# The White House Announces Two Newly-Designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas > *White House / Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) press release dated September 22, 2025. Archived 2026-06-06 to supply a current canonical ONDCP-program reference for the [[HIDTA LPR Network]] concept page — the legacy `whitehouse.gov/ondcp/high-intensity-drug-trafficking-areas/` landing URL returned 404 during the 2026-06-05 Tier-2 sweep (the program's web presence was relocated under the current administration). This release is a current ONDCP-authored primary source that (1) confirms the HIDTA Program is ONDCP-funded and ONDCP-administered, (2) states its national scope (all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia), and (3) points to the program's standing public map at `hidtaprogram.org`.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** The White House — Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) - **URL:** https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/09/the-white-house-announces-two-newly-designated-high-intensity-drug-trafficking-areas/ - **Published:** 2025-09-22 - **Archived:** 2026-06-06 via firecrawl basic-proxy markdown conversion - **Wayback snapshot:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260606050952/https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/09/the-white-house-announces-two-newly-designated-high-intensity-drug-trafficking-areas/ ## Extract — verbatim > **The White House Announces Two Newly-Designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas** > The White House — September 22, 2025 > > *This designation allows for additional resources for law enforcement in the areas most plagued by drug trafficking, supporting the Trump Administration's agenda policies and Homeland Security Task Forces, to reduce illicit drug use and save American lives.* > > **Washington, D.C.** – The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) announced the designation of two new counties to the ONDCP-funded High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program. The HIDTA Program coordinates and assists federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The HIDTA Program provides support to the Homeland Security Task Force, working collaboratively to ensure a seamless and deconflicted counterdrug effort. > > The two newly-designated areas are: > - St. Joseph County, Indiana (Indiana HIDTA) > - Rogers County, Oklahoma (Texoma HIDTA) > > "The Trump Administration is leveraging all available authorities to stop dangerous illicit drugs from reaching our communities," said Acting Director Victor Avila. "The HIDTA Program is a force-multiplier in the effort to eliminate the criminal production and distribution networks that have flooded our neighborhoods with deadly substances like fentanyl. These new designations will ensure these areas get the critical resources and support they need to combat drug trafficking organizations." > > Since its inception in 1988, the HIDTA Program has helped public safety officials implement integrated operations against drug trafficking organizations and, with ONDCP's leadership, has provided the American people with a cost-effective solution to address addiction and the overdose crisis. In 2024, the HIDTAs seized an estimated $18 billion in illicit drugs and cash—representing a return on investment of $68.07 for every $1 budgeted for the HIDTA Program. > > For a map of the HIDTA Program, please click [HERE](https://www.hidtaprogram.org/index.php). ## Notes - **Tier: 2** — ONDCP/White House is the authoring agency for the HIDTA Program; this is the program operator's own primary description of the program's administration and national scope, published on the official `whitehouse.gov` domain. It contextualizes (does not establish) the corpus's Tier-1 finding that ASP's ELSAG procurement bundled a "One Time HIDTA LPR Network License" at contract-time. - **Why this URL.** The 2026-06-05 sweep recorded that the legacy `whitehouse.gov/ondcp/high-intensity-drug-trafficking-areas/` program page 404s under the current administration. This 2025-09-22 ONDCP release is the current canonical `whitehouse.gov` anchor describing the program; the program's standing public site is `hidtaprogram.org` (national HIDTA program directory), and the regional anchor for Arkansas remains [[HIDTA LPR Network]]'s Gulf Coast HIDTA archive (`gchidta.org`). - **Scope caveat.** This release announces two 2025 county designations (Indiana, Oklahoma) unrelated to Arkansas; it is cited only for its standing description of the HIDTA Program's ONDCP administration and national scope, not for the specific designations. - **Cited by:** see the `citing_pages:` frontmatter above.