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Judiciary committee declines to advance bill tying immigration reporting to arrests; SRO carve-outs and civil penalties debated
Summary
Senate Bill 17 would have required law enforcement to report the immigration status of individuals arrested for criminal offenses to federal officials and carved out school resource officers and certain school-related contacts. After debate about practical effects, privacy and enforcement, the committee voted the bill down.
Senate Bill 17, a change to Tennessee's sanctuary-city-related statute that would tie the duty to communicate an individual's immigration status to a criminal arrest and add a permissive civil penalty for noncompliance, failed to clear the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The sponsor, Chairman Gardenhire, explained the bill seeks to clarify last year's statutory change by requiring local law enforcement to communicate with federal immigration officials in accordance with 8 U.S.C. —657(g)(10) (as read into the record) when an individual has been arrested for a criminal offense. The amendment also carves out school resource officers and specified school settings so the…
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