Sponsors (48)
Official title: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and maintain an online detainee locator system, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by Rashida Tlaib · Last progress June 18, 2026
The bill increases transparency, family access, and oversight of CBP and immigration detention—but those benefits come with heightened privacy and operational security risks, added administrative costs, and potential disruptions to contractors and staff.
Immigrants, their families, and legal representatives can more quickly locate detained individuals and obtain identity, custody status, and facility contact information within hours, improving reunification and legal access.
The public and Congress gain stronger transparency into detainee movements and CBP arrests (transfer logs, transit details, arrest location/date/method) and regular 90‑day reporting, improving oversight and public accountability.
The bill creates enforceable accountability for contractors and facilities (e.g., restrictions on contract renewals for noncompliance) and requires detailed reporting, which can improve contractor compliance and program accountability.
Publishing detainee personal details (identity, birthplace, facility address), medical status, and retaining records for days after release increases privacy and safety risks for detainees and their families, creating potential for misuse or targeted harm.
Making transfer routes, transit details, operation locations, staffing counts, and contract information public could expose law enforcement tactics and sensitive operational details, posing national security and operational risks.
The requirements for rapid notifications, frequent public reports, and a responsive correction system will increase administrative workload and recurring costs for CBP/DHS and receiving facilities, potentially diverting resources from frontline operations.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to run a multilingual public detainee locator, rapid family notification for medical transfers, error-reporting with one-week fixes, and regular CBP operations reports to Congress.
Creates a publicly accessible, multilingual online locator for people in CBP and ICE custody and requires prompt family and legal-representative notification when detainees are moved for medical care. It sets timelines for data publication and error correction, retention rules, personnel and contractor consequences for noncompliance, and repeated reporting to congressional homeland security committees about CBP enforcement operations. The bill aims to increase transparency about detention locations, transfers, and CBP operations by mandating specific data elements, search features, multilingual access, timelines for acknowledgements and corrections, and periodic operational reports to Congress.