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Sheriff explains fingerprint sharing, NCIC and 48‑hour ICE detainer practice
Summary
At the April 18 Budget & Finance meeting, Sheriff Hall told council members how the booking fingerprint process interacts with federal databases and with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At the April 18 Budget & Finance meeting, Sheriff Hall told council members how the booking fingerprint process interacts with federal databases and with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and he described the local practice for ICE detainers.
The sheriff said fingerprints taken at booking are sent to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and also to an immigration fingerprint database that was instituted under the Secure Communities program. “When you're fingerprinted, your prints go two places, and they're searching both of those systems,” he said, describing the automated checks. He explained that the…
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