[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR236.6]

[Page 442]
 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 236_APPREHENSION AND DETENTION OF INADMISSIBLE AND DEPORTABLE 
 
         Subpart A_Detention of Aliens Prior to Order of Removal
 
Sec.  236.6  Information regarding detainees.

    No person, including any state or local government entity or any 
privately operated detention facility, that houses, maintains, provides 
services to, or otherwise holds any detainee on behalf of the Service 
(whether by contract or otherwise), and no other person who by virtue of 
any official or contractual relationship with such person obtains 
information relating to any detainee, shall disclose or otherwise permit 
to be made public the name of, or other information relating to, such 
detainee. Such information shall be under the control of the Service and 
shall be subject to public disclosure only pursuant to the provisions of 
applicable federal laws, regulations and executive orders. Insofar as 
any documents or other records contain such information, such documents 
shall not be public records. This section applies to all persons and 
information identified or described in it, regardless of when such 
persons obtained such information, and applies to all requests for 
public disclosure of such information, including requests that are the 
subject of proceedings pending as of April 17, 2002.

[67 FR 19511, Apr. 22, 2002]