On Thursday, the Providence City Council granted first passage to amendments aimed at further restricting cooperation between the Providence Police Department and federal immigration officers.
The amendments to the Community-Police Relations Act must be approved one final time by the full council before being enacted. A vote is scheduled to take place on Nov. 6.
The act currently states that the PPD is not permitted to comply with requests by other agencies to assist “operations conducted for the purpose of enforcing federal civil immigration law.”…