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Resident urges county to seek public accounting of ICE detentions; says numbers are not publicly available
Summary
A public commenter at the July 22 meeting said local residents are concerned about recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions and asked the commissioners to request public reporting from state or federal agencies so the community can know how many people have been detained locally.
During the July 22 public comment period, Rebecca Peck of Bow asked the Skagit County Board of Commissioners to press state or federal officials for a public accounting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions in the county, saying local groups have not been able to assemble a complete list of detentions.
Peck said she had identified at least a dozen detentions in the previous month but said there was no centralized jail roster or public report available to the community. She asked the commissioners to write to the governor and, through the governor, to federal authorities to request a public accounting so residents, families and businesses could know whether neighbors or employees had been detained.
In her remarks Peck identified several alleged recent detentions by location: at Coastal Farm & Ranch, at the corner of Fourth and Fulton in Mount Vernon, and at an Arco station near Mount Baker Middle School, and she also cited a construction‑van driver detained on I‑5. She said some detained people had legal immigration cases pending and that, in her view, some individuals taken were not being treated as criminals by local judges.
The comments were presented as citizen reports and requests for action; commissioners did not record any immediate directive, legal referral or confirmation of the incidents during the meeting transcript. No county staff or law enforcement response is recorded in the meeting minutes provided.
