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Contact

Reach Us


Email

oilcloth@posteo.us

Hosted on Posteo — a privacy-focused, Germany-based email provider with strong legal protections.


What We Welcome

  • Incident reports: Know about ICE/CBP violence we haven't documented? Send us links.
  • Corrections: Found an error? We fix it publicly and transparently.
  • Source material: Government documents, court filings, inspection reports — anything publicly available.
  • Collaboration: Working on similar investigations? Let's compare notes.
  • Media inquiries: Journalists wanting to cite or discuss our work.

What We Don't Accept

Do Not Send

  • Private or classified information
  • Stolen data or leaked documents from non-public sources
  • Requests to identify, locate, or track individuals
  • Requests from law enforcement agencies
  • Requests to remove factual documentation

Response Time

We review all messages. Response times vary based on operational capacity. Priority is given to:

  1. Reports of deaths or serious violence not in our database
  2. Corrections to published information
  3. Source material for active investigations
  4. Media inquiries on deadline

Security Notes

  • Our email is hosted in Germany under German privacy law (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz)
  • Posteo accepts anonymous payment and does not log IP addresses
  • For sensitive communications, we can arrange PGP encryption (request our public key)
  • Do not send us anything that could endanger yourself or others