{"id":344598,"date":"2026-09-12T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344598\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:56:18","slug":"ags-office-investigating-contract-between-ice-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344598\/","title":{"rendered":"AG&#8217;s office investigating contract between ICE, Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A representative of the New York\u00a0State Attorney General\u2019s Office says they\u2019re investigating a contract between the town of Lancaster and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>ICE intends to award a no-bid contract to the town. The deal would extend an agreement already in place that allows ICE to rent out storage space from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>According to a document posted to a government website, the storage space is the only location that satisfies all of ICE\u2019s needs for storing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Spectrum News 1, the police department says that the contract complies with\u00a0New York\u2019s Local Cops, Local Crime Act, which bans state and local law enforcement from entering\u00a0ICE cooperation agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A representative of the New York\u00a0State Attorney General\u2019s Office says they\u2019re investigating a contract between the town of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,127323,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,200],"class_list":["post-344598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-megan-acker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}