Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

Key Points

• Immigration officers generally could not arrest, question, search, or watch people for immigration reasons at or within 1,000 feet of many “sensitive locations.”
• Sensitive locations listed include schools and school bus stops, hospitals and clinics, places of worship, shelters and food banks, courthouses and lawyers’ offices, Social Security and public aid offices, DMVs, polling places, and public protests.
• Officers could still act in urgent situations like an immediate threat to safety, terrorism concerns, hot pursuit, or to prevent key evidence from being destroyed.
• If officers break the rule, the bill says the government cannot use what it learned from that action in deportation court, and the person could ask to end the case right away.
• The bill would require yearly training and detailed reports to oversight offices and Congress after any enforcement action at a sensitive location; the changes would start 90 days after the law takes effect.