HR4078-119

What This Bill Does

This bill, the "Stop Unlawful Detention and End Mistreatment Act of 2025," forces the Department of Homeland Security to create a public online database showing detailed information about everyone held in immigration detention by ICE. The database must reveal where people are detained, how long they've been held, and why, with special focus on unusual detention locations like military bases, tribal lands, or facilities outside the continental United States. The bill also protects two oversight offices within DHS that monitor detention conditions and civil rights.

Who Benefits and How

Immigration advocacy organizations and legal aid groups gain powerful new tools to track and assist detainees, as they'll have access to comprehensive detention data updated daily. Detainees and their families benefit from transparency about detention status, location, and conditions. Journalists and researchers studying immigration enforcement gain unfettered access to detention data that was previously difficult or impossible to obtain. Government IT contractors will benefit financially from contracts to build and maintain the database system.

Who Bears the Burden and How

ICE faces major new compliance burdens, requiring daily updates to a complex public database tracking individual detainees, demographic statistics, disciplinary actions, and detailed facility information. Private detention facility operators must provide extensive information about their operations, including costs, standards of care, medical services, and any unresolved safety recommendations from government watchdogs. The Department of Defense may face additional reporting requirements if its facilities are used for immigration detention. These new transparency requirements will increase operational costs and administrative workload for detention agencies and contractors.

Key Provisions

• Creates a mandatory public database with individual detainee information including legal authority for detention, duration, location, transfer history, and removal order status
• Requires demographic breakdowns of the detained population including nationality, age, and immigration status
• Demands daily updates to the database with annual archiving of historical data
• Mandates extensive reporting for "non-traditional" detention locations (DOD property, Indian lands, overseas facilities) including justifications, costs, agreements, bed counts, and compliance measures
• Protects privacy by excluding personally identifiable information from the public database
• Prevents the Secretary of Homeland Security from shutting down or reducing the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties