DHS Seeks Quick Win In ACLU FOIA Suit Over Immigrant Kids

By Kelly Knaub, Law360, Feb. 14, 2017

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked an Arizona federal court Friday to end a suit brought by the ACLU Foundation of Arizona over a freedom of information request related to allegations of abuse of immigrant children in federal custody, saying it has complied with the request.

In a motion for summary judgment, the DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties said it conducted reasonable searches and handed over more than 30,000 pages of documents and 35 audio files, and withheld some information properly under Freedom of Information Act exemptions, in response to the ACLU’s request seeking records related to the alleged abuse of immigrant children in DHS custody since Jan. 1, 2009.

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