Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Released 52 People To ICE Deportation Agents Last Year One By Mistake Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.
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By Raheem Hosseini
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones admitted this month that his department turned over a Latino man to federal deportation agents even though it wasn t supposed to alert ICE.
The father was one of 52 people who completed jail sentences in Sacramento only to be released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
Jones acknowledged the mistake during an annual presentation mandated by California s TRUTH Act. That law requires local governing bodies to hold at least one public forum a year if their law enforcement agencies provided access to ICE.