As immigrant rights advocates respond to increased U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests around the country, organizers in Maine have launched a new website to map and track local activity.

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine announced the new site — LighthouseME.org — on Wednesday. It features a map of reported ICE sightings around the state that have been verified by volunteers and staff from both groups.

The groups also released a report about arrests made in Maine during the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement surge in January, analyzing information that the Deportation Data Project obtained through public records requests to the federal government. The analysis found that a majority of people arrested during that operation had no criminal histories or convictions, contrary to statements by DHS that the agency was targeting immigrants who posed a public safety risk to the state.

“If the idea was public safety, then the record should show serious criminal histories, but ICE’s own data tells a different story,” said Ruben Torres, advocacy and policy manager for MIRC.

Both the coalition and Presente! Maine have spent the last year running a statewide hotline for people to call and report sightings of ICE officers. Verified reports will appear on the new website’s sightings tracker. As of Wednesday, hotspots for ICE activity included Portland and Lewiston.

Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline said on Wednesday that there has been an increase in ICE activity in the city.

“Unfortunately, it’s just more of the same: they are taking our neighbors, family members and employees,” Sheline said in a written statement.

The Lewiston City Council voted in March to limit city employees, including local police, from cooperating with ICE. The Portland City Council passed a similar ordinance on May 4.

A spokesperson for ICE declined to comment Wednesday on its enforcement in Maine, including whether there are any current or planned operations, “for operational security reasons.”

“ICE agents uphold our nation’s immigration laws in all 50 states, seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” the agency said in an email, listing three immigrants who ICE reported had been convicted of crimes and were arrested in Maine in January. The agency also cited the case of a woman who was accused of endangering her child, but court records show the case was dismissed on Jan. 30.

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine, said they began tracking and responding to federal immigration enforcement “long before” the enforcement surge in January.

Keyko Torres, the community health and wellness director for Presente! Maine, said on Wednesday that she hopes by offering more information, the public will continue to follow and react to ICE arrests.

“We cannot allow state violence to disappear into silence because of wavering public attention,” she said.

Advocates said on Wednesday that while they have not seen as many arrests as they did during the January surge, ICE is still arresting immigrants using many of the same tactics.

“We’re really looking to tell people: ‘This is happening in your backyard. It’s not as visible as it was six months ago, but it’s still happening,'” said Ruben Torres, with the coalition.

He said the website is not a “real-time” ICE activity tracker, due to the extensive vetting of each reported sighting. Volunteers are expected to comb through submitted materials to make sure there’s no information that will reveal or endanger the identities of those who report ICE activity or are affected by immigration enforcement. They also have to make sure the person reporting each tip consents to it being reported on the website.

Max Brooks, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, said on Wednesday that the website shows “what kind of people were actually taken into custody, rather than relying on political narratives.”

The Maine ACLU has filed several of its own public records requests to state agencies to learn more about local law enforcement agencies and their interactions with ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A new law is scheduled to take effect in late July, prohibiting state, county and local law enforcement officers from investigating, detaining, arresting or searching a person solely for immigration enforcement purposes.

“Regardless of what the specific facts are, it’s just really important that they be known and the public have information about what really is going on,” Brooks said.

Staff Writer Joe Charpentier contributed to this story.