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Open Letter to Albemarle County Jail Board

7/20/2018

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​To: Ms. Diantha McKeel, the Albemarle County Jail Board, and Colonel Martin Kumer, Regional Jail Superintendent 
From: Members of the Charlottesville Clergy Collective  
Re: ACRJ Notifications to ICE 
 
As  members of the Charlottesville Clergy Collective, we have followed with concern the ongoing community discussion of the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail (ACRJ) decision to continue voluntary notifications to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding release dates of detained members of our community. While we understand that the ACRJ is required to notify ICE when an undocumented person enters the facility, notifying ICE of their release is a choice, not a requirement. 
  
Having received and reviewed a copy of your July 1, 2018 “Concerned Citizen” letter justifying the continuation of this policy, we   strongly encourage the Jail Board to reconsider its decision regarding the matter. 
 
Through ongoing notifications to ICE, the ACRJ Board is effectively facilitating extrajudicial incarcerations based on citizenship status, rather than on a serious criminal offense. The position that the ACRJ Board has taken in notifying ICE aboutpeople who have been cleared to be released has the potential to separate families, hinder undocumented persons from seeking legal means to remain in this country, and create an unjust and even inhumane situation that leads to additional racial profiling of vulnerable community  members.    
 
Since we also understand that attempting to develop a methodology for deciding individual cases would create  undue difficulty, we implore you, the ACRJ Board, to end these ICE notifications altogether. 
 
Sincerely,  

Rev. Phil Woodson, First United Methodist Church 
Rev. Isaac Collins, Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church  
Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin, Congregation Beth Israel  
Rev. Liz Hulme Adam, Tabor Presbyterian Church 
Gail Hyder Wiley, elder, Westminster Presbyterian Church 
Rev. Bill Bray, Elim Korean International Church, Charlottesville 
Rev. Sandra Wisco, ELCA 
Rev. Brittany Caine‑Conley, Congregate Charlottesville  
Rev. Dr. Jill Duffield, Cove Presbyterian Church 
Rev. Jillian Andrzejewski, Mooreland Baptist Church 
Rev. Dr. Eugene T. Locke, Parish Associate Westminster Presbyterian 
Rev. Liz Forney, First Presbyterian Church 
Elizabeth Shillue, Charlottesville Friends Meeting 
Rev. Rabia Povich, Inayati Order 
Rev. Deborah Lewis, Wesley Foundation at UVA 
Rev. Susan A. Minasian, Sojourners United Church of Christ 
Rev. Marilu J. Thomas, Associate Rector Christ Episcopal Church 
Rev. Carol Carruthers Sims, Episcopal Priest, Retired 
Rev. Robert Lewis, Hinton Avenue United Methodist Church 
Rev. Emily Rowell Brown, St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church 
Rev. Dr. Michael Cheuk, Charlottesville Clergy Collective 
Ann Marie Smith Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville  
Rev. Maren Hange, Charlottesville Mennonite Church 
Rev. Dr. Martha Dixon Kearse, Peakland Baptist Church, Lynchburg
Jim Bundy, Retired Minister, United Church of Christ 
Rev. Tracy Howe Wispelwey, United Church of Christ 
Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Emrey, Co‑Pastor, New Beginnings Christian Community  
Jan Rivero, United Methodist Clergy, retired 
Cynthia Power, Charlottesville Friends Meeting 
Rev. Nicholas Deere, Charlottesville, VA 
Rev. Brenda Brown‑Grooms, Co‑Pastor, New Beginnings Christian Community  
Rabbi Tom Gutherz, Congregation Beth Israel 
Rev. Alvin Edwards, PhD, Senior Pastor, Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church 
Sharon Beckman‑Brindley, Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville 
Rev. Cass Bailey, Trinity Episcopal Church  
Sheikha Latifa Till, Sufi Ruhaniat International 
Rev. Don Lansky, Unity of Charlottesville 
Adam Slate, President, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, Unitarian Universalist 
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