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Migrant Protection Protocols Officially Ends
In a memo from June 1, 2021, the Biden administration officially ended the Migrant Protection Protocols (aka “Remain in Mexico”) by memo Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) a data gathering, data research…
‘What’s Behind Trump’s Project to Defund ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions?”
Austin Kocher, Whitman Faculty Fellow in the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), wrote an op-ed for The Hill titled “What’s behind Trump’s project to defund ‘anarchist jurisdictions?’” Kocher’s research interests include the political and legal geographies of policing and immigration….
TRAC Provides Data for Government Research
Research conducted by The Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TRAC) was cited in the CBS News story “Former U.S. Treasury chief Lawrence Summers to IRS: Audit the rich.” TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University…
TRAC Data Cited in Asylum Story
Research from The Transactional Records Clearinghouse was recently used by several media outlets to discuss immigration and asylum cases within the United States. It was specifically used in a Los Angeles Times article entitled “How likely are asylum-seekers from Central…
TRAC Research Shows Federal Senior Judges Carry a Growing Workload
Nearly a quarter of all civil and criminal cases closed in the nation’s federal district courts last year were handled by senior judges who had retired but decided to keep on working, according to a new study by the Transactional…
TRAC Shines Light on Worst FOIL Offenders
Help the FOIA Project identify the worst violations of the Freedom of Information Act by casting your vote for a case of withholding worthy of this dishonor. In honor of Sunshine Week, the FOIA Project invited six prominent experts—Charlie Savage…
TRAC Co-Founder’s Groundbreaking Investigative Books Now Available Digitally
More than three decades ago, Random House published “The Rise of the Computer State,” David Burnham’s prescient book that predicted how computers would soon dominate politics, economics, law enforcement and the basic thinking of the American people. Long before the…
New TRAC Service Tracks Performance of Federal Court Judges
Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a data tool (http://tracfed.syr.edu/judges/interp/) that provides strategic intelligence on more than 900 federal district court judges. For the first time, the public can learn which judges handle the most civil court cases, and how…
TRAC: Pending Immigration Court cases reach all-time high
According to a new analysis of data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a new all time high of 261,083 matters by the end of September 2010.
TRAC: Federal water pollution convictions decrease in past decade
According to a new analysis of Justice Department data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), during the first two years of the Obama administration, federal criminal convictions for water pollution remain lower than any year since the first Clinton administration.