Los Angeles police officers are required to record federal immigration enforcement activity in the city of Los Angeles with their body-worn cameras under a new city ordinance.<\/p>\n
Mayor Karen Bass, who issued a similar executive directive after large-scale immigration enforcement operations began in June 2025, signed the requirement into law during a news conference at Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The ordinance took effect immediately.<\/p>\n
Similar to the mayor’s Executive Directive 17, issued Feb. 10, the ordinance instructs all city law enforcement personnel to use their body-worn cameras to record immigration enforcement incidents. <\/p>\n
Officers are also directed to identify, when tactically safe, the on-scene supervisory immigration officer, attempt to verify the officer’s name and badge number, and ensure proper reporting and evidence collection in case of claims of unlawful conduct.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department is also required to de-escalate potential conflicts and provide clear communication to members of the public, as it was under the executive directive.<\/p>\n
With the codification, city departments are instructed to prepare ordinances that could impose impact fees on property owners who provide staging areas or site control for federal immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n
“This is a sign for (federal immigration enforcement officers) to know this property is not welcoming of them,” the mayor said. “The other thing it does for city staff so that they have the confidence that the city is actually backing them up in law.”<\/p>\n
Bass’ approval came hours after the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved the ordinance. <\/p>\n
Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson introduced a motion on Feb. 13 requesting that the city attorney codify the mayor’s directive into an ordinance, noting that such orders can be rescinded by future mayoral administrations.<\/p>\n
“To ensure lasting accountability and protections for city residents, the components of ED17 must be codified into the city’s administrative and municipal codes,” according to Harris-Dawson’s motion.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department and the union representing rank-and-file officers, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, have maintained that they adhere to Special Order 40, which ensures that policing is not tied to immigration status.<\/p>\n
“Special Order 40 has been in effect since 1979 and ensures that Los Angeles police officers target criminal behavior and not immigration status, and that is the way it ought to be,” according to a statement from the LAPPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police officers are required to record federal immigration enforcement activity in the city of Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-481052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-immigration","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}