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Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL) is a nonprofit "support center founded and incorporated in 1980, legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations and technical support and training to in immigration law, constitutional law, and complex and class action litigation." CHRCL focuses on "federal litigation in support of abused, abandoned, and neglected immigrant and refugee children eligible to legalize status as Special Immigrant Juveniles; enforcing the rights of children detained pending deportation or removal to appropriate placement and services; federal litigation involving efforts by state and local governments to enforce federal immigration laws; litigation, legislative advocacy and policy analysis to address the rights of immigrants to state driver’s licenses; protecting the rights of immigrant survivors of crime, human trafficking, and domestic violence." CHCRL is the "only non-governmental organization permitted to inspect and assess every facility where immigrant children are held."

Board of Directors
The board of directors includes Peter Schey, who is CHRCL's executive director along with "civil rights attorneys, community advocates and religious leaders". Peter Schey, is executive director of the Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law.

Operations
CHCRL’s work focuses on "federal litigation in support of abused, abandoned, and neglected immigrant and refugee children eligible to legalize status as Special Immigrant Juveniles; enforcing the rights of children detained pending deportation or removal to appropriate placement and services; federal litigation involving efforts by state and local governments to enforce federal immigration laws; litigation, legislative advocacy and policy analysis to address the rights of immigrants to state driver’s licenses; protecting the rights of immigrant survivors of crime, human trafficking, and domestic violence."

Funding
CHRCL "also works in other areas of law and policy identified as priorities" by recipients of Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) and works with IOLTA Support Centers.

Immigrant children detention centers
On December 31, 2018 CHRCL's Peter Schey, the lead attorney of a "team of lawyers who oversee a court-ordered agreement dictating where — and how — the government can house" migrant children". He is also the lead lawyer CHRCL's team of over "250 lawyers, doctors and paralegals" which is the only non-governmental organization permitted to inspect and assess every facility where immigrant children are held.

Schey notified the Department of Justice Civil Division's Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL) of violations of the Flores Settlement Agreement. Schey said that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is the agency "that oversees shelters for unaccompanied children", must be aware that their "whole program is in total violation". CHRCL's team of over "250 lawyers, doctors and paralegals" have visited the detention centers and "interviewed hundreds of detained children".

Flores Settlement Agreement
According to the January 23, 2019 CBS News article, the "1997 Flores Settlement provides detailed regulations governing the care of immigrant children, and the licensing standards for the facilities where they are detained." The settlement's standards include the requirement that "licensed programs shall comply with all applicable state child welfare laws and regulations and all state and local building, fire, health and safety codes."