Judge rules Trump admin must turn over video footage and other requested discovery from controversial ICE facility [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Jan 23rd, 2026, 3:39 pm
The Trump administration must turn over documents and video footage from an Illinois detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal judge ruled this week.
The underlying litigation was filed on Oct. 30, 2025, premised on alleged violations of the Fifth Amendment due to confinement conditions at the ICE facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.
The lawsuit also alleges First Amendment violations over access to counsel, as well as various alleged violations of due process, internal ICE rules, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the federal statute that governs the behavior of administrative agencies.
On Thursday afternoon, in a bench ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally granted several discovery motions filed by the plaintiffs seeking to pull the curtain back on the controversial lockup facility.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-are-missing-a-lot-of-evidence-judge-rules-trump-admin-must-turn-over-video-footage-and-other-requested-discovery-from-controversial-ice-facility/
Full headline: 'We are missing a lot of evidence': Judge rules Trump admin must turn over video footage and other requested discovery from controversial ICE facility
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.489018/gov.uscourts.ilnd.489018.151.0.pdf
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