Bill > A558

Introduced Session

This bill requires interstate, State, county, county park, and municipal police departments or forces and educational institutions that appoint law enforcement officers to adopt a policy of cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The bill defines "law enforcement officer" as a person whose public duties include the power to act as an officer for the detection, apprehension, arrest and conviction of offenders against the laws of this State. Additionally, the bill provides that subject to the approval of the Attorney General, the State would be required to defend a law enforcement officer in any civil action seeking to impose liability arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred while cooperating with federal immigration authorities, provided that the actual or alleged act, error, or omission did not result from intentional or willful and wanton misconduct on the part the law enforcement officer. The bill also provides that a law enforcement officer would be indemnified and held harmless by the State in the amount of any settlement or judgment obtained against the law enforcement officer for complying with the bill's provisions and cooperating with federal immigration authorities provided that the actual or alleged act, error, or omission did not result from intentional or willful and wanton misconduct on the part the law enforcement officer.

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Bob Auth (R)*,  John Azzariti (R)*,  Robert Clifton (R),  Dawn Fantasia (R),  Vicky Flynn (R),  Gregory Myhre (R),  Jay Webber (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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