"For an annual fee of roughly $200,000 SANDAG grants immigration enforcement agencies, including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), access to the database, which is known as ARJIS. The database contains information from every law enforcement agency in San Diego County - which includes traffic citations, arrest records, field interviews, a local jail census and some driver license records. Local police agencies have shared data with their federal counterparts through ARJIS for decades."
"Local police agencies have shared data with their federal counterparts through ARJIS for decades. But now, the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics are raising new questions about what exactly is being shared with the federal government. "It is not always great to share data because sometimes you don't know what the motivations of those people might be," said Seth Hall, a privacy advocate with the TRUST SD Coalition."
SANDAG operates ARJIS, a database containing law enforcement data from every San Diego County agency, including traffic citations, arrest records, field interviews, a local jail census and some driver license records. For an annual fee of roughly $200,000, SANDAG grants access to immigration enforcement agencies, including Customs and Border Protection. Local police agencies have shared data with federal counterparts through ARJIS for decades. Privacy advocates warn that current federal immigration enforcement tactics increase the risk that ARJIS data could be used to circumvent state and local sanctuary protections. California law allows residents to opt out of data broker sales, and the state recently launched a website to simplify mass opt-out requests.
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