Fusion centers are a network of 80 state-run, multi-agency entities under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as hubs to collect and disseminate so-called “counterterrorism” and other information. Due to a an extreme lack of oversight or guardrails, fusion center activity is opaque, unseen by the public or even by policymakers — leading to abuses of power, invasion of privacy, and surveillance of people engaging in First Amendment activities without evidence of wrongdoing, particularly Black and Indigenous people.