ICE Agents Confront Poll Worker Over Social Media Post

The incident began when Gonyea received a phone call from a Department of Homeland Security agent claiming his team had already visited her home to speak with her husband. The agents were tracking a January 2026 post where Gonyea shared a photograph of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Though the post merely repeated details already published by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the agents presented Gonyea with a formal notice alleging she was in violation of federal law for allegedly threatening a federal official.

Inside the Central Library polling site, the agents pressured Gonyea to sign the document while she was on duty. She refused, maintaining that reposting public information does not constitute a crime. Onondaga County Election Commissioner Dustin Czarny noted that federal law strictly limits who may enter a polling place, explicitly barring law enforcement unless they are responding to an emergency. This encounter has sparked concerns among civil liberties advocates, who view the move as an escalation of federal intimidation tactics against political dissenters.