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AB 937 <br />Page S <br />Telecommunications System (CLLTS), whet; othcrwisc permitted by state hew. (Section <br />728 11; (b).) <br />FISCAL EFFECT: As currently in print this bill is keyed fiscal. <br />COMMENTS: This bill, the Voiding Inequality and Seeking [nchtsion tor Our hnnigrant <br />Neighbors (VTSION) Act, seeks to fin thcr the priorities of the State of Califinnia by prohibiting <br />all public resources, including all state and local government agency personnel, facilities, and <br />equipment, from being used to assist with the arrest, confinement, dCLCntion, transfer, <br />interrogation, or deportation of all individual for an irnmigmation cn$ircennant purpose. <br />Spcciticnlly, this bill would prohibit all state and local agettci", (including haw cntinuancnt <br />agencies and the Califirmia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) fi-om doing any of the <br />following: <br />1 ) Arresling or assisting with the arrest, confinement, detention, transfer, intenogrtlion, or <br />deportation of an individual for rutinimugtation eiubreettcm purpose it arty IDaillim <br />including the following: <br />a) Notifying, another agency or subcontractor thereof regarding the release date and time of <br />an individual, releasing ortransfening an individual into the custody ofannrher agency or <br />subcortractor dtcreof <br />b) Disclosing personal information about an individual, including, but not limited to, an <br />individual's date of -birth, work address, home address, or parole or probation check in <br />date and time to another agency or subcontractor thereof. <br />2) Using immigration stratus as a factor to deny or to rccomnntnd denial ofprobation or <br />participation in any diversion, rehabilitation, mental health program or placement in it credit- <br />caining pro�Tam or class, or to tictcannine custodial chtssification level, to deny ttiandatory <br />supervision, or to lengthen the portion ofsupervision served in cusody. <br />These prohlnitions would apply, according to the bill, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in <br />csisting law—spccitically including those in the California Vales Act --which allow for state <br />and local law enturce rent agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities tinder <br />certain Spccificd and linlitcad ci-cunnrunceS. <br />The bill is Iherefiare more restrictive than the Values Act in several ways. Fist, the bill prohabits <br />disclosure orrelease ofpersoril infixmation about detrinees to federal iurnigration authorities, <br />even when the hifornmtion is available to tlne pubie. Second, it prolnbis the transfer of detainees <br />to federal irnniknation, including in cases where there has been a probable cattle delernnnnalion <br />and Those iu which the detainee has been convicted of one or more crones specified it the Values <br />Act; arid third, it applies to the California Department ol'Rchabilitatiou, and all state and local <br />government agencies, as well as all other state and local law enforcement agencies. I inally, in <br />order to help entorec its restrictions, the bill imposes civil liability on public abtincics and <br />ciniployccs fin- violating its provisions. <br />Anthor'sStuternent. According to the author, the grater protections otfcrcd by this bill because <br />of well-docunented history of immigration enforcement authorities abusing individuals who <br />are 11 tnev Ol k-Mriy: <br />City Council 21 — 24 514/2021 <br />