O.C. Sheriff probes whether employees alerted ICE before mans arrest

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Set us as preferred An internal investigation is underway at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department after surveillance footage captured two department employees briefly speaking with federal immigration agents shortly before a man was detained while leaving the jail.The department said in a written statement that it had received a complaint early this month about the Halloween incident alleging that the two employees may have alerted U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, enabling them to detain the man.The department said it had launched an internal investigation to determine if the employees had violated state law or department policy.A state law called the California Values Act prohibits local police and sheriff’s departments from using public resources to help enforce federal immigration laws, such as detaining people solely for immigration purposes or sharing certain personal information with ICE.

The law allows limited exceptions, including cooperation involving people convicted of certain crimes.The department identified the two employees only by title.They said one was a deputy and the other was a sheriff’s special officer.An internal review found that surveillance video from the Oct.

31 incident showed ICE agents parked on a public street outside the Orange County Jail in an unmarked black SUV.The deputy and special officer are seen exiting the sheriff’s building before approaching the black SUV, and engaging in what appeared to be a five second conversation with the agents inside the vehicle, video released Friday by the department shows.Footage shows a man who appears startled jogging to a corner of the courtyard and standing and waiting as federal agents approach and then arrest him.“Shortly after the deputy and sheriff’s special officer left, a second vehicle arrived,” the department’s s...