LAPD Chief: We Are Bound by the California Values Act Which Means We Can’t Participate in Any Civil Immigration Enforcement

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McDONNELL: "Yeah, that’s something that we did talk about and we — there’s no resolution to that. And the problem is that we are guided and bound by the California Values Act, which means that we can’t participate in any way in civil immigration enforcement. So, the federal partners have been reticent to provide information to us before something happens because of that reason. Part of that is they want to be respectful of the rules that we have to live by. But it also, on a normal situation, not that big a deal, but in a situation like we saw here in the past couple of days, it turns out to be a very big deal. So we’re going to continue to work with the partners that I mentioned, and many others, as we go forward, to try and be able to make things as safe for everybody as we can."