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Sep 24, 2026

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WAMC (Elias Guerra)TIER 2

Backfill: Orange County Sheriff Paul Arteta joins the 15-sheriff suit against the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, saying losing the ICE jail-housing contract leaves a $10M hole in the county budget; a Democratic county legislator says she learned of his move from the press

Published Sept. 16. Orange County has housed ICE detainees at its jail since 2008; DHS has 60 business days from Aug. 24 to move non-criminal detainees out. The $10M figure is the sheriff's own claim, not an audited number. FAIR's lead attorney says briefing on the injunction request is complete and the Northern District has not ruled.

Sep 11, 2026

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WAMC Northeast Public Radio (Grant Ashley)TIER 2

Rensselaer County Legislature takes a "wait and see" line on the sheriff's 287(g) agreement after a record 95 people packed its public forum; a Democratic legislator says a non-binding resolution to drop the lawsuit is unlikely to move

Since Hochul signed the 287(g) ban in May, the Rensselaer County Legislature has not taken up a single item on Sheriff Kyle Bourgault's ICE agreement, and Democratic Legislator Ken Zalewski says that is unlikely to change: "everyone's just going to let it play out in a court of law." About 95 people attended the monthly public forum, a record, many urging Bourgault to end the agreement; County Executive Steve McLaughlin (R) defended it. Any resolution would be non-binding and would need every Democrat plus two Republicans. Rensselaer is one of the 15 sheriff's offices suing the state in federal court (Bourgault v. Hochul); the AG has a parallel state-court suit to terminate the agreement.