Published 2:15 pm Saturday, October 24, 2026

The Department of Homeland Security agreed in a settlement with the state to alert city officials at least 30 days before environmental permitting would get underway.

No new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers are slated for construction in Newport, Oregon, anytime soon, and the federal government will provide at least a month’s notice to city officials before any environmental permitting would get underway.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to those terms through Aug. 1, 2027, as part of a settlement with the Oregon Department of Justice filed in federal court in Eugene on Friday.

“ICE doesn’t get to skirt the law to build a facility for locking up and deporting our neighbors,” said Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, in a news release.…