The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 14, 2026. We recorded 1 event from October 13, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 15 more from earlier dates — 191 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2484. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

ICE withheld released detainees' IDs, work permits and belongings for months, seven plaintiffs alleged in a class-action suit

Event: October 13, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Denial of hearing, Denial of due process in immigration enforcement

On October 13, 2026, seven people formerly held in immigration detention filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleging that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a de facto policy of not returning property it seizes from people it detains and later releases. Each plaintiff says ICE has kept items such as passports, Social Security cards, employment authorization documents, phones and a wedding band for at least five months after release, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and ICE's own written directives.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement#5ac0f506

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/10/13/federal-denial-of-hearing-ed4f067e/ Primary source: Class Action Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, Gonzalez v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, No. 1:26-cv-03564 (ECF No. 1, filed 10/13/26)

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 29, 2018 — Humboldt County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged Patience Rousseau with manslaughter under a 1911 law after her stillbirth
• October 17, 2019 — Trump awarded the 2020 G-7 summit to his own Trump National Doral resort near Miami
• September 19, 2025 — ICE agent on the Broadview facility roof shot projectiles at the Rev. Abby Holcombe as she prayed for agents near the gate, her declaration says
• September 26, 2025 — ICE agents at Broadview tear-gassed and fired on Rev. Beth Johnson and singer Joselyn Walsh as they sang hymns, shooting through Walsh's guitar
• September 27, 2025 — CBP agent tackled and arrested journalist Stephen Held as he filmed outside the Broadview ICE facility; he was released without charges
• October 21, 2025 — University of Washington report revealed Border Patrol searched plate-reader data from 18 Washington police agencies, ten without authorization
• October 22, 2025 — DOJ bound the University of Virginia to its anti-DEI guidance through 2028 in exchange for pausing probes and keeping federal grants
• October 23, 2025 — AG Pam Bondi announced on Fox News that DOJ would investigate Rep. Nancy Pelosi and SF DA Brooke Jenkins over talk of arresting federal agents
• October 23, 2025 — Deputy AG Todd Blanche threatened to prosecute Newsom, Pelosi, Bonta and SF DA Jenkins over talk of arresting federal agents who break state law
• October 24, 2025 — Border Patrol agents tear-gassed a Lakeview residential street in Chicago after neighbors protested a construction worker's arrest
• October 25, 2025 — Border Patrol agent tackled ICE watcher Maria Bryan and her bicycle to the ground in Chicago's Old Irving Park, fracturing seven of her ribs
• January 30, 2026 — Justice Department obtained cell-site simulator warrants to locate Don Lemon's producer after Cities Church protest coverage
• March 12, 2026 — Smithfield, Va., police gave Flock license-plate data to the FBI without the court order or subpoena state law requires
• June 16, 2026 — Charlotte officer ran Flock and CJLEADS search on undercover detective's plate for friend under drug investigation
• October 7, 2026 — FEMA denied Illinois a major disaster declaration for summer storms after approving Indiana's for the same Aug. 11 storm system

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