Jail immigration policy made in secret?

[Police Moderator]

Jail immigration policy made in secret, lawsuit says
Nashville immigration lawsuit targets new state law
Dec. 29, 2011

A lawsuit in Nashville is seeking to stop jailers across Tennessee from enforcing a state law that requires them to investigate the immigration status of any person who comes into a county or municipal detention facility.

Public Chapter No. 1112, which passed in 2010 and took effect this year, required the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training, or POST, Commission to draw up procedures for jails to follow. The lawsuit, filed by Nashville immigration attorney Elliott Ozment in Davidson County Chancery Court, claims the POST Commission did not follow the state’s open meetings laws as it drew up a policy, and asks a judge for a temporary injunction that would halt its continued publication and implementation.

The policy ultimately adopted by the commission requires that people coming through a local jail be asked whether they are a citizen and whether they were born in the United States.

“The response to those questions will trigger an inquiry to (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) as to whether the individual needs to be held or not,” state the minutes from the commission’s Oct. 15, 2010, meeting.

Read more: tennessean

[professorx]

The description of how the program works by the attorney seems like deliberate misrepresentation.

www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/secure-communities-fact-sheet

[duke]

The complaint of not following the TN "Open meetings" are still valid regardless of what law or procedure is propagated.

[professorx]

Oh Duke!

There was absolutly no change in TN policy or procedure when secure communties was added. The lawyer is misinformed, or a total liar.

"The law states that a meeting is any gathering of a quorum of the members of a public body in order to deliberate or decide on public policy."

There is no deliberation or decisions to be made.

There is no special training, it is not "jail policy", nothing has to be done by the employees of TN. The warrants are like any other warrants.

Read up on the topic rather than agree with a lawyer's deliberate misinfomation.