Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Sept. 10, 2026

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Catching Our Eye

• ICE in Springfield. WYSO’s Kathryn Mobley is reporting, “Judge issues temporary restraining order against Springfield ICE agents in ACLU case.”

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against seven ICE officers operating in Springfield.

This is related to a complaint the ACLU of Ohio filed on behalf of client Sean Moorman, saying the the agents are infringing on his First Amendment rights.

The case is being heard in Dayton before Justice Michael Newman in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Moorman is a volunteer ICE watcher, who monitors the public activities of ICE agents through pictures or video. For weeks, Moorman has been documenting the agents as they detain Haitian immigrants.

• The Courts. WOSU Public Media’s Allie Vugrincic is reporting for The Ohio Newsroom, “Homeless people are frequently charged with crimes. How one specialized Ohio court is responding.”

For more than a year, Wednesdays in Licking County Municipal Court have been H.O.M.E. Court days.

The Housing Opportunities through Municipal Engagement court diversion program connects homeless people charged with nonviolent misdemeanor crimes to emergency housing, mental health services, doctors and more.

Judge Teresa Liston oversees the program. The mood in her court is largely joyful. Laughter punctuates the proceedings. Participants — they aren’t called defendants here — talk comfortably with one another and service providers.

• Community Colleges. Signal Ohio and Open Campus’ Amy Morona is reporting, “‘Ghost students:’ Ohio’s community colleges are targets of financial aid fraud.”

The red flags became hard to miss at Central Ohio Technical College.

A group of applications all got filed around the same time. Applicants wanted to enroll in online-only programs and used email addresses that followed similar naming conventions. The phone numbers listed on their documents were out of service.

“It was a culmination of those patterns that made us say, ‘There’s something going on here,’” Sarah Morrison, the college’s enrollment management dean, recently told Signal Statewide.