The Springfield Police Advisory Committee reviewed changes to the police department’s immigration-law policy at a meeting Thursday, Dec. 4.
The policy, revised in August, eliminates language stating that officers with a “reasonable suspicion” of a criminal immigration violation could “detain the person for a reasonable period of time” to contact federal immigration officials.
Springfield Police Chief Jami Resch told Lookout Eugene-Springfield the revised policy “focuses very clearly on the restrictions that they (police officers) have related to civil immigration enforcement.”…