In 2013, Connecticut passed the nation’s first, albeit flawed,Transparency & Responsibility Using State Tools (TRUST) Act. This state law limits the ability of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target individuals in the custody of state/local law enforcement. Since then, loopholes in the TRUST Act have allowed ICE to co-opt state/local resources for conducting arrests and raids. ICE activity in our state fuels the deportation machinery, police violence, and mass incarceration.

In 2019, we need to reform the TRUST Act to curb our state’s complicity in ICE exploits. Senate Bill 992 (SB992) amends the TRUST Act to fix its protections and keep local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies accountable.

What does that look like? Well, we need to:

• Prohibit Connecticut police, correctional staff, Judicial Marshals, Probation Officers, and School Resource Officers from honoring ICE detainer requests, unless ICE can present a judicial warrant

• Eliminate ‘courtesy calls’ to ICE when state or local agencies release individuals into the community

• Restrict information-sharing with ICE

• Keep ICE out of Connecticut prisons

• Create oversight of ICE communications with state and local law enforcement

The time is now to pass a TRUST Act that works for the people.

TAKE ACTION and a SEND A LETTER to your legislators and ask them to vote YES on SB992 and establish a true TRUST Act in Connecticut.