In response to California sanctuary law, Orange County Sheriff makes public inmates’ release dates
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday that it is now providing public information on when inmates are released from custody.
As of Monday, March 26, an existing “Who’s in Jail” online database includes the date and time of inmates’ release – a move agency officials say will enhance communication with its law enforcement partners.
The release date information applies to all inmates, not just those who are suspected of being in the country illegally. But the goal is to assist agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
“This is in response to SB-54 limiting our ability to communicate with federal authorities and our concern that criminals are being released to the street when there’s another avenue to safeguard the community by handing them over (to ICE for potential deportation),” Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes said.
Orange County officials did not confer with ICE before making the change, he said.
ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley wrote in an email late Monday that she would not comment “beyond what the Sheriff has said.”
The new state law, dubbed the California Values Act, has recently seen a backlash from some Orange County communities. The City Council in Los Alamitos voted last week on an ordinance to exempt the city in northern Orange County from the state law.
A few other Orange County cities are considering resolutions and other moves to voice their opposition to the law. The Yorba Linda City Council, for example, agreed to file an amicus brief to a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration against California and immigration-related laws the federal government alleges are unconstitutional. And on Tuesday, March 27, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider a range of possible actions: from a resolution to pursuing litigationagainst the state.
Annie Lai, co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at UC Irvine, said the sheriff’s new policy is part of a movement in Orange County “to either undermine or get around the spirit of SB-54.”
The California Values Act already allows communication between local and federal agencies about release dates of those convicted of enumerated crimes who may be eligible for deportation, Lai noted.
“This change in policy is basically affecting everybody else who doesn’t have a serious criminal history under SB-54,” she said. Sheriff’s deputies, however, will still not be able to assist in an actual transfer to ICE agents under state law.
The release information, via a long list of names in alphabetical order, is now available for anyone to view at oscd.org.
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Since the "state" of California decided that they would not work with Federal ICE agents in the apprehension of illegal immigrants, it seems that, just as many of us guessed, they don't really speak for the people that they are supposed to represent.
Kudo's to Sheriff Don Barnes for doing what's right.
I would suspect that the local law enforcement departments in many cities and towns in Mexifornia are getting quite fed up with Guv Moonbat and all the other idiots in Sacramento, and this will by no means be the last jurisdiction to say ENOUGH!
Reminds me of a song I heard.
OPPRESSING THE MASSES by a SF band called Vio-Lence ( lyrics )
Seems like all is not as harmonious as the state of California would have one believe......good on Orange County.
It will be interesting to compare how California treats dissenting counties to how the federal government treats dissenting California.
Who believed that?
All the liberals in Californication who thought opposition to them was limited to the far north Jefferson areas.
Ok? And?
President Donald Trump praised officials in Orange County, Calif., Wednesday for fighting against the state’s sanctuary city policy.
“My Administration stands in solidarity with the brave citizens in Orange County defending their rights against California's illegal and unconstitutional Sanctuary policies. California's Sanctuary laws…” he tweeted. “....release known dangerous criminals into communities across the State. All citizens have the right to be protected by Federal law and strong borders.
Besides the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ 3-0 vote approving of the plan to join the Justice Department’s lawsuit against California for interfering with federal immigration policies, the county also decided to publicly post release dates for inmates online, a workaround for the state’s sanctuary city law.
When asked Wednesday whether the president is encouraging other cities and counties to join the DOJ’s lawsuit against the state of California, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “Look, the president is encouraging people to follow federal law. There's a reason that we have laws in this country, and he expects that individual cities and states should follow the federal law.” https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/trump-administration-stands-solidarity-orange-county-fighting-against
Piggybacking on that action, the Orange County Sheriff's Department will begin publishing a list of criminal aliens who are inmates in the county jail, as part of its existing "Who's in Jail" online database.
It will also include when criminal aliens are released from jail, a move that comes in direct retaliation to the state's "sanctuary" law that prohibits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials seeking a detained illegal.
Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, says some Californians are showing courage by taking on their state government.
"It puts the state of California in a very awkward position here," he observes. "On the one hand, they're obviously going to argue that Orange County and these local jurisdictions do not have the authority to go against California law - that California law pre-empts local law. But at the same time they're defending themselves in a lawsuit against the federal government in which the claim is that California is defying federal law and federal law pre-empts state laws."
ICE arrests 1In a statement rich with irony, California's attorney general hinted at a press conference that Orange County's sheriff could be prosecuted for refusing to comply with the state law.
"State law is state law, and it is my job to enforce state law. I will do so," Xavier Becerra told reporters. "And we want to make sure that every jurisdiction, including Orange County, understand what state law requires of the people and the sub-divisions of the state of California. https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2018/03/29/ca-liberals-you-cannot-resist-the-resistance The rest of the article before and after the covered above is great too.
That should probably be standard practice in general.
Agreed.
Last week, Los Alamitos’s city council passed an ordinance to defy SB 54, the state’s main sanctuary law that bars local authorities from honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers. On Tuesday, Orange County’s Board of Supervisors voted to join the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging California’s three sanctuary state laws and condemn the state’s “sanctuary city” law.
According to a San Diego Union-Tribune report, Escondido Mayor Sam Abed and Councilman John Masson “have put an item on the April 4 agenda that would authorize the city’s filing of a legal brief in support” of the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging California’s three sanctuary city laws for violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Abed told the outlet that he expects the measure to pass.
Escondido is the first city in San Diego County to consider defying the state’s “sanctuary” laws, and San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors is reportedly scheduled to discuss whether to join the anti-sanctuary revolt on April 17 during a closed session. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/30/san-diego-county-could-be-next-to-join-ca-anti-santuary-revolt/
The resist the resistance movement grows....