Federal government lawyers Monday acknowledged making two errors in sworn declarations presented to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the extent of the federal officers’ “surge” to protect Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.

Robert Cantu, deputy director of the Federal Protective Service Region 10 that covers Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, said that the region had to assign 115 Federal Protective Service officers from other areas around the country to Portland to “maintain a 24/7 operational tempo,” at the building since June.

The new brief clarifies that 115 was the “number of deployments,” not individual officers sent, and there’s actually been a total of 86 Federal Protective Service officers sent to the building from other regions.

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