SAN RAFAEL, California (03-11) – Marin County Sheriff, Jamie Scardina, who has been under pressure along with the county Board of Supervisors to discontinue the Sheriff’s voluntary participation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), made a presentation on March 11 at a public TRUTH Act Forum as required by California’s TRUTH ACT AB 2792 (Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds) of 2017.
Under the Act, any local legislative body is required “…to hold a community forum annually if local law enforcement allows ICE access to any individual.” Additionally, the bill ensures that records related to ICE access are subject to the public records act. Through its voluntary participation in the SCAAP program, the Sheriff’s Office receives a $1,000 payment for each undocumented immigrant taken into custody by ICE.
As such, they have processed over more than 1,000 undocumented county inmates in the past three years, raking in $1.2 million in revenue to defray the costs related to the department’s expenses for the incarcerated individuals…