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LVMPD signed a formal ICE 287(g) agreement and expanded immigrant-booking reporting after publicly denying such cooperation, then withheld public records about it

Confidence: Confirmed · 3 sourcesClark County · Sep 22, 2026

Subject of this story

Kevin McMahill, Sheriff, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

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Advocate

ACLU of Nevada

What happened

After publicly assuring the community it would not cooperate with federal immigration detention requests, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE on May 30, 2025 — one day after the Trump administration labeled Las Vegas a 'sanctuary' jurisdiction — and expanded a policy flagging foreign-born jail bookings. ACLU of Nevada's January and June 2025 public-records requests about the policy and agreement went unfulfilled, prompting a July 2025 lawsuit; a separate ACLU suit challenging the agreement's legality was dismissed on standing grounds in March 2026 and is now on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court. Sheriff Kevin McMahill has since confirmed on the record that at least 240 of 264 flagged inmates were taken by ICE between mid-December 2025 and March 2026, and that Metro had withdrawn from a similar ICE program in 2019 over constitutionality concerns before re-entering one in 2025.

Sources (3)

SourceACLU of Nevada submitted public records requests on January 22, 2025 and June 4, 2025... Despite its obligations under the Nevada Public Records Act (NPRA), LVMPD has failed to provide any of the requested documents.

KSNV (News 3 Las Vegas)Last month, a Clark County District Court judge dismissed the suit on procedural grounds without ruling on the merits of the complaint.

Las Vegas Review-JournalMcMahill signed the ICE agreement on May 30, a day after President Donald Trump's administration declared the city of Las Vegas a so-called sanctuary... Metro and the city of Las Vegas previously participated in a version of the program at the jails but withdrew in 2019 after a c

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