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Note: The agenda and meeting transcript reference October 8, 2026, but the provided timestamp is October 9, 2026 20:15 UTC. This summary uses the given date as instructed.
The meeting, chaired by Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, focused on the Hunger Action Month Proclamation and a one-year update on the Food Sovereignty Roundtable, followed by a presentation on networked surveillance and county leadership by Sarah Hamid of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). A third agenda item on surveillance ecosystems was postponed to November 5, 2026. Public comments addressed both agenda items and non-agenda matters.
Item 1: Hunger Action Month Proclamation & One-Year Update of the Food Sovereignty Roundtable
Item 2: The Era of Networked Surveillance & County Leadership
Good afternoon, everyone. The meeting of the Alameda County Together for All Ad hoc committee shall come to order. Let's call the role. Supervisor Marquez present. Supervisor Fortinado Bass. Thank you. And Madam Clerk, could you please give instructions for public comment and interpretation? For in-person participation, the meeting site is open to the public. If you'd like to speak on an item, please fill out a speaker's card in the front of the room and place it in the box for remote participation. Follow the teleconferencing guidelines posted at www.acub.org. And we do have Spanish interpretation in the back. Carmen and Carmen and Christine. Carmen or Christine, would you mind coming to the mic to share interpretation instructions in Spanish. Okay. Hola, hola. Si usa ni interprete, entonces hay que hablar lentamente, claramente, con pausas, para que las interpretes podamos seguir cada palabra porque is muy importante lo que dicen. Gracias. Okay, thank you, everyone. I'll share a few welcoming and framing remarks before we review the agenda. So again, welcome to the Alameda County Together for All or Act for All Ad Hoc Committee, which prioritizes inclusion, equity, and opportunity for all residents. As background, our committee is modeled after the 2017 ad hoc committee for immigrant and refugee rights by late supervisors Wilma Chan and Richard Vaillet. The Act for All Committee is a vehicle to coordinate a proactive response to protect support and lift up communities that are impacted by federal policies and budgets. And we have focused on a number of topics over the past year and a half, including immigrant and refugee justice, LGBTQ health equity, and food security. Before we get started, I do want to share a few updates since our last meeting in July. Firstly, in terms of immigrant and refugee justice, in September, the new public charge rule went into effect. And the federal administration is giving immigration officers more power to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits. And this could include Medi-Cal, CalFresh, housing vouchers, unemployment, and other programs. This change in policy is cruel and could cause even more people to fear seeking important social services that they need. Nationally, immigration arrests have soared to new levels with nearly 50,000 arrests nationwide in July. California has the third highest number of these arrests, and DHS and ICE are expanding detention capacity. Enabling individuals to sue federal officials and state court over rights violations and requiring local agencies to release 911 call records originating from ICE facilities. As you know, we've also looked at immigration detention right here at home. And in regards to FCI Dublin, the former federal correction facility in Dublin, California, you may remember that in April, our board adopted a resolution opposing the use of FCI Dublin for immigration detention. In September, the Federal Bureau of Prisons received over 7,500 comments calling for the demolition of FCI Dublin so it's never used for carceral purposes again, including a letter from my office. Yet, despite this public outcry, the Bureau of Prisons maintained its finding that allows it to transfer the 80 safe the 87-acre property to the Federal General Services Administration, who has a unit that has been tasked with acquiring land for immigration detention facilities and could sell or transfer the FCI Dublin to DHS or ICE. The threat of local detention continues as ICE expands its property holdings. And just this week, DHS bought two detention facilities in Southern California for 950 million dollars. So let's keep organizing. The ICE Out of Dublin Coalition has been canvassing our Dublin residents. Please join the coalition and Dublin Tri-Valley and Alameda County residents this Saturday, October 10th, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in Dublin to stop the opening of an ICE descent detention center in our region. And you can register at TinyURL.com slash IOD hyphen OCT 10. And we'll try to add that to our social media so it's a bit easier to find. In addition, in Gilroy, you may remember that there is a proposed immigration facility, and that proposed facility in Gilroy, which is in Santa Clara County, has been legally suspended as of September 30th. It's facing a high profile legal battle over environmental procedural community concerns with the next major decision due today or tomorrow. And a final court decision could determine whether ICE may conduct limited activities on the site while the injunction remains in effect.