Federal Reports

During our unannounced inspection of Eloy Federal Contract Facility (Eloy) in Eloy, Arizona, we found facility and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) staff complied with ICE’s Performance-Based National Detention Standards 2011, revised December 2016, for admission, classification, kitchen conditions, timely request responses, the voluntary work program, and medical care.   Facility and ICE staff did not fully comply with standards for use of force, staff-detainee communications, access to legal materials, segregation, grievances, personal hygiene, and recreation.  We found: • Facility staff did not preserve closed-circuit television footage  for four of five use of force incidents we reviewed and did not  fully record staff member introductions for one calculated use  of force incident. • Facility and ICE staff did not always respond to detainee  requests in a language they could understand. • The facility did not install word processing or legal research  software on all computers in the law library, and computers  were not accessible to wheelchair users.  • ICE did not always provide detainees with their segregation  orders in a language they could understand or provide access to meaningful physical exercise in an appropriately equipped  area. • Facility staff did not always place a copy of grievances in  detainee files or reply to detainee grievances within the  required timeframe. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) met requirements of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.  However, CISA has not finalized its plans for the continued use of Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS).  Without finalizing this plan, CISA could be hindered in how it shares information on cyber threats, which would reduce its ability to protect the Nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats.