Santa Barbara County officials to square off over ICE arrests at jails

Santa Barbara County officials to square off over ICE arrests at jails

In April, a News-Press investigation found 99 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at local jails in 2025. The number that Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown reported to the California Attorney General’s Office was only 12. That discrepancy in numbers, and whether Brown’s office played in the additional arrests, is set to be the central topic of Tuesday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors, and at least one co…