Recording in progress.

Good morning, everyone.

I'd like to call our meeting to order today.

Tuesday, January 27th, a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Can I have a roll call, please, to establish our quorum?

Supervisor Marquez present.

Supervisor Tam present.

Supervisor Miley excused.

Supervisor Fortunato Bas.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

Our next item is to rise if you can and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge allegiance.

Our next item is supervisors' remarks.

I'll recognize Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert.

I wanted to uh take this opportunity to note that we should close the meeting today in honor of Nellie Wong.

She is a stalwart in Oakland, Chinatown, which is one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States, and she was a social justice advocate, a poet, an author, an artist from the first generations of Chinese Americans that are born here.

And she passed away on January 2nd at the age of 91.

She her last book was nothing like freedom.

So hopefully we can honor her memory.

Thank you.

We will, and please remind me to do so.

Supervisor Marquez.

Thank you.

Um I'm gonna have more detailed comments later, um, during our set matter, item 51, specifically to uh what happened this past weekend, but also just want to ask, I'm sure others would feel uh the need to also adjourn this meeting in memory of Alex Predi.

Um, and also just wanted to thank AC Health, all the volunteers, local leaders, volunteers, everyone that came out for the point in time count last Thursday.

Um many of us were up at 4 a.m.

in the morning.

We were assigned to a specific census track, and I know we all had different experiences throughout this county, but just really want to uplift the tremendous work we're doing to implement the home together plan and with the support of Measure W.

So hopefully we'll get that data in the summer and it will show that the investments are paying off, but just really wanted to thank everyone for um stepping in and volunteering.

Thank you.

Very well, and uh thank you.

You'll remind me as well at the end of the meeting.

Okay, very good.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Uh thank you.

Thank you, Supervisors Tam and Marquez, for those adjournments.

Um, I would like to add since we haven't yet also adjourning in memory of Renee Good and Keith Porter, and also I don't see um our AC health interim director in the room at the moment, but also wanted to thank AC Health and everyone who helped to organize the point in time count last week.

Um, myself and one of my staff were able to volunteer, and it was a tremendous, tremendous volunteer operation.

Um the goal was to recruit a thousand volunteers, and there were about 1,300 people who registered.

So I was just really pleased to see that uh level of interest in the community.

Uh there's our AC Health Interim Director.

I'm just thanking you and your team, interim director um Chowdhury, for the incredible work on the point in time count.

Um I too am looking forward to the results to help inform not only our funding but also our program and strategies.

Uh, one thing I wanted to highlight because I was out in West Oakland is that there's often a lot of talk about whether people who are unhoused are coming in from other counties or other cities, and uh the handful of people I talked to were actually born and raised here in Alameda County.

Two of them um born and raised in Oakland, unhoused in Oakland and last house, literally a few blocks from where I talked to them, and one of them was a Hayward uh resident born and raised, but now in Oakland.

So the information we get is going to be critical, and thank you again to everyone who is a part of that effort, whether you were staff or a volunteer.

Thank you.

I'll echo those comments indeed, those people who are on the street overwhelmingly from our community, not from out of town.

I would agree with that statement as I've experienced the same.

Um, I would also like to remark that we recently held the CAO's ad hoc finance committee meeting where we discussed the request for proposals to conduct a peer review of the ethical investment policy that was before us.

We held that meeting, and I know many people are interested to understand this.

And so while we don't have a agendized item, I would like to make the comments that we held that meeting.

The results of that meeting are the RFP has been sent to our GSA team for procurement.

It will go through the procurement process.

That will take some period, four to six months, as was previously elucidated by our administrator.

When it comes back as a you will come back to this board as a contract, and we will take the next step in the process is awarding that contract and completing the RFP.

For those that are interested in this, um in this item, that's where the that's where it is with GSA in procurement, and we'll work through our standard process.

So with that said, we'll now move to public comment.

This is public comment on all items except for set matters.

We'll take in-person first and then online.

If you're here to make a comment on items, except for those listed as set matters.

Those set matters are listed at one o'clock proclamations and recommendations, and 3 30, the item 51.

So those comments will be made at that time.

Public comment on any other item right now.

Raise your hand if you're online, fill out a speaker slip if you're in person.

I'll ask the clerk to please call public comment speakers.

Buffalo Sojourn for items 3A, 12E, and 19.

I'll fit over the okay.

I got three things to talk about in two minutes, but I think before I do that, I'd better give some commendations where I see them.

What respect to the honoring of Nellie Wong?

Yeah, me and mine, we recognize four different kinds of Chinese, just as how we recognize two or three different kinds of those that say that they're a Jewish or Hebrew among us.

There's mainland, there's Taiwan, there's Hong Kong, and there's longtime California.

Nelly Wong represents a true elder of longtime California.

Uh, the second thing, oh, Supervisor Fortunato Bas was mentioning something about homeless demography.

Yeah, we'd like to know how many Ukrainians are living in houses that were funded with low-income financing, while it was being slippaged over to affordable.

You do realize that the title or adjective of affordable is a means of siphoning off funds from one direction to another, which brings uh that no waiver contract with Cardia about mental health services.

Yeah, that's slippage.

Oh, yeah.

In item three.

Oh, that's fun.

In the years of the panic demandemic, enormous liberties were taken under the leading header legal heading of in locum tenants.

Steve King brought it to us.

That notion of slippage, that is deviation from the mission.

We've been trying to talk about programs and not personalities here.

But in item three, anything that has to do within locum tenants, please rectify it rather than continuing the slippage perpetrated during the panic demandemic years.

Pretty God, that's clear.

And as for saluting the flag, I don't know yet who voted for that fringe around it.

Didn't nobody tell me, nobody notified me, and until it's clear how y'all got the fringe.

Nothing happening here.

Joe.

Oh, wow.

For item eight, 10.

Oh, okay.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Joe Hawkins, and I am the CEO and co-founder of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center.

Hi, everyone.

Thank you for your service to our community.

I wasn't expecting to just come up and speak, but uh I am here.

You know, once upon a time, a new epidemic visited the United States, killing more than 700,000 people.

The vast majority of those people were gay men and people of color.

Fast forward to today, after years of advocacy and medical research.

We've significantly helped to reduce HIV in our community, particularly amongst white males.

In our clinics today, 100% of the new HIV infections that we have, people who have tested positive were black males, young black men.

That state of emergency is still in place today.

That state of emergency was declared specifically for the black community because of the disproportionate rates of HIV in our community.

We see now that in the Latin community, the rates of HIV are climbing at alarming alarming rates.

And it is heartbreaking to see that in our county that funds may be held up for any reason to end the HIV epidemic, especially at a time when the federal government is erasing LGBTQ health concerns from every government website.

I urge you to uh authorize the release of these funds immediately.

Thank you.

You're two minutes are up.

But thank you.

Appreciate you.

Next speaker.

Hi.

Can folks hear me?

Yes, please state the item you are speaking on.

Yeah, I just wanted to clarify.

Am I allowed to speak on item 51 for this that matters?

That'll be at 3 30.

3 30.

Okay, I'll do I'll come back then.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Speaker.

Hi.

Uh can you all hear me?

Yes.

Please state the item you're speaking on.

Item 10.

Go ahead.

Hi, uh, my name is Holly Calhoun.

I'm the senior director of programs at Project Open Hand.

Um I spoke at the last meeting as well.

And I want to first thank the board of supervisors for having heard the public's comments and uh putting on the agenda the item to release the ending the HIV epidemic funds, which have been already allocated from the federal government to local agencies to provide critical services to people living with HIV in our community.

Um thank you for hearing us.

I am speaking in favor of releasing these fundings.

Again, these are federal funds, uh, not county funds.

And so this is, I think, just an administrative process uh to get those funds out into the community to provide the life-saving uh services that folks living with HIV need.

Um I hope that in the future we can work together to form more transparency about the way in which uh federal funds are uh issued in the county um so that there aren't holdups in these processes, um, and that we're able to to get the services out to folks who need them in a timely manner.

Um, but I really appreciate the board having heard this issue, uh putting it on the agenda quickly right away at this next meeting, and just urge you to keep moving this forward, uh, get these funds out to folks.

There's a critical deadline of February 28th for these funds to be issued, or else they will have to be returned to the federal government.

Um, and I think we all know uh there's a lot of need here in Alameda where these funds can do great work um to support our community.

Thank you so much.

No more speakers.

Um we will adjourn to closed session, but before we do, I'll recognize um supervisor Marquez for brief comments.

Um thank you, Chair Halbert, and thank you for making um the comment with respect to the ad hoc finance committee.

I'm gonna respectfully ask that we get a status update in April just to track where it's at in the launching the RFP.

So just wanted to see if you're okay with reporting out just where things stand in April.

I think we can invite the general services agency.

Perfect.

We want to work with the property.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

I think that would be the proper course.

Very good.

With that said, we're going to now.

Well, let's take up approval of the minutes from January 20th.

Will somebody make a motion?

I'm happy to make the motion, and I'd also like to make some comments.

Um we have a relatively new clerk, Brittany, and I just want to acknowledge um just the quick turnaround in these minutes.

I really appreciate the detail what time we went into closed session, what time we came out.

Um, so just really excited to see this document as well as the publishing of our agenda, which consistently for the last few meetings is getting earlier and earlier on a Thursday.

So thank you so much to you and your team for that tremendous work.

You're here.

Yeah.

I'll second and ditto those comments.

We should count the number of minutes in closed session versus open session because we spend more.

That would be very interesting, wouldn't it?

A motion's been made to approve the minutes of Tuesday, January 20th, special meeting by Supervisor Marquez, seconded by Supervisor Tam.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley excused Supervisor Fortunato Pass.

Aye.

President Haubert.

Aye.

We are recessed into closed session.

Recording stopped.

Recording in progress.

Okay, everyone, we're going to reconvene the open session.

I'll ask the clerk to call the role to re-establish our quorum.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Tam present.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

County Council, do we have anything to report out from our closed session discussions?

Yes, I'd like to report out that in the matter of Lee the Alameda County Superior Court of California, County of Alameda case number RG 2109 3232 at a closed session held on December 16, 2025.

The board authorized settlement of the case, and this confirms that the case is now settled in the amount of $60,000 paid to the plaintiff with supervisors Miley Halbert Tam Marquez and Fortunato Bass voting yes.

Supervisor Miley was excused.

Thank you very much and congratulations on that settlement.

Our next item is our one o'clock set matters.

Items 49 and 50.

These are commendations and proclamations.

I'll ask Supervisor Tam to lead this one where we proclaim January 2026 as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert.

It's my pleasure on behalf of the board to recognize January as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

And our board raises awareness to human trafficking.

It's a grave human rights violation and a form of modern-day slavery that strips adults and children of autonomy, safety, and dignity through force, fraud or coercion.

So very sadly, in 2025, human trafficking was once again the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world.

Many victims of human trafficking are forced to work in prostitution or the sex entertainment industry, but trafficking also occurs in the forms of labor exploitation, such as domestic servitude, restaurant work, janitorial work, sweatshop, sweatshop factory work, and migrant agricultural work.

Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, men and women.

Human trafficking disproportionately targets those most marginalized, including Black, Indigenous, Latin, Latino, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other people of color, immigrants, and refugees.

The LGBTQIA plus individuals, particularly transgender individuals, and those living at the intersection of poverty, racism, xenophobia, and gender-based violence.

Survivors of human trafficking are not defined by their exploitation, but by their strength, resilience, and inherent right to live free from violence, exploitation, and control.

Additionally, more than half of survivors have experienced foster care.

While Asian American survivors remain undercounted due to systemic barriers and limited access to trusted reported pathways.

Here in Alameda County, human trafficking has been historically a priority of our district attorney's office, and we are proud of the collaboration between Alameda County's district attorney's office, its victims, witness assistance division, community-based organizations locally and regionally, and other partners who have broken the silence surrounding human trafficking and prevented countless incidents of abuse and exploitation and remain dedicated to treating trafficking survivors with compassion and dignity and provide a wraparound service to support their journey of healing and empowerment.

So this board recognizes National Human Trafficking Prevention Month and reaffirms its commitment to survivor-centered prevention-driven approaches that advances dignity, safety, healing, and long-term stability for all individuals impacted by human trafficking.

So we want to thank our partners, the district attorney's office, our district attorney here, Ursula Jones Dixon for continuing this work and making sure that Alameda County is a place where exploitation is confronted and survivors are supported, and prevention is truly possible.

So I invite the district attorney to say a few words and ask for comments, and we will present the proclamation.

Alright, thank you so much.

Thank you to the entire board.

Glad that everybody's here today.

This is extremely important that we give respect and deference to those in our community who have been victims of human trafficking.

First and foremost, I wanted to say there's several people here from my office who are in attendance, specifically Teresa Ortega and Aaron Kingsbury, who are with our heat division, as well as I think Austin.

There's Austin, sorry.

Austin Bruckner Carrillo, Erica Shaves, and Kelly Sage should be here if they're not here already from our victim witness division.

For those of you who don't know me well, I'm Ursula Jones Dixon, and I have the honor of serving as your district attorney.

I bring to this work decades of experience, including nearly 15 years as a prosecutor and 11 years as a superior court judge.

All of those years I've worked with victims of human trafficking.

Over the years, I've worked alongside families, frontline professionals, and advocates, and I've seen how traffickers target vulnerability, especially among young people.

That perspective is why I'm committed to fighting for justice for survivors in a way that truly protects the community, supports healing, and holds traffickers accountable.

Human trafficking is a profit-driven exploitation of humans, specifically adults and children for labor, sex, but through force, fraud, and coercion.

And survivors are often from communities of color and immigrant communities.

More simply put, trafficking is often underreported because trafficking thrives on secrecy, stigma, fear, and because some victims don't yet recognize what happened to them as they're being trafficked.

One of the hardest truths is that trafficking doesn't always look like a stranger in a dark alley.

Traffickers can pose online behind realistic social media accounts, dating profiles, or other fake job offers.

And sometimes they're even known to the victim.

That's why prevention includes digital safety, trusted adults, and community awareness, especially for young people.

Our office is bringing back a renewed focus on trafficking prevention, building on the legacy that Alameda County has built.

And we were nationally recognized, and we've kicked off the first of several public service announcements to help public spot warning signs, report safety, and support survivors.

Now, as we move toward our 2026 readiness, of course, we have what we call the trifecta, three huge athletic events happening in the Bay Area at the same time, which is great for the community, but a disaster for people who are victims of trafficking.

We have our Super Bowl, we have March Madness or NCAA basketball and FIFA World Cup.

So this gives us an opportunity to work regionally with other counties to help support as we know that Oakland will be hit hard with individuals coming to our city to look for women, young people, folks of color specifically who are being trafficked.

In October, I joined the South Bay Coalition to end human trafficking to talk about opportunities for a strengthened approach to combat trafficking regionally.

And our message to traffickers is pretty simple.

If you exploit people in the Bay Area, you will be investigated, arrested, and prosecuted.

Through our human trafficking advocate program, my office has worked hand in hand with 19 law enforcement agencies and dozens of community organizations this year alone.

And our office continues to center survivors in every prosecution while connecting them to support, housing, and healing.

Our advocates work hard, hand in hand with our attorneys, inspectors, and partner organizations to support survivors and survivors' autonomy, dignity, and well-being.

In 2025, our office served 261 trafficking survivors, 142 of whom were receiving services for the first time.

We made 188 referrals to trusted community organizations providing emotional support and safety services, as well as assisted 117 survivors in seeking victim compensation support.

These numbers are not abstract.

They represent real people who found safety through partnership.

When we coordinate across county lines, we save lives.

Earlier this year, our advocates worked with a 15-year-old girl, trafficked by her own relatives.

She had been taught to see her abuse as affection, a princess lifestyle.

With trauma-informed care, our advocates helped her begin to recognize coercion for what it was, securing 23 coordinated services for this young woman from counseling and relocation to victim compensation and housing.

That young survivor is safe today because partnership works.

Law enforcement advocates and community allies all move together to move mountains.

To our frontline workers and transit and hospitality, thank you for being first to notice when something's not right and for saying something when you see something.

To our nonprofit partners and advocates who do the work despite the odds and the risk, you're all the fuel that keeps this work going.

Thank you to the partners and the county that make this work possible, including our safety net, which includes many organizations that help to kind of game plan around how we keep young people safe in our community.

And I also want to mention some of our other partners.

Love never fails, restorative pathways, which used to be Ruby's Place, Brave, Justice at Last, Tri-Valley Haven, Shepherd's Gate, Save, Covenant House, Sister Me Home, Shade, Missy, Benita House, Coalition to Abolish Human Trafficking, A Safe Place, Building Futures, City Teams, and a Woman's Place, just to name a few.

If you see something, say something safely.

Call 911 in emergencies or the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

That number is 888-373788.

Your awareness could be the bridge between captivity and freedom.

So, Supervisor Tam and members of the board, thank you for recognizing the importance of this work.

Please know that my administration is listening to survivors and supporting the regional coordination our residents deserve.

Together, Alameda County's message is we protect our communities, support our survivors, and hold traffickers accountable without exception.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Any public comment on this item?

Before I turn it over to comments from our board.

We have speakers.

Okay.

Rose McCart, Tim Drew.

Good afternoon.

I'm Rose McCarr.

I'm the founder and chief executive officer of Justice at Last.

And we are proudly a partner of the county and doing anti-trafficking work.

We exclusively represent survivors of human trafficking throughout the Bay Area.

And we have been around for over a decade, and we have represented over 2,000 survivors that have been trafficked here in the Bay.

In particular here in Alameda County.

For our 2025 numbers, we represented 52 victims in court, and then also supported 64 individuals.

I'm here today to recognize and be thankful for the proclamation.

As a nonprofit law firm, we are committed to using the law to support survivors and to hold those responsible and accountable and to help create pathways to safety to dignity and to justice.

But we know that we can't do this work alone, and it requires partnership with community leaders like yourself.

So thank you.

We do know that trafficking will carry on.

Just because the sporting events are coming here, doesn't mean that after they leave, there will be no more trafficking.

We know unfortunately the realities of where we live and that trafficking carries on.

But this proclamation sends a powerful message that this community sees trafficking and it rejects it and it's committed to being part of the solution.

So I'm happy to meet with each of you or your offices to discuss the needs that we see for survivors of human trafficking.

We know that on average, a survivor of trafficking has at least two, if not more legal needs when they're no longer being trafficked.

Thank you for this opportunity today.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

It is afternoon.

Yes, good afternoon, supervisors.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

My name is Tim Drew.

I'm a resident of District 5 and a member of the East Paid Democratic Socialists of America.

East Pay DSA strives to create a better world for all people, whether it be locally through organizing tenants unions and running campaigns to elect government officials to represent uh that our residents' needs and aspirations nationally by fighting against our new right-wing fascist oppressors and the token opposition to that fascism, or internationally by doing everything we can to bring an end to U.S.

imperialism and its support for genocide and apartheid.

I support item 4049 for claiming January 2026 as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

My sister was a victim of human trafficking.

She was forced into prostitution in the streets of Oakland after she became addicted to heroin.

Her suffering finally ended when she committed suicide by overdose.

I therefore commend Supervisor TAM for introducing this important proclamation for standing up for vulnerable people here and abroad, and for reaffirming Alameda County's commitment to a survivor centered prevention-driven approach that advances dignity, safety, healing, and long-term stability for all individuals impacted by human trafficking.

Supervisor Tam and all members of the board of supervisors should proudly adopt this measure and also expeditiously implement other impactful policies to prevent human suffering, such as the ethical investment criteria, which would prevent the county from investing in companies that profit from human trafficking through its human rights clause.

The county has a vision to support human rights in these dark times and must follow through on these proclamations with action and policies in addition to these proclamations.

Thank you very much.

You have two minutes.

Okay, I'll bring it back for comments from our board.

Anyone care to weigh in?

Supervisor Forcinato Bass.

I have some great comments as well.

Thank you, Supervisor Tam and DA Jones Dixon for not only this proclamation, but for your work and leadership on human trafficking.

I formerly represented an area that was very, very impacted and have worked with a number of advocates and know that empowering those who are caught up in human trafficking is important.

So I wanted to invite folks to a youth-led town hall on human trafficking in Oakland.

It's going to be led by the Dream Youth Clinic in West Oakland tomorrow from 3 30 to 5, and it's an opportunity for all of us as leaders to hear directly from young people to talk about safety, prevention, and healing, and so I do want to encourage people to join if you're available.

There's information on my Instagram if you're interested.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I note that continuing to provide awareness that this is such a problem is critical to combating it, not only awareness of it, but how to prevent it.

I also note this is an international problem as much as is also a United States and a California and Alameda County problem.

I note that working in the past with folks at International Justice Mission IJM.

The healing that is required for those that have been trafficked is incredible, and it takes all of us to help heal the stigma that is attached to being trafficked is tremendous.

The people working in this space are brave.

I commend our district attorney and all of those people on the ground investigating and breaking the rings that perpetuate trafficking, which in my opinion is simply modern day slavery.

We're doing God's work.

Thank you for all that you do.

With that, I think what we typically do is provide the proclamation to our district attorney and anybody who would like to come up and take a photo with our board down here at the podium.

Thank you.

Um, y'all.

For our next item, item 50, another set matter item of proclamation commending Alameda Alliance for Health for their 30 years of service to Alameda County's children, families, and older adults, and their commitment to enhance the quality of life for our residents.

Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert.

On behalf of the board, I also want to recognize the Alameda Alliance for Health for their 30 years of service of providing comprehensive health coverage to Alameda County residents.

Since its inception in 1996, the Alliance has provided life-saving health care coverage to Alameda County children, families, and older adults with doctor's visits, urgent care, maternity and newborn care, mental health services, and many more health and social services.

Over the years, the alliance has grown from serving 100,000 clients in 2009, and in two in 2024, they served over 400,000 Alameda County residents through a network of over 12,000 primary care providers and specialists, 83 federally qualified health clinics and 17 hospitals.

The Alliance continues to expand its benefits, and as of January 1st, 2026, they have added a third program, which will serve residents who are duly eligible for Medicare and Medical through their Alliance Wellness Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan.

We call it D SNP.

We commend the Alliance for their commitment to serving our vulnerable population, promoting health equity and quality, support stable and permanent housing, grow the health care workforce, and improve community health and well-being and address food insecurity and nutrition.

So congratulations on your thirtieth anniversary, and be on behalf of the board, thank you for all you do.

And we have several key leaders from the Alliance to accept this commendation, starting with uh Matthew Woodrow, the Alliance Chief Executive Officer, Dr.

Donna Carey, who's the Alliance Chief Medical Officer, Rebecca Gephardt, who's the chair of our Alliance Board of Governors, and Dr.

Noah Avaleta, who's the vice chair of the Alliance Board of Governors.

So please come up and let's celebrate.

Thank you, Supervisor Tam, and thank you to the Board of Supervisors for this commendation.

Thirty years ago, the Alliance started our first year of operations with sixty-five thousand members.

And as you heard from Supervisor TAM, now we serve over 400,000 people in Alameda County, which is essentially one out of every four people in Alameda County have alliance services.

So I want to thank the board.

I want to thank all of our providers.

I want to thank our community-based providers, and I definitely want to give the other uh our board chair, our vice chair, and also our chief medical officer a moment to speak as well if they would like to.

Thank you so much.

Sure, come on up and give a speech.

Whoever wants to talk.

Thank you so much.

Um, this really means a lot, and I think um, you know, it's been 30 years, but we're also only a couple of years into I think a deepened commitment and partnership between the county and the health plan with the county organized health system, and so I think it's just um we've got uh ten, twenty, thirty more years looking ahead, and glad to be in the partnership with you all as well.

So thank you for the recognition and the partnership.

Hi, I'm Rebecca Gebhardt and currently the chair of the board and been on the board for nine years.

It's been a lot.

What a transformation, and I'm especially proud of the work that we've done on programs and services with a focus on social determinants of health under the Caline program.

Alameda Alliance for Health was fast out the gate to implement those programs, and I know they're under threat right now, but we've got a great model to continue.

I'm really proud of the expertise of the staff and the board, sort of a behind the scenes player, but we do what we can to encourage partnerships with community and county, and thank you for the recognition.

Hi, good afternoon.

I'm Dr.

Donna White Carey.

I'm the chief medical officer for Alameda Alliance.

Thank you so much for this recognition.

The work that we do is really important.

I want to also thank our partnership because we could not provide care without our community-based partners, without our direct providers, without our federally qualified health centers, and just we are excited that we have this new line of business to be able to provide comprehensive care to our members who have both Medicaid and Medicare, and we will just continue to do this work.

So thank you for this accommodation, and we look forward to 50 more years, 100 more years.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Do we have any public comment on this item?

No speakers.

Then let's go take a photo.

Thank you all.

Recording.

Everyone, we're gonna start in just a minute.

So if you could grab a seat, grab a seat.

Recording in progress.

Okay, everyone, we're gonna reconvene to open session.

I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to reestablish our quorum.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Tam present.

Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor Portinato Bass.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

I'll ask our county council.

Is there anything to report out from our closed session?

In addition to the report I made earlier, the board did not take additional uh reportable actions.

Okay, thank you very much.

With that said, I would like to take up our regular calendar now.

The first item is our consent calendar, items fifty-two to fifty-five.

We've already had public comment on the regular calendar, so I'll ask, is there a motion to approve?

I will move the consent calendar.

Second.

A motion's been made by Supervisor Tam seconded by Supervisor Miley to approve today's consent calendar, items 52 to 55.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam, aye.

Supervisor Miley?

Aye.

Supervisor Portonato Bass.

Aye.

President Howard.

Aye.

Before we proceed to the mass motion, I'll ask the clerk, do we have interpretation equipment?

We have an interpreter in person.

For which languages?

Spanish.

We have a Spanish interpreter with us present.

If anybody needs Spanish interpretation, would you please raise your hand?

Okay.

We have two in the back.

Are you our interpreters or you need you're the interpreter?

Okay.

So if we do need you, we know to call you.

Okay, thank you.

I'll also announce that if you are here to make public comment on the set matter, item 51, which we will take up at 3 30 or sometime around there, to fill out a speaker slip, and if you're online, be ready to raise your hand when we get to that item, and we will take public comment on that item at that time.

With that said, I'll ask um for a mass motion to be made.

Oh, consent.

Yeah.

Would the clerk please call the roll for the consent?

Yeah, I thought we did too.

We did.

Are we good?

Good to go.

Supervisor Tam, are you prepared to make a mass motion?

I'm gonna ask everybody to just not say anything.

Our county council is trying to work out with our administrator some announcements that need to be made.

We want to make sure that everyone is able to hear them.

If we can't get quiet, we'll have to clear the room.

So I'll ask our administrator to make any announcements on the mass motion.

Do you have any announcements?

I do.

Item 15 is being continued to your next regular meeting on February 10th.

Continue item 15.

Correct.

Very good.

With that said, is there a mass motion?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I will move items two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Questions on nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, jumping to 16.

14, I have to recuse myself on.

So could we take that out of the mass motion?

Okay, I will remove item 14 from the mass motion because of recusal from Supervisor Miley.

So item 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 is an ordinance, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 are ordinances 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42.

Comments on 42.

Comments on 42.

43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48.

Mass motions been made.

Is there a second?

Motion's been made by Supervisor Tam, second by Supervisor Marquez.

Questions on item 9.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

So item 9 is a report from the Alameda County Health Department on the Alameda County Health Trust Fund balance and an explanation of the obligations that we have under that fund.

My question is given some of the uh wrestling we've had to do with proposition one.

Can you help me understand how the trust fund balances can, whether or not the 21.5 million dollars in prevention and early intervention dollars can also be allocated to some of the programs that are facing cuts.

Thank you for the question, Supervisor Annika Chattery, interim director for Alameda County Health.

So the way that the MHSA trust fund is uh is put together is that you know it receives revenue, and uh these numbers are numbers that you're seeing as of the end of last fiscal year.

So we're in the process of updating them.

Um but I will say that the MHSA plan is a three-year plan.

So there's multi-year expenditures in there as well, but I'm happy to put some detail together and bring that for you because we're also working with the county administrator's office on updating the numbers as a part of the MLE budget process, um, and thinking through what's possible there.

Okay, thank you.

The next item with questions on it, Supervisor Miley, questions on 41 and I think 42.

Just 42, okay.

So it's for uh are we on 42?

All right, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yeah, I just uh wanted to speak on this item.

Uh it's an extremely important item, the agreement between the county and special districts cities and nonprofits on um the Alameda County operational area emergency management organization.

I mean, this is extremely important.

You know, we have experienced disasters in the past, Loma Prieta, um, the Oaklands Firestorm, you know, fires, um, you know, tsunami warnings, things of that nature.

And this is even um applicable uh if we were to experience some type of um um incident relative to um a mass uh shooting or terrorist uh uh act of violence.

Um and so the fact that we entered into this agreement in 2016 and it's before us again to um once again continue the agreement is very very important, and the you know the the agreement points of that the operational area emergency management organization will assist parties to the screen to share resources before during and after an emergency as well as to prepare and respond and recover from disasters that strike Alameda County.

The operational area emergency management organization will prioritize competing needs according to the policies and procedures approved by the operational council and I know um the sheriff is quite is very uh familiar with this as you are uh President Howard, because as when I was president of the board, you know, we chair the disaster council and you know it's not a question of uh if there'll be a disaster, it's just a question of when we need to be as fully prepared both before, during, and then in recovery afterwards, and this um agreement serves significant um purposes and having served on the Oakland City Council back in the 90s and seen the Oakland Hills Fire Storm and worked on uh disaster preparedness and having served here on the public uh protection committee with our our great public protection chair, Supervisor Marquez.

You know, I can't stress our need for this type of operational emergency management agreement.

Um it's just extremely important, and we should never diminish it because once again it's not a question of if it's just a question of when another earthquake, uh disaster, once again we're in a high um area uh when it comes to regional um concerns with uh uh any type of incident that might occur, like you know, the Boston Marathon, uh bombing, things of that nature.

So I'm I'm really very pleased that this is back before us to agree, I mean, to enter to this agreement once again.

And I don't know, I see I see our great sheriff over there, sir.

I see the under sheriff talking to a sheriff.

So um uh sheriff, would you like to make any comments on this?

So we're just trying to catch up on the agenda item right now.

So I wasn't really paying attention.

So we're looking it up.

This is for um, you know, with disaster respondents or response, that is something that we have been working on and trying to make sure that we develop that framework on engaging all of our partners, all of our stakeholders to be able to have a plan to work off of.

Um that's always been the goal, and I feel like we've kind of been behind, but with the number of people that the board has authorized for the sheriff's office to onboard, that really has been key and instrumental for us to start catching up on developing this plan and framework.

So this is absolutely essential for not only our county partners but for our residents so that we can push out information in a timely manner.

Yeah, and if I once again would say if there's an disaster, disaster has no um, it doesn't discriminate you if you know whether you're male or female, whether you're young or old, uh, whether whatever your race is, it won't discriminate.

A disaster will impact you uh if it's upon you.

So I'm just really appreciative that this is before us today.

Supervisor Miley, thank you for those comments.

I'll add on and just say, as I always had, the best time to prepare for an emergency is before you are upon one or one is upon you.

So we are preparing ourselves for those emergencies.

And I thank OES and our Sheriff's Department for keeping us prepared.

Um I don't see any other items with questions, but I will go back to item two, and I just want to make a comment that uh I appreciate our social services agency, and I think Supervisor Miley, this is an item that uh you really helped to champion.

I think we both supported it, but it was um to provide funding for Sunflower Hill to provide food services for individuals with intellectual and development, developmental disabilities.

I consider them one of the most vulnerable populations in our community to make sure that they have the food that they need is important.

So our social service agency is um putting that on the agenda today, and I thank them for doing that.

With that said, a motion's been made.

Seconded, comments and questions asked and answered.

I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor Tam, aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Portunata Blas.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

The mass motion passes.

I think we'll take up item 14 now.

And so Supervisor Miley, would you care to make a comment?

Yes, I have to um recuse myself on item 14.

Because there's a um expect uh a grant from District 5 to United Seniors.

And though I don't receive any compensation from the United Seniors, I'm the president of the organization, and I always like to recuse myself on these items out of just out of perception.

Very good.

We will recognize that you have recused yourself and left the room, and I'll seek a motion for item 14.

I will move item 14.

Second.

Motion's been made and seconded, made by Supervisor Tim, seconded by Supervisor Fortunato Bass to approve item 14.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor TAM.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley has recused himself from discussing or voting on the item and has left the room.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Item 14 passes.

We will receive Supervisor Miley back to our meeting and take up our ordinances.

So your first ordinance is item 29 from the General Services Agency.

It's the first reading in introduction of an ordinance repealing and replacing chapter 4.38 of Title 4 of the Administrative Code pertaining to green building practices for county funded building design construction and operations.

First reading of an ordinance.

An ordinance amending chapter 4.38 of the administrative code of the county of Alameda related to green building practices for certain county projects.

Mr.

President, I will move to waive the full first reading and introduce the ordinance repealing and replacing chapter 4.38 of Title 4 pertaining to green building practices.

Second.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor TAM.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Item 34 is from the Human Resource Services Department.

It's requesting that your board conduct your first reading of an ordinance approving the July 2025 through July 2028 MOU between the County and the Union of Physicians and Dentists and Related Ordinance Amendments.

The title of the first ordinance is an ordinance approving the July 6, 2025 through July 15, 2028.

Memorandum of understanding with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists Representation Units 18 and 24.

The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2025 through 2026 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance.

Mr.

President, I'll move to waive the full first reading and introduce the ordinance approving the July 2025 to July 2028 MOU between the county and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists.

And I will move item 34B to the waive the full first reading and introduce the salary ordinance amendments as described under 34B1 and 2.

Second.

Motion's been made by Supervisor TAM, second by Supervisor Miley.

Roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Aye.

Supervisor TAM.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Aye.

Item 35 is also from Human Resource Services.

It's first reading and reading of an ordinance amending the MOU between the County and the Alameda County Management Employees Association General Government Unit.

The title of the first ordinance is an ordinance amending the June 25th, 2023 through July 3rd, 2027, memorandum of understanding between the Alameda County Management Employees Association, General Government Unit, and the County of Alameda.

The title of the second ordinance is an ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2025 through 2026 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance.

Mr.

President, I will move to wave the full first reading and introduce the ordinance amending the June 2023 to July 27 MOU between the county and acne, and I will move to waive the full first reading and introduce the Sally Ordinance Amendment as described in 35B, Roman I, and Roman 2.

Second.

Motion has been made by Supervisor TAM, seconded by Supervisor Miley.

Roll couple vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez.

Hi.

Supervisor Tam.

Aye.

Supervisor Miley.

President Halbert.

Aye.

That concludes your regular calendar except for your 330 set matter.

Very good.

Since it's now slightly past 3 30, we will take up the 3 30 set matter.

I'll turn the floor over to Supervisor Fortunato Bass for a brief report followed by public comment.

Thank you, President Miley.

I'm sorry.

That was last year, 2024.

Sorry about that.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Before we get started, I do want to acknowledge that my office did request Spanish interpretation.

Thank you to Paloma and Vanessa who are in the back for being here.

It seems that we do not have interpretation equipment, and our AI interpretation on the screen needed to be set up ahead of time, which we were not aware of.

And so unfortunately interpretation is not completely set up, and I apologize for that.

I think we have to do better.

I want to note that my colleagues and this board did pass a board letter so that we can have equitable language access.

And I think this is an example of how we have to not just interpret what you might say to us in your native language, but make sure that we also provide translation for what we as a board say in this entire discussion.

So again, I apologize for that.

We were not aware we needed to uh do some things ahead of time in order to have the Spanish on the screen.

And thank you again to Vanessa and Paloma in the back.

They are available to those of you who need Spanish translation.

And if I could also request one of you to uh summarize what I just said, if the members of the audience require Spanish interpretation, or is it for members online as well?

Gracias.

Yeah.

Oh, to uh help them if they have.

Yeah, and I'm wondering if there's a way we can, um, this isn't ideal, so I also acknowledge that and apologize to the community members, but um, I'm wondering if we maybe we could designate like the back corner of the room.

Um, so people that need to hear the translation, they could be in close proximity to the interpreters.

I'm just trying to find um an interim solution.

I know that's not going to serve the purpose of the people viewing remotely, but at least the people that um took time out of their day to be here in person.

Maybe they can receive that translation services.

So anybody that needs translation services can meet the interpreter in the back corner.

Does anybody not speak English and need to have interpretive services?

In Spanish.

Just yeah, that's a great idea.

You're getting your steps in today.

What is your name again?

Paloma Aspe.

Thank you so much for being here.

Okay, much good afternoon.

Okay.

Thank you, President Halbert.

Thank you, everyone, for joining us.

Uh, today we have in front of us an item for immigration enforcement response planning as well as ice free zones.

Um I want to acknowledge that these proposals were developed last fall as the Bay Area faced a surge in immigration enforcement and customs and border protection agents, which was later called off.

Thank you to members of the public for sharing your comments at our two committee meetings, as well as through emails and calls, and for your presence today.

The attacks on our communities by the federal administration, as we all know, have been relentless, and the supercharged immigration enforcement is causing fear and trauma, separating families and harming communities.

The lawless violence we are witnessing is an assault on our American and Alameda County values, our constitution, and our human dignity.

This is an opportunity for us to stand up and to act.

I have a number of slides here.

I will not go through all of them, and they were slightly updated from the packet that was published on Thursday.

Um so this slide is just a brief introduction to the Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee.

Our purpose, as many know, is to coordinate a response to federal policy changes and budgets that harm our communities.

Uh, we've been meeting on a regular basis, and have heard from immigrant and refugee communities, LGBTQ folks.

We've heard about reproductive justice, health care, and food security.

And our recommendations have been forwarded to the board, and a number of them have been approved, including funding for immigrant rights, food security, and the LGBTQ community.

This next slide is some background in terms of what the committee has done to hear from the immigrant and refugee communities.

We've had a number of meetings that have resulted in recommendations from the committee to the full board, and we are very grateful that the full board has taken action to approve a number of funding allocations.

This slide is a brief summary of the allocations that our committee, which is comprised of myself and supervisor Marquez, recommendations we've brought forward to the board, and which have been approved.

And so this includes really important work for rapid response for legal services and deportation defense and for community education and organizing.

I want to thank our social services agency for your work supporting immigrants and refugees very broadly, including many, many other services, as well as the three coalitions and our public defender's office.

And again, I want to thank each of our board members because all of these decisions have been supported unanimously to scale up our efforts to support the immigrant and refugee community.

So today, these are the recommendations in front of us.

And again, the proposals were developed last fall.

They've been inspired by Santa Clara County, who has adopted similar policies on November 6th at the AC ad hoc committee.

We heard the introduction of these policies, as well as from AC Health and our Social Services Agency.

At that committee meeting, Supervisor Marquez moved to continue the items to our subsequent committee meeting so that we could hear from General Services Agency and our public safety partners.

I hate to interrupt, but I've been notified that we have the ability to allow for interpretation.

So that people online can do the Zoom capability where they we can speak in English, they can hear in Spanish.

But it takes us five-minute changeover for IT to do that.

So I'm gonna request that we take a five-minute break, and then when you resume, they will have interpretative services so that people online will be able to hear you in Spanish.

Yes, and the people here in the room can also read it on the screen.

I think that's worth doing.

Thank you.

That as well.

Yes, thank you so much.

We're gonna take a break for five minutes, everyone.

While IT, what the instructions I'm about to provide, please.

Make sure we're all here.

Recording in progress.

Present.

Supervisor Tam, present.

Supervisor Miley, present.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass, the floor is yours again.

Thank you.

Let's uh pull the slides up again and thank you to our county administrator, our county council, and our clerks' team for finding a solution with our interpreters as well as for our assessor Fang La forsets.

Okay, so we are here today for an item regarding a response plan for immigration enforcement and equitable access to county services or ice free zones.

I'll just note before I resume the presentation that I'm going to provide an overview.

There is a lot of information in the packet as well as on these slides regarding other department heads and the presentations that they have already made.

I understand some of them are here and available to answer questions, but my understanding from President Halbert is that after this presentation he will resume chairing and we will have opportunities for the board as well as for the public to comment.

So again, these recommendations were developed last fall.

They were heard at the ACT ad hoc committee, that's Alameda County Together for All ad hoc committee, which is myself and Supervisor Marquez.

On November 6th, we heard from our AC Health Interim Director as well as our Social Services Agency.

And then on January 5th, we heard from our General Services Agency Director as well as our public safety partners, the sheriff, district attorney, public defender, and probation chief.

So the recommendations in front of us today are a response plan for immigration enforcement, directing the county administrator to develop a comprehensive response plan for immigration enforcement activity, and provide a status update at the next Alameda County Together for All Ad hoc committee meeting.

The plan should include unified training, reporting and communication protocols, as well as scenario planning and practice exercises, convening the public safety agencies, and facilitating an interagency meeting among all relevant county departments and agencies in collaboration with AC Health's Equity Office and the County Administrators' Office of Equity, as well as engaging key partners such as Alameda Health System and labor organizations.

The second recommendation is equitable access to county services, also known as ICE Free Zones.

This is adopting a resolution that prohibits the use of county-owned and county controlled properties for federal civil immigration enforcement activities, including staging areas, processing locations, or operation spaces, and directing the county administrator to implement the resolution effective immediately and provide a status update at the next Act Committee meeting.

Next, we do want to note that there is rising ICE activity as well as funding.

Under the federal budget, HR 1 approved last year, ICE will receive an additional 75 billion over four years.

This is a 300% increase.

It will make ICE the most well-funded federal law enforcement agency in U.S.

history.

And we do know that back in October, when there was an escalation of immigration enforcement that was later called off, but during that escalation, there were confirmed reports of community members who were injured by gunshot wounds by ICE agents, and one community member, a faith leader who was shot with a chemical weapon and severely injured by federal agents.

Since Trump's crackdown in Los Angeles last summer, there have been 20 incidents in which immigrant immigration agents open fire.

And we are all keenly aware that in the past month, three people have been shot and killed by ICE agents.

Renee Good, Alex Preedy in Minneapolis, and Keith Porter in Southern California.

We will be adjourning in their memory after this meeting.

So it's imperative that Alameda County be fully prepared for impending attacks on our community and collaborate with our cities, neighboring Bay Area Counties, hospitals, and health care facilities and agencies, including education, transit, and the Port of Oakland.

So here you'll see some visual illustrations of the huge increase in ISIS budget and how it is overwhelmingly being funded in terms of federal funding.

To be clear, the Senate right now is looking at separating DHS, Department of Homeland Security appropriations, from the rest of the budget package to create reforms to address the violence that we have witnessed by federal ICE and Border Patrol agents.

Here you'll see a graph that shows the majority of ICE detainees have no criminal history.

This is in contrast to what Trump has been saying the agenda is around immigration.

So you can see here from this graph that immigrants with no criminal record continue to make up the largest group in U.S.

immigration detention and being undocumented in the US is a civil, not a criminal infraction.

In addition to that, Trump is moving to invalidate many protections for many immigrants staying in the U.S.

legally, which means that many of our immigrant and refugee community members are in legal limbo with these changes.

And throughout the state and nation, there has also been an increase of arrests of both citizens and non-citizens by mass uniformed, I'm sorry, massed non-uniformed plain clothes federal agents.

Often these agents will not have visible names, nor officer identification numbers, nor other individually identifying information on their person.

These practices are causing fear, confusion, and panic, and our community members have no way of knowing whether these agents are exercising legitimate authority or committing a crime, thereby spreading distress in law enforcement and harming public safety for all county residents.

ProPublica has done a number of studies.

They have found four cases of immigration agents using banned chokeholds and other moves that can cause the cutting off of breathing.

They have also found that more than 170 U.S.

citizens have been held by immigration agents, and that data is from October, so it has likely increased.

In 2026, we're well aware of the three deaths at the hands of ICE agents.

In addition to that, there were six people who died in ICE custody just this year.

Herbert Sanchez Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parada La, Luis Beltran, Inez Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caseras, and Geraldo Munas Campo.

Their names are really important for us to remember.

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

And not only is federal immigration enforcement intensifying, the immigration court system itself is being hollowed out.

100 judges have been fired nationwide since uh January of last year.

Courts are closing and cases are being delayed for years.

Here in the Bay Area, San Francisco immigration court is being dismantled and will close by the end of the year.

That will leave thousands of people in legal limbo and put pressure on the other courthouse in our Bay Area, which is in Concord.

So families are waiting until 2027 or 2030 or beyond for a hearing while facing horrible conditions in detention, accelerated deportation, and fewer opportunities to be heard.

Bond hearings are also increasingly restricted.

Due process is being eroded, and people are being pushed into fast track removals without meaningful review.

So that is the context that we are operating in.

So the first recommendation again is a response plan to immigration enforcement activities.

Again, this is based on a framework that Santa Clara County proposed in October and adopted in December, and you'll see the framework in front of you and on the screen.

We want to build off Vision 2036 and board direction, emphasize coordination, rapid coordination among county agencies and departments, as well as our community-based organization partners to protect individual rights, ensure access to services, and promote public safety.

We also want this to be informed by existing work of our county agencies and departments and the community-based partners serving our community as well as counterparts in other counties.

Secondly, we want to build off existing and ongoing preparation efforts.

There's already a lot of work being done by Alameda County.

This includes legal actions, legislative efforts, community partnerships, advocacy for children and families and media.

Third, there should be a tiered community and county response.

Right now, what's happening in Alameda County is targeted enforcement as well as some non targeted enforcement.

There have been a few reports of enforcement and sensitive non public spaces, and we are needing to prepare ourselves in the case there are mass raids.

This is taking into account that after increased immigration enforcement, we will need community restoration and healing.

So drawing on feedback from our own Alameda County community and examples from other cities, things that our committee has discussed that would be helpful to include, include include protocols for communications with county employees, other law enforcement agencies, Alameda County cities, neighboring counties, and other government agencies, and building off our existing emergency operations center protocols.

Trainings for county staff and security personnel, safeguarding our workplaces, employees and clients, protecting our courthouses and other public safety facilities, and protecting our hospitals and health care facilities.

And we are not alone in taking a look at how we can shore up our access to services and protect our community.

On October 6th, the City of Chicago took the step by the mayor's executive order.

As I mentioned earlier, the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors passed a similar passed a similar policy both for preparedness as well as for ice free zones.

San Jose City Council last week passed a policy for ice free zones.

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors provided a motion directing their staff to return to the board in 30 days.

That was also last week.

And then next week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will take up an ordinance similar to this ice free zone policy.

So the proposal in front of us today states that no county-owned or county controlled properties, including parking lots, vacant lots, garages, or non-public areas of buildings, shall be used for staging areas, processing locations, or operations bases for the purposes of civil immigration enforcement.

Implementation and enforcement would include identifying all county-owned and county controlled properties that could potentially be used for immigration enforcement, including staging, processing or surveillance, ensuring that wherever appropriate physical barriers, such as lock gates are used to limit access, and establishing a process for posting clear signage, as well as making that signage available free of charge for private property owners or renters that wish to delineate non-public areas of their own property.

Implementation also includes developing research, developing procedures requiring county staff to report any federal attempts to use county controlled or owned property for immigration enforcement, and ensure that these incidents are communicated to the county administrators' office, county council, public safety offices, and the board, having the county administrator or her designee develop procedures necessary to implement this policy, and reporting progress to the next ACC meeting, and these procedures should provide clear reporting that's consistent with the response plan.

Lastly, the ice free zones policy also calls on federal immigration enforcement officers performing business in the county to identify themselves as federal immigration enforcement officers and to make it clear that they are not officers, agents, or employees of the county, and to comply with all state and federal legal protections afforded to our county residents.

There's a number of slides, which I will not go through in detail.

This is to give all of you, the board as well as members of the public a sense of what we heard when we had our department directors present to committee.

So we did hear from our interim director of AC Health, and I will note that they have had an internal cross agency group since December of 2024 that has been meeting.

They have a structure in place.

They are marking facilities in terms of what parts of private areas are not accessible to the public.

They're providing staff support and training, and really focused on ensuring access to care.

I do want to recognize that there is a no-year rights healthcare working group that has sent an email and several correspondence to the committee as well as to the board.

We have received that, and I do want to recommend that we incorporate their best practices into the response plan so that when it comes back to our committee, those are included.

We also heard from our social services agency.

They are tasked with providing many, many services to the immigrant and refugee community.

And they also have an internal agency work group.

They have set up some communications infrastructure.

They are supporting much of this work in our county as well as the coordination of developing a process to create a future office of immigrant affairs.

And we also heard that in July, SSA and the Mexican consulate entered an MOU with the purposes of protecting Mexican minors and really working to ensure that we're able to identify them early and their families to preserve, rehabilitate, and reunite these families.

We heard from our general services agency that was just a couple weeks ago.

Since October of 2025, a majority of our county facilities have signage that designates which parts are public versus for authorized personnel only.

They're developing protocols, ensuring staff as well as security personnel training.

Our director did note that our properties that we own are listed in our capital improvement plan, and they're working to identify properties that could potentially be used for immigration enforcement.

Earlier this month, we also heard from our public safety partners, including Sheriff Sanchez.

She shared a number of pieces of information, including the directives in terms of how they do or do not communicate with ICE, that there are no civil detainers at Santa Rita jail.

They are working with our rapid response network and are able to verify possible ICE activity as well as respond to those types of calls for service.

They are supportive of encouraging law enforcement to be clearly identified, and the sheriff also shared and can potentially speak to us today in terms of how they cannot intervene in other law enforcement actions, but they are able to communicate in terms of what is happening to facilitate support to those that might be engaged, as well as to ask what their business is and to verify that it is in fact law enforcement.

The sheriff does communicate ongoing with other law enforcement agencies in the county and shared with us in the committee support for free speech and encouraging the public to do so safely in a way that doesn't endanger anyone physically.

The sheriff, as we know, provides security at the courthouses, and there is a recent directive from the presiding judge, and there is not yet state guidance that is recent.

Both the sheriff and the DA talked about potential state guidance that could clarify things further.

We heard from the district attorney who shared with us they don't collect immigration status of victims or people charged.

Sometimes that information does come up through defense counsel.

She also shared that if there are any concerns about immigration enforcement, that she herself is available and the staff is aware of that.

She is also looking to the state attorney general for specific direction to district attorneys.

We heard from our probation chief.

They shared a PowerPoint and were very comprehensive in their work with the immigrant and refugee community.

They don't share information.

They have a low population of immigrant youth and zero immigration detainers holds or transfers.

They also mentioned supporting countywide guidance and trainings, working with other agencies and community partners.

And we also heard from our public defender and his office, who registered his support for these two policies and shared his observations of what is happening because of this federal administration in our justice system.

People are looking to us to provide basic protections.

So again, these are the recommendations in front of us today.

I am happy to provide any clarifying information.

Assuming that we pass these two policies at the next Act for All meeting, which is to be scheduled in February, we would hear a status report on the response plan as well as the status report on the implementation of the ice-free zones policy.

And I do want to just acknowledge that we are in a true crisis, not only around protecting our immigrant and refugee community, but also in a crisis of a rule of law and upholding our Constitution, ensuring that those who are caught up in immigration detention do have access to legal counsel and due process, which is part of our constitution and the Fifth Amendment.

These are rights that everyone has, regardless of your immigration status in this country, and ICE should not be above the law.

So thank you to all of you because I know many of you are here because in your communities every day, you are fighting to protect your family members, your kids who are going to school, and so much more.

And as this deportation agenda of the federal administration is spreading fear, causing trauma, separating families, I thank all of you in our community, and certainly our community partners, because you're demonstrating courage, resilience, and a commitment to organizing and keeping each other safe.

So I hope that we as a county will be as responsible and show the same amount of courage and clarity and support this legislation so that we as a county do everything we can to protect our residents, uphold the constitution, as well as our laws, and ensure that our systems do not contribute to harm and that we can in fact deliver our services to everyone who needs them.

Thank you.

Do you have that available in Spanish?

My uh staff person, Cynthia in the back will make sure that we do have it available.

Thank you.

I want to thank everybody for being here.

I will ask that if you are wishing to speak, that you would fill out a speaker slip, and if you are online, now would be the time to raise your hand.

We're going to close off the collection of speaker slips.

We're gonna close off the raising of the hand.

I will say that not everybody might not get to speak.

We're going to allow for one minute for each speaker.

We're going to allow for an hour of public comment.

We can accelerate and have as many people speak if we are efficient with our timing.

If you would like to say ditto to the person that spoke before you, you're allowed to do that.

We won't hold it against you.

But I also will recognize that we have to run an efficient and orderly meeting.

And so, pursuant to the California Penal Code Section 403, we ask that you not render this meeting disrupted.

And so if we do, we'll have to take a break and ask the Sheriff's Department to clear the room.

So let's just be mindful of those that need to hear and run an orderly meeting.

Thank you.

What we do is we typically take the first three speakers in person and then the next three online.

And we'll rotate back and forth.

And before we do that, I'm going to recognize my colleague Marquez, Supervisor Marquez, for some brief comments.

Thank you, Chair Howard, and I want to welcome each and every one of you here to this county building.

This is your building.

We're all here to serve you, so thank you for taking time to come out in person and to those watching online.

I want to first thank the chair of the Alameda County Together for all.

You will hear us use the acronym ACT ACT.

That is the acronym for the committee, but I just want to acknowledge Chair Fortunato Bass for her leadership as well as her teams.

This is definitely a challenging topic, and they've been closely tracking surrounding counties and bringing forward the two items on the agenda today.

So I want to thank them for that hard work.

I'd also like to thank the Alameda County public safety partners, Sheriff Sanchez, District Attorney Jones Dixon, Public Defender Woods, and Probation Chief Ford for presenting to the Act Committee regarding your agency's policies and response to this unprecedented time for immigrant and refugee communities, as well as our collective civil liberties, given what we have seen from ICE and other parts of the state and country.

I also want to acknowledge and appreciate AC Health, Social Services, and General Services Agency for presenting their response plans given the increased immigration enforcement activity across the Bay Area region.

As I shared at the last Act Committee, I do not believe any of our county leaders or staff could have anticipated the full magnitude of this federal administration's lack of regard for the Constitution or our humanity.

Again, Renee Good should still be alive.

Keith Porter Jr.

should still be alive.

And now it saddens me that I find myself saying Alex Predi, a fellow public servant that cared for our veterans as an ICU nurse should still be alive.

The list of mothers, fathers, caregivers, neighbors, coworkers, friends, and fellow human beings who have been denied their due process and dignity by ICE goes on and on and on.

Less than a week ago, I read the words from the National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman in her poem for fellow poet Renee Good.

Today I share more of her wisdom through a part of her poem for Alex Pready.

Know that to care intensely united is to carry both pain, dark horror for today, and a profound daring hope for tomorrow.

We can feel we have nothing to give and still be left this world waiting, trembling to change.

If we cannot find words, may we find the will.

If we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity.

With three more years of this cruel federal administration that has made ICE the most well-funded federal law enforcement agency in U.S.

history, we must continue to transform our pain into purpose.

We may find ourselves in uncharted territory, as with any emergency.

Our commitment to internal preparation and coordination is essential for our residents and the county staff who show up each day to support them.

Let us continue to live into our values and collective responsibility to promote a safe, healthy, and just Alameda County for all.

By adopting the two policies before us today to improve the readiness for increased immigration enforcement.

Thank you for those comments.

It's 4 32.

We're going to start the clock on the public comment.

We'll call the first three speakers.

We asked three speakers to come up in line so that you can speak right after the next the previous speaker to get as many speakers through as we can.

The clerk will call the first three speakers in the room.

Reverend Eric Meader, Kepra Lyons Clark, Daryl Ray.

Deborah, so we'll be speaking now.

Chambers is speaking.

We'll call on PTEC when we're ready.

Thank you.

You called her chambers.

Good afternoon.

My name is the Reverend Eric Meter, and I serve the Starking Unitarian Universalist Church in Hayward at 2255 77, excuse me, Baywood Avenue.

We are a small faith, but we, if you know of us, you know that we show up for justice and making this world a more loving place.

One third of our national clergy joined the Reverend Martin Dr.

Martin Luther King when he marched in Selma.

More recently, any number of our colleagues gathered in Minneapolis, and at least one was arrested in peaceful nonviolent protest last Friday.

When our federal government is acting with such reckless disregard of the rule of law, it is up to citizens, people, and other forms of government to do what we can to balance the power to speak up to become again a more civilized union.

Thank you for moving this forward.

I hope you will, all of us.

My name is Daryl Ray.

I live in Castor Valley, and I'm a member of Star King Unitarian Universalist Church in the Fairview.

And I serve on the steering team of Eton Area Indivisible with its over 900 participants.

I want to express my gratitude to Supervisors for Tuna Bas and Fratunanada, sorry, and Marquez for their hard work bringing these two important proposals to the board today.

These proposals must be passed quickly.

What is happening in Minneapolis provides stark example of what this fascist regime can and probably will do to Alameda County?

And while you have been elected by the voters of Alameda County, I believe that is your responsibility to all the residents of this county, and this includes our neighbors, our children, and our varied communities.

Do not kick this can down the road.

CEC room, TEC room, please.

Hello, my name is Capra Lyons Clark.

I'm from Oakland.

I live in District 12 and I work in Fruitvale in District 5.

I work with an organization called Frontline Catalyst.

We're a youth climate justice nonprofit and we do a lot of in-school programming with youth surrounding activism around climate in Oakland.

I've heard from a lot of my youth a really strong fear.

They're afraid to go outside on the weekends, they're afraid to do anything with their families, their parents are afraid, and I am afraid.

Seeinging this forth because I think it's imperative that we be as prepared as we can and fortify ourselves in our community.

It feels good to know that we have people who represent us as a county who understand the director of the situation, and I feel proud of that and being a part of a community who stands up to do the right thing.

So, yes, I want to thank you and applaud for getting this passed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next to speakers in TEC, Laura Aaron and Sarah Dorman.

Supervisors, my name is Laura Aaron.

Alameda County needs to be better prepared to protect its residents.

As Supervisor Halbert said earlier in today's meeting, the best time to prepare for an emergency is ahead of time.

Let's not get caught flat footed when not if, but when ice descends on MAS here.

We need an enforcement response plan and ice-free zones, in addition to supporting Dublin electeds and residents and saying no to a detention center there.

What will you learn from the trampling of the constitution and ICE mayhem in Minnesota?

How will you protect us from the traumatization and havoc they will seek to wreak here?

Vote for these policies and plans.

Thank you.

Peter Shapiro.

I'm the California lines for retired Americans, and I'm another delegate to the Calamita Labor Council.

I can't more bear saying that as a retired post worker and union member, I was a unionized federal employee like Alex Brandy.

IPL is written kinship with him.

It could have been me.

I think this is a public safety issue in the deepest sense of the word.

It's been clear from the excellent presentation that Supervisor Fortunato Bash gave that IC simply is a lawless entity.

It routinely has violated the Constitution, the law, a normal police procedure, and simple human decency.

And I think we have to do whatever it takes to protect ourselves from it.

The problem with dealing with a lawless entity is that they'll do whatever they can get away with until you stand up and say no.

And I urge the county to do that.

Caller, you're on the line.

You have one minute.

Caller, please unmute.

You have one minute.

Hello.

Hello.

My name is Janity Fuller.

I'm calling in from District 4.

And I just wanted to call in support of adopting these resolutions and to also urge the Board of Supervisors and act, especially in their interagency collaboration to identify where digital privacy for residents and also counter um county agencies can be secured.

I'm drawing attention to Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison's press release regarding digital privacy and ICE, how ICE collects data.

That he released on January 15th.

And that's all.

Thank you.

Tina, you're on the line, you have one minute.

Thank you.

My name is Betina Sferino.

I'm a resident in District 5.

I agree with what my neighbors have said already and what many more will say.

And want to emphasize that the board must do everything you can to recognize the value, labor, and culture that immigrants bring to Alameda County and to oppose and prevent ICE violence from continuing and increasing against our immigrant neighbors and neighbors of conscious here.

You have an opportunity to save lives and keep families together by strengthening and adopting these two resolutions.

And in addition, opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin as any detention center.

Thank you.

Musa, you're on the line, you have one minute.

You hear me?

Yes.

Perfect.

Uh, hello, honorable supervisors.

My name is Musa with Kerr, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and we want to strongly urge you to support the two measures developed under the leadership of Supervisor Fortunato Bass, which would require a county rapid response plan for ICE activity and establish ice-free zones.

Our immigrant neighbors are under unprecedented threat from ICE as ICE agents have escalated aggressive militarized operations that have cost innocent lives in terrorized communities nationwide.

In Minneapolis this month, legal observers Renee Good and Alex Pretdy were fatally shot and executed by ICE agents.

In 2025 alone, 30 plus people died in ICE custody.

These deaths reflect a broader pattern in which ICE is escalating lethal force, erasing civil liberties, discarding due process, and sowing fear in our communities, including those here in Alameda County.

We urge you to vote yes on these critical measures to ensure protections for the county's most vulnerable immigrant communities in light of ISIS rampant abuse and lethal force and to oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin in any capacity.

Thank you.

Dr.

Andrew Herring, Josie Camacho, Elaine Penn.

My name is uh Dr.

Andrew Herring.

I am an emergency physician at the Alameda County Medical Center.

Um I've been there since 2008, and I'm the chairman of the board of the Street Level Health Project that's been working uh with immigrant communities here in Alameda County since 2000 for 25 years.

Um there's a lot of incredible things going to be said today in support of both of these incredibly important measures that I support um completely.

I'll just add that any actions of federal agents on hospital grounds is an act of terror.

Um I have seen it with my own eyes.

Uh the word gets out very, very quickly, and people start coming to the hospitals.

I've seen infections that could have been easily treated, progressed to wounds that needed surgery.

I've seen easily treated conditions of diabetes that projects progressed to critical illness.

Um, so these kinds of protections are essential.

Um, likewise, the distinctions between public and private spaces is untenable and needs to be clarified.

Thank you.

Uh good evening.

Courage, leadership, commitment.

My name is Joe C.

Camacho.

I'm in District 4, born and raised in Oakland, representing the Alameda County Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance as the first VP.

Apollo is a national organization committed to lifting up worker and immigrant rights.

Members are mainly union members with community API members.

Stop repeating history.

Thank you, supervisors Nikki Bass, Marquez and staff for bringing these resolutions intended to keep our community safe from ICE invasions.

The research you have done and the framework for the ICE free zone resolutions with the efforts of Supervisor Chan and Baye started in 2016, should not be forgotten.

It was brilliantly put together.

We send an aloha to the Minnesotans and stand with us today, Board of Supervisors.

Thank you.

CEC.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah.

Um, good afternoon, uh, supervisor.

My name is Yi Hang.

I'm the East Antic Director of the Mental High Association for Chinese Communities, these nonprofit organizations.

Uh one of our bases located on Oakland Chinatown.

We had the Lai Henry Walli and every day.

So I we received a lot of the message.

Um the uh angry message from our committee, and also they come to our office.

So, um the Trump immigration has been uh fear who create the company who can committees against one another.

That the DOT officer who I say is to protect people, that's why a county in immigration in false money is bomb pennies in matters.

P the nation is safe for lives.

So I have the loanies for for the people, yeah, for the people in the region, so who has been killed in in system ice since the county, who in office, please let that they'll pass.

Thank you so much.

Hello, my name is Kendra Ferguson, and I am a descendant of Ciru uh Tanguchi, who was a survivor of the Japanese tournament camps in 1922.

Um and I know from first-hand experience from uh the issue with my family, what this sort of uh ripping away family and community does to people and how it also travels through uh not even just with the one moment, and I've also was present uh at the SF immigration court when ICE and the Department of Homeland Security attacked protesters in August, and I was also present uh right after they came and attacked folks at Columbia uh County Coast Guard Island.

Um, so I really hope that you pass these regulations uh because I'm gonna keep going out and doing what I can so that this is not happen to anyone else for then unfortunately it is going to.

Um, so I hope that you will also pass these so that we get help.

Thank you so much.

Hello.

Uh I'm Ed Romano, I'm in District 5 in Oakland, and I'm with East Bay DSA and I wanted to express my full support and as well as well as my organization's full support for these two things.

I think it's a no-brainer.

Um, I'd like to thank uh Supervisor Fortunato Boss for doing it.

I also wanted to uplift the um the voice of renowned Palestinian American lawyer and scholar and professor, Nora Erikat, when she says that the creeping racism that we see now has precedent and it has president of the genocide in Gaza, right?

And it has led to the invasion of Venezuela, and we don't respond to that and and treat the genocide as an American-backed genocide, which it is, because we fund Israel, which also has an ICE facility in Tel Aviv.

We fund Israel to the tune of four billion dollars a year, right?

And we the people have been trying to resist that and oppose it, and we've been trying to do it through the EIB, the ethical investment policy that we've been trying to pass in these in these chambers that has been delayed.

And so we insist that the board pass it immediately with no more theatrics, no more delay, right?

We know that the grounds under which it has been delayed has been falsified.

So please do that.

Support the people's arms embargo in Oakland and stop sending arms to Israel.

Thank you.

George Littman.

Yes, go ahead.

Okay, thank you.

Uh yes, I'm um from Berkeley, and we're proud in Berkeley to be the first city in 1971 to establish a city of refuge, later known as Sanctuary City.

I'll be uh direct the proposals have been criticized by some as symbolic, especially the ice free zone.

I want to talk about that a little bit.

It's no secret that the feds will not be bound by anything that local governments decide.

Ice free zones may not be a what a magic wand to make ice go away.

But if we do not stand up against ice and tell them they are not welcome, we know that they will be back to terrorize our communities.

Those of us who faced off with ice at the bridge to the Coast Guard Island last fall can testify that the people's resistance, not the billionaires pleading with Trump or the co optation of a big city mayor is what compelled Trump to pull out ice from Alameda.

Law enforcement, and I want to say one other thing.

Um please pass both the uh the proposals, but something I don't think is in the law enforcement, including local police, just one sentence, has to deploy tear gas and other chemical irritants.

Rabbi David, you have one minute.

Thank you.

Um I'm not Robert David Cooper, Rabbi Emeritus Aquila Community Synagogue, and I live in District 5.

I've just returned from Minneapolis, where I was there with 600 clergy, including 60 rabbis from around the country, to witness and to demonstrate in sub-zero weather with 50,000 demonstrators this last Friday, the day before Alex Predi was killed.

What the Trump administration is doing is not just unconstitutional, it's actual cruelty.

While I was there, a thought came to me.

I wondered if after Kristallnacht, what would have happened if the Berlin population came out to force against uh Nazi persecution like the Minnesota community?

Perhaps history may have been different.

We're at a crucial point of decision right now.

I urge you to pass the two policies before you do it today and do not put it off.

Thank you.

Douglas Balding, you have one minute.

Douglas Balding.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, supervisors, and especially thank you to Supervisors Fortunata Bas and Marquez for your your airdite work in this comprehensive resolution.

Um this past year, of course, we've all watched in horror uh the immigration enforcement.

And the question is if not if, but when there will be a mass mobilization to the to the bay again.

So it's incumbent on all of you as a board to adopt these measures today without hesitation.

We we can't afford to to wait.

Uh as Supervisor Fortunato Boss noted, there are many community efforts.

Uh the I can't see my clock, uh, the the school watches, uh, people getting out to Home Depot and other retailers, uh, and we need to reinforce uh uh with municipal actions as well as here at the county level.

Um we can't depend on our democratic representatives in Washington to do the right thing.

It seems doubtful they're gonna even be able to cut off DHS.

We can't rely on our governor who's prone to vacillation.

Chet Lee, Leslie Rose, Jack Cruzale.

Hello, my name is Leslie Rose.

I live in District 5, and I speak in strong support of both proposals.

I'm a member of the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club.

I'm also 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 frankly don't know what I would tell them about the rule of law if I was teaching today.

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 elected officials right now.

We are in a state of emergency in this country, and I believe it's the duty of all electeds to use their power to fight for what is right, if not now when.

The people in this room are standing up and doing what we can.

We're asking you to use your power and your status to do what you can in this critical moment.

History has its eyes on all of us.

Thank you.

I'm Jack Curzweil.

I'd like to prefer my remarks to federal and droid.

And I did sign up.

So I hope that's okay.

Uh, we're members of the Wellstone Club, the people that spoke before, and we've always stood strong with you on these issues, specific especific, especially.

Let me get my merch together, is uh our former council member and now Supervisor Nikki Bass, and we also appreciate Supervisor Marquez.

Uh I would say these are these are wonderful things, and I know you spent a long time writing them, and that was a while ago, and everything has changed.

And now the the uh Trumpy uh private militia is showing that they're going to go after everyone and they're going to attack people in ways that are completely unlawful.

And so we really need to hear from all of you, each one of you, a declaration that you will help protect us.

Not just do these things, which are great by themselves, but actually find a way to get our law enforcement to help protect us from these abuses.

Thank you.

Okay.

Douglas Yoshida.

Gently, thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor.

My name is Jet Lu.

I'm a deputy center from the Mentor Health Association for China's communities.

I strongly support the resolutions.

I'm not here to raise data policy.

I want to speak to how it stood outside the room.

Right now, many immigrant families are living in fear.

Contributions brought quickly and the panic puts people at risk.

We should not fall into the track being set by the Donald Trump's administration.

Their approach reliance all prohibition and escalation.

You really respond with all the displaying creating much more federal reinforcement and a more harm.

This response plan matters because uh coordination and clear communication.

Ice creams matters because they've had access to a hospital's course and the service.

We can be firm without being reacted to a smart policy, protect people without actually being company.

Thank you.

I'm Douglas Rashida.

I'm an ER doctor in Pleasanton and an open resident.

When my father was 15, he and his family were in prison under the Alien Enemies Act.

125,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated solely on the basis of their race.

Only one politician spoke up for them.

Trump has invoked the same act, and we've all seen the consequences.

You must pass a strong ice-free zone policy as well as an amendment opposing the conversion of the FCI to an ICE prison.

This facility is unfit for habitation and has a history of systematic rape.

I cared for some of these patients.

This legacy of abuse cannot continue.

Everything must be done to prevent Alameda County from becoming another Minneapolis.

After his incarceration, my father was actually drafted into the army.

He proved his loyalty by serving.

Now, as his child, I'm asking you to show your patriotism by standing up against a dictatorship and speaking up for immigrants by signing a strong anti-ICE ordinance.

You have the power to help help stop history from repeating itself.

Thank you.

Amber Thomas, Claudine Tan.

Hi, my name is Claudine Tong.

I live in the part of the uh Melrose district, but it's now in Supervisor Towns district.

I'm a member of Genesis, the Heartbeat Collective and Open Rising.

My father immigrated from China when he was 23, and my mother was the first daughter born in this country across the Bay in San Francisco.

They were Americans in every sense, including being proud union members.

I grew up in a multicultural neighborhood before that was a thing.

My parents voted in every election.

They and their neighbors would have been horrified by what is happening, as well as in danger.

I thank Supervisors Fortunato Voss and Marquez for their work and endorse everything that's been said before me and urge you to pass these resolutions immediately.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

I'm a member of DSA and currently live in District 3, represented by Supervisor Cam, which contains several vulnerable neighborhoods in close proximity to Coast Guard Island.

I'm here today to voice my support for the two resolutions.

Alanita is the fourth most diverse county in the United States.

Nearly one in three residents are immigrants.

At this point, we must consider ICE an active threat to public safety.

Only 5% of those detained have been convicted of a violent crime.

73% have no convictions.

ICE is forming homes and businesses without judicial warrants as a matter of policy.

They are carelessly using banned chokeholes, TODS, pepper balls, and live ammunition.

The recent actions of the DOJ have demonstrated that we cannot rely on the federal government to vindicate our civil rights.

This means that it is critical that our local government be prepared to hold ICE and Board of Patrol accountable in the face of federal obstruction.

Please vote yes.

My name is Kelly Miller Sanchez.

I am the pastor of Resurrection Lutheran Church in Dublin.

This simply has to stop.

And you have to stop it.

You are the people who have been put in the positions that you are for this moment.

You know that the tactics ICE is using are unconstitutional, unlawful, and immoral.

And as the previous speaker mentioned, since our federal government has given up on protecting us, it is up to local governments to protect their constituents.

Now not to act in this moment is to collude.

Any further bloodshed in Alameda County will be on your hands if you fail to act.

Please stop the terror.

I implore you in the name of God.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair and Supervisors.

My name is Reverend Kurt Kuald.

I live in District 5.

I'm part of several nonprofit faith justice organizations in Oakland.

I want to thank everybody present at this meeting today, both in person and online, for once again to strengthen demonstrating the way democracies can function to serve their people to build safe, functional, creative, and life-sustaining communities that embrace all peoples as worthy and capable of contributing to self-governance without fear of retribution.

I strongly support the brilliant work, absolutely brilliant work.

I mean, take a look at it.

These powerful proposals in light of the horrific, especially governmental overreach and abuse of power that's so blatantly evident on the bitter winter streets of Minneapolis.

I also urge the uh Board of Supervisors to adopt this resolution against opening FCI document.

You really are on the line, you have one minute.

Hi, can you hear me?

Yes.

Hi, good afternoon.

My name is Leo Salmato.

I'm resident of County District 3, the son of a registered nurse like Alex.

Thank you, Supervisor Fruit Tomato Bas and Marquez for forwarding this plan.

I fully support ice-free zones, and I hope we can continue to draw inspiration from our similarities in Minnesota.

Example, entire Minneapolis uh business districts closed, not support ice.

I can imagine that courage it takes uh while taking an economic loss.

I hope the board can explore options of extending ice-free sanctuary zones for small businesses, want to protect our community as well as expanding its sanctuary for affordable housing that receives county funding to be part of ice-free zones.

Frontline workers, owners in housing and small businesses needs training.

What would it take to be ICE free?

So we support us efforts and continue to support all the countywide grassroots efforts to ensure community engagement is constant, and we have a strong city community response.

Thank you.

Bob Brittany, Noel Gallo, Renee Castle.

Bob Britton, Faith and Action East Bay, ICJ, Starkane Church, and Fairview Hayward.

I rise in favor of passing both of these proposals.

It needs something else though.

We need to stop reporting to ICE, undocumented aliens and foreign born residents, some of them citizens, spending as little as four days incarcerated at Santa Rita jail.

Sheriff Chanchez says they do not ask any prisoner their immigration status.

No, they don't.

They just report every foreign-born prisoner with as little as two misdemeanors serving as few as four days in the county jail.

Some may even be citizens.

All in exchange for money the Trump administration gives us 1.27 million last year for a program described in the law as reporting undocumented aliens with a record of past offenses.

Under Trump, ICE doesn't care if you're undocumented or not.

People are being abducted who are here legally based on the color of their skin, abducted straight from immigration court where they are attempting to comply with immigration law.

This program needs to end.

Thank you.

And uh pues aquí estamos, you know, chinga la migra.

Just clear and make it clear.

Aquí estamos, no nos vamos, la migra.

Okay.

Anyways, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you.

Noel Gallos, my name.

I'm on the Oakland City Council, but also had the opportunity to serve to serve on the Oakland Board of Education when uh years ago, serving on the board.

I remember several times with the ICE agents came to our schools and are and arrested several of our parents when they dropped their school, their kids off of school in the morning.

And so it that forced the city of Oakland and the school board to reach out to the to the federal attorneys as well as to the FBI and work out on the relationship, and we developed a sanctuary policy here in the city of Oakland to make sure to make sure that the federal agents are not welcome here in the city of Oakland, specifically dealing with our families and dealing with our children here in Oakland.

So I thank you for your leadership.

You have our full support and look forward to continuing to work with you.

Thank you.

That's yes, thank you.

So it's not please do not make the deal with Ice.

My name is My name is Rennie Castle.

I am speaking as a board member for the Eden Area Interfaith Council.

The Eden Area Interfaith Council is a collective of diverse religious groups in the Eden area.

Our mission is to promote understanding and respect for all faiths, educate, advocate, and organize for human rights, peace, justice, civic change, and freedom of religion.

It is important to have a plan in place to protect our communities from the harmful activities ICE has already demonstrated in our community.

In November, ICE went to Cherry Land Elementary School after being denied entry by the school ICE went into our community knocking on doors and asking questions.

The Edenary Interfaith Council Board voted unanimously to ask this board to approve these two resolutions.

Additionally, please oppose any reopening of FCI Dublin.

Brock Glenda Sonia Gosh Abila.

Hi, my name is Rachel Clock, and I'm making this public comment on behalf of the Immigration Rights Project, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, also known as APIO, on agenda item 51.

Our immigration offices located in the Asian Resource Center in Oakland, Chinatown and Supervisor Lena Tan's District 3.

We had appeals support the creation of an Alameda County immigration enforcement response plan because we believe that all residents of Alameda County, regardless of their immigration status, deserve dignity and due process.

When the federal government continually attacks and murders our immigrant communities through ICE, it is our moral responsibility to fight back and place protective measures so that our immigrant neighbors and friends are not left alone in this battle.

As a legal organization that is a part of the Alameda County Collaborative for Removal Defense, we believe that comprehensive response plans to ICE enforcement is imperative for immigrant communities facing horrendous ICE enforcement and detention.

Like all emergency preparedness and clear instructions are the key to safety.

We also support the ice-free zones and oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Uh-huh.

Hi everyone.

Hi, my name is Sonia Goch Avila.

I'm a D6 resident and I work with Access Reproductive Justice, California's only statewide abortion fund.

Thank you so much, Supervisors Fortunato Bass and Marquez for your strong leadership and bringing forth such smart and practical ways that our local government can show up for community.

Reproductive justice calls on us to assert our right to safe homes and communities where our families can grow and thrive.

And this is not possible when families are being torn apart.

Our communities are under terror surveillance and occupation from ICE.

Since this summer, Access RJ's Health Line has noticed fewer monolingual Spanish-speaking callers, and we know that ICE raids and anti-immigrant stigma have a direct impact on this decline.

Our neighbors are afraid to access reproductive health care.

So please pass the response plan and adopt ice-free zones.

And please also adopt a resolution opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin as an immigrant detention center.

Thank you.

Start the time over, please.

Did you eat breakfast this morning?

If so, thank all the undocumented workers who are out there in the fields in the freezing cold long before you got up out of your warm fuzzy feds, um, working their butts off to put that food on your table.

Um Trump administration says they're going after the worst criminals.

Let's cut the BS right now.

We've seen pregnant women, five-year-old kids in bunny caps, our um farm workers, day laborers getting um brutally dragged out of cars and um busted.

We've even seen American Indians, the original Americans, okay, the legitimate um residents detained by ICE and they're to be deported to where we stand here to say no.

Ice center is the right club in Dublin, yes to ICE, and um uh no collaboration with ICE.

Um, we thank you for this.

Um and um the other council members brought this forward.

Thank you.

Jean Moses here on the line.

You have one minute.

Good afternoon.

My name is Jean Moses.

I live in District 3, and I want to thank the supervisors Bass and Martinez and all the good people who are coming out to protect our community with their presence, both in this boardroom and in the streets.

Please continue, supervisors, to do all that you can to support us.

Do so by passing these resolutions immediately and also by recognizing and responding to the through line that exists between U.S.

repression and violence here in Gaza, in Venezuela, and around the world.

I urge you to um oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin with every means available to um immediately implement the equitable investment policy that you approved last year.

And I also agree strongly with Bob Britain that we should withdraw from the SCAAP contract.

Thank you.

Sharon Rose, you have one minute.

Hello, my name is Sharon Rose.

I'm co-chair of Black by Block Organizing Network.

And our members are all over the county.

But I'm a constituent of Supervisor Miley.

Supervisor, I urge you to vote yes on these proposals.

I taught English as a second language, and I see before me all the time the faces of my students and my friends who are living in terror that ICE is coming for them.

Please institute the ice free zones.

Thank you.

Arlene, you're on the line.

You have one minute.

Arlene, please unmute yourself.

Can you hear me now?

Yes.

Thank you.

My name is Arlene Nearing.

I am a recently retired senior minister at Eden United Church of Christ in Hayward and an Alameda County District 4 voter.

Board of Supervisors, I urge you to approve item 51 on your agenda today.

As a pastor who served 22 years in the Hayward and Eden area, I've seen firsthand countless examples of how the U.S.

federal immigration system has wreaked havoc on the lives of all of us, most especially immigrants residing in Alameda County.

Our federal immigration laws and processes are Byzantine and broken.

The vast majority of newcomers in our communities are people of goodwill who are constructively contributing to U.S.

society.

These decade-old problems with our immigration system are now compounded by the lawless acts of immigration and customs enforcement who have, for example, shown up in November at our schools and gone door to door conducting uh immigration investigations without warrants.

I urge you to help reduce the chaos and foster compassion by voting yes on item 51.

Thank you.

Stella Stark, Eric, Mayor Nashwartz.

Good afternoon, supervisors.

I'm Myrna Schwartz.

I'm going to take up uh Supervisor Howard here and say ditto to all of the eloquent, passionate speakers who spoke before with their thank you and with their pleas for a yes vote on this.

And I want to also speak on behalf of what appear to be hundreds of people in this room and the overflow room, as well as those online who would very much like to speak and ask you to consider in light of that to extend the uh comment period of for a bit to accommodate some more of their uh passionate words.

Thank you.

Uh hi, good afternoon.

My name's Eric.

I'm from Alameda.

Um I'd like to just first condemn the secret fascist force that's attacking our communities and murdering people.

Um, and I'd like to, you know, it seems that you're all very probably supportive of these items, but I'd like to consider um in the plan with the Alameda Sheriff's response.

You know, you said cannot interfere with law enforcement.

I'd like to encourage you to develop a plan to ensure our local law enforcement and sheriff's deputies protect the people in Alameda County and ask that anyone, including ICE, comes into our county masked, spreading terror, breaking laws, or threatening our residents, that they will be arrested by the sheriff's deputies and held accountable under the full force of federal and state laws before our courts and our judges.

Thank you very much.

F.

Ice.

Stella Stark.

Okay.

Mickey Duxbury.

Hi, good afternoon.

I run thanks, Supervisor Fortunato Bass and Supervisor Marquez for this important work and these resolutions.

I have some questions.

We've seen the chaos that ensues when paramilitary patrol agents react to peaceful protests with violence.

Many police chiefs in the area have stated their own off-duty officers, all people of color have been yanked out of their cars and asked for their papers as though this is South Africa under apartheid.

When police have attempted to intervene, they've been often repelled by ICE by force.

So I do want to echo the last speaker who said what are your plans to protect the community when ICE comes to town?

How will you intervene to help when people have been pepper sprayed or tear gassed?

What if you do see an agent attacking peaceful protesters?

These resolutions must lead to the board and the sheriff and local police chiefs to make plans to protect our communities from ICE and to not support a detention center in Dublin.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Sonia Deermeyer.

Um I'm a constituent of Supervisor Miley's in District 4.

Um I myself am an immigrant.

I came here when I was three and was naturalized along with my father when he became a citizen when I was 10 years old.

Um I was a bilingual teacher in Hayward and in Oakland for many years, and I am just panned deeply to see that people like the families that I served who raised their children to be good people who worked hard and struggled every day to make ends meet, that those people are being terrorized by the gangsters from Trump the Trump regimes.

Um those are the worst of the worst.

Um so I want to support the two resolutions and urge you to pass strong uh the reopening of uh we oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin and any other detention facilities in Alameda County.

Hello, my name is Evan Desario.

I'm a Berkeley resident.

Uh if someone told you that masked men were coming onto your streets, abducting people, shooting people in broad daylight, fighting with cops, you would do more than just a resolution.

So I appreciate bringing this forward, but we need more than this.

We need rapid decisions about how we will protect the community and how we will resist a force that is illegitimate.

Let's be honest.

Just because they are under the guise of a federal agency, they are breaking the laws.

If they're breaking the laws, we should treat them as criminals.

Thank you.

Jeremy McCants.

Oh, John Riven.

Good afternoon.

I'm John Lindsay Poland of the American Friends Service Committee.

I address myself especially to Supervisors Miley, Tam, and Halbert.

Voting yes on the two resolutions today is the least you can do at this moment in history.

We will not be the first county to do this.

People across this county who don't normally speak have grasped that this moment is different.

Don't respond to your fear of what Trump will do to counties like ours with accommodation to fascist armed men.

We need you now.

We also need you to urge U.S.

senators to vote this Friday against billions more dollars for ICE and tell the feds that FCI Dublin should not be used for detention.

We will have your backs.

We need you to vote yes today.

Thank you.

Stephanie Erickson, you have one minute.

Good afternoon.

My name is Stephanie Erickson.

I am a 33-year resident of Dublin in District 1.

I urge you to pass these two resolutions.

I also suggest tweaking the language to include border agents.

In addition, I support adding provision opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin as an immigration detention center, as others have mentioned, because it can only serve to facilitate a surge here.

We've seen in real time how ICE and Border Patrol agents act violently with a sense of impunity in broad daylight in front of many witnesses.

How much more impunity do they feel when out of public view?

We know of 32 deaths and detention centers in 2025 and six more subsequently.

We know that many centers operate under extremely humane conditions.

Alligator Alcatraz is still open.

So we must be proactive.

Please pass these resolutions unanimously.

Michelle, you're on the line, you have one minute.

Good afternoon.

I am Michelle Takwar, a resident of District 3 in San Leandro who loves working as a school OT in Oakland's diverse and vibrant schools.

I support these provisions, oppose reopening FCI Dublin, and ask that we use all available means to defend against a federal invasion.

DHS is operating as a rogue agency outside the law in continual violation of our constitutional rights, with no accountability at the federal level.

Where DHS swarms, we see the routine use of unconstrained violence on innocent, everyday Americans.

As of today's shooting in Arizona, DHS has already shot five people this year.

DHS makes schools unsafe with reckless use of chemical weapons and by targeting even our youngest students to use as bait and a revenue stream.

They help children in hotels and lose children.

Thank you.

Sophia DeWitt, you have one minute.

Good afternoon.

I'm Reverend Sophia DeWitt, United Church of Christ clergy person, and resident of District 3 in the city of Alameda.

As a person of faith, as a human being, and as a concerned uh citizen and resident of the United States of America, I ask everyone on the Board of Supervisors to vote yes on these important resolutions and to continue to think about other ways that the county and our local elected officials can respond to what I can only call ICE terrorism and keep the people of Alameda County and the Greater Bay Area safe.

We know that ICE will be coming to our area at some point.

This is critical work, and this is a bright line time for our.

Hi, my name is Livia Thomas.

I live in Castro Valley.

I'm a member of Eden Area Indivisible, but most importantly, I'm a retired Fremont teacher of 40 years of English language learners.

I speak for those who can't today.

Children cannot learn or thrive.

It's like fear losing their parents.

They are our future.

They deserve to go to work, live their lives, and go to school without fear of being ripped apart.

I thank you, Supervisor Marcus and Supervisor Fortunato Voss for your leadership, and I call on the rest of you to vote yes on these resolutions.

We must take care of each other.

Immigrants are our friends, our neighbors, and my former students.

They make our country better.

Please vote yes on these proposed resolutions.

I say this in the names of Kenneth Porter, Renee Good and Alex Perti.

Hello, I'm Frances Kendall, and I'm ceding my time to Sonia.

Buenas tardes.

My name is Sonia Arana.

I vengo del district numero 4 and so I member the tubo yesterday para agradecer a la supervisora fortunata Nikki Niki Fortunata Baz for traer proposed and create zonas libre de ICE.

Ya que ISA está violando los derechos constitucionales, arrestando las personas and presentarse as sus cortes.

Este es el mejor lugar para que ella pueda appoyarnos in eso y evita más violencia.

Go ahead, Vanessa.

Thank you.

You got all that.

Good evening.

My name is Sonia Arana, and I am from District Four.

Um, did he say key?

I'm a member of TUVU, and I'm here to uh give thanks to the supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bass for bringing these proposals to have free zones of ice.

Now that ICE is violating our rights, our constitutional rights, sorry, and using violence, arresting people, presenting themselves to courts, and we are here to support that ICE, that they don't have that they don't have access to um uh the buildings of the county, sorry, the of the county or no.

And that's way we can avoid people being killed or more deaths.

And that you have the power in your hands to help us with all of this.

Thank you.

That was a great job, Vanessa.

Um people can't read my handwriting either.

So it's it's great that you remember.

Next speaker.

Cameo, Richard Spiegelman.

Jane Wolford.

Hi, I'm Jane Well for District 5, Berkeley, South Berkeley, and um I want to thank Supervisors Bass and Yeah, I want to thank Supervisor Bass and Marcus for all the work that they put into this, and uh we're standing up, and we're ready to resist, and we need you, and so just oh I'm yielding my time, yeah.

Thank you.

My name is Leslie Firestone.

I'm with the KYR Healthcare Working Group, and uh we want to thank you for acknowledging our recent letter and recommendations.

Uh we support both of these resolutions protecting health care section must include not just protecting patients in ice custody but all patients and all county clinics and facilities that receive county funding uh we also want to say that we urge you to stop the layoffs at Highland at a time when staffing unity and morale are so important to the safety of our vulnerable communities thank you TV Senior David Thompson Lucy McDonald Cameron Sasai.

Hi I'm Lucy I'm a member of the community I was born and raised in the Bay Area I've lived in Alameda County for 10 years we know that ICE has no respect for the law for human rights for due process and no respect for life people in Alameda County and in the Bay Area understand that immigrants are an integral part of our community and we want local governments to protect our communities from the federal government which is violating the law attacking killing and disappearing people.

I hope you will pass both of these resolutions oppose reopening of the detention center in Dublin and I hope that you'll work to protect all people in Alameda County in all ways that are available to you thank you.

Dave Council Cameron Society Gladys Validez Chris Taffy's Chris Taff I'm a longtime preschool teacher in Alameda County I support the resolutions policies that have been put forth my thanks to supervisors Marquez and for us it's a good start but the resolution lacks teeth generally it claims that the law enforcement cannot intervene in federal activities but I advocate an ad hoc amendment mandating the masked and unidentified thugs committing assault kidnap and violence be stopped I also advocate an amendment bending every county effort as others have said to prevent reopening FCI Dublin and an amendment preventing any ICE access to flock cameras the situation is even more dire than we know please take action I know the previous resolution about being about um human trafficking or awareness month in the agenda this is a good way to start preventing human trafficking thank you good afternoon honorable chair and board my name is Cam Sasai I'm a proud resident of the East Bay area and I'm here today on behalf of the California Immigrant Policy Center.

I'm also the proud son of an immigrant mother who came to California from the Philippines after living through Marcos dictatorship in a country under martial law.

What we're seeing in our neighborhoods here in California and across the country mirrors a lot of what I'm experienced in your home country extreme violence a disregard for due process and violent violations of people's constitutional rights.

It hurts me to see people in a community who look like my mom, my peepas and Titos or family members living in a state of constant fear many wondering if it's safe to seek medical care to drop up their kids to school or to seek essential services without fear of ICE.

This pattern of violence is not acceptable.

With that being said CIPC is in strong support of the proposed Ice free zone policy and the immigration enforcement response plan and we also oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin as a migration uh detention center.

I vote today and approve these policies.

Thank you.

Any song about some you have one minute here online.

Yes, hello everyone.

I am the elephant in the room, and I want to present the elephant in the room.

Because right now, by the way, in case people didn't know, sanctuary cities are unconstitutional.

Uh state and local sanctuary laws violate the supremacy supremacy clause of the US constitution.

Every any governor or mayor who supports sanctuary laws is in violation of his or her oath of office.

So that should be established.

And I want to say, I'm for legal immigrants.

I'm not for illegal immigrants.

And I want to say why don't you on the Board of Supervisors support the tax paying citizens?

We don't need ice-free zones.

We need drug free zones, cartel free zones in Oakland, so we can develop it.

And I support President Trump 100%, and I am a candidate for mayor of Oakland.

And I tell you, more of Oakland supports you against your resolution than forward.

Carole, you're on the line, you have one minute.

Carrie Ordez.

Yes, thank you.

Good evening, Board of Supervisors.

My name is Carelio de Asato, and I'm here on behalf of the San Francisco Foundation to voice our strong support for bulk proposals before you today.

Founded in 1948, the San Francisco Foundation has a long history of supporting the rights, safety, and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers across the Bay Area.

For decades, our grant making advocacy and partnerships have worked to ensure that immigrant communities have access to legal services, social support systems, as well as meaningful pathways to civic engagement.

The proposals before you bring urgently needed structure to ensure that Alameda County can protect its residents, as well as ensure that the county joins its peers like Chicago and LA County, who are on the front lines on this and really learning uh from ways that they're responding.

Last September we launched a fine and partner clip with the county, and when we're very grateful for the partnership, and we know that local government and philanthropy must continue to work forward.

Thank you for your leadership and shout out to Councilman and Mickey Bass as well as Elisa Marquez.

Thank you.

DE 1021, you're on the line.

You have one minute.

Good afternoon.

My name is David Thorpe.

I'm a resident of Alameda County District 3.

I'm a civil servant, SAU 1021 union member and husband of an immigrant resident in our county.

ICE has a well-published deep history in partnership of sharing tactics, technology, and training with the Israeli defense force.

Now the same brutality that we have watched being refined on the people of Palestine has begun to be brought home to American cities, and we are seeing applied to brutalize and murder our immigrant neighbors and their children, American citizens, nurses, and mothers.

Our community's money may still be used to fund this to swiftly pass these while you dither and delay taking immediate and effective action you have already passed as hypocrisy.

Supervisor Tam, my representative, please follow the lead of your colleague.

Implement the two actions she has called for today without delay and fully implement the ethical investment policy she has called for and everyone has worked so hard on.

And you will ensure that our money won't be used for atrocities abroad and at home.

Thank you.

Julie Litwin, Reverend Deborah Lee, Sarah Shore.

I note that we are past the allotted time.

However, I am considering we will extend the time.

We're gonna go one more round in person, TEC, and online.

And then we'll deliberate.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Julie Lupina.

I'm gonna cede my time to Alma.

Hola, my number is Armadelia Marie.

Soy member de Tua Nueva Vivienna in Oakland.

Good afternoon.

My name is Amadela Marin.

I am member of Tua, and I have been nine years living in Oakland.

I'm here to uh thank the supervisor Nikki Bass for bringing this new law to create free zones of for ice, for uh being the circumstances that we are appreciated in the whole country in California.

Due to ICE violating your the rights of all the people in all the uh constitution members in the constitution, in name uh naming all of the immigrants, we beg you to approve this proposal to create free zones for ice in the Alamida in the county of Alameda.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your time for hearing us, and thank you very much for your proposals.

And we are here just uh for your support.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, I'm Reverend Deborah Lee with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity.

We believe that everyone in our community deserves safety and belonging and that everyone is sacred.

We're part of we organize the faith community, many of them are in here in this room.

You can stand all across the country who are dedicated and counties, sorry, dedicated to supporting immigrants from Dublin to Hayward, Oakland to Berkeley, and our offices in Chinatown.

We've worked with hundreds of immigrant individuals who are Southeast Asian, Latinx, African, and Caribbean.

Most are still in an ongoing immigration process because this process can take six to fifteen years to even become a citizen, and all of them are extremely vulnerable in this moment.

Some have already been detained, and it's been almost impossible to get people out of detention.

I want to point out that some may have had previous convictions, but even if they had previous convictions, they have served their time and are no longer at risk to the community and should be allowed to stay.

As leaders, I ask you to do everything you can to prevent harm and pass these measures and support a policy for uh no ice detention in Dublin.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Sarah Shore and I'm a lifelong resident of Alameda County.

I'm speaking today on behalf of Bay Area Jews for Justice, a new intergenerational group which already represents about 300 Jews in Alameda County and growing.

We're here to support the two resolutions and also support an additional provision to oppose the reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention facility, which would increase the ability for ICE to make increased arrests in the Bay Area.

Some of our members just returned from Minneapolis and compared ICE to a Gestapo secret police doing mass roundups.

Many of our families survived Nazi Germany and feel that history in our bones.

As Jews, we know what it looks like when government power is turned against marginalized communities, and what happens when people are left to face that harm alone.

We cannot let that happen here.

As county supervisors, you have power and opportunity to be on the right side of history.

We urge you the vote yes.

Thank you so much.

Hi, my name is Madeline Ria.

I'm a resident of Alameda County, and all I would like to say is I support these resolutions, and thank you for your time.

Next, Victor Manbell Delgado Sanchez and Amberine Shiva.

Hi everybody.

I want to say I strongly support the two resolutions proposed by Supervisor Fortinato Bass and Supervisor Marquez, and encourage the rest of the supervisors to make good on the responsibility to the citizens of Alameda County, ensuring their safety as we witness the unjust loss of life around the country and the cruel treatment and punishment of those who've been kidnapped by ICE.

People deserve to live in peace and tranquility since life is already hard enough.

And now more than ever, we need guarantees from local and county government that you will have our backs and preventing the opening of FCI Dublin as a detention center.

Thank you.

Elton Lamb.

Catherine Lima.

Laura Aguilar.

Floristina.

Letisha Garcia.

Mercedes Bismond.

Anna Rosa Silva.

Todd Feldman.

We're still taking speakers from the TEC.

They were so we're not speaking.

They were called at the TEC room.

Oh.

Okay.

Hello, my name is Todd Feldman.

I'm a resident of Oakland, California.

I strongly support these resolutions.

And like some of the other speakers, I do feel that they don't go far enough.

It is abundantly clear that the activities of federal immigration agents create a risk to public safety.

Accordingly, I request that the Alameda County Board of Supervisors task the Alameda County Sheriff's Department and whatever other local law enforcement we can speak to to mitigate these risks.

Specifically, the sheriff and other local law enforcement should do the following.

Number one, provide escorts to all ICE agents for their own safety as well as that of the general public.

Two, provide real-time updates on the locations of all ICE agents so that local law enforcement can promptly respond to any threats to public safety that arise as a result of federal actions.

Three, use body cams to record the activities of all ICE agents for secure and crime scenes that result from the activities of ICE agents.

Thank you very much.

So we'll move from TEC back here for those that were called Ed TEC but came over here.

We'll let them speak.

But we needed Paloma.

Or Vanessa.

And I don't see, or somebody else.

Soy parte de la organization.

Hello, my name is Laura.

I live here in Alameda County and I am part of the Organization Mujeres Unidas y Activas.

I'm here today to support the resolutions that were presented by Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bass and Alisa Marquez.

To ensure that there's a rapid response protocol in case there's an intensification of federal immigration enforcement and to establish ice free zones.

Immigrants didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us.

So we called the ones that were called from TEC.

Yes, sir.

Um she kept she kept calling names because they weren't there but they were here.

Let's um does anybody object to allowing speakers to speak?

Let's let them speak.

Okay.

Thank you.

But then we'll go to online for the last three speakers.

Hello, my name is Anna Rosa Silva.

I live in Alameda County and I've been in this country for 21 years.

I'm here to support these two resolutions and to support the undocumented community.

Things that are happening now are terrible and I'm very scared of what ICE is doing.

They're fomenting racism, they're killing people, even people who were born here.

And so we need to stop them and we need to prevent the opening of the ICE detention center in Dublin Pleasanton.

And what what is your name, the interpreter?

Yes, my name is Yael Falakov.

I'm also with Mujeres Unidas y Activas.

You're doing a great job.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Mercedes Guzmán, I'm an active member of Mujeres Unidas y Activas.

We're here to support these proposals.

Thank you.

Nikki Trueblood, you have one minute.

Hello, my name is Nikki.

I live in District 1 in Pleasanton.

I am the great-granddaughter of an undocumented Chinese immigrant who served in our military to fight fascism 85 years ago.

I support everything said before me and want to echo others' focus on enforcement.

Supervisors, I want you to imagine if you were getting hunted by masked people who have been violently breaking the law.

Would a sign and a gate be enough to make you feel safe?

I would want to know.

Will ICE agents be arrested who violate the ice-free zones?

Will anyone be staffed to stand guard at these zones?

Will violations of the zones be reported to the public?

Please move forward with the assumption that ICE will not cooperate and will violate these policies as they have our constitution and local laws.

We can do better than signage.

Our vulnerable communities need real protection.

Thank you.

John Guerrero, you're on the line, you have one minute.

Yes, I I'd like to uh actually focus on our public safety people, because they're doing a great job.

Um there were only six arrests uh for ICE uh in Alameda County.

There were 10,000 in Minnesota.

Now there's no no reason for ICE really to come into Alanita County, and they won't come to Talonity County, as long as you know we are public safety people like the sheriff and DA and our courts are doing their jobs, and also congratulations to the immigrant community for not breaking our violent laws and and then forcing ice to come.

Ice will not come as long as you aren't doing your any uh violent or homicide crimes.

If you obey our laws, they will not come.

Thank you.

Stacey Alvarani have one minute.

Thank you.

My name is Stacy Sa, and I am the program director with the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition with 125 member organizations across the country working to end immigration detention.

I am also a District 4 resident.

ICE and CBP kill full stop, whether targeting people in the streets where they work or live, or behind closed doors in one of ICE's nearly 200 abuse written detention centers across the country.

These are inherently violent agencies jeopardizing families and community safety.

Local resistance matters.

I urge the board to adopt a resolutions to create ice-free zones and to create an immigration enforcement response plan.

I also urge the board to formally oppose reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention center alongside eight thousand four hundred and forty-two people who signed the petition calling for FCI Dublin to be permanently shut down.

Thank you.

That was the last speaker.

Thank you very much.

I let's give it up for the interpreters.

Let's thank our clerks.

Let's thank the people in the back of the room keeping us safe.

Before we go to po uh our own deliberations and comments, we're gonna take a five-minute break.

So thank you all for being here.

We're gonna take a five-minute break.

We will recess now and we will readjourn in five minutes.

Recording in progress.

All right, everybody, we're gonna bring it back for deliberations.

Everybody grab a seat.

I have been asked to make an announcement.

If you are parked in the Alco parking lot, it does close at seven.

Unless you want to come back tomorrow morning to get your car.

You need to leave by seven.

So I think Supervisor Fortunato Bass might have questions.

I don't know.

No questions.

Well, we're gonna deliberate, and uh I know that there are questions that are gonna be.

I'm gonna start just by saying a couple of comments.

Can we take roll call?

Oh, let's make sure that we're all here.

Can you establish a quorum?

Roll call.

Supervisor Marquez.

Present.

Supervisor Tam.

Present.

Supervisor Miley.

Present.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

And thank you for everyone who came here in person for those that spoke online and in the overflow room.

And I would like to start just by making a few comments.

First of all, I, and I uh I can only speak for myself, but I think I speak for everyone.

We're against unlawful attacks on members of our community.

If somebody breaks the law, as somebody said earlier, they need to be treated as criminals.

I'm against unlawful detentions without warrants, and other unlawful detentions.

I'm against the unlawful use of force and abuse.

I'm against the use of our assets, including the facility in Dublin, not our asset, but our assets.

I'm against the assets of our people being used to detain others.

That's not our job.

I'm against detaining anyone who is truly an American citizen.

I'm against detaining anyone who is here legally, those asylum seekers and others, and I'm certainly not afraid of Trump.

I would like to say that I do support immigration reform.

We need a better path, the citizenship.

We need a better way to keep people, the overwhelming majority of which are law-abiding immigrants who simply want to come here, work hard, raise their family, and have a better life.

I support, yes.

I support you wherever you are.

As they now that doesn't mean we control the FCI facility, but we can send a message and we need to.

And I support coordinating meetings between our sheriff's department and local PD and other agencies.

Obviously, that call calls for the cooperation of our sheriff's department.

We're going to ask questions of her, and I believe we will have that support, but it's it is indeed up to our sheriff's department.

I think they will do the best that they can with that.

I still have reservations about other parts of the request.

Um I'll tell you, I'm concerned that if we send a false perception to people that an ice-free zone is truly ice-free, and we then put a target on the backs of some people who might rely on that.

So I'm concerned.

We'll ask those questions, we'll get to the bottom of that.

I'm concerned about creating an environment of unlawful engagement between our sheriff and federal agents or police and federal agents.

I'm concerned about creating an environment that will lead to that unrest.

And I'm concerned about encouraging anyone in the community to do that.

So those are my supports and those are my concerns.

Um, I'll leave it to my colleagues to continue to deliberate, but I think we have some questions around truly what do we expect to have happen?

What are we going to support and what are we not going to support as it relates to um to this?

Questions that I have are: can we truly enforce some of the things that we're asking to enforce?

And the like?

So, with that said, any um comments from my colleagues, I'd welcome now I'll turn to Supervisor Tam.

Thank you, President Halbert.

And I also uh have some questions as well along the same lines, but I want to first off thank uh Supervisor Fortunata Bass and Marquez for bringing these recommendations to the full board, and I support these recommendations.

I think uh it acknowledges what response plan we already have in place, particularly with our social service agency, our health care agency, our general service agency, our front-facing agencies along with law enforcement.

Um I've said this and in my social media posts that I stand with Minnesota and all the states, the counties and the cities who are taking action to protect all residents.

This practice of using brute force without regard to established law enforcement practices has intimidated and traumatized our communities, especially our children.

As a county, we have a need to have a united voice to do what we can to protect our residents.

Our vision in the county, as stated in the uh presentation, we call it Vision 2036, and that's a safe, livable community for all.

Early last year, the county's public-facing departments have already been working to make sure the buildings are more secure, and we are trying to coordinate and create a unified approach beyond securing our county buildings and our properties, the training of staff and providing know-year rights information to our residents, and we need to partner with all of you, our civic, business, faith-based, and community-based organizations to form a safety net against unlawful behavior.

As we saw in Minnesota, the tide towards justice and democracy is returning, and we need to play a role in this county in helping to make that happen.

And with that, I do have a few questions for our sheriff department.

If I may, Supervisor, I'm just trying to fully understand the recommendations and the policy, what it will or will not do, and this may be for both our law enforcement and our county council.

If we adopt this policy, does it prohibit or prevent ICE or another federal agency like the FBI from making an arrest on county property?

If it's a publicly accessible area, they can affect an arrest in that area.

If it's somewhere where they don't the public doesn't have privy to or access to, we can definitely restrict that.

Um it is, you know, with parking lots and open spaces, I just don't understand how that could be prevented because the sheriff's office doesn't provide you know security, like any kind of method to vet people in or out of those spaces, and we have a contract with courts somewhere you know down here where we have a vetting process, a choke point, if you will, where we can identify people before they come in, and we do.

If you're coming in and you're advising us that we're your law enforcement officer, then we're gonna ask for that proof to identify yourself with your ID.

So, I mean, the open spaces is problematic.

Um, I just want to make sure that you know, I support our communities.

I just want to make sure that our community knows the expectations of what an ice free zone is, I guess by definition.

But I don't want them to think that you step into this area, and here's a line, and ice can't cross it, and remember the sheriff's office and law enforcement isn't our local law enforcement agencies aren't everywhere, so just being cognizant of that.

Okay, thank you.

Um, and I know that uh the recommendation put forth mimics a lot of what Santa Clara County has done.

Um has our county council had any conversations with Santa Clara County's county council uh regarding the actions they took and the protocols and and sort of their experience with enforcement because as we heard on the news, um, the president Trump expects to have an ICE operation in February at the Super Bowl, and we are going to be coordinating a law enforcement response in concert with Santa Clara County.

So I'll let my assistant county council say specifically about conversations with Santa Clara, but I I think it's important that we do manage expectations about you know the rights that law enforcement does have and what they can do in from an enforcement point of view.

So I I think people do need to understand that law enforcement has certain inherent rights.

We've all seen video footage of um in exigent circumstances, uh law enforcement hopping on private property and going, you know, hopping fences and to chase a fleeing felon or whatnot.

Um so this policy won't prohibit that.

Um what it will prohibit though is um using our space and commandeering our space and um taking over our space.

If we have a parking lot where people can park, Ice can park in the parking lot because we've held that lot out for parking.

Um but what they can't do is you know set up their surveillance and headquarters and take over our parking lot for non-parking related purposes.

Um they can't uh assume the space as their own and bar other people from using it for the intended purpose that we have it held open for.

So, you know, if you want to talk about this, and Samantha Stoner can assist the county council, yes.

And just to follow that up, that's exactly correct.

Um, what this policy does, exactly what Santa Clara County's policy does, is it reflects that they can't use it for civil immigration enforcement activities.

So they couldn't use it for a processing location, they couldn't use it for a staging area, exactly what we're seeing that they're using those parking lots for in Minnesota, what they were using it for in the city of Chicago, this policy disallows them for using it, and the county does the authority to prevent those things.

Um, in terms of our conversations, I am in regular conversation with Santa Clara County Councils.

Um I actually had a conversation with them today.

We have a common interest group and we meet regularly, and we are in conversation about what may or may not occur for Super Bowl.

So if I could just interject, and if they do, what is our remedy?

What is our enforcement capabilities?

So I'm just saying if they do, I don't know that they will.

Um, alerting them to their policy, alerting them that their property, um, this was an illegal use of their property, that their property is supposed to be used for county purposes or city purposes, and that their use was not in conformance with their property.

You want to wait on that issue?

Yeah, I would like to as well, and I want to make sure I thank the Office of the County Council uh as well as uh Samantha Stonework Han for uh being so engaged in this policy.

Uh one of the things that was in the report, but I want to emphasize is that uh Santa Clara not only passed these two policies, the plan and the ice-free zones, they actually began convening supervisors regionally.

So myself and Supervisor Marquez have been participating in those meetings since December, and then we've also had participation from county council, from AC Health, from Social Services, the Public Defender, I believe that's so far, oh, and the county administrator as well.

So one of the things that we're trying to do here to protect our communities is recognize that there is strength in numbers, that we need to act together as a region as a Bay Area County, whether it was Coast Guard Island or the Super Bowl in a couple weeks or some feature potential threat, part of this is really aligning around planning together as well as taking a stand and saying the feds cannot commandeer our county controlled and owned property for these mass actions.

So some of the things that I think will be important when and if we pass these two policies related to the ice free zones, it does this recommendation does call for an update at the next AC ad hoc committee.

So the next steps I've talked about with our county administrator and GSA include GSA identifying what property that we own or control could be used for these larger enforcement operations, you know, the processing, the staging, etc.

Ensuring those properties are secure, ensuring there is signage and we have examples of signage that Minneapolis is using, for example, and then developing protocols for reporting as well as for enforcement.

That includes things like you know, what does any employee or security personnel do if there's potential ICE activity?

It's calling the rapid response hotline and designating what that process is internally as a county.

I don't know if Sheriff Sanchez would like to reiterate the sheriff's ability to potentially help with verifying whether activity is in fact law enforcement or not, and very importantly, we want everyone to operate by the law.

So if it is an ICE arrests, there needs to be a judicial warrant, a warrant signed by a judge to be allowable.

Um, so the communications is important, and then in addition to the cease and desist orders, you know, we've heard from some of our colleagues who have similar policies.

One of the first steps is having someone at the county, they had their county council designated calling our contact at ICE and saying you can't use our property for this purpose, it's unauthorized.

And this was a year ago, but they actually complied.

So we need to put those type of policies in place.

Is there a phone call that we make to reach out to them, or are there other steps like a cease and diss order or potentially litigation?

So that's how we would flesh this out, and I think for the response plan, one of the things that is important is doing some scenario planning so that we can look at what's happening in Minneapolis, LA, Chicago, Portland, and really be prepared.

We don't want to be caught off guard, we want to do everything possible as elected officials to protect our people.

Supervisor Tim, follow-up questions?

Okay, thank you.

I appreciate the responses.

Helped me understand better, and hopefully the community understands sort of what we can do and what we can do together in numbers versus what we can legally do.

Uh so the other question, I think the sheriff probably already answered it, and it pertains to enforcement of the policy, and um whether the sheriff's office or whoever is providing security at a particular county facility.

What are they expect it to do if they see like an ICE arrest in a public study?

Yeah, so where we provide security, you know, we have established protocols as far as notification process.

Now, mind you, you know, we we see people coming in for some of the buildings that we are providing security for, but we don't see them going out.

And sometimes we don't know what their business is.

Um, if we see that there is some sort of arrest that is occurring or there's a contact with an individual, we've already agreed that there there will be a notification, a protocol to notify all the way up the chain, and then those who are impacted, like department heads.

So there is a process already.

Thank you.

Supervisor Miley.

Questions, comments, comments?

Yes, uh thank you, President Howard.

I don't necessarily have any questions, but I do have comments first of all I want to thank Supervisor Bass and Marquez from the Alameda County uh um together for all committee for bringing this uh to us today this evening um appreciate them doing that and I and I've talked to uh county council that's one reason I don't have any questions I've already talked to county council and I've actually talked to my colleague supervisor bass to understand uh the purpose the nature the intent of uh what she's proposing and you know I'm I'm a little bit more moderate than uh supervisor bass and we and reasonable people will disagree but on this one we kind of agree and you know contrary to popular opinion you know we don't dislike one another we we yeah we like one another so um so I do think she's you know uh the committee's on target here and the reason the reason I say that is you know as elected officials first of all uh we take an oath of office all elected officials and you know it basically says I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same I will take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I'm about to enter so help me God now we've all taken that all elected officials take that and I maintain President Trump's in violation of the oath of office um I mean i i it's it's it's clear to me and all your testimony has indicated that and everything I've seen and heard uh uh demonstrates that to me and furthermore I I would like to add my name to those that are saying uh Secretary Gnome needs to resign because I really think she is you know just just totally out of line here in terms of heading up um homeland security now the other thing is I kind of use that as a touchstone but in addition I use another touchstone that I learned going to school as a Cub Scout as a boy scout as an elected official the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic in which I stand one nation under God with indivisible with liberty and justice for all emphasize on liberty and justice for all that's what that means liberty and justice for all and I think the actions of you know ICE is not indicating that and they're just following the direction of their bosses um the administration secretary noam and you know and the president so I really do think um they are not indicating what our country uh stands for and I've always said that I support law enforcement as long as they're doing their jobs professionally and constitutionally I don't think they're doing their jobs professionally nor constitutionally so I don't support uh the actions of ICE and in fact uh some of the actions of ICE uh uh you know go against the basic training that all law enforcement officers re uh receive so furthermore I think the the the proposals that are being put forth by my colleagues are reasonable uh proposals that I can definitely go on record in support of now before you get too excited before you get too excited, the one caveat is this, because some of you spoke to this, and I cannot support having our deputies get in a confrontation with ICE.

If I don't want to see any shootout, I don't want to see anything that occurs that moves us in that course.

We have to do everything possible under law uh cease and disease, cease and assist, uh take them to court, this that and the other.

But I, Nate Miley, elected official, county supervisor, does not want to see our deputies get in a confrontation with ICE.

Pure and simple.

And I think I talked, I talked to my colleague, I talked to my colleague about it, and I think she's on you know the same page with me.

So I support what you want to do.

Thank you.

I'm done.

I hope nobody wants to see a confrontation with ICE.

Supervisor Marquez and then Cortana Bass.

Well, so the one question that I have outstanding is signage.

What is the expectation of signs?

Are we going to see billboards of ice free zones?

Because my concern is that somebody is not going to understand and misunderstand that that means that you can't touch me if I go there, and that is not true, and they are going to fall prey to a zone that ICE may target, like why would they not target that area and see who goes there?

So what would it how do we guard against that?

What that would be an unintended consequence, I know.

How do we guard against that?

What is our expectation of that?

And and what are other counties planning to do?

What have they done?

I can speak to that and welcome um our county council or administrator.

I will just briefly say that earlier this month, um, our staff talked about how there are already many signs marking private areas that say um authorized personnel only, I believe, and I have shared some examples of signs that could be placed again.

Our county property, county owned and controlled property where there could be large ICE staging processing operations.

Um I've shared examples of signs from other cities uh that read to the with our county administrator and our uh GSA director, and those signs read uh this property is owned or controlled by the county of Alameda.

It may not be used for any civil immigration enforcement activity, including staging area, processing location, or operations base.

Those are the type of signs that cities who pass these policies are placing in, you know, parking lots, vacant lots that could be used for these larger enforcement actions.

And I see our GSA director maybe able to say something.

Um those sound reasonable.

Thank you, Supervisors Kimberly Gasway, Director of General Services Agency, we're responsible for building operations and maintenance, and uh we are already placing signs around county buildings that say authorized personnel only, so when it's not the public area, um, they should not be going in there without a judicial warrant.

We are also um working to train uh come up with a procedures for our security guards or their um post orders, but we also want to ensure their safety that they're not being put in any situation, you know.

If I as we've seen does something regardless of these policies and procedures, but as far as the other signs, supervisor has provided us samples, and right now I'm working on getting a quote.

We are identifying the list and already, I mean, we already have a list of county all county properties, um, we're looking at parking lots, vacant lots, um, large facilities where they may uh potentially try to attempt a commandeer, and where we could post these larger signs.

So that's a significant um endeavor.

Staff have already gotten the copy to get us the quotes on what that will be so that we can then move forward.

I think the policy and then the cease and desist orders, your board has stated will protect our staff and security um rather than having them begin to engage it, we've seen the consequences when people do that.

Yeah, a picture's worth a thousand words and um thank you, Supervisor Force and Bass for providing that.

For a quick county council.

Is there anything in the language that we are about to approve and sheriff that we have concerns about that we cannot either enforce or it's not um legal for us to do.

I'm assuming that you've brushed out or agreed in advance that all of the language here is um legal.

So we believe that the language that is here today is legal.

Um the, you know, the reality, and you all heard me say it a million times, anybody who has a $300 file in fee can file a lawsuit or a claim and allege that something's not legal.

That's why there's so much litigation in this country.

Um, but we um we we have we have reviewed and worked with the supervisor and our common interest partners to support um a policy that we believe will pass legal challenge, but as you know, you know, if we believe what we see with our eyes on our televisions every day, um if you're dealing with an organization that is not following the law, um we there's no way we can guarantee that um we that that even with these policies in place that people will I mean people will be protected.

So the the idea is that um, and you've heard me say this in other contexts is context, is having policies gives you options, and so by creating a policy, we've taken a statement, we've created a rule, um, you know, the goal is with any other policy that we have that you know we're we're not promising people that policies won't get violated by others, but it it makes um one of the way that you strengthen your ability to take action is by having a policy in the first place.

No, that's very good.

Uh sheriff, are there things in here that yeah, that's good.

Are there any things in the written policies that are presented to us today that you would say you can't comply with I think there's some language in there that says um that as long as it doesn't violate federal or state law, and I think that that's important to have in there.

Um just a reminder, law enforcement here locally, we are responsible enforcing California state law.

And I know that there's been questions about will you arrest ICE and all this other stuff, um, you know, valid concerns from our community, and I think that just overall, any individual who violates state law is going to be held accountable.

So it doesn't matter who you are, and and that's that is true for anybody that commits a crime.

There should be no difference.

So work I'm committed to that, um as well as the sheriff's office, but I also want to say too that uh you know it some of the comments that we hear, you know, we all don't align sometimes with um, you know, just everything that goes on in this world, but you know, I think that our public defender has actually spoken to this before, but language is important, and I think that language is um referring to people as illegal or aliens really um bothers me when I hear that because it dehumanizes people and we are human beings and we need to treat each other like human beings, and when we refer to people as lesser than, it is very easy for people to treat people as lesser than, and I think that is what we see across the nation, and so really just being in support of um being mindful of language and how we treat people, and um, you know, I think that our communities should know that I meet with our local uh chiefs in our county on a regular basis, and we're all in alignment with our communities regardless of documentation, you are safe, we will respond when you need us, and we are not asking or do we care about your representation or your documented status.

Uh we're committed to making sure that our communities are safe, period, overall, and uh our job is to prevent harm on people.

So, you know, I I also want to say that you know, I I've heard the calls for us to um discontinue acceptance of SCAP funding, and I wanted and I've been committed to looking into that.

Uh it has to be with c careful consideration.

My heart tells me automatically absolutely not.

We won't move forward with that any longer.

But having the support of the CAO's office as well as the Board of Supervisors, as long as we can make sure that we can continue on with essential services, essential equipment that we have utilized in the past, the SCAP funding for, I am ready to move away from accepting that funding.

It's not in the resolution.

Is there anything in the resolutions that you are?

There's not, but that is a commitment that I'm making.

There was an opportunity for us to extend our contract with the service JBI, which collects data as shared with the grant provider, and we did not move forward with that.

Supervisor Marquez.

And as was said, you know, this is a regional approach.

We are in coordination with Santa Clara County.

We actually have a meeting this Friday in Sonoma County.

So we are coordinating with all the Bay Area surrounding county so that way we can be as prepared as possible.

And just want to uplift.

We are a very rich community in diversity.

District 2 has the highest concentration of residents born outside of this country.

It's 45.9% according to our public health department.

And so we have a responsibility to ensure that we could do everything we possibly can to minimize harm in this community.

So I hope that my colleague is ready to make a motion.

I think you wanted to make it.

No, no, no, I'm not gonna make it.

Supervisor Fortunately.

I will be happy to second it.

Thank you.

Before I make the motion, I do want to underscore that there were a lot of health care providers who have been involved in this process with the know your rights health care working group.

They sent us uh some information.

They sent us some information that I do want to make sure that I forward to AC Health so that as we are fleshing out our response plan, we can be really clear about what we can do as a county, including with our partners to ensure that our health care facilities are safe.

So I did want to make sure that we got that on the record.

And so today I do want to thank everyone for speaking for participating in this process.

We received a lot of comments, emails, letters of support.

I am really proud to make a motion to ensure that Alameda County stands firmly on the right side of justice, democracy, and protecting the dignity and humanity of all of our residents.

And so with that, I will make a motion to adopt item number 51, the response plan for immigration enforcement activity in Alameda County, and the policy that restricts the use of county-owned and county-controlled properties for immigration enforcement activity.

And I'd like to second.

We have a roll call vote, please.

Supervisor Marquez, aye.

Supervisor Tam, aye.

Supervisor Miley.

Aye.

Supervisor Fortunato Bas.

Aye.

President Halbert.

Hi.

We're gonna take a five minute break.

Five minute recess.

Reminder, Alco Parking closes at seven o'clock.

If they are unless you want to get your car tomorrow.

We're going to reconvene to open session.

I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to reestable.

Supervisor Marquez.

Supervisor Tam.

Excuse Supervisor Miley.

President accounted for.

Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Present.

President Halbert.

Present.

We have a quorum.

We have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

The last item before us is public comment on non-agendized items.

Any members of the public in person or online who would wish to speak to public comment on items not on today's agenda, we'll do so now.

Do we have any in-person speakers?

Jane Kramer.

We'll do in-person first and then online.

Thank you.

Okay, does that work?

Yeah.

Does that work?

Yeah, okay.

My general concern is transparency.

If there is that kind of a discussion between elected officials and citizens, then you have a situation of trust.

And if you have trust, that leads to alternatives, new points of view.

And that is an essential process of democracy.

Now, you have an item forty two, which is a framework of policies and procedures that enhance disaster preparedness, et cetera.

My thought is that if all of those discussions about among the various um agencies and officials and cities, etc., were also made conveniently accessible and open to the public to attend and to give their input.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

No more speakers.

With that, we have exhausted all the business before us.

Just a reminder.

So um I'm going to ask that uh each of us who requested to adjourn in the honor of somebody do that right now.

Supervisor Tam and then I think Supervisor Fortinata Bass.

Thank you, President Albert, um, I'd like to adjourn in memory of Nelly Wong.

Thank you, Supervisor Fortunato Bass.

Yes, we would also like to adjourn in memory of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Preedy.

Supervisor Marquez.

Those were the same individuals I also wanted to honor, so thank you.

Very good.

Having said that, we will adjourn accordingly, and with that said, we are adjourned.

Recording stopped.