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The Santa Barbara City Council is delaying a decision on whether or not to use a new provider for automated license plate reading cameras.

Organizer Susan Mackey said the signs were a way to represent each person without divulging their names or identities.

After two men were shot and killed by ICE agents this month, advocates are renewing calls for independent investigations into shootings by federal immigration officers in California.

If the current rate continues through the end of this year, the county will outpace last year’s transfers by 19 people.

The county’s supervisors voted unanimously to monitor for proposed ICE detention centers, and discussed how to block them from being created in unincorporated areas.

“If there's an opportunity for people who have committed serious crimes in the past to be transferred to ICE custody, I think it's the appropriate thing to do,” Sheriff Bill Brown said.

How many people go from Santa Barbara County’s jails into ICE custody? The answer is controversial.

Federal immigration agents are now limited in how and where they access property owned by San Luis Obispo County. The policy is unlikely to impact ICE operations at the county’s jail.

An immigrant rights organization is claiming that ICE agents blocked access to the Santa Barbara County Jail lobby last week, in retaliation for the county’s “ICE-free zone” policy.

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a package of policies related to immigration enforcement and elections.