Doug MacMillan

Washington, D.C.

Corporate Accountability Reporter at The Washington Post

Corporate accountability reporter @washingtonpost. Formerly @WSJ @Bloomberg @BW. Same thing we do every night, Pinky 🐭 [email protected]

Articles

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’ (washingtonpost.com) New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’ By Douglas MacMillan 2025061210005800 New Orleans is considering easing restrictions on the police use of facial recognition, weeks after The Washington Post reported that police there secretly relied on a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras to identify suspects on the street and arrest them.
ICE approves Georgia immigrant detention center following DOGE review

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

ICE approves Georgia immigrant detention center following DOGE review (washingtonpost.com) ICE approves Georgia immigrant detention center following DOGE review By Douglas MacMillan 2025060621392500 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving forward with a plan to build the nation's largest immigrant detention facility in southeast Georgia, according to Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia), who represents the state's 1st Congressional District.
Plans for nation’s largest ICE detention center halted amid DOGE review

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Hannah Natanson

Plans for nation’s largest ICE detention center halted amid DOGE review (washingtonpost.com) Plans for nation’s largest ICE detention center halted amid DOGE review By Douglas MacMillan; Hannah Natanson 2025060500394700 The federal government has paused a plan to issue a $47 million contract for an expanded immigrant detention center in Georgia amid a review of the contract by the U.S. DOGE Service, according to a local official briefed on the matter and documents obtained by The Washington...
Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer

Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm (washingtonpost.com) Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm By Douglas MacMillan; Aaron Schaffer 2025052711000600 A leader of the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport millions of immigrants recently earned consulting fees from a detention center company that is expected to benefit financially from the crackdown, according to a federal ethics filing. Before he joined the...
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer

Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras (washingtonpost.com) Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras By Douglas MacMillan; Aaron Schaffer 2025051910002000 NEW ORLEANS — For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate municipal guardrails around use of the...
Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants (washingtonpost.com) Giant tent rises in Florida to house hundreds of detained immigrants By Douglas MacMillan 2025042500415800 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami plans to move up to 400 immigrant detainees into a large tent that was erected in recent weeks to accommodate a surging population of migrants, said Rep. Frederica S.
Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan

Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers (washingtonpost.com) Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers By Douglas MacMillan 2025041810020000 At a crowded Miami detention center, some immigrants are being held in conference rooms with no toilets. The Cibola County prison in New Mexico doesn't have enough chairs for all the immigrant detainees to eat their meals at a table.
Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Rachel Lerman |Doug MacMillan

Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring. (washingtonpost.com) Trump told people to buy. Hours later, his tariff pause sent markets soaring. By Rachel Lerman; Douglas MacMillan 2025040923164500 Less than four hours before President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pausing his tariffs on most countries sent markets soaring, he told his 9.4 million followers on his social media platform that it was a good time to buy.
Companies warn investors that DOGE’s federal cuts might hurt business

Mar 9, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Doug MacMillan |Aaron Schaffer |Daniel Gilbert

Elon Musk’s sweeping makeover of the federal government in recent weeks is reverberating across the private sector, where companies have started expressing fear and uncertainty about disruptions these changes might inflict on their businesses.
Trump officials to reopen Texas detention center for migrant families

Mar 5, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Maria Sacchetti |Arelis R. HernÃ¡ndez |Doug MacMillan

The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, resuming the practice of detaining children four years after the Biden administration ended it, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.