Jennings

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, et Case No. 20-cv-02731-VC al.,

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR

SECOND PRELIMINARY

v. INJUNCTION

DAVID JENNINGS, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 500 Defendants.

This lawsuit was filed by immigration detainees at two detention facilities in California. Although the detainees are in ICE custody, ICE does not directly operate either facility. One facility—Mesa Verde Detention Center—is run by a for-profit corporation called GEO Group, pursuant to a contract with ICE. The other facility is a jail in Yuba County run by the local sheriff. The jail holds criminal detainees charged with crimes under state law, but it reserves space for immigration detainees and holds them pursuant to a contract with ICE. The plaintiffs allege that ICE and its contractors have been deliberately indifferent to the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic. In April 2020—shortly after the lawsuit was filed—the Court entered a temporary restraining order which primarily required ICE and its contractors to provide information about the detainees to assist the Court in…