East Hampton Village Hall, seen here in a 2016 photo. Credit: Gordon M. Grant East Hampton Village on Wednesday became the first government on the East End to ban its police department from cooperating with federal agencies on civil immigration enforcement. The law, approved by the village board in a 5-0 vote, prohibits village police from entering into Section 287(g) agreements with the Department of Homeland Security. Those agreements allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to...

East Hampton Town Hall. The proposal also would require town and village police departments to notify newly created task forces about ICE activities if their officers were called to respond to a raid. Credit: Michael A. Rupolo Sr. East Hampton town and village are advancing legislation to bar police from cooperating with federal agencies on civil immigration enforcement — becoming the first East End municipalities to back the proposal. The proposal would also require police departments to...

Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, supervisor of East Hampton Town, participated in the State of the East End discussion in Wading River in July. Credit: Randee Daddona East Hampton Town will form a committee aimed at integrating its Latino residents during a time when many of those families are living in fear over the federal government's mass deportation plan. Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, a Democrat beginning her second term in office, announced the initiative on Tuesday during her State of the...