Lawsuits
CREW sues Secret Service for Oath Keeper communications
The Secret Service is wrongfully withholding records of its communications with the Oath Keepers ahead of January 6.
Lawsuits
CREW and partners sue ICE to make immigration bond procedures publicly available
ICE must publish on its website guidelines explaining how the agency processes bonds for the release of individuals in detention.
Lawsuits
CREW sues ICE for private detention facility records
Rather than being eliminated with private prisons, privately owned immigration detention has expanded and continued to profit under the Biden administration.
Lawsuits
CREW sues over missing Jan. 6 texts
Several government agencies apparently violated the Federal Records Act after failing to preserve now missing text messages from January 2021.
Lawsuits
CREW sues Secret Service for records on deleted insurrection text messages
Secret Service texts from the insurrection and day before were deleted, raising concerns about a politicized cover-up scheme.
Lawsuits
CREW sues the DOJ on its failure to expedite Election Threats Task Force requests
Election workers deserve to know what DOJ’s Election Threats Task force is doing to address ongoing threats of violence to election workers.
Legal Complaints
DOJ must widen its investigation into missing January 6th texts
Key January 6th texts from the Secret Service and top DHS and DOD officials were erased and DOJ needs to investigate.
Legal Complaints
Secret Service likely broke the law by deleting texts
The United States Secret Service appears to have violated federal criminal law by destroying text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021.
Testimony
GAO should consider public financial registries to stem global corruption
Public financial registries are a powerful transparency tool that would allow the public to more deftly hold the corrupt rich accountable.
Testimony
CREW testimony to House on accountability for private prisons
CREW submitted testimony to a House Appropriations Subcommittee recommending Congress make private prisons subject to the same disclosure laws as their federally-run peers in the FY 2023 Appropriations Bill.
Lawsuits
CREW and ACLU of Florida sue ICE and NARA
Glades County Detention Center is unlawfully deleting surveillance video, in violation of federal law.
Lawsuits
CREW sues NARA for records on records disposal plans
Any records destruction by the Trump administration and anything NARA did to combat or enable that should be made public.