---
title: "Stays in ICE detention that spent any time at a Georgia facility, October 2022 through 6 August 2026, from the ICE deten"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/immigration/ice_detention_stays"
tags: ["immigration"]
---

# Stays in ICE detention that spent any time at a Georgia facility, October 2022 through 6 August 2026, from the ICE deten

`GET /api/v1/immigration/ice_detention_stays`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org`
- URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/ice_detention_stays`
- Auth: none declared

Stays in ICE detention that spent any time at a Georgia facility, October 2022 through 6 August 2026, from the ICE detention records released under FOIA (Hausman v. ICE) and processed to the stay and stint level by the Deportation Data Project. A stay is one uninterrupted period in ICE custody, possibly across several facilities and states; it counts here if at least one of its facility book-ins was in Georgia, and its county is the Georgia county where it spent the most time. Counts of stays begun and ended, the average length of the whole ended stay, the average days of it spent in Georgia, and the average number of facilities per stay, by calendar month, ICE's gender determination, the arresting agency (ICE or CBP), how the stay ended, and citizenship country at state level; annual totals by the facility's county.

**Filterable categorical columns** (comma-separated values union; multiple columns AND together):
- `month` — one of: `all`, `01`, `02`, `03`, `04`, `05`, `06`, `07`, `08`, `09`, `10`, `11`, `12`
- `arresting_agency_group` — one of: `all`, `cbp`, `ice`, `unknown`
- `release_reason` — one of: `all`, `other`, `paroled`, `released_on_bond`, `released_on_order`, `removed`, `still_detained`, `transferred`
- `citizenship_country` — one of: `all`, `brazil`, `china`, `colombia`, `cuba`, `dominican_republic`, `ecuador`, `el_salvador`, `guatemala`, `haiti`, `honduras`, `india`, `jamaica`, `mauritania`, `mexico`, `nicaragua`, `nigeria`, `peru`, `russia`, `senegal`, `south_korea`, `venezuela`, `vietnam`, `other`, `unknown`

**Detail levels available:** counties, states (default: `states`)

**Year coverage:** 2022–2026 (5 years, no gaps)

**NULL handling:** suppressed cells are NULL (not zero); zero is a real value.

**Source:** U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention records released under FOIA (Hausman v. ICE), processed to one row per detention stay and one row per facility stint by the Deportation Data Project

## Query parameters

- `year` integer, nullable: Exact year
- `year_min` integer, nullable: Inclusive lower bound
- `year_max` integer, nullable: Inclusive upper bound
- `district_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA district codes (e.g. `601,602`)
- `school_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA school codes. Combine with `district_code` for unique school keys.
- `county_fips` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. `13121,13067`)
- `tract_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 11-digit census tract GEOIDs (e.g. `13121011100`)
- `block_group_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 12-digit census block group GEOIDs (e.g. `131210111001`)
- `demographic` string, nullable: Comma-separated demographic codes (e.g. `all,black,hispanic`)
- `detail` string, nullable: Detail level (whatever the topic publishes — e.g. schools, districts, counties, or states).
- `limit` integer, nullable: Page size
- `offset` integer: Page offset
- `columns` string, nullable: Comma-separated output columns to return (fact columns plus joined dimension attributes). Defaults to all.
- `format` 'json' | 'csv' | 'parquet': Response format: json | csv | parquet

## Response `200`

Paginated rows. JSON returns an envelope with `data` and `pagination`; CSV/Parquet return raw bytes with `X-Total-Count` header.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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