress Kreisau Group LLC's Eyes Up app, and dismisses the complaint with prejudice on a joint motion⁴.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which represents the plaintiffs, said the government agreed Thursday to make the earlier injunction permanent³. Reuters and Techmeme reported FIRE's statement that Justice and Homeland Security would end efforts to curb those tools^1,2.

FIRE named the plaintiffs as Kae Rosado and Mark Hodges, who runs Kreisau Group³. It said prior opinions from the Northern District of Illinois found the plaintiffs likely to succeed on a claim that officials violated the First Amendment by coercing Facebook and Apple³.

FIRE said the federal government has alleged that efforts to track ICE agents put officers at risk, and that courts have treated speech about public law-enforcement activity as protected³. The court order itself does not adopt that framing; it records the parties' joint request and the resulting injunction⁴.

Neither Techmeme nor the Reuters headline quoted a Justice or Homeland Security comment^1,2. FIRE's release likewise did not include a government spokesperson³.