The committee on oversight and government reform will come to order and then continue with the second panel of the hearing today. I would ask unanimous consent that congressman john of iowa be allowed to participaparticipa te and flipper does but in todays hearing your without objection, so ordered. Glad you could join us as well as mr. Courtney of connecticut who could also come join us. The second panel is probably the most important people we can you from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin whose s chief of police at the santa marina, santa maria, california, please department, has an important perspective and we are pleased and honored you join with us here today. I would also like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce ms. Wendy hartling. Thank you, chairman chabot and Ranking Member cummings. Again, we are honored today to have Wendy Hartling from connecticut join us here today. She is the quintessential small town america, and she was getting the devoted mother of Ca
[inaudible conversations] come to order we will continue with the second panel. Last year this consent that the congressman from iowa be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection is so ordered their glad you can join us also the gentleman from connecticut. The second panel is probably the most important people we can hear from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin chief of police from the santa maria California Police department with important perspective and were honored you joined us here today. I would like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce wendy. Thank you. Again we are honored to have 20 here to join this today she is quintessential smalltown america and a devoted mother of Casey Chadwick who has been mentioned many times in she lost her life one year ago to a homicide that a couple weeks ago came to the goal conclusion with the conviction. I will state that she was leading a very private life with Strong Family connections in the community a
Shed some light on some of the questions from your own experience, your knowledge. When an illegal alien is released, are you notified . No, sir. By anyone . We are not notified by anyone. Okay. So we heard testimony this morning that i. C. E. Notifies the states of all those who are released, and then that information filters down. And you were saying that that is not the case. We do not receive any direct indication from i. C. E. The only way we would know if somebody was released as if, talked to earlier, the victim would be notified and if they fill out a form, then the local Sheriffs Department is supposed to notified us that they are released so can talk to the victim. Okay. Civil Law Enforcement notification system, is it working . No, sir. What is it doing . If it is not doing what is the value, if any . I have to take it back years ago when i is just another agent and all the county jails. I think, i would like to preface my remarks by saying most Municipal Police departments
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Thanks for watching. Erin burnett starts now. Outfront next, the United States prepares new offensive against al qaeda. Plus, will she or wont she . Hillary clinton, robert reish, a man who has known her since he was 19 years old, reacts to our cnn interview and tells us about a date he had with her. Apple will launch a new ipad with a very different price tag. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, attack of the drones. The American Government is launching a new war, some of this countrys 7500 drones may be about to take off with new targets in their sights. Today, nijars Ambassador Says he has agreed to let the u. S. Military put drones in his country in an effort to gain intelligence on mali, algeria and libya, three spots where we have seen a recent explosion in Al Qaeda Linked attacks on americans. Eric schmidt is Senior Writer for the New York Times covering terrorism. He broke the story this morning that the u. S. Is planning a drone base in niger. Th