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San Diego County Has the Right to Inspect ICE Detention Centers. Officials Have yet to Use It

Despite a 2024 law granting inspection rights, three of four counties with ICE detention centers in California have not conducted health and safety inspections, limiting oversight.

The Otay Mesa Detention Center is operated by CoreCivic. (File photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. 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 they were checking, local officia…

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The Santa Barbara Independent broke the news in on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
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