HSI Tip Form (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

July 11, 2018 Joey Del Ponte Filed via MuckRock.com DEPT MR 56896 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 requests@muckrock.com (mailto:requests@muckrock.com) RE:     ICE FOIA Case Number 2018-ICFO-48631 Dear Mr. Del Ponte: This acknowledges receipt of your June 29, 2018, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for Any and all records regarding the number of calls the HSI Tip Line has received, the subject of the calls, resolution offeredA log of all calls and incidents reported to the racial harassment hotline from its inception through the date this request is processed. Please include the time and date of the call, any available description of the phone call, and any action that was taken as a result. Please redact any personally-identifying information.  Your request was received in this office on June 29, 2018. Due to the increasing number of FOIA requests received by this office, we may encounter some delay in processing your request. Per Section 5.5(a) of the DHS FOIA regulations, 6 C.F.R. Part 5, ICE processes FOIA requests according to their order of receipt. Although ICE’s goal is to respond within 20 business days of receipt of your request, the FOIA does permit a 10- day extension of this time period. As your request seeks numerous documents that will necessitate a thorough and wide-ranging search, ICE will invoke a 10-day extension for your request, as allowed by Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B). If you care to narrow the scope of your request, please contact our office. We will make every effort to comply with your request in a timely manner. Provisions of the FOIA allow us to recover part of the cost of complying with your request.  We shall charge you for records in accordance with the DHS Interim FOIA regulations, as they apply to media requesters.  As a media requester, you will be charged 10 cents per page for duplication; the first 100 pages are free.  We will construe the submission of your request as an agreement to pay up to $25.00. You will be contacted before any further fees are accrued. We have queried the appropriate program offices within ICE for responsive records. If any responsive records are located, they will be reviewed for determination of releasability. Please be assured that one of the processors in our office will respond to your request as expeditiously as possible. We appreciate your patience as we proceed with your request.
Your request has been assigned reference number 2018-ICFO-48631. Please refer to this identifier in any future correspondence. To check the status of an ICE FOIA/PA request, please visit . Please note that to check the status of a request, you must enter the 2018-ICFO-XXXXX tracking number. If you need any further assistance or would like to discuss any aspect of your request, please contact the FOIA office. You may send an e-mail to ice-foia@ice.dhs.gov, call toll free (866) 633-1182, or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison, Fernando Pineiro, in the same manner. Additionally, you have a right to right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your own records (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGIS does not have the authority to handle requests made under the Privacy Act of 1974. You may contact OGIS as follows: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov; telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769. (http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status) http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status
Regards,
ICE FOIA Office
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Freedom of Information Act Office
500 12th Street, S.W., Stop 5009
Washington, D.C. 20536-5009
Telephone: 1-866-633-1182
Visit our FOIA website at
www.ice.gov/foia

July 12, 2018 Joey Del Ponte Filed via MuckRock.com DEPT MR 56896 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE:     ICE FOIA Case Number 2018-ICFO-48631
This e-mail is in regards to your June 29, 2018 ICE FOIA request for Any and all records regarding the number of calls the HSI Tip Line has received, the subject of the calls, resolution offeredA log of all calls and incidents reported to the racial harassment hotline from its inception through the date this request is processed. Please include the time and date of the call, any available description of the phone call, and any action that was taken as a result. Please redact any personally-identifying information.
In conducting a search for responsive records, the ICE FOIA office has determined that further clarification is needed regarding your request.  After searching for records that may be responsive to your request, we located 1.3 million records, most of which may not be responsive to your request.
Would it be possible to narrowthe scope of the request to include date ranges, specific described recordsand/or locations, specific types of phone calls/tips, etc.  Please provide the ICE FOIA office with a response as soon as possible to avoid any further delay in the processing of your request. If a response is not received within 30 days, your request will be administratively closed.
Sincerely,
ICE FOIA

Good evening, In regards to 2018-ICFO-48631, we have queried the appropriate component of DHS for responsive records.  If any responsive records are located, they will be reviewed for determination of releasability.  We will process your request as expeditiously as possible.  Upon completion of the processing, all documents that can be released will be made available to you at the earliest possible date.  We sincerely apologize for the delay you are experiencing and appreciate your continued patience. Sincerely, ICE FOIA

Good afternoon,

Your request is currently in the queue to be processed by an analyst. Requests are processed on a first in, first out basis and timing can vary greatly depending on the volume of responsive documents received.

Sincerely,
ICE/FOIA

Good morning,

In regards to 2018-ICFO-48631 we have queried the appropriate component of DHS for responsive records. If any responsive records are located, they will be reviewed for determination of releasability. We will process your request as expeditiously as possible. Upon completion of the processing, all documents that can be released will be made available to you at the earliest possible date. We sincerely apologize for the delay you are experiencing and appreciate your continued patience.

Sincerely,
ICE FOIA

A copy of documents responsive to the request.