By C1 Staff
NAPA COUNTY, Calif. — The Napa County DOC will no longer hold inmates past their release dates for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless a court finds probable cause to detain them.
According to CBS News, the new policy in Napa is the same as other California jurisdictions that have stopped honoring standard ICE detainers.
Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas recently announced the jail will no longer honor ICE immigration holds that are not supported by an arrest warrant or other probable cause, falling in line with San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Alameda, Santa Clara, Monterey and Riverside.
The policy change was sparked two months after a U.S. District Court ruled an ICE hold at an Oregon county jail violated a woman’s constitutional rights.
Before that, the jail was required to keep an undocumented alien in custody for no more than 48 hours excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays to allow ICE to take the inmate into custody.
ICE said its holds are not mandatory, according to CBS News.