While the uncertainty continues in Albany over the state budget, which is now more than five weeks overdue, Chautauqua County’s top cop says the primary policy he and other sheriffs statewide are monitoring closely is the one that would prevent ICE from co-opting local police for civil immigration enforcement. Sheriff Jim Quattrone, who was a guest on WDOE’s “Viewpoint” program on Friday, says sheriffs — regardless of their personal feelings about it — are concerned over how the “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” would be legislated…
Jim Quattrone: worried it might override constitutional authority
Quattrone gave his thoughts on that measure in a “Viewpoint” interview from February. Meanwhile, Quattrone is also concerned about what’s not in the budget. He says sheriffs have not seen any proposed changes to the HALT Act, which is being blamed for numerous violent incidents at state prisons…..