U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to spend up to $20 million on electric shock gloves, an emerging technology already being deployed by police in public schools in Omaha, Nebraska.
ICE will equip officers with high-tech gloves capable of delivering electric shocks, according to documents published this week by the Department of Homeland Security. AP News first reported the plans.
These devices, dubbed G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), have already been deployed by law enforcement officials across the country. In May 2025, the city of Omaha, Nebraska, awarded the Omaha Police Department $65,924 for 40 units of the same electric shock gloves to be used in public schools, city documents show.
“These gloves are being purchased for school resource officers as another use of force option with the goal of deescalating and preventing use of force situations,” according to correspondence from the police department to the city’s purchasing department.
The Omaha Police Department and Omaha Public Schools did not respond to Fortune’s requests for comment on how or why the gloves were being used or about the training school resource officers received to use the devices. The publicly available documents did not provide specific examples of how officers in schools were using the devices, and it is unclear whether the devices are currently being used.
