Orange County commissioners and Mayor Jerry Demings voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate the section of the county’s Intergovernmental Service Agreement relevant to housing immigration detainees.
The rest of the county’s IGSA — besides the part pertinent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — will stay in place. That means the county jail will continue to house inmates with federal criminal charges from entities like the FBI.
Because state law requires it, Orange County still needs to have an agreement in place for temporarily housing people who are detained by ICE. An IGSA is one way of meeting that requirement. Another way is through a Basic Ordering Agreement, or BOA, which the county now plans to pursue…