eunicehcho.bsky.social
Sr. Staff Attorney, ACLU National Prison Project. Focus on immigration detention. (Views my own; repost does not = endorsement)
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H/t to @cad6711.bsky.social, who spotted an article on this. What I've heard is that it's going beyond just the federally-funded legal service providers; even ones carried out by private groups with no funds have been kicked out of ICE detention centers. www.yahoo.com/news/doj-ord...
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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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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
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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
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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