Overview
- Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee opened a member poll Thursday on a redrafted bill, with votes due Friday afternoon.
- The proposal would bar civil immigration arrests inside state courthouses unless a judge reviews a judicial order or warrant.
- State and local officials would be prohibited from initiating nonpublic information sharing or most advance release notifications to ICE, and new 287(g) agreements would be blocked while the Department of Correction’s existing pact remains.
- State facilities would need to provide detainees written notices of the right to counsel in their primary languages, allow at least daily attorney phone calls, maintain updated detention logs, and notify counsel and a designated contact of transfers.
- Sponsors expect House consideration within a couple of weeks, the Senate’s stance remains unclear, and the bill empowers the attorney general to act if residents’ rights under the measure are violated.