San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez might have violated a state sanctuary law by transferring an inmate in the local jail system to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to immigration lawyers who reviewed a report from the Sheriff’s Office.
Under SB 54, known as the Values Act, local jails can transfer inmates to ICE only if those individuals have been convicted of certain felonies in the last 15 years or certain misdemeanors in the last five.
The law requires law enforcement agencies that transfer people to ICE to publish annual reports, which is where advocates found the questionable transfer…