Sen. Patricia Fahy, D-Amsterdam, is pictured at an anti-ICE rally in Albany after the shooting of a Minnesota woman last week.

Democrats in the state Legislature are eyeing legislation to increase public reporting on immigration enforcement that takes place in New York state.

Assemblyman Tony Simone, D-New York City, introduced A.9376 in December, with a companion bill (S.8858) introduced this week in the state Senate by Sen. Patricia Fahy, D-Amsterdam. The bill has several co-sponsors – all Democrats – in the Senate.

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The legislation would add a new section to the Executive Law directing the state Division of Criminal Justice Services to establish and maintain a public online dashboard reporting aggregate data on federal immigration enforcement activity occurring in New York, with data to be collected with the help of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, state Office of Court Administration, Office of Governmental Administration and local law enforcement. The state Division of Criminal Justice Services would be allowed to incorporate publicly available federal data (including FOIA-released datasets) and to enter into data-sharing agreements with academic or nonprofit partners for validated aggregate information.

“This legislation will give New Yorkers a clear, data-driven view of ICE’s footprint in the state,” Simone and Fahy wrote in their legislative justification. “By publishing anonymized, aggregate data through a centralized and regularly updated dashboard, the state can promote transparency while maintaining privacy and security. The dashboard will also support policymakers, researchers, and legal aid organizations in identifying trends, assessing compliance with state and local sanctuary policies, and ensuring that immigration enforcement activities are conducted fairly and lawfully.”

Fahy and Simone said it is too difficult to oversee federal immigration enforcement activity in New York because it takes place across a patchwork of local jurisdictions, detention facilities and transportation hubs. In October Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk, according to the Associated Press. Users and developers of the apps say it’s their First Amendment right to capture what ICE is doing in their neighborhoods.

The New York lawmakers say their legislation could create a legal framework for such information to be made public.

“Recent reports and public hearings have highlighted inconsistent cooperation between local agencies and ICE, as well as community concerns about arrests at courthouses, transit hubs, and residential areas,” Simone and Fahy wrote. “These activities have implications for public safety, civil liberties and trust in local law enforcement. Moreover, activists who have created mobile applications for documenting immigration enforcement activity in

their communities have seen those apps removed from various app market-place platforms.”

Simone introduced the Assembly version of the bill in December, while Fahy’s Senate introduction came after the death of Renee Good in Minnesota during an ICE action that had drawn protests and interference. The Minneapolis shooting happened on the second day of the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, which Homeland Security said is the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers are taking part and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they have made more than 1,500 arrests.

The Minneapolis killing and a separate shooting in Portland, Oregon, a day later by the Border Patrol have set off protests in multiple cities and denunciations of immigration enforcement tactics by the U.S. government. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.