Nichole FICKEN

To Whom it May Concern, I support HB 1570 which requires local budgetary authority before a law enforcement agency enters into an agreement with ICE and grants the budgetary authority continuing power to terminate the agreement. As a taxpayer I deserve to know how the money is being spent and how the state plans to pay for it. These agreements come with zero federal dollars to compensate counties or communities for the time officers or deputies spend taking ICE training or assisting ICE with immigration enforcement. This will not only be detrimental financially but also in the time officers are spending away from protecting their communities.