Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration.

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary and digest do not provide specific details about how much it will cost local agencies, nor do they clarify interactions outside one mile from sensitive areas.

Limits on Immigration Enforcement Near Sensitive Places

AB-421 stops California police from sharing information with immigration authorities near certain places like schools, churches, hospitals, and medical offices.

What This Bill Does

• Prohibits California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with or providing any kind of information to federal immigration officials about planned or ongoing actions within one mile of childcare centers, daycares, religious institutions, places of worship, hospitals, and medical offices.

Who It Names or Affects

• California law enforcement agencies
• Federal immigration authorities

Terms To Know

Immigration enforcement

Actions taken by the government to find, arrest, and remove people who are in the country without permission.

State-mandated local program

A state law that requires local governments or agencies to do something new or different, which might cost them money.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the exact costs for local agencies.
• It is unclear how this legislation will affect interactions between police and federal immigration officials outside of one mile from sensitive areas.

Official Summary Text

AB 421, as introduced, Solache.
Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration.
Existing law, the California Values Act, generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes. Existing law provides certain limited exceptions to this prohibition, including transfers of persons pursuant to a judicial warrant and providing certain information to federal authorities regarding serious and violent felons in custody.
This bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information in writing, verbally, on in any other manner to, immigration authorities regarding proposed or currently underway immigration enforcement actions when the actions could be or are taking place within a radius of one mile of any childcare or daycare facility, religious institution, place of
worship, hospital, or medical office. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies or officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Current Bill Text

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