Overview
- New guidance keeps officer discretion to notify ICE on administrative warrants but requires a supervisor or duty commander’s permission to wait for agents.
- APD is drafting updated General Orders to explicitly address administrative warrants, with the interim rules under legal review for incorporation.
- Chief Lisa Davis cites SB4 as constraining blanket limits on contacting ICE, while a city legal memo notes cooperation must be reasonable and may be narrowed by neutral resource policies.
- The shift follows a Jan. 5 response where officers found an ICE administrative warrant, held the caller for about 90 minutes, and ICE took custody; her family says she and her 5-year-old U.S.-citizen daughter were deported.
- APD records show at least 33 ICE contacts from January to September 2025 as administrative warrants proliferated in federal databases, prompting concerns from council members and advocates about trust and policing resources.