Washington
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Washington (WA) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Washington counts here.
This is not the same set as Washington's jurisdiction page, which records the 2 entries where Washington's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
8 entries · 4 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Tacoma city 4 entries
ICE held UW Medicine worker Robert Sidhe in Tacoma detention through a stroke-risk medical emergency it could not safely treat
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Robert Sidhe, a 43-year-old UW Medicine patient care technician with a pending asylum application, on August 26, 2026, and held him at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, where he suffered a medical emergency with severely elevated blood pressure and stroke-like symptoms and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. At a September 11, 2026 hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Tiffany Cartwright found the risk of a future stroke, combined with the difficulty of accessing emergency care in detention, could be "catastrophic," and issued a temporary restraining order requiring Sidhe's release ahead of a full habeas corpus hearing.
GEO Group barred Washington state health inspectors from its Tacoma ICE detention center despite an upheld state oversight law
On April 20, 2026, The GEO Group refused to admit Washington State Department of Health inspectors to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, the latest of repeated denials since the state's oversight law took effect. That 2023 law, upheld by the Ninth Circuit in 2025, authorizes the inspections, which the state pursued after more than 3,500 complaints about conditions including contaminated food, poor sanitation, and inadequate medical care. Washington's governor and attorney general sued in federal court to compel access.
ICE denied Greggy Sorio medical care for months at Tacoma detention facility, causing partial foot amputations
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's "pattern of failures" in treating Greggy Sorio, a Filipino lawful permanent resident held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, left him hospitalized on October 22, 2025, after months of denied care for reported bleeding and pain beginning around mid-2025; doctors diagnosed a bone infection and performed two amputation surgeries. ICE continued to pursue his deportation despite the injuries, attempting to remove him in early December 2025 before a court order temporarily blocked it. A federal judge in the Western District of Washington later ruled the facility's treatment unconstitutional and ordered Sorio's release on February 13, 2026.
ICE detained disabled Army veteran Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry without notice, held him four months at Tacoma facility
On August 21, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry -- a disabled U.S. Army veteran and lawful permanent resident since 2001 -- immediately after he completed a scheduled citizenship interview at USCIS's Tukwila, Washington office, arresting him in coordination with USCIS and giving him no advance notice or opportunity to contest the detention. ICE held Chaudhry for four months at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, where his family said he went without adequate treatment for existing medical conditions.
Seattle city 2 entries
White House fired court-appointed Seattle U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff within an hour of his swearing-in
On July 15, 2026, the judges of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington unanimously invoked 28 U.S.C. § 546 to appoint veteran Seattle prosecutor and former state judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. Attorney after the seat had sat vacant past the statutory limit, and he was sworn in before 8 a.m. in downtown Seattle. Less than an hour later, the White House emailed Rogoff a termination notice from the presidential personnel office removing him, and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted that "District court judges can appoint a temporary U.S. Attorney, and POTUS can fire them." Rogoff called the dismissal "most likely unlawful" and said he was consulting lawyers about challenging it.
HHS referred Seattle Children's Hospital to Inspector General over gender-affirming care for trans youth
On December 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' General Counsel referred Seattle Children's Hospital to the HHS Office of Inspector General for investigation, citing the hospital's provision of gender-affirming care to transgender minors. The referral -- the first enforcement action against a specifically named hospital following HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s December 18, 2025 declaration that such care is unsafe -- could result in the hospital losing federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general has separately sued to block the underlying declaration, arguing HHS lacks authority to redefine medical standards by fiat.
Gig Harbor city 1 entry
DOJ Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into Washington state's policy of housing transgender women in women's prisons
On May 19, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon notified Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson that the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division would open a federal civil-rights investigation, under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, into the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor over the state's policy of housing some transgender women in women's prisons. DOJ said it would examine whether the state failed to protect female prisoners from sexual and physical violence, citing potential Eighth Amendment violations. The action was the third such state probe of 2026, after DOJ notified California and Maine of similar investigations in March.
Spokane city 1 entry
U.S. Border Patrol detained Spokane asylum-seeker and his 10-year-old daughter, held them a month at Texas facility
U.S. Border Patrol agents detained Guatemalan asylum-seeker Arnoldo Tiul Caal and his 10-year-old daughter Karla Tiul Baltazar in Spokane, Washington, on January 10, 2026, a day after first stopping and questioning him, despite his ongoing asylum case and clean record. The pair, who had lived in Spokane since 2019, were held roughly a month at the Dilley, Texas immigration processing center -- where Karla ran a fever and vomited -- before the Department of Homeland Security released them on February 6 without contesting a due-process habeas petition alleging DHS had violated its own regulations.