When and why did Arlington County make an agreement to implement Secure Communities?
Arlington County did not sign any agreement with state or federal officials and did not make a decision to participate in the Secure Communities program. Because all Virginia localities, including Arlington, are required under state law to collect fingerprints and submit them to the VSP, no agreement with Arlington or any other local jurisdiction in the Commonwealth was necessary for federal and state representatives to implement this program. The VSP entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with DHS on Oct. 1, 2009, and beginning April 13, 2010, all fingerprints collected by the Arlington County Sheriff’s office are sent to the VSP who now send them to both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within DHS.
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- How easy or hard is it to implement a data exchange system using the Voluntary Data Sharing Agreement on our own?
- Who processes removal of documents, eg. to implement a settlement agreement involving removal of SF-50s?
- Is the agreement application a "plan to plan" and then implement, all within the $50K budget?
