Comal County Sheriff’s Office will train 20 corrections officers and deputies to serve warrants and notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department of Homeland Security (ICE) of detainees.
Comal County commissioners formally signed an agreement at their Thursday, Sept. 11, meeting to comply with a request from Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds that brings the county into compliance with Texas Senate Bill 8, which the Texas Tribune reports requires sheriffs in counties with populations of more than 100,000 residents to request a 287 (g) agreement with ICE.
Sheriff Mark Reuynolds said the county’s Warrant Service Officer Program agreement is the “most minimalist” of three options presented by ICE.
“It will train not only deputies but corrections officers to serve warrants and notify ICE of detainees,” he said. “It will help us with the jail.”
The Memorandum of Agreement for the Warrant Service Officer program facilitates “the custodial transfer of specific aliens in LEA jail/correctional facilities for ICE for removal purposes at the time of the alien’s scheduled release from criminal custody.”