In July 2025 we started a web project showing a map listing all of ICE's reported detention centers, with the number of detainees. This data was simply gathered from public records shared by ICE.
But since April 9th 2026, ICE stopped sharing this data, entirely.
The public can no longer know where ICE's facilities are, and how many people are currently detained. This is a dangerous transparency problem.
Read more about what happened here: https://lockdown.systems/fragile-dhs-ice-transparency/
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Fragile DHS/ICE Transparency
Starting in July 2025, we ran a project called ICEWatch that displayed data on detentions. It simply downloaded data that ICE was already publishing and rendered it on a map. Facility by facility, you could see how many people were locked up, their ICE “threat level” including if they had
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