Bill > SB791

This bill, known as the Community Trust Act, aims to limit the involvement of local correctional facilities and law enforcement agents in immigration enforcement. Specifically, it prohibits employees and agents of local correctional facilities from inquiring about or investigating an individual's citizenship or immigration status, detaining individuals based on suspicion of civil immigration violations, or transferring individuals to federal immigration authorities unless presented with a judicial warrant, with exceptions for routine booking procedures and when an individual's status is relevant to state or federal protections or international treaties. State correctional facilities are required to provide notice to federal immigration authorities about the release of individuals subject to an active immigration detainer, which is a written or electronic request from federal immigration authorities to detain a person believed to be removable under federal immigration law and accompanied by a warrant of removal. The bill also prohibits both state and local correctional facilities from coercing or intimidating individuals based on their citizenship or immigration status. Furthermore, it allows a District Court commissioner or judge to consider the existence of an immigration detainer when deciding whether to authorize pretrial release or set bond or bail for defendants charged with a felony.

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https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0791?ys=2026RS