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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 and rapid family/legal access to detained immigrants and strengthens oversight and enforcement of reporting, but does so at the cost of heightened privacy and security risks, added administrative burdens, and potential operational and workforce impacts.
Families and legal representatives of detained immigrants can find a detainee's identifying and custody information (AR number, full name, DOB, custody time, facility contact) and see transfer/transit logs (for transfers >5 hours) quickly (within hours), improving reunification and access to counsel.
When a detained person is sent for medical care, families and counsel will be notified rapidly (within 5 hours) and given facility/agency contact details and medical status, enabling timely support and legal advocacy and preserving visit rights during treatment.
Members of the public (including families and oversight bodies) can report errors and request corrections via a secure public form and receive acknowledgement/resolution within one week, improving data accuracy and helping reunification and due process.
Publishing detainees' personal details (identity, DOB, citizenship/country of birth, facility addresses) and keeping records publicly for a set period increases privacy and safety risks for detainees and their families, exposing them to misuse or targeting.
Making detailed transfer/transit information and operational data (locations, participant counts, contracts, arrest specifics) publicly available could reveal sensitive operational details and routes, undermining law enforcement tactics, contractor confidentiality, and safety.
CBP/ICE and receiving facilities will face ongoing administrative burdens to compile and transmit rapid notifications, maintain online correction systems, and prepare frequent reports, increasing costs and 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 medical-transfer notifications, error-reporting/resolution, and recurring CBP enforcement operation reports to Congress.
Creates a public, multi-language online detainee locator and reporting system for people in CBP and ICE custody, requires rapid family notification and medical-transfer reporting, sets retention and error-correction timelines, and mandates personnel and contractor consequences for failures. It also requires DHS to publish CBP arrest data and deliver recurring reports to congressional homeland security committees on enforcement operations, staffing, costs, and arrests. The law focuses on transparency, timely family notification, oversight of enforcement operations, and accountability for DHS employees and contractor facilities that fail to provide accurate or timely information.