Residents urge end to county's ICE contract; some speakers defend it
During public comment, multiple residents urged commissioners to cancel Butler County's contract with ICE, calling it inhumane and unnecessary; other residents defended the contract as law enforcement and public-safety policy. The board did not take action at the meeting.
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Public comment dominated the Aug. 11 meeting with several speakers urging the commissioners to end Butler County's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Lisa Bialis of Oxford said detainees held under the contract are largely people without criminal convictions and called the contract's continuation "inhumane."
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