The Department of Homeland Security has posted a procurement notice for up to $20 million to equip immigration agents with electric shock gloves — which Omaha, Nebraska has just become the first U.S. school district to explicitly drive off its campuses.
The gloves, marketed as G.L.O.V.E.s (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters) by Compliant Technologies LLC, deliver a shock through the wearer’s hand. Omaha’s police bought 40 for $66,000 in 2025 and issued them to most of its 34 “school resource officers,” who were trained and authorized to use them on school grounds. They were used twice last school year, once on a special-needs student who was having what the district called an episode.
Superintendent Matthew Ray told an Aug. 17 school board meeting he had not known the officers carried them. Thirty citizens signed up to speak; every one spoke against the gloves. Ray asked the police the next morning to cease using them in schools, and they agreed on Aug. 20, according to London’s The Guardian.
