Urge ICE to rescind its detainee-locator policy, restore ODLS location information for detainees with final removal orders who remain in ICE custody, and provide Congress its justification for the change.
Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Urge ICE to restore ODLS location information for all individuals with final removal orders who remain in ICE custody and provide Congress the justification for the policy change.. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. As a U.S. Representative from Florida's 9th District, Soto signed a congressional letter to ICE Acting Director David Venturella concerning transparency in the Online Detainee Locator System.
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“We urge ICE to restore ODLS location information for all individuals with final removal orders who remain in ICE custody and to provide Congress with the justification underlying this change. The federal government should not be denying any individual access to legal counsel or shielding their whereabouts from loved ones.”
Darren Soto joined colleagues in a letter urging ICE to restore detainee location information in ODLS for people with final removal orders who remain in custody and to justify the policy change to Congress.
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“restore ODLS location information for all individuals with final removal orders who remain in ICE custody”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official House release reports the Sept. 30, 2026 Rivas/Escobar letter urging ICE to restore ODLS information and provide Congress justification; it records concrete oversight effort but not ICE compliance.
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“Darren Soto (FL-09)”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official release lists Darren Soto among the members who signed the ODLS transparency letter, tying the oversight action to the candidate.
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“The change, which ICE did not announce and has not explained, applies to more than 16,000”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): AP reported after the congressional letter that ICE’s ODLS change remained unexplained and affected more than 16,000 detainees, so rescission/restoration had not been shown as delivered.
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“ICE removed those detainees from its online detainee locator system on Sept. 15”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): AP’s initial report, republished by The Washington Post, documents the policy change that the letter sought to reverse.
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“identifying whether a detainee is in ICE custody and the custodial location”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo Federal Register notice describes ODLS disclosure as including custody status and custodial location, the kind of location information the later letter sought to restore.
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2024-14768.pdf
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%
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“Use this page to locate a detainee who is currently in ICE custody”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): ICE’s ODLS page still describes the locator as a public tool for locating current detainees, but this does not establish that the challenged final-removal-order exclusion was rescinded.
We urge ICE to rescind this policy immediately and restore ODLS location information for all individuals with final orders of removal who remain in ICE custody.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The official congressional letter makes the precise demand to rescind the ODLS policy and restore location information, documenting concrete oversight effort but not ICE compliance.
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Darren Soto
Member of Congress
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official PDF signature block identifies Darren Soto as a signer of the ODLS letter, tying the oversight effort to the candidate.
As part of our Congressional oversight responsibilities, we request a response to the following information by October 14, 2026:
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The letter set an October 14, 2026 response deadline, which had not expired as of the October 12, 2026 assessment date, so the oversight request remained unresolved.
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The change, which ICE did not announce and has not explained, applies to more than 16,000 of the nearly 69,000 detainees who are in ICE custody.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): AP reported after the letter that ICE’s change remained unexplained and affected more than 16,000 detainees, with no documented rescission or restoration.
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After being unable to determine Petitioner’s location using ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System, the Court contacted Respondents’ counsel for assistance.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): A federal court order filed October 9, 2026 described continued inability to determine a detainee’s location through ODLS on October 6, indicating the location problem persisted after the letter.
Public state: deliveredAs of 2026-10-12 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): delivered.same_termA for effort
The verified commitment was an action promise to urge ICE to rescind the ODLS policy, restore location information, and provide Congress justification. Verified evidence shows the congressional letter did urge ICE to rescind the policy and restore ODLS location information, and it requested a congressional response by October 14, 2026. Because the promised action was the oversight request itself, not ICE compliance, this is delivered in the same term. ICE's response deadline had not yet expired as of October 12, 2026, so the evidence does not prove the underlying agency outcome, only the promised urging action.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%