The Dane County Sheriff’s Office will no longer participate in the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), a federal immigration grant program, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The program required the office to share the names of foreign-born jail inmates convicted of crimes with federal immigration officials in exchange for reimbursement for the cost of housing them.
Agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement already have access to inmate information, however, via public sources and national fingerprint databases, so the effect of ending program participation is not clear — apart from reducing county income by roughly $90,000 per year.
