US EditionICE Detention Centers Not Being Inspected by CA Counties
More than 5,700 detainees are held statewide amid limited county inspections despite laws empowering health oversight of privately-run ICE detention centers.
- Earlier this year, three of the four California counties with ICE detention facilities had not inspected them, and the fourth only conducted basic food reviews, records show.
- The California Legislature passed laws empowering local oversight through two state laws authorizing inspections, citing detainees' delayed medical care and a May 2020 Otay Mesa outbreak infecting more than 300.
- Federal inspections found allegations of abuse and suicide-prevention lapses at Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2024, and Ismael Ayala-Uribe reported severe symptoms in August before his September death.
- GEO Group challenged the law but a federal judge dismissed the suit in May; Kern County health officer Kristopher Lyon said he has no intention to inspect, while officials from two other counties would act only on complaints.
- With more than 5,700 people detained in California, Attorney General Rob Bonta acknowledged state and local oversight is limited after courts struck down earlier bans on private facilities.
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ICE detention centers not being inspected by CA counties
The San Diego County health department said only that it “is exploring how to effectively operationalize this law in its jurisdiction.” This content California gave counties power to inspect ICE detention centers. They’re not using it appeared first on inewsource.
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California gave counties power to inspect ICE detention centers. They’re not using it
In summary In the four counties where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detention facilities, only one county health department conducts the kind of inspections that were explicitly allowed under a 2024 California law. Three of the four California counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities have not done so, and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year, records obtained by CalMatters show. If…
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