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AB 937
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<br />Date of Hearing: April 6, 2021
<br />Counsel: David Billingsley
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<br />ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
<br />Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr., Chair
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<br />AB 937 (Carrillo ) – As Amended March 22, 2021
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<br />SUMMARY: Eliminates the existing ability under the Values Act for law enforcement
<br />agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities by giving them notification of release
<br />for inmates or facilitating inmate transfers. Prohibits all state and local agencies from assisting,
<br />in any manner, the detention, deportation, interrogation, of an individual by immigration
<br />enforcement. Specifically, this bill:
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<br />1) Specifies that a state or local agency shall not arrest or assist with the arrest, confinement,
<br />detention, transfer, interrogation, or deportation of an individual for an immigration
<br />enforcement purpose in any manner including, but not limited to, by notifying another
<br />agency or subcontractor thereof regarding the release date and time of an individual,
<br />releasing or transferring an individual into the custody of another agency or subcontractor
<br />thereof, or disclosing personal information, as specified, about an individual, including, but
<br />not limited to, an individual’s date of birth, work address, home address, or parole or
<br />probation check in date and time to another agency or subcontractor thereof.
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<br />2) States that the prohibition described above shall apply notwithstanding any contrary
<br />provisions in the California Values Act, as specified, which allowed law enforcement to
<br />cooperate with immigration authorities in limited circumstances.
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<br />3) Specifies that this bill does not prohibit compliance with a criminal judicial warrant.
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<br />4) Prohibits a state or local agency or court from using immigration status as a factor to deny or
<br />to recommend denial of probation or participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental
<br />health program, or placement in a credit-earning program or class, or to determine custodial
<br />classification level, to deny mandatory supervision, or to lengthen the portion of supervision
<br />served in custody.
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<br />5) Clarifies the following terms for purposes of this bill:
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<br />a) “Immigration enforcement” includes “any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist
<br />in the investigation or enforcement of any federal civil immigration law, and also
<br />includes any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or
<br />enforcement of any federal criminal immigration law that penalizes a perso n’s presence
<br />in, entry, or reentry to, or employment in, the United States.”
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<br />b) “State or local agency” includes, but is not limited to, “local and state law enforcement
<br />agencies, parole or probation agencies, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the
<br />Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.”
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