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1. Welcome, Acknowledgment & Gratitude Non-Governmental Resources Gathering Deaths in CBP Custody
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This spreadsheet is a small contribution to years of work by people bearing witness to fatal state violence and enforced disappearances at the hands of the United States border regime. The information, analysis, and data in this document would not be possible without the labor and dedication of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Southern Border Communities Coalition. If you're reading, and you haven't thanked or taken an action to support these organizations lately, consider pausing and visiting one or more of their websites (especially SBCC - which has comparatively less institutional funding support) to see about how you might be able to pay it forward!AILA CBP Deaths in Custody List: https://www.aila.org/library/deaths-in-cbp-custody#2021ACLU-TX Fatal CBP Encounters List: https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/cbp_fatal_encounters_use_of_force_-_07012023_1.pdf SBCC Fatal Encounters with CBP List: https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol
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The FOIA Request
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Muckrock RequestCBP 2/8/2024 Request
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Resources on the Death in Custody Reporting Act
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I would also like to acknowledge and express deep gratitude for the work of the Project on Government Oversight and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, whose 2022 report on the Death in Custody Reporting Act and subsequent webinar opened my eyes to new means of corroborating the harms the state inflicts on bordered, chased, policed, and caged humans. If you have not read their report, I highly encourage you to make time to do so. LCEF - POGO - A Matter of Life & Death: The Importance of the Death In Custody Reporting Act (Feb. 2023) https://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/reports/DCRA-Report-2023.pdf LCCHR - New Report Highlights the Urgent Need to Implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act: https://civilrights.org/blog/new-report-highlights-the-urgent-need-to-implement-the-death-in-custody-reporting-act/POGO: The Justice Department Must Improve Death in Custody Data: https://www.pogo.org/testimonies/justice-department-must-improve-death-in-custody-data (Sept. 20, 2022)
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Learn more about the Death in Custody Reporting Act DCRA
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Government Reports on CBP In-Custody Deaths
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Resources on CBP Deaths in Custody FY2021 CBP In-Custody DeathsDHS-OIG - ICE and CBP Deaths in Custody FY21
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CBP Deaths by Fiscal Year August 21, 2023 CBP Death ProcedureGAO 2022 - CBP Should Improve Data Collection for Missing Migrant Program
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November 2018 CBP Death ProcedureNovember 2022 GAO Report CBP Missing Migrant Program
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May 2021 CBP Death ProcedureGAO July 2020 - CBP Needs to Improve to Improve Funds, Medical Care, and Reporting of Deaths
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Government Reports on Death in Custody Reporting Act Noncompliance
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If you're absobing the data and wondering about CBP's obligations under federal law to report deaths in custody, what constitutes an "in-custody" death, and how well the federal government does at holding law enforcement agencies accountable for compliance, there are a number of resources availableGovernment Accountability Office - Deaths in Custody: Additional Action Needed to Help Ensure Data Collected by DOJ Are Utilized, GAO-22-106033 (Sept. 20, 2022) https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106033Congressional Research Service, Death in Custody Reporting Act: Background & Legislative Considerations (May 17, 2023) https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47559/2Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing: Uncounted Deaths in America's Prisons and Jails: How the Department of Justice Failed to Implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act (Sept. 20, 2022) https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/uncounted-deaths-in-americas-prisons-and-jails-how-the-department-of-justice-failed-to-implement-the-death-in-custody-reporting-act/
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Senate PSI Majority & Minority Staff Report (Sept 2022)
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UCLA Covid Behind Bars Database
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Media Reports on Death in Custody Reporting Act Violations
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If you're writing about or advocating around, or just trying to get a better understanding of deaths in CBP custody, here's a series of articles and other coverage of the years
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/24/a-moral-disgrace-how-the-u-s-stopped-counting-deaths-behind-bars
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