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.
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In a November 2019 article titled “New year to ring in nation’s most comprehensive privacy law,” we gave an update on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the nation’s most robust consumer privacy law that governs the collection of personal information by certain businesses regardless of whether they are physically located in California.
Nearly one year later, a majority of California voters approved the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which amends and expands the CCPA and establishes the nation’s first government regulator dedicated to consumer privacy.
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Four men who were set to be released from California prisons earlier this year but were instead handed over to federal immigration authorities for potential deportation are seeking thousands of dollars in damages from the state.
The claims, filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and Asian Law Caucus, seek over $25,000 for each of the former inmates, who allege they have suffered harms and higher health risks from COVID-19 while locked up at immigration detention centers that faced outbreaks.
The claimants include an American citizen who was erroneously held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after being released from state prison, according to the filings, and a father of two originally from the Philippines who became seriously ill after contracting COVID-19 at an ICE facility in Bakersfield.
Moorehead-Two Feathers Native American Family Services Executive Director Virgil Moorehead presents during the roundtable. Speaking at a virtual roundtable called to discuss the systemic failures of local school districts to help Native students succeed, as detailed in a recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Humboldt State University Native American Studies Chair Cutcha Risling Baldy said it largely comes down to curriculums that disempower Native youth. Baldy, who is of Karuk, Hupa and Yurok decent and a
Journal contributor, said the California Mission Project and Gold Rush lessons erase the history of California s attempted genocide on Native people, noting that the state legalized the enslavement of Native people and even offered bounties for killing them.