ICE Ordered to Explain Negative FOIA Phone Probe to ACLU Chapter

May 9, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

Immigration and Customs Enforcement must submit more evidence that it made a good faith effort to respond to a local ACLU chapter’s Freedom of Information Act request for information concerning the filing of criminal charges against a Massachusetts judge.

The ACLU’s Massachusetts chapter filed a FOIA request for data relating to the 2019 indictments of state Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and court officer Wesley MacGregor for helping a defendant evade ICE custody. Denying cross motions for summary judgment, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts had asked ICE to demonstrate it made a good faith effort to ...

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