{"id":82205,"date":"2026-05-22T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/82205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:07:10","slug":"nyc-audit-finds-daily-correction-department-reports-to-ice-dating-to-2015-mamdani-moves-to-end-practice-adopt-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/82205\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC audit finds daily Correction Department reports to ICE dating to 2015; Mamdani moves to end practice, adopt reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City\u2019s Department of Correction<\/a> had been sending daily reports to federal immigration authorities about the national origin of certain noncitizens in custody since at least 2015, a practice Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s administration<\/a> says it uncovered through a sanctuary-policy audit and is moving to end as part of a broader package of reforms.<\/p>\n

The finding is among the most notable disclosures in a 19-page report ordered by Mamdani shortly after he took office and signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the city\u2019s limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement<\/a>.
The audit recommended that DOC discontinue the daily reports to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the practice was not required by federal, state or local law.<\/p>\n

Administration officials said the reporting practice became clear during the audit, served \u201cno apparent city purpose\u201d and had been happening \u201csince at least 2015.\u201d Asked whether the practice had officially stopped, officials said the decision had been made to discontinue it, but did not give a precise date.<\/p>\n

The audit presents an early test of Mamdani\u2019s promise to strengthen sanctuary protections while forcing his administration to address practices and reporting gaps that date back before he took office.<\/p>\n

Mamdani signed the executive order on Feb. 6, his 37th day in office, saying it would reaffirm the city\u2019s commitment to being a sanctuary for all New Yorkers. The order directed agencies to audit their interactions with federal immigration authorities, created an interagency response committee and reiterated that federal authorities may not enter city property without a judicial warrant.<\/p>\n

Audit: Feds, under Trump\u2019s second term, pushed NYC for immigration crackdown help
\n\"ICEICE inside 26 Federal Plaza.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

The audit, released Friday, found that city agencies had seen increased interactions with federal immigration authorities since January 2025, amid a more aggressive federal immigration enforcement posture under President Donald Trump<\/a>.
It described incidents at shelters, requests for information from multiple federal agencies and a sharp rise in civil immigration detainer requests to DOC and the NYPD.<\/p>\n

The report said DOC received 895 civil immigration detainer requests in 2025, an increase of more than 120% from the previous year.\n<\/p>\n

The agency responded to 24 of those requests by notifying federal authorities of a person\u2019s release and facilitating transfer to ICE custody, where city law allowed, though the report said DOC did not detain anyone beyond the term of their sentence.<\/p>\n

NYPD<\/a> received 3,672 detainer requests in fiscal year 2025, up from 99 the previous year, but did not transfer anyone in response, according to the report.\n<\/p>\n

The report also detailed several incidents involving federal officers at city shelters in 2025. In one February incident, seven Homeland Security Investigations officers carrying guns and wearing face masks entered a shelter to detain a client, pushing past a shelter staff member who was trying to send a picture of a warrant to agency counsel for review.<\/p>\n

In other incidents, officers from ICE, HSI, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service visited shelters seeking clients, conducting \u201cwellness checks\u201d or requesting information.\n<\/p>\n

In one June 2025 incident, Homeland Security personnel used deceptive tactics by initially identifying themselves as FDNY officers before acknowledging who they actually were, according to the audit.<\/p>\n

Mamdani administration officials said that shelter activity was more dramatic in 2025 and had decreased, though it had not completely stopped. They also said the audit showed that city workers often followed existing protocols, including turning federal officers away or denying access when proper legal authorization was not presented.<\/p>\n

But the report also found gaps in the city\u2019s public reporting system. Some shelter incidents were not included in prior public reports by the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs and surfaced only later through the audit process, according to the report.
The administration now plans to broaden reporting requirements so agencies document more interactions with federal immigration authorities, including subpoenas, warrants, non-voluntary requests and encounters that only later appear connected to civil immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Changes to how NYC responds to federal immigration requests<\/p>\n

Officials said Mamdani has adopted the report\u2019s recommendations and directed agencies to implement them.\n<\/p>\n

The changes include new citywide guidance on access to city property and lots, revised agency policies, more training for public-facing workers and contractors, and new procedures for tracking and reporting requests from federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

The NYPD will adopt a new protocol requiring 911 calls involving immigration authorities, or immigration matters, to be escalated to NYPD Operations, department leadership, and the Legal Bureau. A patrol executive will also be sent to the scene, and the department will track those requests, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Health + Hospitals, which voluntarily participated in the audit, will develop guidance for situations in which ICE brings someone to a city health facility for medical care. Officials said the administration had already been reviewing how to protect patient rights and privacy in such situations.<\/p>\n

The audit was also informed by prior Department of Investigation (DOI) findings that found violations by DOC and NYPD personnel. In one case, DOI found that a DOC investigator improperly helped HSI and ICE track a detainee\u2019s release, leading to that person\u2019s arrest after release from Rikers Island. In another, the DOI found that an NYPD officer violated local law and department policy by honoring a request from HSI.<\/p>\n

Officials pushed back against the idea that those incidents showed a broad systemic failure, saying the full NYPD task force audit had not yet been completed and was expected by the end of June 2026.<\/p>\n

The report also raises concerns about technology vendors and data-sharing risks, noting that federal immigration enforcement has increasingly relied on data from government agencies, contractors and data brokers.<\/p>\n

Officials said the city reviewed specific technology vendors and systems and found no inappropriate information flow to immigration enforcement in the contracts examined.\n<\/p>\n

But they described the review as limited and said the city will now require additional reporting on technology vendors through its privacy-reporting process.\n<\/p>\n

Asked whether any surveillance-related vendor contracts had been terminated as a result of the audit, officials said no contracts had been terminated yet, but that such action could be possible in the future.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s next steps include publishing revised reports, updating agency protocols, training public-facing city workers and contractors, and publicly posting policies on how agencies should respond to non-local law enforcement seeking access to city property.<\/p>\n

The committee will now review quarterly reports to determine whether the new protocols are changing how agencies respond when federal immigration authorities seek access, information or assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Department of Correction had been sending daily reports to federal immigration authorities about the national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[148],"tags":[5647,492,559,553],"class_list":["post-82205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zohran-mamdani","tag-doc","tag-ice","tag-mamdani","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116618386148480485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}