The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 26, 2026. We recorded 2 events from September 25, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 14 more from earlier dates — 382 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2259. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Capital B reporting revealed USDA had frozen the congressionally created Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers

Event: September 25, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Dismantling agency capacity

On September 25, 2026, Capital B News reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had put its Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers, a body Congress created in the 2008 Farm Bill, "on pause" after President Trump returned to office, leaving it dormant with no new appointments. A notice shared with members said the committee and a few others were "left on paper due to strict statutory obligations" while the administration used an "operational freeze" to withhold the logistics needed to convene, and USDA's own annual committee report confirms the committee did not meet or make recommendations in fiscal year 2025.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Department of Agriculture#42bb6fcf

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/25/federal-dismantling-agency-capacity-6bd6de98/ Primary source: 2026 Current Fiscal Year Report: Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers

NYC Board of Correction report found Rikers officers skipped rounds and left posts unstaffed before four 2026 deaths in custody

Event: September 25, 2026 Location: New York, New York (Rikers Island) Jurisdiction: New York City Abuses: Corrections abuse, Deaths in custody, Denial of custodial medical care

On September 25, 2026, the New York City Board of Correction released its investigation into the deaths of Barry Cozart, John Price, Rajpattie Ramkellawan and Umais Khan in Department of Correction custody between March and May 2026, finding that in all four cases correction staff failed to conduct required supervisory tours and welfare checks. The board documented housing units left unstaffed for extended periods, logbook entries contradicted by video, observation aides who made no suicide-prevention rounds, unenforced drug and medication rules, and a clinic wait of more than three and a half hours for a detainee in respiratory distress whose condition DOC staff never relayed to medical staff. The department said it could not respond substantively while the state attorney general or the city Department of Investigation were still investigating the deaths.

People & Organizations: - New York City Department of Correction

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/25/local-corrections-abuse-0515ed23/ Primary source: First Report and Recommendations on 2026 Deaths in New York City Department of Correction Custody

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.

• May 4, 2025 — Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE conducted six-night 'Flood the Zone' operation, racially profiling South Nashville drivers in tandem stops
• November 18, 2025 — ICE detained Marine veteran's wife at her final USCIS green-card interview in San Diego
• November 28, 2025 — White House launched official 'Hall of Shame' webpage naming journalists, disproportionately women, over critical coverage
• April 7, 2026 — Trump threatened to destroy Iran's civilian population and infrastructure ahead of a war deadline
• May 2, 2026 — ICE agents shackled the same US citizen construction worker a third time outside his Alabama home
• May 7, 2026 — University of Kentucky redacted professor's tenure-review report without explaining the redactions, violating state records law
• August 14, 2026 — CFPB ended publication of consumer complaint narratives, curbing a public accountability tool
• September 8, 2026 — University of Kentucky improperly denied records request as unreasonably burdensome, Kentucky attorney general found
• September 21, 2026 — ICE detained 31+ people in multi-day Fall River, New Bedford and Dartmouth sweep amid racial-profiling allegations
• September 22, 2026 — HHS Secretary Kennedy accepted $4 million in book advances from friend's MAHA-linked publisher; wife took $210,000 in consulting fees
• September 23, 2026 — Florida pension board and AG sued The New York Times as shareholders, demanded internal Israel-Hamas coverage records
• September 24, 2026 — DHS and ICE moved to deport a Peruvian detainee to Central African Republic in defiance of a court order barring third-country removals
• September 24, 2026 — U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division dismissed more than 50 decades-old school desegregation consent decrees nationwide
• September 24, 2026 — ICE detained immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in inhumane, unconstitutional hold-room conditions, a federal judge ruled

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