The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the National Immigration Litigation Alliance have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania seeking the production of records regarding allegations of sexual abuse, assault, and harassment at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County.
The Moshannon facility has been subject to a number of allegations of abuse and an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties since opening as an immigration detention center in 2021, operated by the private prison corporation GEO Group. Moshannon Valley is the largest ICE detention center in the Northeast.
ICE’s failure to release these records is a violation of the Freedom of Information Act. This lawsuit asks the United States District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania to compel ICE to release these records.
