ICE, Nonprofits End FOIA Row Over Alleged Sterilization Docs

By Gina Kim, Law360, Oct. 23, 2024

Three nonprofits dismissed their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking records related to unnecessary and "nonconsensual" gynecological procedures performed on immigrant detainees at an ICE detention center in Georgia, according to a notice filed Wednesday in D.C. federal court.

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Wednesday’s notice provided to U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly marks the end of a four-year litigation commenced in 2020 by nonprofits Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, which alleged that ICE ignored their requests seeking records about “forced unnecessary” medical procedures, including gynecological procedures, allegedly carried at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilia, Georgia.

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