{"id":124586,"date":"2026-02-26T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:49:09","slug":"erie-co-council-voting-thursday-to-keep-or-terminate-federal-detainee-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124586\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Co. Council voting Thursday to keep or terminate federal detainee contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thursday night at the local level, county leaders will reevaluate their relationship with ICE and its detainees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County Council will be voting at Thursday night\u2019s meeting on whether or not to terminate a long-standing contract with the federal government allowing federal detainees to be housed at the Erie County Prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Councilman Jim Wertz, who proposed the ordinance to terminate the contract, the agreement with the US Marshals Service is decades old, but now deserves a second look based on ice operations in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both public readings prior to Thursday night\u2019s vote have attracted large crowds to the meetings, demanding council vote on the new ordinance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We\u2019ll have more on the outcome of that vote later this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday night at the local level, county leaders will reevaluate their relationship with ICE and its detainees. Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[45797,136,14322,9472,138,137,3690,34178],"class_list":["post-124586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-county-leaders","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-council","tag-erie-county-prison","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-thursday-night","tag-us-marshals-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}