Frank Rodriguez with CAUSE (left) and Sheriff Bill Brown discuss Senate Bill 54 at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara town hall meeting.
Paul Wellman

Santa Barbara County Jail ranked 25th in the nation in hold requests filed by immigration authorities, according to a report recently released by a nonprofit, TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse), affiliated with Syracuse University.

Notably, Santa Barbara County Jail finished ahead of the county jails in Ventura and San Diego counties. Those counties have two and eight times the population of Santa Barbara County, respectively.

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