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Daily Report: Public Safety

Local jails may limit immigration holds to convicts

December 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
In the next year, many of California’s local jails might limit federal immigration “holds” to detainees with felony convictions, greatly reducing the number of people deported from the state solely for entering the country without permission. Gov. Jerry Brown met with leaders... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Fewer face deportation because of criminal charges, data shows

December 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
The number of people facing deportation because of criminal charges has declined steadily the past three fiscal years, according to data released by the U.S. Justice Department. Instead, in California and beyond, a growing number are accused only of entering the United States without... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Federal deportation law has downsides, local sheriffs say

August 16, 2011, 12:05 AM
A new report compiles testimony from law enforcement officials attacking a federal policy that directs local authorities to detain for deportation all illegal immigrants they arrest. The Secure Communities program, run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, collects fingerprint data from... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Feds circumvent state on immigration fingerprint checks

August 10, 2011, 12:05 AM
Federal officials have ended agreements with California and 40 other states that had been the backbone of controversial immigration fingerprint checks in local jails. Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contends it does not need states’ permission to operate the Secure... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Sonoma County sheriff to limit involvement in immigration cases

July 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
An agreement [PDF] announced yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union limits the involvement of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office in enforcing federal immigration laws. In a lawsuit filed in September 2008 on behalf of the Committee for Immigrant Rights of Sonoma County and three... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bill to opt out of immigration fingerprinting advances

June 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
A bill that would remove California’s counties from federal immigration fingerprint checks easily advanced in the state Senate this week. The Public Safety Committee on Monday voted 5-2 in support of AB 1081, legislation intended to make California the fourth state to opt out of U.S.... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bill could make state 4th to reject immigration fingerprint checks

June 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
California could become the fourth state to remove itself from a controversial federal immigration fingerprint check program, following recent moves by the governors of Massachusetts, New York and Illinois. The state Senate’s Public Safety Committee has scheduled a hearing next week to... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

More agencies challenge immigration fingerprint checks

May 11, 2011, 12:05 AM
Officials in California and beyond have begun to rebel against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security program that mandates jailhouse immigration fingerprint checks. All 58 of the state’s counties are operating as part the “Secure Communities” program, which uses biometric... + read more
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Internal e-mails raise doubts about ‘mandatory’ immigration checks

April 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to have all local jails use electronic fingerprint scans to check the immigration status of everyone they book. The “Secure Communities” program, which is installing the federal immigration database coast to coast, will be mandatory... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bill would allow opt out of immigration fingerprint checks

April 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
In just two years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has installed the federal immigration database in all of California’s 58 counties. The expansion hasn’t been voluntary. Most county law enforcement agencies began scanning suspects’ fingerprints to check their... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Immigration initiative may put domestic violence victims at risk

March 3, 2011, 12:06 AM
California's participation in a federal immigration enforcement program may endanger undocumented victims of domestic violence, according to groups that work with abuse victims. Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that all 58 California counties had been linked to... + read more
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