Your Tuesday evening update on Salem news
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Oregon’s Attorney General has weighed in on a lawsuit filed by Marion County officials over Oregon’s sanctuary law.
The county wants a federal court to decide if it can release personal information about people who are on county parole following convictions for serious crimes in response to administrative subpoenas from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying state and federal law conflict.
Dan Rayfield, the state’s top lawyer, said Oregon’s sanctuary law has already been upheld in federal court and that immigration officials can get a subpoena signed by a judge if they need state records.
“The Ninth Circuit has already weighed in, previously ruling that there is no conflict between Oregon’s sanctuary law and federal law. Oregon’s sanctuary law is longstanding and has coexisted under seven presidential administrations. The federal government, state and local communities have a shared interest in keeping our communities safe. That’s why Oregon’s sanctuary law allows the federal government to seek a judicial warrant to carry out its public safety objectives under federal law,” Rayfield said in a statement released Tuesday.
The suit drew protesters to last week’s Board of Commissioners meeting and has gotten support from nearly every sheriff in the state. County commissioners, meantime, said protesters aren’t aware of 2021 updates to the sanctuary law that restrict sharing citizenship information.
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