The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 5, 2026. We recorded 3 events from September 4, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 31 more from earlier dates — 109 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2006. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Education Department stripped nonbinary-student data from civil rights collection, dropped decade-old summary report

Event: September 4, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Alteration of official records, Suppression of public data

On September 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights released its 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection with nonbinary-student data stripped from all 37 published files, citing President Trump's January 2025 executive order recognizing only two sexes. The department also eliminated the nonbinary-student category from the next collection cycle and discontinued the "First Look Report," the simplified public-summary format it had published for over a decade, leaving only raw data files for release.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Department of Education#4ebd4aca

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/04/federal-alteration-of-official-records-975d7f8b/ Primary source: Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights survey

DOJ pressured Mount Sinai Health System into ending gender-affirming care for minors in fourth hospital settlement

Event: September 4, 2026 Location: New York, New York Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Targeting marginalized communities

On September 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with Mount Sinai Health System requiring the New York City hospital system to stop providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors. Mount Sinai agreed to pay a monetary penalty and dedicate $2 million to free medical care for patients DOJ said were harmed by the care, while denying all of DOJ's allegations. DOJ said the agreement is the fourth it has reached with a hospital system over pediatric gender-affirming care, following Texas Children's Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Connecticut Children's Hospital.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Department of Justice#1afa4900

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/04/federal-targeting-marginalized-communities-f8a0a977/ Primary source: Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"

Texas State Board of Education adopted high school standards linking Islam to 9/11, jihad, and conquest of Christian lands

Event: September 4, 2026 Location: Austin, Texas Jurisdiction: Texas Abuses: Religious favoritism in policy

On September 4, 2026, the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to new high school social studies standards, to be phased in beginning the 2030-31 school year, that require students be taught that "radical Islam" motivated the September 11 attacks and that frame early Islamic history around the Prophet Muhammad's "brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes" and "the taking of female captives as harem slaves." The board's own appointed content advisors warned the language was inconsistent with "the neutral, descriptive standard applied to other religious and cultural traditions," and the board separately declined to revive a previously deleted standard on Muslim contributions to algebra and astronomy.

People & Organizations: - Texas State Board of Education

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/04/tx-religious-favoritism-in-policy-c16543d0/ Primary source: Texas education board adopts anti-Islam social studies standards

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• August 8, 2024 — Shelby County, Tenn. deputy misused plate-tracking database to track ex-wife 100+ times; charged with stalking, harassment
• July 8, 2025 — ATF analyst used Richmond police license-plate-reader access for immigration enforcement, violating department policy
• August 20, 2025 — Sandy Springs, Ga. reserve sergeant terminated for misusing Flock cameras to benefit private company
• September 27, 2025 — FEMA cut $242 million in security grants to Democratic-led states over immigration cooperation
• January 9, 2026 — Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael sold his xAI stake for up to $25 million days after a major Pentagon-xAI deal
• March 18, 2026 — Former Bonner Springs, Kansas detective Kyle Rector charged with using Flock cameras, police databases to stalk estranged wife
• May 5, 2026 — Former Coffee County, Ga. deputy Chris Ashley Rozar indicted on 8 counts for Flock, GCIC database misuse and stalking
• June 12, 2026 — Cherokee County, Ga. deputy arrested, fired for entering coworker's plate into Flock database
• June 18, 2026 — Holiday Hills, Illinois police chief charged with felony misconduct for using Flock, LEADS data to track six people he knew
• June 22, 2026 — Cherokee County, Ga. Sgt. Mike Creeden arrested on felony charge for misusing sheriff's office license-plate reader database
• June 22, 2026 — Cherokee County, Ga. Lt. Chris Bryant arrested on felony charge for misusing sheriff's office license-plate reader database
• July 13, 2026 — Reynoldsburg, Ohio officer Mark Nichols made 46 unauthorized Flock searches on ex-partner's plate, resigned before IA interview
• July 16, 2026 — Reynoldsburg, Ohio officer searched same plate 53 times without case numbers, resigned before misconduct interview
• July 17, 2026 — Documents show Fort Bend County sheriff's lieutenant misused Flock cameras 189 times, suspended two days
• July 17, 2026 — Stow, Mass. officer used Flock cameras and state databases to track ex-partner who fled abusive relationship
• July 22, 2026 — Conyers, Ga. crime-center supervisor misused Flock cameras to track domestic partner; arrested and charged
• July 27, 2026 — Ogeechee Circuit DA investigator Andrae Wright used retained Flock, TLO database access to stalk his wife, arrested
• July 29, 2026 — Richland County, S.C. deputy Russell Kenton II fired, arrested for misusing Flock camera system
• August 10, 2026 — New Bedford, Mass. officer Emily Pacheco accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-girlfriend; judge found her a credible threat
• August 10, 2026 — Mauldin, S.C. officer fired for using Flock cameras 166 times to track ex-partner, falsified search logs
• August 11, 2026 — Haines City, Fla. officer arrested after 717 Flock camera searches of estranged wife's car
• August 13, 2026 — Indianapolis police officer misused automated license-plate readers for personal reasons, suspended with termination recommended
• August 18, 2026 — Jefferson Parish, La. deputy fired after admitting 3,200+ unauthorized Flock searches on ex-fiancee
• August 19, 2026 — Cherokee County, Ga. Deputy Jerry Shellhouse fired, arrested on felony charge for misusing Flock database; fourth employee charged
• August 20, 2026 — Highland Heights, Ohio police dispatcher misused Flock license-plate cameras in 20,292 unauthorized searches, resigned
• August 29, 2026 — Athens-Clarke County police fired analyst for tracking ex-wife with Flock cameras
• August 31, 2026 — Colleton County, S.C. sheriff's lieutenant fired over 62 unauthorized Flock camera searches, including his spouse's vehicle
• August 31, 2026 — Former Hahira, Ga. police officer arrested for misusing Flock license-plate database
• August 31, 2026 — Former Amarillo, Texas officer charged with 78 counts for using Flock database to track romantic rival
• September 1, 2026 — Guardian investigation revealed Pentagon AI chief Emil Michael's millions in disclosed Perplexity and Brex stock sales
• September 3, 2026 — New Bedford, Mass. Sgt. James Marinelli used Flock cameras to track a woman he was dating, department finds

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