Washington State Fusion Center Shares Intelligence Products With ICE & CBP
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good last month, a voice on the agent's own video recording called Good a "fucking bitch." Weeks later, two Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, where video captured a summary field execution, showing one agent shoot Pretti in the back of his head. Behind the closed doors of ICE's concentration camps across the U.S., 32 other people have died in ICE custody in 2025.
Last week, Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson postured that federal immigration agents are "out of control" and called the Trump Administration's actions illegal and unconstitutional. However, in downtown Seattle, Ferguson's Washington State Patrol (WSP) directly shares intelligence products with 104 ICE and CBP agents.
A recipient list obtained by HardPressed through a public records request provides new details of the 2,255 people who receive intelligence bulletins from the Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC) which is operated by the WSP and underwritten by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Ferguson's office did not respond to a request for comment.
The WSFC forms a clearinghouse of information from across Washington state and is co-located at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Seattle Field Office, which shares a zero-lot-line with a National Security Agency spying site according to The Intercept.
Other law enforcement agencies, such as the Seattle Police Department (SPD) detail numerous employees to the WSFC and hire private consultants to work as WSFC analysts using DHS money passed-through the Washington State Military Department (WAMD). In FY2015, $13,512,908 in DHS Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funding was passed through the WAMD. In FY2019, that number rose to $15,581,281.
For the past two decades, the WSFC has monitored numerous protest movements and even assisted the SPD procure weapons during the 2020 protests. One 2020 WSFC bulletin claimed that Seattle protesters were "using children as human shields."
The recipients of WSFC intelligence products also include hundreds of private for-profit businesses such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, revealing how city, county, state, and federal law enforcement, military intelligence and private capital networks are enmeshed together.
The WSP uses ReadyOp to send its WSFC intelligence products at a cost of $8,000 per year. Initially, WSP began the use of ReadyOp without a signed service agreement. ReadyOp can also be used as a central law enforcement operations information hub.
HardPressed has requested WSFC intelligence products from 2025 and will update this report as more information is received.