{"id":106487,"date":"2026-02-06T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:14:07","slug":"aclu-presses-ice-bop-for-information-on-parady-las-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/106487\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU presses ICE, BOP for information on Parady La\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of the family members of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/parady-la-upper-day-ice-custody-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Upper Darby resident who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> custody on Jan. 9.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU of Pennsylvania joined Parady La\u2019s family members, Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, VietLead and Asian Americans United at a press conference Thursday in front of the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, where La was detained before he was transported to the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in critical condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe La family and the public deserve answers and accountability, and the FOIA request is the first step in that process,\u201d said Victoria Pe\u00f1a-Parr, a fellowship attorney at the ACLU of Pennsylvania. \u201cWith these records, we will help uncover what is happening in detention centers and fight this inhumane war that is being waged on our neighbors, our loved ones and our community members, regardless of their immigration status.\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-730851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/parady-la-aclu-pa-foia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Several people holding up signs protesting the death of Parady La\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Elected officials, family members of Parady La, and supporters demanded answers surrounding La\u2019s Jan. 9 death in ICE custody at a press conference on Feb. 5, 2026. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>The FOIA requests asks ICE and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to hand over records regarding La\u2019s arrest and the medical attention he received while at FDC Philadelphia, as well as video footage of his treatment while detained.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also seeking the policies and procedures to understand why facility staff would give Narcan to a person who is going through withdrawal when that is not the medical standard,\u201d Pe\u00f1a-Parr said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for a response is March 6, and March 20 if an extension is requested. If the FOIA request is denied, the ACLU of Pennsylvania plans to challenge in federal court, attorneys said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6635,51318,28,30,29,743,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-106487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-aclu","9":"tag-immigration-activists","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","14":"tag-upper-darby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}