Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee meeting.

Let's call the roll.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Present.

So thank you everyone for joining us.

We do have Spanish interpretation available here in our board chamber.

And I assume that will also be available to those on Zoom.

Madam Clerk, are there any instructions in terms of public participation?

If you'd like to speak on an item, you can fill out a speaker's card in the front of the room and hand it to the clerk for remote participation.

Follow the teleconferencing guidelines posted at www.acgov.org and use your raise the raise your hand function to speak on an item.

Thank you.

So as we get started, I'll share some framing remarks and run through the plan for our agenda today.

I'll hand it over to our vice chair to also share framing remarks and then we'll get into the agenda.

So firstly, Alameda County Together for All, this Act for All Committee.

It was created to provide a coordinated and proactive response to protect support and lift up communities that are impacted by federal policy changes and budgets.

So we're working to make sure that our communities are informed, prepared, and coordinated in protecting the critical health programs and social services as well as constitutional rights that we should all be afforded.

So we usually meet monthly on the first Thursday, and you can stay informed by visiting our website at district5.acgov.org slash ActForall.

So I do want to welcome us to our first meeting in 2026.

We know that the attacks on our communities have been relentless, and we are here to take action.

Very briefly, we've done tremendous work in 2025.

So together, Supervisor Marquez and I with this committee and all of your participation, we've been able to allocate seven and a half million dollars towards immigrant and refugee rapid response, deportation defense, community education and organizing, as well as legal services.

We're really proud of that work, as well as a future commitment for an office of immigrant affairs.

We've also been able to make recommendations to the board, which the board has approved to fund critical safety net services, services that are impacted by Trump's budget bill.

And just in the first weeks of this year, and the second year of this current Trump administration, I think it's clear that our communities are in crisis.

Immigrant communities across the country are facing a level of fear and instability that we can't ignore.

And that fear isn't abstract.

Immigration enforcement operations have resulted in shootings and deaths of community members, leaving families in neighborhoods traumatized and demanding answers.

Just in the last two weeks, our communities are still reckoning with the tragic killings by ICE agents of Keith Porter and Renee Good.

And last year, 2025 was the deadliest year for those in ICE custody in over two decades, with 32 of our community members losing their lives.

So throughout the state and nation, there has been an increase of incidents of arrests of both citizens and non-citizens by mass, non-uniformed, plain clothes federal agents.

Often these agents will not have visible names or officer identification numbers or other individually identifying information on their persons, and this practice is causing confusion, fear, and panic.

Our community members have no way of knowing whether these agents are exercising legitimate authority or committing crimes, thereby spreading distrust in law enforcement and harming public safety for all our county residents.

So not only has federal immigration enforcement intensified, the immigration court system is being hollowed out with federal judges fired, courts closing and cases being delayed for years.

In fact, over the past year, 100 immigration judges have been fired.

Here in San Francisco, the San Francisco immigration court will be closing, possibly as soon as the summer, and that will leave people in legal limbo.

We're hearing that when judges are fired, their cases are canceled, their hearings are canceled and delayed for three to four years.

And so there was already very little due process.

And with this happening within our court system, there will be even less due process in our courts, on our streets with these ICE agents, and we're also hearing that bond hearings are being increasingly restricted.

So this is a true crisis for our community.

Again, what we are hoping to do is make sure with the work that we're doing in this committee is we're upholding our legal system and our laws as well as our constitution.

These are fundamental rights for all of us.

And while this is happening, this mass deportation agenda, and all of what the federal administration is causing in terms of chaos, fear, trauma, separating families.

I know that those of you who are here, those of you who are we are partnering with, you have been demonstrating courage, resilience, and an unshakable commitment to keeping our community safe by organizing, educating, and empowering each other.

So I am very grateful for that.

And with the proposals I'm bringing forward today, my hope is that we as a county are also going to take on our responsibility with the same courage, clarity, compassion, coordination, and conviction that we see out in the community.

So the legislation that we'll talk about today is about protecting our residents, upholding fundamental rights, and ensuring our systems don't contribute to harm, and that our commitment is reflected with justice, public safety, and standing up for our communities, everyone who calls Alameda home.

So today's agenda is going to focus our discussion on continuing from November, where we discussed two policy proposals.

One is the development of a response plan in case of increased ICE enforcement, and the second is the adoption of a policy that would establish ice-free zones here in Alameda County.

We'll hear from our department heads about existing practices, planned initiatives, lessons learned, and operational considerations, and that will help inform our approach to having a coordinated realistic as well as effective response, again, to protect individual rights, maintain public safety, and importantly to continue access to our county services for all of our communities.

And again, our goal is simple.

Every resident should be able to access health care, courts, schools, and public services without fear.

So just to go through our agenda, we will hear from a brief overview from myself, kind of picking up where we left off in December, and then we will hear from Director Gassaway from a general services agency, Sheriff Sonia Sanchez, District Attorney Ursula Jones, probation chief Brian Ford, and public defender Brendan Woods.

Each presenter has five to ten minutes.

They all know their time.

We'll have clarifying questions and then discussion after the presentations.

From there, we'll have public comment.

It's one public comment on this item today, and then we'll come back to the committee for action.

And with that, I'll pass it to my colleague, Supervisor Marquez, and thank you so much for your ongoing leadership on these issues.

Thank you, Chair Fortunato Bass, and welcome, community.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for your interest.

I want to personally thank Supervisor Fortano Bass for her leadership as well as her staff for working with the county's general services agency and public safety partners to provide a deeper cross-agency review of our two action items today.

Regardless of our unique roles, responsibilities, or even ideologies, I do not believe any one of our county leaders or staff could have anticipated the full magnitude of this federal administration's lack of regard for the Constitution for humanity.

Renee Nicole Good should still be alive.

Keith Porter Jr.

should still be alive.

And sadly, the list of mothers, fathers, neighbors, caregivers, co-workers, friends, and fellow human beings who have been denied their due process and dignity by ICE goes on and on and on.

But I believe that we can and must continue to transform our pain into purpose.

In the words of the National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, in her poem for the fellow poet Renee Nicole Good, change is only possible and all the greater when the labor and bitter anger of our neighbors is moved by the love and better angels of our nature.

What they call death and void, we know is breath and voice.

In the end, gorgeously, endures our enormity.

Let us continue to acknowledge and further embrace our collective responsibility to promote a safe, healthy, and just county for all.

Thank you, Supervisor Marquez.

And just a note to members of the public who are with us today, the agenda did include the two board letters from November that my office submitted.

Yesterday, it also included an amended ICE Free Zones policy.

And we are going to go through a slightly updated PowerPoint presentation to overview the two items in front of us and to share a few updates.

And uh the PowerPoint presentation, if you uh want to access it, you can also find it online on our ACK for all web page, and that is district five.acgov.org slash ac4 all.

Great.

So some of this might be uh repetitive relative to the hearing that we first had in November.

So I will skip through those slides that we reviewed last uh last time.

Okay.

So this again is the purpose for the Act for All Committee, and again, we're really proud of the recommendations that our committee has made to the full board, which has resulted in millions of investments to our most vulnerable communities.

Today we'll be hearing two policy proposals from my office, and we will be moving forward, hopefully, recommendations to implement a response plan for immigration enforcement as well as ice free zones.

And we reviewed these slides last time.

These slides uh really document the work that this committee has done to protect our immigrant and refugee communities.

So this has a timeline of the actions and investments that we have made, and the specific investments we've made to really bolster immigrant and refugee protections in our county include these specific investments to our public defenders immigration unit, a cord, which is providing legal services, a CLIP, which is our rapid response hotline, as well as ACUDIR, who's doing community organizing.

I know many of you have been working incredibly hard over the past year.

This is very, very important work in our community, so thank you.

And we're also proud that we've been able to share this information broadly with our community.

So, as a recap, uh rising ICE activity.

So we all know that ICE activity has been rising.

I will just point out that HR1, the budget bill passed nationally in July, will increase ICE's budget 75 billion over four years.

That's a 300% increase, making ICE the most well funded federal law enforcement agency in U.S.

history.

And I think part of our concern as a community is that with this surge in funding is a surge in recruitment.

We are seeing officers coming on board who are not well trained using excessive force, and that's a real harm to our community.

In October, we all remember that there was a confirmed report of planned large scale immigration and enforcement activities here in our county at Coast Guard Island that was called off nonetheless.

Two members of our community were injured by gunshot wounds by federal agents and one additional community member was shot with a chemical weapon and severely injured.

So this activity is quite dangerous.

And not only that, since Trump's immigration crackdown in Los Angeles last summer, there have been 17 documented incidents in which immigration agents opened fire.

And as we have both acknowledged in the past two months, ICE has shot and killed two individuals, Renee Good in Minneapolis and Heath Porter in Southern California.

So it's imperative that our county is fully prepared for any increased attacks on our community, and that we collaborate across the county with our cities, our hospitals and health care facilities, our education, transit, and other agencies.

And so here you'll see some graphs about the increase in ICE funding.

So getting to our first proposal, this is our response plan to immigrant enforcement activities.

This is based on work that Santa Clara County spearheaded here in the Bay Area, and Santa Clara County in December adopted their response plan.

And here you'll see, and this again is information that we first looked at in November, the framework for our plan is building off our current vision 2036 goals and board direction, emphasizing coordination among our departments and our community partners, and making sure that we are informed by our agencies and our partners.

There's a bunch of work that's been going on over the past year.

We want to really build on existing and ongoing preparation efforts that also includes our existing emergency response plans.

This should be a tiered community response, recognizing that there has been ongoing ICE activity this past year, and as that escalates, we want to make sure that the response is appropriate.

And one of the things that I think is really important, which Santa Clara is doing, is recognizing there needs to be a post-event process, recognizing that in the event of increased ICE enforcement activity, we'll need community restoration and healing.

It will be very important to address the trauma.

So this slide draws on feedback from our own Alameda County departments and community, other cities.

I won't read through this because we went through this back in November, but you'll see here the core components are protocols for communication, training, making sure our workplaces and other public places are safe, and directing our administrator to coordinate these efforts.

So back in November, we heard from our social services agency, and you'll see you'll see here a list of the planning that they have done.

So you'll see that since 2017, there's been 90 million dollars in investments in our immigrant community.

And also very important, since January of last year, our social services agency has had an internal agency work group to strategize and communicate.

They've updated a resource guide for programs and services, provided guidance to staff, distributed countless red cards, and made sure that their signage restricting non-SSA staff from non-public areas.

Our social services agency is providing interim coordination for immigrant and refugee services, as well as supporting the creation of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, which Supervisor Marquez is spearheading.

Also in July, SSA, together with the Mexican consulate, entered into an MOU with the purpose of protecting Mexican minors by providing a mechanism for early identification of them and their families to preserve, rehabilitate, and reunite these families.

We also heard back in November from Alameda County Health.

They've had an internal cross-agency group meeting since December of 2024.

They've instituted a modified incident command structure within the agency.

They've done work in their facilities to make sure public and private spaces are clearly marked, that their up-to-date protocols for their buildings, that most of their buildings have key card access and are more secure, and that their staff and contractors are trained on HIPAA, which is protecting privacy.

Really developing a culture of compassion and acceptance so that those who are impacted by immigration enforcement have access to resource resources.

They've provided guidance on what to do if ICE or other law enforcement show up.

They've provided know your rights resources, and again, they're really focused as our health care agency and with a public health approach and ensuring access to care and looking at the specific needs of impacted communities and really focusing on information and guidance and continuing to engage in trusted messengers.

So that's an update on our response plans.

And then the second policy is for ICE-free zones.

And what motivated me partly to introduce this to our county is that the City of Chicago, the mayor of Chicago, actually passed an executive order back in October declaring city-owned properties ice-free zones and restricting the use of their municipal facilities for ICE enforcement.

This is something that's happening across the country, and on the slide you'll see here a summary of what's happening locally.

Again, Santa Clara County's board unanimously passed a similar policy December 9th.

The City Council of San Jose also unanimously passed a similar policy just this past Tuesday.

And similar policies are being discussed in Los Angeles as well as in San Francisco.

Alameda County does not yet have a policy explicitly restricting federal immigration enforcement agencies from using our county facilities, and so that is the purpose of this proposed policy.

Okay, and so on the slide you'll see a summary of the policy.

And so again, the ICE free zone policy is a policy that will state that no county-owned or county-controlled properties, including parking lots, vacant lots, garages, or non-public areas of building, shall be used for staging areas, processing locations or operation spaces for the purpose of immigration enforcement.

In terms of implementation and enforcement, we would have our administration identify such properties that could potentially be used for immigration enforcement.

We'd ensure that wherever appropriate, there are physical barriers such as gates to limit access.

And we would also establish a process for posting clear signage.

And some of that is already in the works, and we'll hear more as we have the presentations.

And in addition, there will be development of procedures requiring county staff to report any federal attempts to use our county owned or county controlled property for immigration enforcement.

And we think it's important to ensure that these immigration enforcement incidents are communicated to our county administrator, our county council, our public safety offices, and to the board.

And we again want to make sure that laws are being followed and our constitution is being upheld.

The county administrator or her designee would develop procedures to implement the policy, and I am proposing that a progress report come to our next Act for All Committee.

And these implementation procedures should be clear in terms of the reporting policy and be consistent with the response plan.

Lastly, the amended policy in front of us also has a clause around identification of federal immigration officers.

The states the county calls on federal immigration enforcement officers performing official business in the county to identify themselves as federal immigration enforcement officers and to make clear that they are not officers, agents, or employees of the county, and to comply with all state and federal legal protections afforded to county residents.

So with that summary and overview, we can move on to the presentations from our department heads.

And let me just review the order so that that is clear.

Thank you for joining us.

Good afternoon.

Thank you, Supervisors.

Again, Kemberley Gasway, Director of General Services Agency, and our agency's role is property management in all county owned and leased buildings in which county services where we occupy those facilities.

Back in October, when this first started coming to our attention, we began implementing posting signage in all county-owned and leased buildings, designating author where portions of the facility were for authorized personnel only to make it clear to distinguish between public access spaces such as a lobby of a building versus going into the back areas where only authorized personnel were to be there.

So that has already been underway.

The majority of the buildings are complete, and that includes again, as I mentioned, owned and lease facilities.

I do see that you're making recommendations about some postage on a building as a whole.

So we'll coordinate with the county administrator regarding that specifically related to ICE operations.

In addition, whenever there's an emergency in a facility, we do have communication protocols so that I'm notified immediately of something that is happening, and that's so that I can coordinate with the county administrator, HR, and other department heads that are affected in that facility, whether it's county owned or leased, and looking at what you're talking about communications on such protocols.

If activities start to happen in one of our buildings, we'll certainly roll that into the current protocols and make sure everybody's clearly trained on how that happens.

Separately, we manage the security guards in county buildings, whether armed or unarmed throughout the portfolio, and so we will make sure that security guards are fully trained on how they are to respond if ICE agents or border patrol come into our facilities, you know, making sure they have judicial warrants in order to go beyond public area, or if they're going to start setting up staging, etc.

As you other activities that you've identified here.

So we will make sure those protocols and that communication is goes to those contract service providers.

Thank you, Director Gassaway.

We'll take uh clarifying questions from the committee.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you.

Thank you, Director Gastaway for being here today.

Um, with respect to the communication protocols in the event of an emergency, is that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, or are there limitations if it's evenings or weekends?

Certainly call me 24 hours a day, yes, at all times.

And there's obviously proper protocols should you be out on leave.

There's someone um in your stead.

Yes, okay.

Um Alan Baxter, my chief of um operations is here as well, and we want to make sure he hears firsthand all of this so that we are aligned and he is um also responsible in that area.

Okay, and then can you elaborate on um we're aware that the only way an agent can enter a proper a property is with a judicial warrant?

So um did you say that training still needs to occur with your staff or it's already started?

I just wanted to be clear on that.

Um it needs to occur, it has not yet.

We just um came to understand that, and we need to make sure we understand the different types of warrants that that has to be signed by a judge.

Not only our staff are informed, but also our security guards that are contracted, need to understand.

Okay, and how long do you think that training will take once we've developed the proper curriculum?

Is that something that will take 30 days, 60, 90 days to train everyone?

Do you have a sense?

I know you're still exploring, but um, do you have an early read on that?

It's probably 30 days or less.

Okay, and how many people are we talking about training approximately?

Well, there we need to coordinate with all the department heads in the county because several of the facilities um GSA does not occupy, so we need to make sure that they have safety managers that we interact with all the time, and their facility managers and their county leadership.

So we will draft the protocol, make sure everyone gets it.

We have regular meetings with those safety managers, so make sure that's rolled out, and we will give notification to our security officers, security um guards as well.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Director Gassaway.

And in terms of inventorying our county owned and county controlled property, um, what's the status of that list?

So we do keep an inventory of all of our county properties, and that is posted on the county website under the capital plan.

It's an appendix to the capital plan.

Everyone can see that.

So we've already spoken with um our county administrators' office that will go through that and look and identify buildings that could potentially be set up for some of these operations.

Thank you.

And that also includes vacant lots that we might have.

Excuse me.

That also includes any vacant lots that we might have.

Thank you.

Vacant lots, parking lots, buildings, everything.

Thank you so much.

Really appreciate the work to date.

Okay.

Sheriff Sanchez, thank you so much for being here.

Uh, we welcome your um presentation on any issues related to either of these proposals in terms of the work that your office is already doing or anything that we should be considering as we look at these plans.

Yeah, so um, glad to be here uh and answer any questions that come forth.

I know that we've been in this arena a couple times already, and it's uh just to kind of reiterate that what I've already said as far as the fact that the sheriff's office has very clear directives on how we do or do not communicate with ICE.

I've made it very clear that we do not accept civil detainers at our facility at the jail.

Uh, we only accept criminal warrants for people.

Um we have continued to provide information and and communicate with ASLIP, so that if they need any information or need the public to be informed as far as what the the sheriff's office role in any kind of ICE activity that's out there in the community that they spot, that they can communicate with us to see if that is an actual ICE operation or if maybe it's a local operation that's occurring.

Also, knowing that our community could call us if they see plainclothes individuals who are trying to effect an arrest or make some sort of enforcement action, we will respond to those calls to make sure and verify that those are law enforcement officers.

And I think that should be stated that any professional law enforcement agency understands and knows the need to be clearly marked and identified as a law enforcement officer, it is a safety issue when you have people who are running around in sweatshirts and jeans that are trying to take some sort of enforcement action.

If we get called to that, how do we know who's who?

So that's you know, my understanding as far as how that occurs out in the community and how federal officers are taking that position to not be clearly marked is beyond me, but uh I think that if you saw if you talk to any local chief in our county and beyond, they'll they'll reiterate what I've said.

It's very it's very important that we make sure that whoever we're encountering knows that we're a law enforcement officer.

So you will see that from your local law enforcement agencies and your local law enforcement agencies within this county will respond to those calls if there is a fear that somebody is trying to make some sort of enforcement action that's not clearly marked.

Um I think that uh these uh are very interesting times, and we'll I'm looking forward to working with our partners to make sure that there's a clear communication on when there's some sort of activity that requires you know another department to partner or make sure that individuals have resources available to them.

Um I know that uh there's still some discussions that have to occur with regard to individuals who are trying to get their court cases heard in our local courthouses and how that um how that operates or the the operation of identifying people coming into the the courthouse to potentially affect some sort of ICE enforcement action.

So those conversations are continuing.

I know that the courts just put something out on Friday and we're working through logistics on that.

Thank you very much, Sheriff.

Supervisor Marquez has any um comments or questions?

Yeah, um, thank you, Sheriff Sanchez.

I believe you've been publicly stating your position and how your department does not cooperate with ICE since before this current administration even took office.

So thank you for your consistent um position and um willingness to share that um with the public on an ongoing basis.

Um we are aware of some issues that have happened at the courthouse.

You and I meet monthly, and so if you don't mind just kind of sharing with the public, just so we're all clear on kind of roles, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in terms of as much as we would like to give direction and collaborate with the court, it is a separate entity.

So if you don't mind, and I know there's updates that obviously we still need to analyze, but you mentioned something just was released on Friday.

But if you could just explain to the public the role the judicial council and um how they manage the court system, yeah.

So the the sheriff's office provides security at the state courthouses.

So the state and the judicial council is really who sets policy, and that's kind of what we've been waiting for as far as guidance on how that is going to look like in the courthouses.

So we just got that policy.

Um, we're working through how that's going to be affected.

Um there's some language that needs to be cleaned up, and we're working with the presiding judge to do that, but it is a state facility.

So if you if we want to post signs, the state has to approve it.

The judicial, the presiding judge has to approve that, so it's really working through those those steps because it is state and not county.

And um, let's just say hypothetically, if there was ICE activity, um, our social services agency, um any building that we own and manage, um, what is the response from your department in terms of whether an agent has a valid warrant or not?

What what are do we have current protocols in place?

So we would treat them like any other law enforcement agency.

We can't we can't intervene in their law enforcement action.

It's uh obviously a difficult uh situation in itself, whether we agree with it or not, but if they are in a public area affecting some sort of action, there's nothing we can do about that.

We can make sure that we communicate that there has been some sort of ICE activity or arrest to whoever is going to be providing some sort of resources to that individual or their family.

But we can't stop an arrest.

What we can do is we can ask them what their legal business is for that area, if we're the ones that are providing security for that building, such as the courthouse asking what their business is and making sure that they are clearly a law enforcement officer.

So if they're coming in plain clothes, then we are going to make sure that they are a law enforcement officer, first off.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Sheriff.

I think the only question I might have is, could you talk a bit a little bit about your work with other law enforcement chiefs in the county and sort of what the discussion has been around these times of increased immigration enforcement?

What level of say communication and coordination is happening with you and the city police chiefs, for example.

Yeah, we're in constant communication, we're all on the same page of uh how we feel and how we're going to respond to the community.

I think that the concern is what we've seen across the nation is we support our community in voicing their dismay about what's happening across this country, but doing it in a safe way where you're not putting yourselves in physical danger.

And we train very differently or your local law enforcement agencies train very differently from the and we don't know what those what that training is for the federal officers, but what we can say is that if you physically try to intervene with them, it it's unpredictable as far as how their response is going to be, and we want to make sure that everybody goes home to their families and that they're able to see another day, and um that's that's really our greatest concern.

We are there to protect everyone from harm, and we want to make sure that um you're being safe in exercising your rights.

Thank you so much, and thank you for the work that you and the deputies do.

Okay, our next speaker is our district attorney, Ursula Jones Dixon, and she is joining us on Zoom.

Madam Clerk, are you able?

Oh, great, she's right there.

Can you guys hear me?

Thank you, DA for joining us.

Thank you.

Can you guys hear me?

Yes, we can.

So again, we invite you.

We invite you to comment on any of the any work you're already doing as it relates to increased immigration enforcement and the current climate around immigrants and refugees, and to comment on these two policies in front of us.

So I apologize I'm not there in person, I'm not in state, um, but I did want to at least be here to um let everyone here know that the DA's office one as it relates to victims of crime.

Uh, we don't ask anybody about their immigration status, nor do we have any contact.

Uh, we don't engage ICE at all.

Um, and that has been the situation for quite some time, way before I was there for many, many years.

That continues to be the case.

Uh, as it relates to people charged with a crime, we also don't ask anything about their immigration status.

That information can come to us later on, oftentimes through defense counsel, because we take immigration status into consideration as it relates to plea agreements and that that's required of the DA's office, and we uh always adhere to that rule, but the we don't ask anyone's immigration status.

Uh, more importantly, as it relates to the district attorney's office, we don't allow ICE into our office, even though they come into, you know, the if they come into the building, that's one thing, but we don't allow them into the district attorney's office, any area, in any of our buildings, and so all of our staff are aware of that.

If there is any concern about ICE activity, everyone at the office knows to contact me or my chief assistant or our chief of inspectors or assistant chief of inspectors so that we can try to determine what the concern issue or threat is and decide what the plan is and of course disseminate that information to everyone else.

I do think to piggyback on what the sheriff just said, these are very uh disturbing times.

And my hope is that some level of collaboration at least keeps our citizens informed about what's going on the best we possibly can.

I also realize that what we're seeing across the country is a very sickening, disturbing response from this administration as it relates to folks who are even wanting to engage to stop activities by ICE that we know aren't legal.

So I, as you all know, left the court of recent.

I was looking at their new directive.

I know that the sheriff said they're cleaning up some language, so I've not had a conversation yet with the presiding judge about that.

That directive seems to be pretty clear that uh the court does not want anyone coming into the courthouse unless they have lawful business.

And so that is kind of where we all stand, and uh how we all respond to that because the court is going to have to lead us.

I also am happy to look to the attorney general's office as it relates to direction uh for prosecutors as we kind of move through these these muddy waters.

And so the hope is to be reaching out to a AG Bonta's office as well.

Just to say, is there anything specific that you want from the district attorney's offices in the state of California?

Any messaging we should be having.

Any questions for me?

Thank you, district attorney.

Supervisor Marquez.

I don't have any questions at this time.

Thank you for being here.

Um District Attorney, uh, the directive that you mentioned from the presiding judge, is that for the Renee Davidson courthouse or it's it's those directives, no.

It should be for the entire court system.

Um, the presiding judge should be making those directives as it relates to the courts.

Again, I've not spoken to him.

Um I had an opportunity right before I left to take a look at that directive.

The I think the sheriff was alluding to the fact that there's some complications because our buildings are shared by kind of state and county.

Uh the JJC is the best example of that.

A portion of the building estate, a portion of it is the county.

So there are some concerns, at least in my head, as to what how that directive needs to be evaluated and how we move on it.

But the presiding judge should be making the call for all of the courts because he is presiding over all of the court.

Thank you for that clarification.

Okay, next we will hear from our probation chief Brian Ford, and I believe there's a presentation.

I do have the clicker here if this is needed.

Thank you.

So good afternoon, Chair Fortnoto Bass and Supervisor Marquez.

So today we'll be providing an overview of our department's uh policies and protocols along with just a general uh briefing of our immigration-related efforts.

This presentation is intended to outline how we operate in this area.

Uh, the legal framework that guides our work and the procedures in place to ensure clarity, consistency, and accountability across our department.

Our approach is grounded in the county's vision, values, and goals.

We are committed to upholding public safety, complying with state and federal law, and at the same time honoring the county's longstanding commitment to equity, fairness, and building trust with the communities that we serve.

This includes ensuring that our practices are transparent, that our staff are properly trained, and that our policies reflect both our legal obligations and our responsibility to treat all individuals with dignity and respect.

The information that you'll hear today will provide context on how we balance these responsibilities and how our protocols are designed to align with the county's priorities around community trust, access to services, and our lawful and ethical operations.

And so with that, I'll turn it over to Deputy Director, Mr.

Albert Banwellos, who will walk us through the presentation, and then we'll be happy to take questions.

Thank you and good afternoon.

First, uh, we want to thank the supervisors, the committee members for allowing us to shine some light on our current processes and procedures within the department to keep us aligned.

The presentation is a little more robust.

I think some of this may seem uh that we're going over a little more than we need to, so we'll skip through a couple of slides that have been covered already.

But first of all, we want to talk about our commitment, our legal and policy framework, some of our policies and trainings, and the performance of transparency, and how we are aligned with our countywide stance and continuous efforts.

First of all, the Yellow Media County Probation Department prohibits cooperation with federal civil immigrant enforcement through clear policy training and legal compliance.

And these are our key pillars, unyielding legal adherence, full compliance with all state laws and county mandates.

We establish protocols that has zero tolerance for unauthorized information sharing or cooperation, of approving performance, verifiable data demonstrating zero holds, zero transfers, and zero interviews, strategic alignment seamlessly integrated with the county's broader sanctuary posture.

So our legal framework is uh we lean on the Trust Act, EB4, the Truth Act, the California Values Act, and the CLITS restriction.

Preparing our staff, internal department policies, clear policy, no room for ambiguity.

Every staff member operates under strict protocols, policies and procedures, no inquiries, collection or documentation of immigration status, no cooperation with ICE, detainers, holds, or interview requests without a judicial warrant.

No release of judicial information without specific juvenile court orders.

No sharing of CLETS or personal data with immigration authorities, and mandatory supervision notification notification, documentation of any ICE-related contact or attempt.

So preparing our staff, internal departmental policies.

The department has established clear and detailed policies governing state, staff interactions and federal immigration authorities applicable across all divisions.

First section here, we speak about our adult field policies, Section 290, which applies to adult probation supervision and field operation.

It prohibits inquiries into immigration status, cooperation with ICE enforcement, bars honoring ice holds, notifications or interviews absent of judicial warrant.

Requires documentation, client notification, and the executive escalation of any ICE contact.

Our juvenile field services applies to youth under juvenile court supervision and upholds strict juvenile confidentiality under WIC-827, 831, and 828.

It prohibits ICE access interviews or information sharing without again a court order.

Established procedures for SIJS, considerations, referral through the court, not enforcement.

In regards to our juvenile facilities, prohibits ICE presence, interviews or use of probation facilities, requires all ICE inquiries to be routed to executive leadership and ensures custody, classification, and service are never impacted by immigration status.

In regards to some of our staff training, a core director for all our staff, employees are trained to never engage independently with immigration authorities.

All inquiries are immediately redirected to a supervisor.

Reinforcement through ongoing supervisory refreshers and internal bulletins.

Some of our training curriculum covers SP 54, CLETS, and internal ICE protocols and response procedures.

And there's a mandatory training in place.

The program for all new hires has been in effect since 2022, ensuring consistent application of these policies as we bring on new staff to our department.

Chief Ford has required now our field officers to speak to a bit of what the sheriff was bringing up earlier to wear in identifiers in the community.

We find that this to reduce some misidentification approbation staff of other immigration agencies, minimize unnecessary tension or hostile encounters, enhance staff safety while maintaining professionalism.

So this approach, it safeguards our community trust by showing who we are where in the community and ensuring our clients and those who are we serve know who's at the door and they're to engage with their clients.

Very proud of this next slide.

This is our own breach record.

We show zero since 2022.

ICE detainers holds transfers to ICE, interviews granted, or youth related ICE inquiries resulting in information disclosure.

Some of the legal shields we hold because absolute protection for our youth is in is extremely important to us.

The confidentiality records is paramount to protect by law.

No information is released without explicit judicial authorization, and this legal show falls under WIC E31.

Our operational protocols, if any ICE, ICE inquiries regarding youth immediately routed to executive leadership.

No information is disclosed under any circumstances but a single juvenile court order.

We mentioned here kind of our collaboration and referral systems towards Bay Area Legal Aid.

We show from the statistics that are clearly noted here that we have a very low youth immigrant population, and those who have been referred to Bay Area Legal Aid covered not only immigration but also immigration-related legal essence, dependency, family matters, and other advocacy services.

And in full transparency through the Truth Act, we have a process where we collect our data.

A couple of key points there.

ACPD, particularly documents, relevant information regarding interactions with immigration enforcement data forms, the basis of an annual public report, the record of the zero cooperation fully documented and affirmed and official records.

Just lastly, our recommendations for opportunities for the county coordination and alignment, the countywide guidance shared and training, aligned departments under unified written guidance and coordinated training, ensure consistent staff responses and messages.

Then strengthen liaison roles across the departments and align with social services, public health, and community-based organization organizations to support and impact families with our county entanglement and enforcement.

So lastly, our continuous efforts to uphold community trust and ensure safety, our unwavering commitment, maintaining trust, ensuring the safety of our clients and staff, and delivering uninterrupted, quitable services to all.

Any questions?

Thank you very much.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you for that comprehensive presentation.

So training to uh newly hired staff would happen during onboarding.

Um, is there an additional follow-up?

Is I don't know if there's required training every few years, but in terms of refresher, can you just help me understand what the training curriculum looks like for your internal policies?

I'll take that question.

So, yeah, so we uh include that training as part of our onboarding, and then all scorn staff, all sworn staff are required to do a minimum of 40 hours of training every year, and that is one of the required trainings that they're able to get as a refresher every year.

And then um, it's good to see the referral to legal services.

Um, obviously, a bigger discussion, not for today, but would also want to make sure that your staff is fully aware of the organizations that this committee has advanced and invested in to make sure you know there's different needs in the committee, so making sure that your staff is aware of those services as well as well.

I think that's going to be critical.

And then help me understand since now we do have immigration services under the public defenders department.

Are there cross referrals or any type of coordination for an adult or juvenile that might need some additional legal support?

Yeah, so uh maybe Brendan can speak.

Uh the public defender can speak to to what those services have been like what that coordination has been like.

Nothing has been brought to my level.

I will tell you, though, that maybe almost nine months a year ago, Brendan, there was a case that uh we did have a young person get detained in San Francisco, and we got made aware by his parent.

And uh I reached out to Brendan direct uh directly and started to coordinate services with his staff to see if they could intervene.

Okay.

And then the report that's due to the board on an annual basis, is that by the end of the calendar year?

No, every year I remember uh usually around springtime, all the departments have been required to turn in our um uh the compliance with the truth act and what our numbers have been.

Okay.

So I remember it being around April May ish in the spring.

Okay, that's good to know.

Um, and then if someone does violate the policy, what are the ramifications?

Well, fortunately, we have not had that happen.

Um, but depending on the the level of the violation, it could result in any level of discipline from a letter of reprimand all the way to something uh more severe.

Um, we haven't had to travel that path, so it just depends on the circumstance.

Okay, thank you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

That was a very comprehensive presentation.

I don't have any questions.

Okay, and our final presentation is going to be our public defender Brendan Woods.

Thank you for being here.

So good afternoon.

Thank you, Supervisor Fortunato Bass and Supervisor Marquez for inviting me to make comments today.

Before I get into the heart of my comments, I do want to address something that's come up today.

This is the first time I'm hearing about a directive from the courts.

We talk a lot about collaboration and communication.

This is the first time I'm hearing about a directive from the courts with regards to our courthouses.

As the board is aware, I have an email on the court since July with regards to recommendations and suggestions with regards to how we can keep our community members safe in our courthouses.

And it would be great if they would have the courtesy, the decency to involve the public defender, the one who is really advocating for people when they are in removal proceedings.

So I want to be clear.

The resolution restricting the use of county-owned and county controlled properties, and the proposal to create a county response plan for immigration enforcement activity.

I want to be clear, we are in support.

Together, these policies will help protect our vulnerable communities from aggressive, violent and lawless immigration enforcement actions.

Actions that have resulted in the murder of Renee Good, actions that have resulted in the murder of Keith Porter, actions that lead to kidnapping and disappearing of our community members, some who never make it out of ICE custody.

As you commented on, 2025 is on record as the deadliest year with people being detained in ICE.

Thirty-two people, thirty-two people have lost their lives in immigration custody.

Thank you.

We are in a state of emergency.

In my 55 years on this earth, I cannot recall more dangerous time in our nation's history.

Our civil liberties are being trampled on a daily basis.

Every day, we hear news stories of immigration officers descending on our communities with weapons and masks and unmarked vehicles.

They snatch people off the street, they break car windows, they pepper spray peaceful protesters, they separate families, literally dragging moms and fathers away from their kids.

These agents carry themselves as if they are above the law.

And for those unfortunate people who actually end up in the immigration system facing deportation, their situation is absolutely dire.

The Trump administration, as you've noted, has fired a hundred immigration judges and replaced them with judges that were rubber stamped at wishes of his administration.

In a recent interview with one of those fire judges that actually used to be a former prosecutor, they stated, immigration courts are substantially dead.

They are completely absent of due process.

They exist only for show and in name only, period.

The courts are dead.

Over the last few months, we've seen federal government recruit immigration judges as deportation judges.

Deportation judges.

That is a blanket admission from the administration.

It is a warning.

It is notice.

It is a declaration.

There is no fairness.

Do not expect neutrality.

Not expect due process.

Do not expect access to rights and protections that should be afforded to you by law.

The government is saying literally, we are here to deport you.

That is the world we live in now.

That is a state of our courts.

That's a state that our community members and the lawyers in our immigration unit are up against.

To bring this a little bit closer to home, in our county that we are aware of, we have had six clients arrested by ICE either in the courthouse or close to the courthouse since September.

There was one young lady arrested last year, close to our Oakland courthouse.

She wasn't there because she had court.

She was there accompanying her mother.

They were stopped a few blocks away.

This young lady was 19 years old, and she was five months pregnant.

We were fortunate that in our office we have an immigration unit.

We have immigration lawyers.

One of our lawyers was dogged, and she was able to reach her and found her in immigration detention in San Francisco.

She would not take note for it and she will have to contact her and talk to her.

This young woman had a case that she could fight.

She could have fought to stay in this country.

She had a good removal case to fight.

But by doing so, she's detained in an ICE facility.

It's dangerous, unsanitary, and inhumane.

So what's her decision?

Does she stay there, try to fight her case that could take four or five, six months or longer?

Or does she agree to self-deport?

That is the world we're living in now.

So that is my really long-winded way of saying that our county must act.

We have a moral obligation and a duty to act.

We are accountable to our residents, our constituents, our community, and these resolutions that you've put forward, get us closer to being able to provide basic protections that people are looking to us to provide.

And so those for those reasons and so many more, I want to be clear again.

The public defender's office is in support of these proposals.

The public defender is in support of these proposals.

They are an excellent start.

But as I think about where we are and where we might be headed, there's so much more that we have to do.

So I I do want to thank both of you.

Sincerely thank both of you.

It is courageous to bring these proposals forward.

And at some point in time, when we look back, it will be clear on which side of history you were on.

So thank you.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much, Public Defender Woods.

Supervisor Marquez.

No, I just want to thank you and Raha for your leadership you presented to public protection December 19th of 2024.

Yeah, everything's a blur, sorry.

Um, but just thank you for your steadfast leadership and for being our moral compass.

And I hear the pain because I know we tried to help with the discussion with the court, too, and kind of fell on death ears.

So I hear you in terms of communication, and we've got to have you know a clear distribution list of all justice partners, because you've been um raising concerns for a long time.

So I'm hoping that we can all still continue to work together, advance the work.

But just um, we're very fortunate to have you as our public defender, and I know that you will help us problem solve because this road is going to be bumpy.

Um, and it's really important that we're all here, and that's was my main request back in November.

We needed to hear from you, probation, GSA, so just um thankful that everyone's here and I'm prepared to move this forward as well with in partnership, but we want to hear from the public as well.

But just thank you for um your unwavering support.

And I'll just say I am very grateful for our Alameda County Public Defender and their office.

Incredibly talented staff.

Uh, thank you, Raha, as well.

And you know, we allocated funding to increase the immigration unit, one of the premier units, as such in the entire country.

It was great to hear at one of our last meetings that you are staffing up.

Perhaps you're already staffed up because this is on the front lines of protecting due process.

You know, it's it's all on the news.

You don't have to go very far to hear the truth about what this president's agenda is in terms of immigration.

It's about kicking people out and keep keeping people out as well.

And um, we have to uphold our laws and the constitution this country was founded on.

Okay, with that, um, I'm ready to go to public comment.

Okay.

Mickey Duxbury, Francis Kendall, Nancy Breslin.

Hard to follow Brendan Woods.

Um, hi, my name's Mickey Duxbury.

I want to thank Supervisor Marquez and Supervisor Fortunately Bass for both of these resolutions.

I'm speaking from the first Unitarian Church of Oakland, that's why I have this hat on.

Um, we greatly appreciate your vision and your determination to make our county safe for our immigrant neighbors.

We urge you to do everything possible to strengthen the resolution so it's clear that the board is the entire board as opposed to the detention center on the site of the former women's prison in Dublin.

Our county can't totally be ice-free if we have a detention center, because it's going to lead to more terrorizing of immigrants, separation of families, etc.

Given the escalation of violence that has occurred in Minneapolis, we need to be prepared for the possibility that brutality by ICE will be here in the future.

We applaud the county's assistance in helping all of us be more organized to protect schools, hospitals, and everywhere the day laborers congregate.

It's beyond the scope of these resolutions, but I hope that the sheriff, the supervisors, the police, the public defender, and the day in every city create, begin now to create contingency plans so that our communities are protected from violence of border patrol agents.

We've all seen the videos.

ICE is behaving like an invading army.

We need contingency plans so the Sheriff's Department and Police are prepared to protect citizens and do not include with an army of untrained, hateful, vicious people who have not hesitated to use tear gas, pepper balls, and bullets, the border patrol agents, many of whom are recruited from Proud Boys, are behaving as if they're a war against citizens and non-citizens alike.

We need to be organized to protect immigrants and many people of color who are being treated like terrorists when the only people who are doing the terrorizing are border control agents.

Thank you very much.

Good afternoon, Supervisors Marquez and Supervisors for Tunado Bas.

My name is Francis Kendall, and I too am here from the Justice Council of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.

First, thank you for all you've done to date in creating this proposal to keep our communities safer from the threat that an out of control and unaccountable ICE poses.

I have been horrified at the images coming out of Minneapolis where DHS is sending in more ICE officers than there are police in the city, creating a state of chaos and disrupting public safety.

We need to send a strong signal to the federal government that we will not allow that in our county.

And this measure is an important step to that end.

We know that DHS has plans to turn the former women's prison in Dublin with its horrific history of abuse into an ICE detention center.

This message, this measure must state clearly that our county infrastructure will not be used in any way to support an ICE detention center.

Alameda County cannot be ice free if there is a detention center in our midst.

We urge you to do everything you can to prevent an ICE detention center in our county.

Thank you.

My name is Nancy Bresson, and I'm here today from the Justice Council, the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.

First, I want to thank you.

Nancy, can you adjust the mic so we could hear you?

You could adjust the mic.

Okay.

I want to thank you both for the work you have done to protect our immigrant neighbors and community, and I urge you to support the two resolutions before you.

There has been ever escalating violence against residents and citizens who have been exercising their right to assemble and protest the inhumane and illegal treatment of immigrants.

This violence has now resulted in the killing of residents and innocent citizens.

If no restraint is put on ice, there will be more lives lost.

Please do everything in your power to prevent the opening of another ICE detention center in our community.

Thank you.

Caller, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Leslie.

Yes, hi.

My name is Leslie Firestone, and I'm a member of the um your rights health care working group.

We've spoken with you before, and um I wanted to uh one to support these resolutions, and I wanted to specifically speak to the uh safeguards and trainings that are mentioned within there.

Um, they are not specifically included in the health care section, and um unfortunately, it seems that um Alameda Health Services doesn't seem to think that those apply to them.

They've had responses saying that SB 81 does not prescribe training format or require standalone training.

They are saying that it doesn't impose it and it doesn't impose a statutory requirement to post signage to be placed at the front entrance.

It only encourages it.

Waiting rooms are not considered private spaces.

Engagement with rapid response networks or legal advocates is only a patient decision.

Now, these are problems that need to be addressed within this format so that they know what their responsibilities are to their patients and to the community.

Additionally I wanted to uh comment on.

I'm I'm very appreciative that the sheriff's office is saying that they will not um you know cooperate with ICE, but um I also want to hear that they are going to protect community members who stand up and uh try to uh protect their communities from ICE, from the violence and uh and record and so forth.

And um I want to really urge you to put this out as soon as possible.

Uh thank you so much for all your work in this.

Kimberly, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Kimberly Wu.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay.

Good afternoon, honorable supervisors.

I'm Kimberly Wu, and I serve as a community organizer for Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network, otherwise known as Siren, who are also a member of the ISO Dublin Coalition.

On behalf of Siren, I'm here to thank the supervisors for bringing forward this proposal to execute to exclude federal immigration enforcement activity on our tax-funded public property and to establish an immigration response plan.

At the passage of HR1, the federal administration will have 30 billion dollars to recruit untrained, armed trigger hopper officers to execute their harmful family separation agenda.

And they're wasted no time in using this funding to increase their operations by 120%, but the record number of 12,000 officers.

And unfortunately, the tragic and heartbreaking incidents of ISIS fatal shootings, Minneapolis Mother, Renee Nicole Good and Los Angeles father, Keith Porto Jr.

show the horrifying lengths of militarization, mortar, and violence that the federal immigration enforcement will commit without a second thought.

That is why we have no time to waste.

And while we must pass these crucial policies urgently, we encourage you to strengthen proposal by ensuring that none of our counties' property, in addition to none of our resources, such as services and personnel are used to aid immigration enforcement.

We must prohibit our county's valuable resources from being exploited for immigration enforcement anywhere in the county, regardless of the land's ownership.

And we further recommend a board statement in refusing the opening of any detention center in our county.

We are counting on Alameda County Board of Supervisors to do everything they can to oppose ICE violence and to protect our immigrant loved ones because that is what safety looks like in our community.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Leslie Rose.

I'm a constituent of Supervisor Bass and a member of the Wellstone Democratic Renewable Renewal Club.

We're also a member of the ICE out of Dublin coalition.

I speak in strong support of both proposals.

I'm a retired law professor.

My job was to teach future lawyers about the Constitution and that we were governed by the rule of law and how to use the law on behalf of their clients.

I'm frankly glad I'm not teaching now because I don't know how I would explain to them the deteriorator deterioration of the rule of law and fundamental rights.

What's happening in this country right now infringes on the first, fourth, and fifth amendments.

I also tried to teach my students to be courageous and to use their status to speak truth to power when necessary.

I think the same holds true for elective officials right now.

As Brendan Wood said, we are in a state of emergency in this country, and I believe it's the duty of all electives to use their power to fight for what's right, if not now when.

So thank you for standing up.

And I hope that when these proposals come before your board colleagues, they also use their power and show which side they are on.

Thank you.

Nancy Henderson, Kathy, Kojimoto, Tom Colton.

Good afternoon.

My name is Nancy Henderson, and I'm a member of the Justice Council of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.

I appreciate Supervisors Marquez and Fortunato Bass for the work they have done in bringing these resolutions to the board.

The country is living in fraught times.

ICE has escalated their tactics of fear and intimidation, threats and violence, and now murders have been committed, and the deceased are being villainized rather than memorialized by the US Department of Justice.

Our community is fearing the worst.

Some people are afraid to go to work, to send their children to school, to patronize public shops, restaurants, services.

Some people are even forfeiting medical care in order not to be swept up by masked men who refuse to wear identity badges.

We do not need an ICE detention center in Alameda County.

US citizens, people with status who've been following the rules, have been placed in those hell holes without due process.

And now they want to block Congress members from inspecting the centers without a seven-day notice.

Enough is enough for the safety and well-being of our communities of neighbors.

I'm asking that you include language in the resolutions that would block opening an ICE detention center in Alameda County.

Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinions here this afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Thank you very much, Supervisor Marquez, Supervisor Vaz, for uplifting these resolutions.

I'm actually kind of pissed off right now, so I'm gonna temper my anger.

I actually uplift and appreciate the resolutions that you have put forward, but there's some resolutions I think that are being unseen right now, and that's the use of artificial intelligence.

I'm talking about flock.

I'm talking about Palantir.

I'm talking about cellulite.

Flock is used in this city and across many cities in Alameda County to track not just pedestrians and drivers, but that information is also shared with ICE.

Palantir is a software.

It's used as a database to track people coming and going.

Whether on a visa or their traveling, and it's also shared with ICE.

Cellulite is used to actually hack into people's phones so they can use messages on signal and WhatsApp.

And it's also used by ICE.

These also have been surveilling protesters who have been protesting against Gaza, Venezuela, ICE.

I also share the perspectives of other people who have spoken out against having FCI Dublin open up as an ICE detention facility.

But many years ago, Coast Guard Island was used as an assembly center in 1942 for Japanese Americans and Japanese to assemble before they were carted away off to US concentration camps.

For the sheriffs, I know this is short, but I know what your response is to what happened in October at Coast Guard Island, where many of us were pepper sprayed.

What's going to be your response to CBP who fired upon us without palvocation?

Thanks.

Good afternoon.

My name is Tom Colton.

I've been a resident of Alameda County, District 5 for 27 years.

And I thank Supervisors Marquez and Fortunato Bass for bringing forward these resolutions, these proposals, especially the one for creating ice free zones in our county.

I encourage the committee to ensure that no county services and no resources will go towards any form of immigration enforcement.

ICE has shown a clear pattern of ignoring people's constitutional rights and using extreme violence without cause.

Their actions taken initially against immigrants are being extended to those who peacefully protest their behavior.

We must all speak and act to oppose this in any way we can.

I urge you to think of your legacy, how the future will view your actions once this horrible time has passed, which I believe it will.

I implore you to strengthen and pass these proposals.

Thank you.

Jean Moses, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Good afternoon.

I'm Jean Moses.

I'm in District 3, and I've lived in District 3 for 10 years.

I'm also a proud member of Faith in Action East Bay, showing up for racial justice, Bay Area, and the Adopt a Corner system.

Thank you very much for your presentation and your sincere concern for the citizens.

Federal payments of over a million dollars are being made to Alameda County last I checked that to cover the cost of correctional officers' salaries for incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens with one or one felony or two misdemeanors convictions for violations of state or local law.

Given the improper and unconstitutional actions of ICE and Homeland Security, at this time, will you withdraw from the SCAP program and figure out a way to fund your department without taking a million point two dollars on the backs of our immigrant neighbors?

Thank you very much.

Stephanie, you're on the line, you have two minutes.

My uh thing is not cooperating that well.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay.

My name is Stephanie Erickson, and I am a longtime resident of Dublin.

I strongly support the proposed resolution restricting the use of county-owned and county controlled properties from immigration enforcement activity.

I also support suggested amendment language to include county services and resources as well.

I feel that we are all under constant assault by the Trump administration through its demeaning and venomous rhetoric and fragrant flagrant disregard of our laws, our constitution, and just basic human decency.

But the most vulnerable to these attacks are immigrants, and so it is so important to support them in every way that we can and to push back by not cooperating with this deport deportation regime, which is violent, brutal, and operates in complete disregard for due process, as others have said so eloquently before me.

Moreover, as a Dublin resident, I am keenly aware of the possible opening of an ICE detention facility in the former federal prison there, presently closed, but being transferred, where it has already been transferred to uh GSA, and potentially to ICE.

Should that happen, you can count on a serious uptick in ICE activity in the entire Bay Area and all the terrorizing of our communities that will entail.

So I applaud the efforts of this committee, its work, and I wholeheartedly support both resolutions.

Thank you.

Christopher, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Good afternoon, Supervisors Fortunato Bas and Marquez and the Act for All Committee.

Christopher Martinez with Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation, a core partner.

I want to begin by expressing my appreciation for the work that has gone into these proposed plans.

And for your leadership in moving them forward.

I support the overall direction of the goals of the plans.

It is important to prohibit county-owned and county controlled properties from being used to facilitate or carry out immigration enforcement.

It is also important that the county make sure that none of its resources, including services and personnel, are used to aid immigration enforcement.

I also want to lift up and appreciate the value of your continued attention to process and ensuring that community members and key stakeholders have meaningful opportunities to engage and provide input.

This will ultimately help strengthen implementation and our long-term outcomes.

This is a critical moment for all people of Alameda County to speak up and take action.

People have died at the hands of immigration enforcement.

We honor the memories of Keith Porter and Renee Good, as well as our many immigrant brothers and sisters who have died in custody and those innocents trying to get the safety from unjust enforcement actions.

Our community is living in fear and under attack.

And we need to consider declaring a state of emergency in Alameda County.

I really appreciate the board's consideration of both the urgency of the moment and the importance of inclusive and well-coordinated implementation.

I fully support both of these plans being put forth.

Thank you so much for your leadership in these challenging times.

Adrian Martinez, Heather McLeod, Jessica B.

My name is Adriana Martinez, and I'm a member of ACE here in Alameda County.

I'm here today to speak in strong support of ice-free zones in county buildings.

Fear keeps people from seeking medical care, reporting crimes, and accessing services that are there legally entitled to.

Ice-free zones are about dignity and common sense.

County buildings should not be places of surveillance or intimidation, they should be places of care, stability, and trust.

Alameda County has a responsibility to make sure its own spaces are not used to harm the very people they are meant to serve.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Heather McLeod.

I'm a member of the Justice Council of the First Unitarian Church, and I know about separation of church and state, but our first principle is about the inherent dignity and worth of every human being and respecting that.

And so when I first heard about these ice-free zones, I had a visceral response like, oh my God, I hadn't even realized how tense I had felt.

I don't know a lot about history, but to me, this seems like these are the ICE agents are behaving like stormtroopers.

Um, and it makes me wonder what if what if Nazi Germany people, the cities and counties had refused to share their resources, their buildings, their services with those people.

So I just mostly want to thank you for all the work you're doing on this.

Um, I really appreciate it, and it makes a difference for all of us.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Jessica Beebe.

I'm a resident of Alameda County, District 5, and have lived in Oakland for 30 years.

Every Thursday morning until I broke my ankle last week.

I've been doing foot patrol to watch for ice at Esperanto KDA Elementary School.

Thank you, Supervisor Nikki Bass for bringing forward this proposal.

Alameda County is in a unique position when it comes to ice.

We thought there was going to be a surge in October and then ICE backed off to its typical level of activity.

But ICE and related agencies now have a 170 billion dollar budget that's bigger than the budget for Russia's military, and a mandate to spread their terror everywhere.

And we know it's probably only a matter of time until they come back to us with another surge.

Unlike many other cities, we have some extra time to feel what that reality will mean and to prepare.

ICE has shown no hesitation to use violence and even to kill people, then to lie about it.

They're snatching people off the streets and out of homes, schools, and churches.

They're trampling on people's constitutional rights and ignoring due process completely.

The parallels to Nazi Germany are chilling.

Given the terror ICE has brought to so many other cities and what they're doing in Minneapolis now, Alameda County must take the strongest possible stand to keep our communities safe.

Let us be sure that county resources and facilities are not used in any way to facilitate the awful work of ICE, CBP, and DHS.

I urge you to strengthen and pass this proposal to create ice-free zones in Alameda County.

Thank you.

Catherine, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

There we go.

Thank you, Supervisors Marquez and Bas for bringing these uh proposals to the board.

Um I'm in full support.

Um I am a leader of uh 40,000 person union at the University of California.

We do the frontline work there.

Um we know what it is to serve the public, to care for them, to heal them.

And uh we take our mission seriously.

Unfortunately, so many of uh the people my union represents know what it is to be terrorized by people now on the federal payroll.

Um, and uh, you know, that's the opposite of what this country is about.

It's the opposite of what uh public servants should be about.

So um we are grateful and supportive of the measures that you've brought forward today.

Um, I would just also pile on to what others have said about um blocking the opening of an ice detention center in Alameda County.

We know that actually um uh ICE activity abductions, detentions go up when there is a nearby detention facility.

Um so on top of your very good work today, we would urge that um you work to prevent that as well.

Thank you.

Juan, you're on the line, you have two minutes.

Hi, I'm one.

I'm a DT resident, member of DSA, Oakland Times Union by resistance and ACE.

I appreciate the work the supervisors, especially my supervisor, Nikki Bass, have put into this.

I think it's a good first step, especially opposing the creation of detention centers in our backyard.

Um, I hope this moves forward and I encourage the board to uh put triggers in place so that if there is an increased ice presence in the county, we have an automatic eviction moratorium, allowing people to stay home when needed, uh keeping us all safer.

Um, having already been shot at by the Coast Guard.

I don't want the next Renee Nicole Good to be an Alameda County resident.

Uh, anything that discourages ICE from coming here makes us all safer.

ICE are thugs.

Thankfully, they also seem to be lazy thugs.

Um, so thank you for this.

And also, as the speaker mentioned earlier, um, uh cities betraying us and installing cameras for ice in the form of fluck is a disgrace.

Um, so anything the county can do to discourage that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Caller, you're on the line, you have two minutes.

Caller, MacBook Air, caller, you're on the line.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Um, I live in Dublin where FCI, a facility with a wretched reputation of violence against women prisoners, as well as severe health problems caused by mold and asbestos, has been closed by court order.

There's no doubt in my mind that the federal government is planning to reopen it as a detention center.

Under the current administration, ICE's presence in communities, particularly the blue ones, has led to violence, complete and total disregard for constitutional rights, the absence of the rule of law, political unrest, and even death.

All community members are at risk, citizen, legal resident, as well as visitor.

Businesses have suffered from disruption caused by ice.

Even schools have been shut down because of the fear of violence and unlawfulness caused by ice.

Ice Hurst moved to Dublin in 1979.

I have watched it grow into an interesting multi multi-cultural city, which has remained a safe place to live.

I want America to remain safe.

I do not want to fear violence when I shop or hike.

I do not want to be afraid to go to the grocery store because I might be tear gassed or shot or the grocery store or arrested or disappear.

I do not want any of this to happen to any person.

I want to live in a safe, sane environment in which I am not afraid for anyone.

I urge you to put through these policies that have been presented today as long as well as as well as no detention in Alameda County policy.

You will be supporting the City of Dublin's resolution about no detention center in Dublin, as well as sending a clear message that our community will not be complicit in brutal, illegal, and inhumane treatment, and that we expect our government to uphold dignity, justice, and the rule of law for all people.

Thank you.

Gwen Reno, Dr.

Deborah, Sidney Coggins.

Good afternoon.

My name is Gwen Reno.

I'm a 30-year resident of Alameda County District 5.

I want to thank you both for the committee's work.

Given the violence that we're seeing in Minneapolis, it's critically important that the county put in place every possible measure to protect our neighbors before ICE deploys in force here.

I've been volunteering with the Adoptive School Foot Patrol at an elementary school in East Oakland for the past several months to watch out for ice, warn families, and document any ICE activity during morning drop off.

As a former teacher, I am particularly horrified by the possibility of traumatic violence being perpetrated by our own federal government in the presence of children as young as five.

But all ICE assaults against our neighbors, whether they are at work, at school, at church, seeking medical care, attending court appointments, or just going about their business is an affront to our values and to the rule of law.

I strongly support this proposal to create ice-free zones in Alameda County and all resolutions to keep our communities safer from ice.

Thank you very much.

Alberto Parra, Barley and Staffos.

Excuse me, before the next speaker speaks, do we know how many speakers are in the queue?

Okay.

So we're gonna go ahead and close the queue, which has been open uh for quite some time so that we can get through this and deliberate.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Juan.

I'm sorry, Alberto Parra, and I'm a resident of Oakland, and I'm a member of ACCE in Alameda County Ice Springs in strong.

I speak in strong support of an ice free zone in the in county properties and buildings.

For many of us, county buildings are not optional.

We come here to apply for housing help, health care, food assistance, and services that help us survive.

These spaces should be safe.

No one should have to choose between getting help and risking separation from their family.

Even though I am not an immigrant, my life is deeply connected to my immigrant neighbors.

We are co-workers, parents at the same schools, tenants in the same buildings, and elders and youth in the same communities.

When immigrant families are afraid, the whole community feels it.

I urge fear keeps people from seeking medical care.

Just the last part.

So again, I urge you to support and fully implement ice-free zones in all Alameda County buildings.

Thank you.

Grant, you're on the line.

You have two minutes.

Grant Thompson.

My name is Grant Thompson.

I'm a long-time Alameda County resident in the Fifth District, and I would like to express my strong support for the resolutions to create ice-free zones and create a response plan.

You know, I think you can see from the shared concerns you've heard from all the speakers that the community is 100% united around this.

We want you to do all you can to protect it from the lawless violence of DHS and ICE agents.

I urge the committee and the board of supervisors to take any additional steps that are possible to protect Alameda County residents, including the uh opposing the opening of a detention center in Dublin.

As you know, ICE and other DHS agents are terrorizing entire communities and violently attacking and disappearing people based on the colour of their skin.

Our county resources should not, under any circumstances in any way, assist federal immigration agents in this racist abhorrent behavior.

I want to thank Brendan Woods for all his work and his appropriately forceful words, and last, I want to thank the committee for the work it has already done and the Board of Supervisors for the work it has already done.

I'm humbled by all your efforts, and I respectfully urge you to continue them and to show courage and resolve as you stand up for your constituents and neighbors.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much, Madam Supervisors Das and Marquez for your leadership.

I want to thank you, as a fellow elected official, albeit speaking in my personal capacity, not on behalf of the Berkeley City Council.

My heart is heavy, and I am furious about all of the innocent lives that have been needlessly lost at the hands of ISIS Gestapo-like tactics.

I am furious of all the families that have been needlessly separated, and the chaos that these tactics by the Trump administration have route.

Clearly, the goal is more chaos and to make our communities less safe.

And I am so grateful that here in this county we have such strong leadership to do something about this.

So I uh, in my individual capacity, support both of these resolutions, and I want to note that the Berkeley City Council on October 28th also unanimously passed a referral to the city attorney that is currently being evaluated, limiting the use of city property and facilities for city purposes, specifically referring to immigration enforcement.

Thank you so much again, CICEPORE.

Christine Miller, Marla, Kamaya, Sonia, Get Abila.

My name is Marla Kamiya.

I live in District 5.

I'm a member of Sudo for Solidarity, an organization of Japanese Americans working to stop today's massive expansion of detention centers.

We are part of the ISID or Dublin coalition.

We are here to strongly support the two resolutions introduced by Supervisor Fortune out of Vass.

We are very grateful for your leadership in the midst of this ever-escalating crisis.

When my mother, father, uncles, and aunts, all of them U.S.

citizens were incarcerated by the US government during World War II, along with 120,000 other people of Japanese ancestry, also mostly U.S.

citizens.

No city or county government in California or any other state stood up and said this is wrong.

Local leaders were complicit with their silence.

They failed abysmally to rise to the challenge of their moment.

Today, multiple cities, counties and counties have spoken out, set protocols, and Alameda County has provided significant funding for education and legal defense.

But this crisis is escalating rapidly.

There is an ongoing challenge before us.

How can we do everything in our power to defend communities under attack from our own federal government?

An attack that violates the most basic constitutional rights of both immigrants and U.S.

citizens, an attack that increasingly uses and defends open violence.

These two resolutions provide a very concrete way for Alameda County to better protect its residents.

Thank you for doing everything in your power to rise to this moment.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is Sonia Goch Avila.

I'm a program director with Access Reproductive Justice and an Alameda County resident for 11 years.

Access is a reproductive justice organization in California's only statewide abortion fund.

And we first want to thank this committee for the urgency and intention behind the work you've done so far.

We are in strong support of a robust response plan and an ice-free zones.

We do not want county property services or employees to facilitate the work of ICE.

We also echo the request to include the prohibition of the Dublin facility to be used as an ICE detention center, as well as the concern shared earlier about the use of AI surveillance tools such as FLAC and Palantir, the same types of platforms that surveil abortion seekers in the US.

Reproductive justice urges us to assert our right to safe homes and communities to raise our families within, and this is not possible when families are being torn apart and our communities are under terror surveillance and occupation from ICE.

This is an obvious and cruel tactic by the authoritarians in power to sow division, violence and fear, and the parallels are not lost on the communities across the globe who have been living under militant US funded occupation from Palestine to Minneapolis, just to name two.

And I'm sure I, among others, are wondering where we will draw the line on whether or not to intervene with ICE proceedings when the rights of people being detained by ICE are not being respected.

Unlawful arrests by ICE thugs are happening every single day, and we are curious how we as a community are going to prioritize public safety when people are being violently and unlawfully disappeared.

So thank you again to this committee for showing us the data for your strong support and for responding to the emergency that ICE threats pose here in Alameda County.

Susan, Susan, when you say so, Ron Fujita, Carlos Tuna.

Good afternoon.

I'm Susan Buen Suceso from the Filipino Advocates for Justice.

I am here on behalf of our organization to commend and thank Supervisors Fortunato Bas and Marquez for this effort.

And this is a very sad situation.

Filipino caregivers have been providing a very crucial service to residents of Alameda County, giving care for the elderly and medically challenged members of our community.

And it is extremely sad that they have to go and hide sometimes.

Some of them cannot go out of the care homes that they work at for fear of ICE presence.

And as such, we have had to uh provide very personalized service to them.

And so this proposal uh comes of it's it's it's a very welcome thing for us, and we hope that it passes it passes through.

Thank you very much, and um we wish you the best.

My name is Carlos Vasquez.

I was a member of the ACE in the Condado de Alameda.

So you put a present.

Implementing la zona.

Good evening.

My name is Carlos Vasquez, and I'm a member of ACCE here in Alameda County.

I am here today to speak in strong support of the ice-free zones in county buildings.

Even though, as an immigrant, my life is deeply connected to my immigrant neighbors.

We are co-workers, parents at the same schools, tenants in the same buildings, and elders and youth in the same communities.

When immigrant families are afraid, the whole community feels it.

I urge you to support and fully implement the ice-free zones in all of the Alameda County buildings.

Thank you.

David Motorsmark.

Iris Barrera.

Diego Viegos.

Hi, I'm David Mottersbach.

Um, as a county resident, as a fellow um Alameda County staffer, I just want to say thanks to you all for the work that you're doing and your leadership as a county staffer, your leadership is super important and critical, and the role and the work that you do is super important.

I want to make a couple a couple um requests.

First, um, when you are itemizing all of the lists of places of vulnerable locations, possible staging grounds, keep in mind that it's citizens and community members that are the first line of defense against against ice incursions.

And if we know if we get access to those lists of addresses and locations and facilities, that can really help communities in their organizing and their planning and their defense.

And if we know that ice is not going to be protected by law enforcement here, we saw that at Coast Guard Island when the only law enforcement that was protecting ice was um California Highway Patrol.

It was that was really refreshing.

We want to continue to see that.

Second thing is that it sounds like we need to hear from Alameda Health System in these in these meetings, um, and kind of learn what's going on.

A lot is going on in our hospitals, and it's really really important that in our emergency rooms and our hospitals that are those are safe places, and I highly recommend that you bring leadership of AHS and frontline staff from AHS to talk to the public about what their plans are, what they're organizing is, and how they're prepared to defend the most vulnerable people in Alameda County in hospital in the hospital system.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

Uh, my name is Edis.

I'm part of Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, a worker center here in the Bay Area, and are part of Acudir and I side of Dublin.

Uh, I want to thank you both and your staff for working with community and uh various departments to spearhead and bring forward these two proposals of having an ice free zone as well as a response plan for immigration activities a step to protect our communities during these um dire times and fully support um both of these proposals.

Um less than a month ago, I was out in Dublin in support of the recent resolution that passed uh where the city of Dublin and its residents made it clear and taking a public stance that an ICE detention center is not welcomed.

Residents of Dublin understand and Alameda County residents understand that ICE presence traumatized uh traumatizes our its residents uh who are our neighbors, seeing our communities being kidnapped from the courts, being kidnapped from the streets and from their homes is criminal.

This is not normal.

We cannot make this our normal.

I have spoken with many residents throughout Alameda County while door knocking, sharing about resources, work rights, constitutional rights, and it was a bittersweet experience hearing how our communities are scared during these moments.

Parents not taking uh their children to school, workers not showing up to work and have felt scared to go out of their homes.

Yet, even in these, in the face of um fear and trauma, our communities are not losing hope that collectively we can shift these terrible conditions if we collectively take a stance and organize.

This includes the need of our local government to take action, and we really appreciate y'all's leadership and moving these two proposals forward, and really encourage the committee as well to ensure that county services and resources will not go towards any form of immigration enforcement.

Thank you.

Hola, buenas tardes.

Hello, my name is Diego Villegas Aguilar.

I'm an organizer as well in Trabajadores Unidos Workers United, and I'm here in support of the ICE Free Zones.

Um, just to acknowledge that people have been murdered, um, families have been separated, um, people have been deported.

And I asked myself, um, and who is gonna be next?

Is somebody here in this room going to be next?

Am I gonna be next?

And nobody knows, nobody knows that answer.

And what I do know is that helicopters and people are not gonna be paratroating into this country to solve the problem.

So, who are we waiting for?

Um, who is going to solve this issue and honestly, only ourselves are going to save ourselves from what is happening.

And it is the historical responsibility that we all have with the privilege of being in this country, with the privilege of existing in this country, we have that ability to change it from from within.

So I would like to ask who are we waiting for and what are we waiting for to do that change?

And that's why I um acknowledge and I am very applauding of the efforts here in this chamber today, and and thank you very much, um, supervisors for all your efforts.

Valerie Bachelor Wassine, and then April Newman, last three speakers.

Hello, uh, supervisors uh Marquez and Supervisors Bass.

I really appreciate your leadership on this, and as uh the ACE director and the vice president of the Oakland Unified School Board, I stand in complete support of both proposals.

For many of our immigrant families, uh county buildings are not an option.

They are a necessity.

They are there to uh support folks and finding housing, finding health care, uh food assistance, services they might need to survive, and library books for students that may need um that are looking to support themselves in their education.

These spaces must be safe, and you all are leading the way and making sure that these spaces are safe, so thank you.

Now, to your other colleagues, because I believe this is gonna go to the full county board.

We need the entire county to stand in support of these measures.

Um, we need to make sure that every single nook and cranny of our county is supportive of our immigrant families because every single nook and cranny has immigrant families.

And reminding the community, the budget of DHS has soared because of what?

Because they have taken food away from children, they have taken health care away from Americans, they have taken housing away from people.

This is not how we do things in Alameda County, and I'm so excited to know that both of you are champions on this issue, and I want to make sure that the rest of the board understands the importance of this issue and takes it on and makes sure that we vote as a five-person body to make sure that the entire county has these safe spaces for our community.

And lastly, I would like to appreciate the two folks that spoke up earlier to say that they were community patrollers.

Our community has come out in force when our schools are under attack.

At Hoover Elementary, when DHS tried to detain and deport someone, 300 members of our community showed up that day to support our students feeling safe.

So thank you for the work that you do every day, and I encourage every single one of us in our community to do that work as well.

Thank you.

Hello, Supervisors Marquez and Bass.

My name is Wasim.

I'm an organizer with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, AROC, and a resident of District 3.

As a partner organization of Aquudir, AROC has been hard at work organizing our Arab and Muslim communities in response to the ongoing ICE attacks and kidnappings in the Bay Area.

Recently, we've seen the Trump admin target Muslim Somali communities in Minneapolis, leading to the explosion of violence by ICE in that city.

We've seen shootings and kidnappings across the country that represent human trafficking at a mass scale by the government.

Our Arab and Muslim communities here who share so much in common with those communities in Minneapolis that were targeted are now afraid that they are next.

Folks are afraid to leave their homes, they're confused, they're afraid to travel, they're afraid to go to work.

And if ICE does proceed with mass enforcement in the Bay Area, any one of us can be made a target, regardless of whether we have citizenship or not.

But our immigrant communities will feel the impact of those attacks first.

We must be prepared as a county to protect ourselves at the level of community organizing and at the level of county policy.

And this is a strong first step.

We thank this committee for advancing the ice free resolute uh legislation to limit ICE access to our communities, and we will support you all as we continue the fight to ensure no county resources support ICE activity in the bay, including the planned detention center in Dublin.

As we move forward, we also need to ensure that Alameda County does not criminalize community members and protesters for self-defense against ICE kidnappings and killings, and to ensure that community resources are allocated towards community education and community defense.

Let's work together and get your legislation passed.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is April Newman.

I'm the program manager for the Alameda County Collaborative for Removal Defense, or Accord, based at the Anchor Organization CCIJ.

I'm a member of the ICE out of Dublin Coalition and a resident of District 5.

These groups and I personally strongly support the ICE Free Zones and Immigration Enforcement Response Plan resolutions that you're proposing.

Thank you for bringing them forward.

With the county support, Accord has been working hard to support people through their immigration processes, defending them against separation, detention, and deportation.

We've been coordinating with Akudir to reach more people and support those with loved ones whose loved ones have been detained or deported.

We also coordinate with a SILAP who refers cases to us once a person is put in an ICE detention facility.

We appreciate your collaboration and drive to continue to strengthen protections for our community members.

Time and time again, we've seen that ICE, CBP, and other DHS agencies will use any opening they find or perceive to terrorize our communities and kidnap our neighbors.

Frankly, we know that they disrespect the rule of law and disregard legality entirely.

So the stronger the language of these resolutions that the county can adopt, the better.

We'd like to suggest two points.

One, the inclusion of resources like services and personnel in addition to land and physical property in the Ice Free Zones resolution.

We want to make sure that county resources are used to support the well-being of our county residents and are not commandeered for the use in federal immigration activity.

Two is to be clear to prohibit the county the use of county resources to facilitate or carry out any immigration enforcement, regardless of where in the county it takes place.

In other words, we do not want any county services or human resources to aid immigration enforcement anywhere in Alameda County.

Thank you for considering our concerns and emphatic suggestions.

There are no more speakers.

There are no more speakers on this item.

Okay.

Thank you so much, everyone, for your participation.

It's been really um really helpful to hear from our department heads as well as all of you as members of the public, really appreciate that.

Um I do want to make some comments on uh what came up through our public comment process as well as offer up a motion.

Before I do that, I do want to see whether there's um any comments thus far, having heard public comment from our department heads who are present or from our vice chair.

Sure.

Thank you.

I just have um one question for Director Gassaway.

In terms of the uh federal facility in Dublin, do we own that land?

Is that being leased?

Are we leave what's the status of it?

It's a federal property, it's not a county property.

Okay.

Have no relationship.

Okay, but we do manage um the infrastructure in terms of water connection.

So nothing nothing.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

And to our department directors who are here, are there any final words or comments that you want to share after hearing from the public?

Okay.

Um, so again, thank you everyone for sharing your your comments.

Definitely appreciate hearing uh your reactions, your suggestions as well.

I do want to acknowledge uh that we were able, my office was able to work with our county council, and so thank you to our assistant county counsel, Samantha Stonewall Han, who was here today, who was able to review the legislation and give us feedback.

So we have been able to incorporate back from county council and been approved as to form.

I definitely heard all of the additional suggestions and do want to work further with county council to see what we may be able to incorporate.

Uh, you know, I did hear the very specific requests around resources around FCI Dublin.

Um, one question for you, our assistant county council.

Is it possible within the existing ice free zones resolution to include a statement of the board expressing opposition to FCI Dublin becoming an immigration detention facility?

Samantha Stoner Kahn assistant county counsel.

Um if you wanted to do a policy statement about whether you oppose the detention center, but it wouldn't be part of the policy itself, I don't believe.

Because we don't have any authority over that property, it's federal property, so the county has no authority over that property.

Okay, that's helpful to hear.

Um, you know, I have uh joined you all at a protests opposing uh a detention center at FCI Dublin and signed a petition as such.

I don't know if my colleague has as well, but in terms of a policy statement, I certainly would be interested in expressing that if our colleagues on the board agree with that.

Um I also wanted to acknowledge uh the comment about the SCAP program.

Um I have had a conversation, it's been some months ago with the sheriff and her staff about that program.

I am hoping that uh we can uh no longer be a part of it, and I understand the sheriff is able to come to us uh perhaps the next meeting to share some updates on that program and our relationship to it.

So that is certainly something that I am willing to continue working on and we can provide an update at the subsequent meeting.

All right.

Thank you again to everyone who worked with me in my office on both the response plan and the ICE free zones policy, as well as those who participated in our November hearing.

I would like to move forward a motion for this committee to advance the response plan and the ICE free zones policy to the full board at our next meeting on January 27th.

And the direction would be similar to what is in the meeting packet and on the slides that we shared.

I do want to highlight some very specific things that I think are important, and maybe I'll just read this out loud so it's clear for the record.

So the motion is to move forward to the Board of Supervisors meeting on January 27th, the response plan for immigration enforcement.

A direct the county administrator to create a response plan for immigration enforcement activity, including convening a including convening public safety agencies and convening an interagency meeting among all relative relevant agencies and departments.

And I'll just sort of expand here that given what I heard from department heads as I was talking with them one-on-one, as well as the comments today.

There's a need for unified training, unified reporting and communications, and even some scenario planning or practice.

Certainly October's scare was that, but we need to make sure that as a county, in addition to the work in departments, we're working across the county.

And that is because immigrants and refugees are clearly being targeted, and even those who might appear to be immigrants or refugees are being targeted.

There is clearly racial profiling, so I believe our equity departments would be able to contribute to this discussion.

And I also think our partners should be engaged.

We did have a joint meeting with Alameda Health Systems.

However, there's probably more that needs to happen as the response plan is developed to ensure across our county health system there's a clear understanding and uniformity around how we're addressing ICE enforcement.

So that's just providing a little bit of detail to that first piece.

Secondly, regarding the response plan, direct the county administrator to bring forward the response plan for immigration enforcement activity for the board's consideration at the next board meeting after we approve it.

So that's the first piece of the motion.

The second piece of the motion is adopting a res regarding ICE-free zones, adopting a resolution that restricts the use of county-owned and county controlled properties for immigration enforcement activity and directs the county administrator to implement the resolution effective immediately.

And I think it would be appropriate at our next act meeting after the full board approves this to hear a progress report.

And in addition, I am interested if my colleague is in looking into whether we can incorporate a position opposing FCI Dublin being used for immigration detention as we consult with our county council.

So I know that was a lot, but again, the motion is to bring to the full board on January 27th our immigration enforcement response plan and our ice free zones policy for the full board's consideration and hopefully approval.

I'm happy to second, I think within the motion we should also respectfully ask that this be a set matter on the agenda because I'm sure it's going to initiate a lot of community engagement.

The only thing that I'm not clear about is want to be clear on the steps.

So you'll be advancing a board letter along with the resolutions that will come to our next meeting of the full board of supervisors on January 27th.

Correct.

Hoping that it passes.

And let me ask county council, would this require majority vote?

Not a four-fifths, correct.

Oh.

Okay, so majority vote.

So hoping that it advances.

But I wasn't clear on the next touch point.

You wanted the plan to be brought back by the next regular meeting, which would be February.

Do we know the date?

So we can certainly adjust.

That's the only thing I want to just I know this has been on people's radar, but also this was the first opportunity to have GSA as well as our justice partners here.

So publicly, just being clear that's the timeline we're shooting for, just want to um flag that there may be some pushback on that.

That's a really um quick turnaround, but I I fully acknowledge the urgency.

And with respect to a policy statement opposing um the Dublin facility becoming a detention center, I would also like to hear back from county council at a later date.

What's the best pathway to bring that forward?

I would definitely support that.

So maybe at our next act committee meeting, we could have an update on what that process would look like.

That way we're ensuring we're tracking all these touch points.

Yes, and just to further clarify the timeline, um, so by adopting this motion, we would move forward these two policies to our January 27th board meeting, and I'll request that it be a set matter.

Assuming we get at least three votes, then uh what would happen is that the response plan, uh, you know, the the administrator would convene as we direct, and the next board meeting is February 10th, actually, because we have a work session the prior week, and there's a lot of work already happening on response plans.

It's just that it's department by department rather than across the entire agency.

So we come back to the February 10th board meeting with an update on the response plan, and then we come to the next act for all meeting for an update on the implementation of the ICE free zones.

Um, how we advance a position with respect to opposing the detention center.

Correct, correct.

Um, in particular, if we are not able to include a policy statement in the ICE free zones resolution, we will certainly come back to that.

I think it's good to have a placeholder.

Yes, okay.

So, I so that will be part of our next act for all meeting, which um we do need to confirm that it would be the 5th of February.

That's on our agenda now, but we'll make sure we reconfirm that.

Okay.

I'm happy to second.

Okay, and that's thank you.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Supervisor Marquez.

I supervisor Fortunato Bass.

I motion passed.

Okay, thank you, everyone.

And so please come to our uh January 27th board meeting, and our next act for all meeting will be on February 5th at 3 p.m.

Yes.

Um, and are there any members of the public who wish to comment on items not on the agenda?

Okay, no public comment.

Thank you.

In that case, the meeting is adjourned.

Thank you, everyone.