Massachusetts School District PROTECT Act Implementation Tracker

Massachusetts School District PROTECT Act Implementation Tracker

In August 2026, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the PROTECT Act, which created new legal obligations for school districts to protect children in their care from being abducted by federal immigration authorities. These obligations include developing and sharing policies and procedures for dealing with ICE. A district’s policy is adopted by its school committee (for a charter school, its board of trustees). Its procedures, which put the policy into practice, are set by the superintendent (or the charter school’s executive director), following DESE’s model policy and procedures.

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Tracker as of Oct 21, 2026. A collaborative effort of Citizens for Juvenile Justice (CfJJ), Massachusetts Advocates for Children and the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

Do you have a school district's PROTECT Act policy or procedures or other information that aren't here yet? Click here to send them to us and we'll add them to this tracker.

Districts posting a policy or procedures—of — public school districts (city, town, regional and vocational; charter schools counted separately)
Policy and procedures—public districts
Policy posted—public districts, no procedures yet (includes drafts and older policies)
Procedures only—public districts, no policy yet
No policy/procedure found online—public districts checked, need to ask directly
Added by partners or records requests—— shared by partners or districts, — from public records requests (districts and charters)
PROTECT Act page—public districts with a dedicated web page or section

PROTECT Act status by town

Each town is colored by the status of its public high school district; counts in the key are public districts. Hover over a town to see every district serving it, and click to keep that box open with links. Charter schools are listed under the town where they are located.

Town lines and district membership from MassGIS (town survey boundaries; public school districts). Statewide virtual, county agricultural and institutional districts are in the table but not on the map.

Tracker

—. Click a row to see its towns on the map.

Sources: shared PROTECT Act Google Sheet edited by partner organizations (started from the DESE directory, district websites and the MASC policy manual, checked Oct 9–13, 2026); town and school district boundaries from MassGIS.