Verified 287(g) participation or qualifying implementation is documented.
Verified agreement models
Task Force Model (TFM) — Authorizes trained local officers to perform specified immigration-enforcement functions during their regular law-enforcement duties, under ICE supervision.
Law-enforcement structure
Municipal police department
The official Idaho State Police directory lists a municipal police department for this city.
Spirit Lake Police Department is participating under the Task Force Model (TFM), with an agreement dated 2026-10-08, corroborated by the third-party ICE workbook transcription and the updated ACLU roster. In the October 24 interview, Chief Michael Morlan reported that Spirit Lake’s 287(g) training was underway and confirmed TFM selection. He described information access and cooperation with ICE as the purpose. Training completion, exercised delegated authority and Spirit Lake immigration arrests were not established.
Key facts
Task Force Model (TFM)
Agreement dated 2026-10-08 (corroborated sources)
Training underway reported October 24; completion and operations remain unverified
Verified 287(g) participation — Task Force Model
Model: TFM
Agreement signed 2026-10-08
Training: Unknown. Implementation: Unknown.
The third-party October 9 ICE workbook transcription lists Spirit Lake Police Department under TFM with signed date 2026-10-08; the ACLU roster updated October 15 corroborates this entry.
In the October 24 interview, Chief Michael Morlan reported that Spirit Lake’s 287(g) training was underway and confirmed TFM selection. He described information access and cooperation with ICE as the purpose. Training completion, exercised delegated authority and Spirit Lake immigration arrests were not established.
Original October ICE workbooks were inaccessible (HTTP 403); participation, model and signing date are corroborated through derived sources, not direct examination of the federal documents. Signed agreement text, exact terms, training completion and actual operations remain unverified.
Training underway is reported in the October 24 Morlan interview; its start date, completion, deployment and actual arrests remain unverified. The schema has no training-underway enum, so structured completion status remains unknown.
Timeline
2026-10-08 — Spirit Lake Police Department signs TFM agreement (corroborated)
2026-10-24 — Training underway reported by Chief Michael Morlan
Michael Morlan —
In the October 24 interview, Chief Michael Morlan reported that Spirit Lake’s 287(g) training was underway and confirmed TFM selection. He described information access and cooperation with ICE as the purpose. Training completion, exercised delegated authority and Spirit Lake immigration arrests were not established. The interview also describes consultation with Post Falls Chief Mark Brantl and distinguishes TFM from the jail-oriented WSO model. October 24 is the publication date, not an exact interview or training-start date.
