NYC didn't advise jail staff of 'sanctuary' rules against tipping off ICE, report says
Source: Yahoo! News/NY Daily News
Thu, September 25, 2025 at 5:52 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK — Even as Mayor Eric Adams was inviting federal immigration officials onto Rikers Island, his administration failed to give Department of Correction staff basic training about city rules limiting disclosure of information on undocumented people held in the jails, a new watchdog report states.
Administration officials began publicly floating reopening the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Rikers as early as December, around the time Adams met with Border Czar Tom Homan. But the city Department of Investigation found DOC did not give any guidance to jails staff on the rules for information disclosure.
The department also didn’t give any training to its officers about New York’s “sanctuary city” laws or DOC policies, according to the report.
The findings stem from a DOI investigation into two incidents uncovered this past February where a DOC investigator illegally passed on information to ICE about two people held in the jails, the report said. In each instance, the report concluded, the DOC investigator did not know he was barred under law and city policy from providing that information since it was for possible deportation rather than part of an investigation into crimes.
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