Everyone has rights, regardless of immigration status. To make sure those rights are known and enjoyed by everyone in Vermont, VAAP’s resource library provides clear, reliable information to help you understand and exercise your rights during interactions with ICE or other law enforcement agencies. Whether at home, at work, or in public, it’s important to know your legal protections when facing immigration enforcement. Explore our collection of guides and materials to learn how to stay informed, prepared, and safe.

Access the ICE Encounters library page here.

If you are witness to ICE or other Homeland Security activity in Vermont, please report it so we can vet the information and inform the public about actual immigration enforcement activities in our state. For ICE emergencies you witness happening right now, call Migrant Justice’s Rapid Response line at 802-881-7229.

For ICE activity from the past, suspected or unconfirmed ICE activity, or secondhand information, submit a form to VAAP. documenting, vetting, and sharing what’s really happening—versus what is being threatened and rumored—we help reduce misinformation, support informed decisions, and strengthen community safety and wellbeing.

Report VT ICE activity here.

Request immigration legal help here, where you can also learn the difference between rapid response, legal support, and ICE tracking.

VAAP vets reported ICE Tracker information using available contact details from submitters, and by checking in with likely witnesses and bystanders as well as community organizers and rapid response networks. We then share confirmed activities in regular blog posts as quickly as our competing legal caseload allows.

Jump to the latest ICE Tracker Reports, below.

Vermont ICE detention data displayed on this website has been collected from public sources and analyzed by Vermont community members, with help from friends based in other New England States. Organizers’ two main sources are the Vermont Department of Corrections Jail Tracker website, and federal immigration enforcement data, attained and compiled by the Deportation Data Project, updated daily.

View Vermont ICE detention (distinguished from arrest) data here.

Vermont Department of Corrections uses a tool called “JailTracker” to report all individuals currently and formerly in Vermont custody and care, including people detained in civil immigration custody on behalf of the U.S. Marshals. The tool is accessed using the “offender locator” at the bottom of the DOC website landing page. Note there is often a lag between when a Vermont-bound immigrant is detained and when their data appears in the JailTracker. Also note that individuals booked and immediately moved out of Vermont will not appear in the JailTracker.

Access JailTracker data here.

The Immigration Detainee Dashboard provides longitudinal information on individuals lodged in a Vermont correctional facility on an I-203 on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) since January 1, 2023. Information is updated weekly on Wednesdays.

View the VT DOC’s dashboard here.

View VAAP’s public comments on the dashboard launch here (2026) and here (2025).

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University analyzes U.S. immigration enforcement data obtained through FOIA. In Vermont, nondetained cases are heard in Chelmsford, while detained cases go to the court nearest the detention site. Advocates caution that government data undercounts exclusions, expulsions, and expedited removals lacking due process at both borders.

Access TRAC data analysis here.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses an online detainee locator system commonly referred to as the “ICE Detainee Locator” to report all individuals currently detained by ICE in an ICE or subcontracted facility. Note there is often a lag between when ICE takes someone into custody and when they appear in the Locator, as well as a lag when ICE relocates detainees between faciltiies. Individuals names are frequently misspelled and a person’s “A-number” yields the most accurate search results.

Access the ICE Detainee Locator here.