The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 2, 2026. We recorded 1 event from October 1, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 19 more from earlier dates — 33 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2327. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

DOJ Civil Rights Division found UCLA School of Law discriminated based on race in admissions

Event: October 1, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Narrowing civil-rights protections

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced on October 1, 2026 that the UCLA School of Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants in admitting its 2023, 2024 and 2025 incoming classes, in violation of Title VI and the Supreme Court's 2023 SFFA v. Harvard ruling. The department said it would seek a negotiated settlement and file suit if those efforts failed, while UCLA Law said it was "confident in our process."

People & Organizations: - U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division#fb13efc0 - Harmeet Dhillon#1ec047b0 (Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division)

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/10/01/federal-narrowing-civil-rights-protections-68ffc587/ Primary source: Justice Department Finds UCLA Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we've archived over the past day. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• December 1, 2023 — Arizona State Prison–Marana officials verified PREA audit finding of no sex-abuse allegations despite documented staff case
• June 12, 2025 — Justice Department required domestic-violence grant applicants to certify compliance with immigration, DEI and gender-ideology restrictions
• July 11, 2025 — Attorney General Bondi fired DOJ ethics chief Joseph Tirrell without stated cause, citing only Article II power
• August 15, 2025 — ICE bought 25 SUVs for about $1.47 million from a Hendrick company without competitive bidding, citing urgency
• September 25, 2025 — BOP Director William Marshall terminated the prison workers' union contract, calling the union an "obstacle to progress"
• September 30, 2025 — Border Patrol-led federal agents stormed Chicago's South Shore apartment complex by helicopter, zip-tying citizens and arresting 37 immigrants
• November 4, 2025 — Rep. Brandon Gill introduced a resolution to impeach Chief Judge James Boasberg over nondisclosure orders he approved in the Arctic Frost probe
• November 14, 2025 — DOJ filing showed 598 of 614 Chicago-area Midway Blitz arrestees had no criminal record, contradicting DHS's 'worst of the worst' claims
• December 1, 2025 — Los Angeles Public Library canceled a Read Palestine Week author talk, citing a Palestinian author's social media posts
• March 14, 2026 — ICE deported asylum seeker E.L.A. to El Salvador with his asylum claim pending, after USCIS left him off J.O.P. class lists, class counsel says
• June 3, 2026 — DOJ obtained a sealed court order forcing LinkedIn to disclose data on a journalist's interactions in a leak probe and barring notice to users
• August 28, 2026 — Pentagon used emergency approval to strip the 'never lived in the U.S.' option from overseas absentee voting forms before the midterms
• September 6, 2026 — CBP detained an Upstate Medical researcher with a pending asylum case after a GPS wrong turn at the Lewiston Bridge and handed him to ICE
• September 15, 2026 — Ocean County election board mailed residency challenges to Bay Head voters on a GOP official's list that the ACLU says omitted Republicans
• September 23, 2026 — IMPD officer Jonathan Schultz ran 1,396 Flock searches with no law-enforcement purpose, tracking 11 people and stalking women, charges allege
• September 23, 2026 — Former Indianapolis officer Abigail Cramer ran 452 unauthorized Flock searches on her wife's ex-wife and associates, charges allege
• September 24, 2026 — Hancock County, Ind. deputy James Heneghan ran unauthorized Flock searches on his wife and ex-girlfriends, state police said
• September 28, 2026 — ICE pulled 33 internal reviews of detainee deaths, most finding substandard medical care, from its public records library days after posting them
• September 30, 2026 — Trump White House dropped CNN from its scheduled TV pool slot for Trump's Texas and Oklahoma trip after a court restored its access

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