Long v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2022)

Plaintiffs Susan B. Long and TRAC Reports, Inc., filed this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to compel Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to produce records comprehensively identifying and describing the tables, fields, and codes in the Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) and ICE Integrated Decision Support database (IIDS). The responsive information is the same information that the Court ordered ICE to produce in Long v. ICE, No. 14-109 (D.D.C.), but current as of the date of ICE’s search. ICE failed to produce a complete set of the requested information, and Plaintiffs challenged the adequacy of ICE’s efforts to extract the requested records from the EID and IIDS.

Both parties have moved for summary judgment. Plaintiffs argue that ICE did not conduct an adequate search for the data dictionaries because it failed to query the EID and IIDS to extract the requested data, instead confining its search to an incomplete data repository called Matrix. Plaintiffs further argue that ICE’s search for code lookup tables was inadequate because it was based on the incomplete data dictionaries pulled from Matrix.