Lincoln County will discontinue its participation in a federal grant program because of changes to the terms and conditions attached to the funding.

Meeting with the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners in Wiscasset on Aug. 5, Lincoln County Administrator Carrie Kipfer said new grant stipulations require recipients step up collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon request.

“I’ve never had an experience where our emergency management agency was now going to be required to be part of the immigration enforcement arm of the federal government,” Kipfer said. “We do homeland security grants for community resiliency, to prepare for disaster and to be able to recover from disaster, not to worry about immigration law.”

The grant program, administered by the U.S. Department of

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