Does the collection and dissemination of information indicating an arrestee's immigration status violate his privacy?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from FONSECA v. FONG, 167 Cal.App.4th 922, 84 Cal.Rptr.3d 567 (Cal. App. 2008):

15 In American G.I. Forum v. Miller (1990) 218 Cal.App.3d 859, 267 Cal.Rptr. 371, decided three years after Gates, and relying in part upon it, the court held that the collection and dissemination by local law enforcement officers of information indicating an arrestee's immigration status, does not violate the arrestee's constitutional right of privacy under the California Constitution nor deny him or her equal protection of the laws or due process of law.

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