In February, without any public announcement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed from its website the vast majority of investigative records by the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), an internal watchdog. Most of those records include recommendations “aimed at addressing any civil rights or civil liberties concerns” identified by CRCL’s investigations, according to the online repository where those records could previously be found. Those probes “involve a range of alleged abuses, including violation of rights while in immigration detention.” The records stretch from October 2014 through December 2024, spanning the Obama, Biden, and first Trump administrations.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) saved the web addresses for many of these records, which were backed up by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and has recreated CRCL’s repository below with over 160 CRCL memos and other related documents.