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Residents urge Butler County commissioners to investigate and halt expansion of ICE detentions at jail
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment to ask commissioners to investigate alleged retaliation and due-process problems at the Butler County Jail related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions and to stop expansion of detainee numbers and ICE-certified deputy counts.
Several Butler County residents used the meeting’s public-comment period to demand greater transparency and oversight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions at the Butler County Jail and to ask the commissioners to halt any expansion of the county’s role.
Anne Janssen, who identified herself as a former school administrator, said the commissioners allowed Sheriff Richard Jones to sign an ICE contract in February and later permitted certification of 10 deputies as ICE officers. Janssen asked the commission to…
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