ICE FOIA Trainings
| Tracking # |
2022-ICAP-00601 2022-ICAP-00408 2020-ICFO-63596 |
| Submitted | Sept. 11, 2019 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Andrew Free
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
I write to request the following materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report:
All training materials, including, but not limited to, powerpoint slides, handouts, curricula, or other written materials, associated with the trainings listed in the four bullet points referencing ICE on pages 9 and 10 of the Report: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2018%20Chief%20FOIA%20Officer%20Report.pdf
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Andrew Free
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Submitted on Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 00:06
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Address 1: MuckRock News, DEPT MR 80244
Address 2: 411A Highland Ave
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State: Massachusetts
Zip Code: 02144
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To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following
records:
I write to request the following materials referenced in the DHS Chief
Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report:
All training materials, including, but not limited to, powerpoint slides,
handouts, curricula, or other written materials, associated with the
trainings listed in the four bullet points referencing ICE on pages 9 and 10
of the Report:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2018%20Chief%20FOIA%20Officer%20Report.pdf
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and
this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me
of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the
request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if
not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look
forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days,
as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Andrew Free
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From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
July 14, 2020 Andrew Free MuckRock News MuckRock News, DEPT MR 80244 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE: ICE FOIA Case Number 2020-ICFO-63596 Dear Mr. Free: This acknowledges receipt of your June 25, 2020, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for various training materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report (see request for details). Your request was received in this office on June 25, 2020. 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 2020-ICFO-63596. 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 2020-ICFO-63596 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
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
September 29, 2021 Andrew Free MuckRock News MuckRock News, DEPT MR 80244 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE: ICE FOIA Case Number 2020-ICFO-63596 Dear Mr. Free: This acknowledges receipt of your September 12, 2019, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for various training materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report (see request for details). Your request was received in this office on September 12, 2019. ICE FOIA has corrected the received date in regards to this case. 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. 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 2020-ICFO-63596. 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 2020-ICFO-63596 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, Marcus Francis, 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
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Dear Andrew Free,
The password to open the responsive records delivered in a separate email for 2020-ICFO-63596 is listed below. If you do not receive the email containing the responsive documents within a reasonable timeframe please contact our office at foia-obim@hq.dhs.gov. (mailto:foia-obim@hq.dhs.gov)
Document Password: F387myLt
Sincerely, OBIM FOIA Branch
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mr. Free,
ICE's final response to your FOIA request, 2020-ICFO-63596, for various training materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report (see request for details) is attached.
Please note that the attachment may be password protected. If you are prompted to enter a password when opening the attachment and you did not receive a password it may be in your junk/spam folder.
Sincerely,
ICE FOIA
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2020-ICFO-63596
From: Andrew Free
I hereby appeal the adequacy of the agency’s search and the agency’s withholdings. ICE’s FOIA officers, for example, and Deputy officers, are not entitled to b7c or b6 privacy protections due to their role as declarants and high-ranking government officials within the FOIA office.
“Non-responsive designations” allowing ICE to withhold portions of responsive documents are not found anywhere in the Act, and this, the wholesale withholdings on responsiveness grounds are not legal.
On the event the agency claims they are, its search is inadequate because there are no trainings contained in the materials produced for when to apply them.
Finally, it is abundantly clear that ICE and DHS use government contractors for all or part of their FOIA mission, in addition to FTEs. Yet there’s nothing in the agency’s response even referencing the roles these contractors play.
Because the agency is actively violating the Promptly Available requirement of the FOIA I respectfully request remedial action during the appeal process. This request was apparently not processed on a First-In-First-Out basis. Please decide this appeal within the twenty working days afforded by law.
Many thanks,
Andrew Free, #DetentionKills Transparency Initiative, Al Otro Lado
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
**Please Do Not Respond Directly -This email has been sent on behalf of ice-foia@dhs.gov**
We have received your Freedom of Information Act request for appealing the adequacy of the agency's search and the agency's withholdings of various training materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report (see request for details) and have assigned it tracking number 2022-ICAP-00408. Please refer to the attached Acknowledgement Letter for more information.
ICE FOIA.
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mr. Free,
ICE's final response to your FOIA request, 2022-ICAP-00408, for appealing the adequacy of the agency's search and the agency's withholdings of various training materials referenced in the DHS Chief Privacy Officer's 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Report (see request for details) is attached.
Please note that the attachment may be password protected. If you are prompted to enter a password when opening the attachment and you did not receive a password it may be in your junk/spam folder.
Sincerely,
ICE FOIA
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
**Please Do Not Respond Directly -This email has been sent on behalf of ice-foia@dhs.gov**
We have received your Freedom of Information Act request for Appealing adequacy of search and have assigned it tracking number 2022-ICAP-00601. Please refer to the attached Acknowledgement Letter for more information.
ICE FOIA.
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
**Please Do Not Respond Directly -This email has been sent on behalf of ice-foia@dhs.gov**
We have received your Freedom of Information Act request for Appealing adequacy of search and have assigned it tracking number 2022-ICAP-00601. Please refer to the attached Acknowledgement Letter for more information.
ICE FOIA.
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mr. Free,
ICE's final response to your FOIA request, 2022-ICAP-00601, for Appealing adequacy of search is attached.
Please note that the attachment may be password protected. If you are prompted to enter a password when opening the attachment and you did not receive a password it may be in your junk/spam folder.
Sincerely,
ICE FOIA
From: Andrew Free
Please identify the court you allege has sanctioned ICE’s current processing scheme. You drop a footnote but provide no case.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 12, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2022-ICAP-00601.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Good day,
FOIA request 2022-ICAP-00601 was completed and closed on 5/24/2022.
Thank you,
ICE-FOIA
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~WRD0001
From: Andrew Free
Where are the records?
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