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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Safeguarding civil rights and civil liberties is elemental to all the work we do at DHS.

  • Close Memo for Onsite Investigation at Eloy Detention Center, Eloy, Arizona

    CRCL conducted an investigation into two deaths and two suicides of individuals in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at the Eloy Detention Center (EDC) located in Eloy, Arizona. CRCL's review of EDC focused in large part on medical care, mental health care, and suicide prevention and intervention, as well as other conditions of detention issues raised in the complaints.

  • Title VI at DHS

    The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) oversees enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. CRCL coordinates a federally assisted compliance program, and provides guidance and technical assistance to Department recipients to help organizations understand their obligations under Title VI and related civil rights authorities.

  • Multilingual Resources in Korean

    Multilingual Resources in Korean 

  • LEP Guidance for Recipients of DHS Financial Assistance

    DHS offers guidance to its recipients of federal financial assistance on their obligations to provide meaningful access to Limited English Proficiency (LEP) persons, as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Department's implementing regulations.

  • Best Practices for Protecting Privacy, Civil Rights & Civil Liberties in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Programs

    The development of a new technology, significant improvement of a current technology, or the new application of an existing technology often results in concerns about the impact on individual privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.  The integration of government and commercial unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System by 2015, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, has prompted questions about how this might impact individual rights.  In this regard, CRCL, Privacy, and CBP jointly established the DHS Unmanned Aircraft Systems Privacy, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Working Group in September 2012 to “provide leadership to the homeland security enterprise by clarifying the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties legal and policy issues surrounding government use of [Unmanned Aircraft Systems].”  The Working Group drafted the best practices.  

  • Multilingual Resources in Arabic

    Multilingual Resources in Arabic 

  • Multilingual Resources in Chinese

    Multilingual Resources in Chinese

  • Multilingual Resources in French

    Multilingual Resources in French

  • Multilingual Resources in Haitian Creole

    Multilingual Resources in Haitian Creole 

  • Multilingual Resources in Portuguese

    Multilingual Resources in Portuguese