Habeas Flight Watch

Real-Time Flight Monitoring for Legal Teams

Habeas Flight Watch is a national monitoring network created by volunteers that provides legal teams with documented, timestamped ICE charter flight data to support habeas corpus petitions, emergency motions, and TROs on behalf of individuals in removal proceedings. It grew out of our flight monitoring at Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA.

A federal court’s habeas jurisdiction does not end at takeoff — it continues until the aircraft lands at its next destination. Knowing that a client is still on the ground at a U.S. airport, or still in U.S. airspace, can be the difference between a successful emergency filing and a moot case.

What We Provide

The live monitoring dashboard gives legal teams real-time visibility into ICE charter flight activity at airports across the country, including:

Legally defensible timestamps suitable for court filings and declarations

Real-time ground status at monitored airports

Flight progression tracking from arrival through departure

Multi-airport coordination across a national observer network

All monitoring uses publicly available information, including ADS-B transponder data and direct observation from public spaces.

Request Access

Access is provided to vetted legal teams working on removal defense and habeas cases.

Request Access — habeas@lexingtonalarm.org

Please include your name, firm or organization, jurisdiction, and a brief description of your immigration practice.

We respond promptly — we understand that hours matter.

Habeas Flight Watch is a project of Lexington Alarm and De-ICE Hanscom, a coalition of community groups from Boston and the Northwest suburbs advocating for ending the use of Hanscom Field for ICE charter flights. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.