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FOIA Production | Torrance County Detention Facility

The Innovation Law Lab receives thousands of pages of documents from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). regarding the operation, conditions and inspections of the Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF).

Ian Philabaum
Written by

Director of Legal Organizing,
Innovation Law Lab

August 10, 2023

MEDIA CONTACT INFORMATION

Isa Peña, Director of Strategy
isa@innovationlawlab.org
(971) 238-1804

 

ESTANCIA, NM – In May, 2022, Innovation Law Lab, represented by the ACLU of New Mexico (ACLU NM), submitted a request for information under the federal Freedom of Information Act and New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act regarding the operation, conditions and inspections of the Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF). You can find more about those requests as well as links to copies of each here.

In response to those requests, we have received thousands of pages of documents and are working with ACLU NM to organize the documents produced by ICE and the Torrance County Attorney’s Office thus far and share a summary.

While we work to make this information more accessible to the general public, we are making the documents we have received thus far available for review at the bottom of our Innovation Law Lab v. ICE case page, here.