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.
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.
Questions? Contact habeas@lexingtonalarm.org
Questions? Contact habeas@lexingtonalarm.org