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Committee Hears Bill to Bar Bail Agents from Enforcing Civil Immigration Warrants
Summary
Substitute Senate Bill 5714 would make it unprofessional conduct for bail bond agents or recovery agents to use their position to enforce civil immigration warrants or to share defendants’ immigration status outside the agency; the Department of Licensing would have disciplinary authority. Supporters called the bill necessary to protect immigrant
The Consumer Protection & Business Committee heard staff briefing and received public testimony March 18 on Substitute Senate Bill 5714, a measure that would declare certain immigration-enforcement actions by bail bond agencies and bail bond recovery agents to be unprofessional conduct under state law.
Peter Clodfelter, committee staff, said Washington licenses and regulates bail bond agencies, bail bond agents and bail bond recovery agents through the Department of Licensing. He summarized the bill’s principal provisions: it would make it unprofessional conduct for a bail bond…
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