A San Diego County supervisor is calling for an inspection of the Otay Mesa Detention Center under California’s Health and Safety Code. As KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis explains, the push for local oversight comes amid a rising number of deaths in ICE detention centers nationwide.
County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer wants to use a relatively new section of California’s Health and Safety code to conduct an inspection of a privately-owned immigrant detention center in Otay Mesa…