ICE announces launch of Online Detainee Locator System

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced July 23, 2010, the launch of ICE's Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS), a public, Internet-based tool. It is designed to assist family members, attorneys and other interested parties in locating detained aliens in ICE custody. ODLS is located on ICE's public website www.ice.gov and provides information on the locations of the detention facility for the ICE Enforcement and Removal Office in the region where the facility is located. A brochure, in English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Somali, explaining ODLS is also available on the website.

ODLS users will be able to locate detained aliens by either entering the individuals alien registration number (also know as "A" number) and their country of birth, or by entering the individuals first and last names, county of births and date of birth. The agency is committed to detainee privacy, therefore, responses to ODLS queries are only generated if the information entered is an exact match to the data in the system. ICE limits the availability of data within the ODLS to ensure users cannot phish the system for information. For example, ODLS will not provide additional biographical information about an individual detainee other than what the user has already entered (i.e. if a user searches by first and last name and country of birth, the system will not provide the detainee's "A" number, vice versa). The creation of ODLS is said to be a concrete example of ICE's commitment to detention reform.

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