By Aaron Davis | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group April 13, 2018 at 5:28 am MARTINEZ — A chorus of public and private voices on Thursday called on the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office to stop publishing the release dates of inmates in what some viewed as an indirect coordination with ICE. “The harm being done to our clients every day cannot be overstated,” Robin Lipetzky, chief public defender for Contra Costa County, said at a county Public Protection Committee meeting that was attended by advocates, public servants and residents. “We ask that the sheriff’s office stop publishing these release dates immediately.” The county public defender’s office operates a county hotline for legal services for immigrants and for notification of ICE activity in the community. “There has been a fairly steady number of ICE arrests in the county and there is a lot of fear in the community,” Ali Saidi of the public defender’s office, said. “This is one of the major issues causing major distress in the community.” The public defender isn’t the only county office seeing the impact of the sheriff’s office’s new policies. The Early Childhood Mental Health Program reported that a number of Latino families have canceled mental health… Read full this story
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