November 20, 2025, Alabama – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Immigration Project, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ), the Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama (¡HICA!), Somos Alabama, and the Tuscaloosa Latino Coalition filed six public records requests relating to Alabama counties Baldwin and Pickens and the tri-county municipality of Leeds. These requests seek information regarding collaboration and cooperation between federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office, Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, and Leeds Police Department. Local groups are concerned that collaboration of this kind is disproportionately affecting communities of color, especially those of Latine descent.   

The filings request any and all agreements and payments between ICE and the local law enforcement agencies. In addition, they seek communications between the local law enforcement agencies and ICE from November 5, 2024 to the present.

“We know local law enforcement in Baldwin and Pickens Counties and in Leeds are working with ICE to detain and deport members of our community. Communities have the right to know the extent to which their local officials are collaborating with ICE and when that is unclear, they have the right to request transparency,” stated the groups. 

The Trump administration is pursuing its goal of mass deportations by enlisting the help of Alabama local law enforcement. Across the state, through a program called 287(g), police in Alabama are collaborating with federal agents to detain undocumented immigrants. Such collaboration is also happening more informally in cities and counties across the state. Immigrant advocates worry that collaboration of this nature will encourage racial profiling. For example, in October of this year, a U.S. citizen was wrongfully detained twice at the construction sites where he was working. 

Read the public records requests here.