[Updated: Thu., Aug. 28, 2025, 11:50am]
The California Department of Justice (CDJ) took Sheriff Bill Brown quietly to task for failing to properly document the extent to which his department has been facilitating the transfer of undocumented jail inmates to federal immigration authorities over the past five years. The CDJ pointed to a troika of state laws written to limit cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and ICE, also known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
At issue are documents Brown submitted to the State Attorney General’s Office in accordance with what’s known as the state’s Values Act that consistently indicated that no transfers of any such inmates had taken place. But in documents Brown submitted to the County Board of Supervisors — in accordance with what’s known as the TRUTH Act — squarely contradicted that impression.