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July 10, 2017 |
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Senate Bill | No. 54 |
Introduced by Senator De León (Principal coauthors: Senators Atkins, Beall, Pan, Skinner, and Wiener) (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Chiu, Cooper, Gomez, Levine, Reyes, and Santiago) |
December 05, 2016 |
(c)“Immigration hold” means an immigration detainer issued by an authorized immigration officer, pursuant to Section 287.7 of Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations, that requests that the law enforcement official to maintain custody of the individual for a period not to exceed 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, and to advise the authorized immigration officer prior to the release of that individual.
(a)A law enforcement official shall have discretion to cooperate with federal immigration officials by detaining an individual on the basis of an immigration hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody only if the continued detention of the individual on the basis of the immigration hold would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or any local policy, and only under any of the following
circumstances:
7282.5.
(a) A law enforcement official shall have discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities only if doing so would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or local policy, and where permitted by the California Values Act (Chapter 17.25 (commencing with Section 7284)). Additionally, the specific activities described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of, and in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of, Section 7284.6 shall only occur under the following circumstances:
(5)The individual is arrested and taken before a magistrate on a charge involving a serious or violent felony, as identified in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7 or subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 of the Penal Code, a felony punishable by imprisonment in state prison, or any felony listed in paragraph (2) or (3) other than domestic violence, and the magistrate makes a finding of probable cause as to that charge pursuant to Section 872 of the Penal Code.
(6)
(b)If none of the conditions listed in subdivision (a) is satisfied, an individual shall not be detained on the basis of an immigration hold after the individual becomes eligible for release from custody.
(c)“Federal immigration authority” means any officer, employee, or person otherwise paid by or acting as an agent of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or United States Customs and Border Protection, or any division thereof, or any other officer, employee, or person otherwise paid by or acting as an agent of the United States Department of Homeland Security who is charged with immigration enforcement.
(1)Efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of a violation of Section 1326(a) of Title 8 of the United States Code that may be subject to the enhancement specified in Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 of the United States Code and that is detected during an unrelated law enforcement activity.
(2)Transferring an individual to federal immigration authorities for a violation of Section 1326(a) of Title 8
of the United States Code that is subject to the enhancement specified in Section 1326(b)(2) of that title if the individual has been previously convicted of a violent felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 of the Penal Code.
(D)Providing information regarding a person’s release date unless that information is available to the public.
(E)
(F)Making, assisting, or
(G)Giving federal immigration authorities access to interview an individual in agency or department custody, except pursuant to a judicial warrant, and in accordance
with Section 7283.1.
(H)
(I)
(2)Make agency or department databases, including databases maintained for the agency or department by private vendors, or the information therein other than information within those databases regarding an individual’s citizenship or immigration status, available to anyone or any entity for the purpose of immigration enforcement. Any agreements in effect on
January 1, 2018, that conflict with the terms of this paragraph are terminated on that date. All persons and entities provided access to agency or department databases shall certify in writing that the database will be kept confidential and will not be used for the purposes prohibited by this section.
(3)
(4)
(5)
(1)
(2)Participating in a joint law enforcement task force, so long as the primary purpose of the joint law enforcement task force is not immigration enforcement, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section
7284.4.
(3)
(4)Responding to a notification request from federal immigration authorities for a person who is serving a term for the conviction of a misdemeanor or felony offense and has a current or prior conviction for a violent felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 of the Penal Code or a serious felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7 of the Penal
Code.
(e)Notwithstanding any other law, a California law enforcement agency shall not transfer an individual to federal immigration authorities for purposes of
immigration enforcement or detain an individual at the request of federal immigration authorities for purposes of immigration enforcement absent a judicial warrant or judicial probable cause determination, except as provided in paragraph (5) of subdivision (a). This subdivision does not limit the scope of subdivision (a).
(f)
(a)The Board of Parole Hearings, with respect to inmates sentenced pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1168, or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, with respect to inmates sentenced pursuant to Section 1170, shall notify United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the scheduled release on parole or postrelease community supervision, or rerelease following a period of confinement pursuant to a parole revocation without a new commitment, of all persons confined to state prison serving a current term for the conviction of, or who have a prior conviction for, a violent felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or a serious felony listed in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(b)The notification shall be made at
least 60 days prior to the scheduled release date or as soon as practicable if notification cannot be provided at least 60 days prior to release. The only nonpublicly available personal information that the notification may include is the name of the person who is scheduled to be released and the scheduled date of release.