FOIA DOCUMENT: DOJ Acknowledges Southwest Key Request
Last updated 6/28/2025
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They Were Raped in U.S. Custody. Now Their Abusers Walk Free.
They crossed deserts for safety. Some were five. Some were eight. Some were too young to name what happened to them but old enough to remember. The girls said he came at night. That he used his keys to enter their rooms at Southwest Key's Casa Franklin shelter in El Paso. That he touched them. Again. And again.
On 5/28/2025 I had sent this request to the DOJ using Muckrock:
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
I request all records, communications, memos, emails, or internal discussions generated or received by the Department of Justice related to the decision to dismiss the civil lawsuit United States v. Southwest Key Programs, Inc., No. 1:24-CV-00798, which was filed in July 2024 and dismissed in March 2025.
Specifically, I am requesting the following:
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