Two Orange County Sheriff's Employees Placed on Leave After ICE Arrest Outside Santa Ana Jail Intake Center
The Orange County Sheriff's Department in California said on November 13 that a deputy and a sheriff's special officer have been placed on administrative leave, and that it has opened a personnel investigation into an incident in which the two allegedly assisted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in making an arrest outside the Orange County Jail's Intake Release Center in Santa Ana.
According to the department, it received a complaint on November 3 about an incident that occurred outside the center on October 31. Surveillance video showed the deputy and the special officer exiting the Intake Release Center and approaching ICE agents in an unmarked black SUV, speaking with them for about five seconds. ICE agents then entered the public courtyard outside the center and arrested a man who appeared to be hiding there.
Sheriff Don Barnes said the department does not enforce federal immigration law, will cooperate with ICE only to the extent the law allows, and will hold accountable any personnel who act outside the law or department policy.
California's Values Act (SB 54) limits communication and cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. The department said the investigation is ongoing, both employees are on administrative leave, and no further details are being released at this time.
(Source: Orange County Sheriff's Department)
Source: Orange County Sheriff's Department
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