The Department of Homeland Security has said that filming and posting videos of ICE agents constitutes "violence" and threatened to prosecute people who record agents during operations. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called such recording "doxing," echoing Secretary Kristi Noem's earlier statement that videotaping or doxing agents qualifies as violence against them. Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara, who has legal work authorization, has been held in ICE detention for more than two months after he was targeted for recording enforcement operations. When asked to substantiate claims of a sharp rise in violence against agents, DHS cited examples such as trash dumped on an agent's lawn and a sign bearing a profanity, and an ACLU attorney representing injured journalists and legal observers in Los Angeles disputed the department's violence statistics.