"Attorneys with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area verbally notified Judge Casey Pitts on Tuesday alleging that ICE officials have simply moved detainees from the sixth floor of 630 Sansome St., the ICE headquarters in San Francisco that has multiple holding cells, down to the fifth floor as a means to elude the injunction."
"The lawsuit that prompted the preliminary injunction challenged ICE's practice of holding immigrants longer than 12 hours and detailed the conditions they are allegedly experiencing: freezing temperatures, lack of privacy and loss of access to vital medications, personal belongings, and other essentials. Pitts on Nov. 25 ordered those conditions remedied. Attorneys from the Lawyers' Committee and partnering firms, including the ACLU, contested the government's claim that it was complying with the judge's order."
Bay Area civil rights attorneys sought an emergency meeting with the federal judge in San Jose, alleging that ICE officials in San Francisco violated a November court order requiring improved conditions at downtown immigration holding cells. The attorneys contend ICE closed the sixth floor of 630 Sansome and moved detainees to the fifth floor to evade the injunction. The preliminary injunction arose from a lawsuit challenging holds longer than 12 hours and describing freezing temperatures, lack of privacy, and loss of access to medications, personal belongings, and essentials. The government denied noncompliance, and attorneys from the Lawyers' Committee and partnering firms, including the ACLU, contested that claim.
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