Just filed today: @ACLU & ACLU-MI case challenging ICE regulations to keep records about immigration detention in county jails secret: www.aclumich.org/en/press-rel... - ThreadSky

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eunicehcho.bsky.social • 35 days ago

Just filed today: @ACLU & ACLU-MI case challenging ICE regulations to keep records about immigration detention in county jails secret: https://www.aclumich.org/en/press-releases/aclu-sues-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-obtain-records-immigrants-being-held

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eunicehcho.bsky.social•35 days ago

Although county jails are required under state public records laws to disclose records about what happens in their facilities, ICE has repeatedly forbidden local jails from releasing information related to immigrants held under detention contracts with ICE. /1

eunicehcho.bsky.social•35 days ago

ICE has achieved this secrecy through an obscure federal regulation, 8 CFR 236.6, which says that county facilities shall not disclose records related to people detained by ICE, and should instead let ICE disclose them through the federal Freedom of Information Act. /2

eunicehcho.bsky.social•35 days ago

However, ICE abuses this regulation by forbidding counties from disclosing records that they have created and maintained, and that ICE doesn’t possess (and has likely never even seen). /3

eunicehcho.bsky.social•35 days ago

We're suing to stop the regulation from being used to keep state and local entities, such as county jails, from disclosing important records about detained immigrants that are not in ICE’s possession. /4

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