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Sheriff explains 287(g) warrant-service officer program and local ICE-related numbers
Summary
The sheriff's office briefed the committee on the 287(g) warrant-service officer program that allows trained deputies to process ICE administrative detainers; the office said training cost the county no money, it had 151 notifications to ICE last year, 17 detainers and 10 transfers to ICE.
Sheriff's office staff presented an overview of the 287(g) warrant-service officer program to the Winnebago County Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, explaining how the model operates and sharing local data on ICE notifications and detainers.
Staff described three 287(g) models: a jail enforcement model, a task force model and a warrant-service officer model. The county's approach, they said, is the warrant-service officer model: local deputies complete online training to be credentialed to serve administrative immigration detainers in the jail. Presenters said the training was provided free and was completed on duty time.
The sheriff's office provided jail statistics for the prior reporting period: roughly 4,900 bookings, 228 people born outside the U.S., 151 notifications made to ICE, 17 ICE detainers and 10 transfers to ICE last year; at the time of the meeting three people in the county jail had ICE detainers but were being held on criminal charges. "What I see in the numbers is not a mass deportation," a presenter said, urging members that the local pattern involved a select number of individuals and that many notifications do not lead to removal.
Staff also explained the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program process used to compile data on inmate bed-days and staffing in order to seek federal payments; presenters said the five-year average of funds applied to a commissary/account for hygiene and recreational items had been about $10,000'$12,000 a year (skewed higher in one year by COVID catch-up payments).
What the committee heard: presenters said the warrant-service officer approach reduces civil-liability risk because deputies operate under federal delegation when they perform specific administrative warrant tasks; presenters also emphasized that participation had not produced a major change in local practice and that the county has historically cooperated with ICE notifications in custody settings.
Next steps: committee members asked that presentations and slide decks be added to the meeting record for public access; staff agreed to make materials available as part of the meeting attachments.
