TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 22, 2026

A federal judge has rejected the U.S. government's request to limit public access to court records from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid and arrest in the Knox County community of Hardin Valley. The government had argued that release of the records would endanger ICE agents, Knox News reports. U.S. District Court Judge Clifton Corker said he saw no evidence that agents would be put at risk by making the records accessible online, but allowed the government to redact information as needed. The case involves Diego Hernandez Garcia, a 24-year-old Maryville man, who has been detained since his Dec. 11 arrest.