Nassau police have no arrangements with federal officers to go into schools for immigration matters unless there is a threat to safety, officials said Wednesday.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said in interviews with reporters in East Meadow that police officers will not pursue immigration operations in schools or houses of worship.

Ryder said police have reached out to reassure communities amid fears from recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps on Long Island and around the country.

"The phone blows up anytime [agents are] in the community, and we tell them we're not about separating families, we're not about going into schools, we don't go into hospitals, we don't go into houses of worship," Ryder said. "We're assisting immigration when they come out here and they're going after a bad guy, that is their focus, that is their focus and deterrence is to go after the bad guy."

Blakeman said: "Raids on schools are not something we do unless there's an emergency or a threat, and if there's an emergency or threat, we're coming in regardless of the situation. So the bottom line is, there is no program to raid schools here in Nassau County."

Also Wednesday, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said he has not been contacted by ICE regarding operations in Suffolk County. He said people should not be afraid to go to school.

“Don’t be afraid,” Romaine said. “People should live their lives and I’m hopeful our concentration will be on deporting people who have committed crimes in this country.”

Romaine said Suffolk County will cooperate with federal agencies when requested.

“I understand the fear, but they took a risk when they came to this country without legal authorization, so if it’s fear, it’s self-made,” he said

Officials sought to quell concerns a day after federal agents from Homeland Security and ICE were seen near an elementary school Tuesday in Westbury, prompting community members to confront them. An ICE spokeswoman said in a statement Tuesday evening that the agents were conducting a separate "ongoing investigation" but did not go on campus.

A federal agent leaving the scene got into car accident with a civilian and about 100 people surrounded the crash scene and shouted at the agents until Nassau police dispersed the crowd. The agent and the civilian suffered minor injuries and went to a hospital.

The ICE statement said the community members were "anti-law enforcement agitators" who "prohibited the enforcement action." 

Ryder reiterated the agents did not go on the Westbury school campus, saying: "Never happened, never will. That's a mandate from the county exec ... We will not go into schools unless there's an emergency in that school."

Ryder said Nassau police work with the county’s 56 school districts and 450 school buildings regarding school safety. Blakeman said he would support authorities going to a school if there is a danger, but reiterated that federal agents and police were not going into schools for immigration matters. 

Blakeman also said federal agents in criminal investigations are not asking witnesses or victims for their immigration status so that they cooperate with police. But he added: "We've got some really bad people here with illegal immigration status, and we support taking them out of our communities and making our communities safer."

Ryder said: "Yesterday’s event was to go after an individual that was a bad guy, a bad guy that HSI was working with the FBI. It had nothing to do with immigration, zero." Ryder said. "It had nothing to do with the school. It was a block away from the school, so the officers just happened to get into an accident at that location."