Overview
- The Maryland House passed HB1017 and HB1018 to require specific local zoning for private immigration detention centers and to impose minimum care and safety standards across detention and correctional facilities, sending both measures to the State Senate.
- Maryland senators are weighing SB660 and SB791 to curb local cooperation with ICE and require officers to document federal enforcement actions, drawing a public backlash from several county sheriffs who warn of legal challenges.
- Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued to block a Department of Homeland Security plan to convert a Washington County warehouse into an ICE detention site with capacity for about 1,500 detainees.
- Indiana’s Senate Bill 76 cleared both chambers on a 37–11 concurrence vote and awaits Gov. Mike Braun’s signature, mandating compliance with ICE detainers, authorizing the attorney general to sue noncompliant entities, and adding employer penalties and reporting provisions.
- In Oregon, Democratic lawmakers voted down a Republican proposal to require jails to notify ICE before releasing noncitizen felony convicts, maintaining the state’s restrictions on cooperation with federal immigration detainers.