{"id":194189,"date":"2026-03-16T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194189\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:49:32","slug":"tpd-updates-immigration-policy-after-florida-ags-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194189\/","title":{"rendered":"TPD updates immigration policy after Florida AG&#8217;s letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said the city\u2019s police department has updated its policies on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as a response to a letter from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/03\/11\/florida-ag-uthmeier-accues-tampa-mayor-castor-of-violating-immigration-polices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Castor was forcing sanctuary policies on Tampa Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the old guidelines, officers were prohibited from \u201cbroad-based immigration enforcement actions.\u201d That included traffic checkpoints, immigration operations at workplaces and more.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidelines remove those restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>They instead reference state statutes on how to handle victims or witnesses of a crime who are in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Uthmeier, Castor said, \u201cThe city of Tampa has no intention of violating state or federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the updated policy will take effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police Department&#8217;s Former Policy:<\/p>\n<p>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police Department&#8217;s Current Policy:<\/p>\n<p>&amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said the city\u2019s police department has updated its policies on immigration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4318,3140,274,276,2200,2287,115,99,275,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-194189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}