Basic Ordering Agreements are agreements between ICE and local sheriffs in which ICE promises to pay sheriffs $50 for every immigrant they hold and turn over to ICE, for up to 48 hours of detention. Sheriffs execute these holds by re-arresting someone they were legally required to release. Counties believe these agreements will protect them from liability for illegal acts committed when acting as ICE’s force multipliers. The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing to prove they are wrong.
SPLC has obtained copies of the BOAs signed by Florida sheriffs and one Louisiana parish as of August 2019. The BOAs, which are not contracts, are short and change nothing about the usual way ICE collaborates with local law enforcement.
Download the signed agreements
- Alachua County
- Bay County
- Brevard County
- Calhoun County
- Charlotte County
- Columbia County
- De Soto County
- Dixie County
- Flagler County
- Franklin County
- Gilchrist County
- Gulf County
- Hardee County
- Hendry County
- Hernando County
- Highlands County
- Holmes County
- Indian River County
- Jefferson County
- Lafayette County
- Lake County
- Lee County
- Leon County
- Levy County
- Madison County
- Manatee County
- Marion County
- Martin County
- Monroe County
- Nassau County
- Okeechobee County
- Palm Beach County
- Pasco County
- Pinellas County
- Polk County
- Santa Rosa County
- Sarasota County
- Seminole County
- St. Charles Parish (Louisiana)
- St. Johns County
- St. Lucie County
- Sumter County
- Suwannee County
- Taylor County
- Union County
- Volusia County
- Walton County
- Washington County