The Cleveland City Council convened on February 2, 2026, to execute the passage of Tanisha's Law, approve numerous emergency ordinances and resolutions, and address public concerns regarding public safety, ICE enforcement, and economic issues. The meeting featured robust public testimony supporting police reform and opposing federal immigration enforcement actions, alongside routine administrative approvals. The Council unanimously voted to pass legislation creating a Department of Community Crisis Response and adopted resolutions opposing state-level ICE cooperation mandates.
So what are you gonna do? Here's Camwell, that's 12. Madam Clerk, please call the road. Griffin. Here. Bishop, Conwell, Davis, Gray, Harsh, House Jones, Hudson, Jones, Casey, Polencick, Santana, Shaw, Slife, Star. You have a core, Mr. President. Thank you. Will everyone please rise for a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the United States. For which it stands one nation under God. Thank you. I'll make the following statement. This meeting of Cleveland City Council is a lawful meeting under Section 605.04 of the codified ordinances. No person with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting shall do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting. Members of the public are invited to speak only under the rules set by this council. Disruptions, including but not limited to speaking out of turn and making loud noises and loud utterances are in violation of the rules and interfere with the due conduct of this lawful meeting. Such disruptions may constitute a misdemeanor and a violation of section 605.04. Anyone who disrupts this lawful meeting in violation of the codified ordinances commits misdemeanors and is subject to prosecution. The following is the first and only warning. If this meeting is disrupted, I will gather a halt to the proceedings and direct the assembled officers to escort any person participating in the disruption out of the chamber. Once persons participating in the disruption are outside of the chambers, the officers will close the doors and the disruptors will be handled as directed by the director of public safety. The council proceedings will not begin again until those that participated in the disruption have left the chamber and the council doors are closed. Disruptors will not be allowed back in the chamber after the meeting resumes. Again, this is the first and only warning. Madam Clerk, please dispense with the journal. By council member House Jones that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting be dispensed with the journal approved. Seconded by Councilmember Davis. Thank you. We'll move the public comment, and I want to make sure that everyone is aware. We know we had weather uh cancellations last week. Uh so I made the decision to allow anybody who signed up last week. This is their week uh to have public comment. Okay. We'll get back to normal beginning on Wednesday. The first person that I'm gonna ask all council members if you could turn around to acknowledge the speakers and make sure the speakers that you acknowledge your time of three minutes. The first speaker is Daryl Houston. He's from Bedford Heights. The topic is city issues. He's not representing anyone, and he's not being paid by anyone. Mr. Houston, you had the floor. Uh good afternoon, everybody. Uh, first of all, I just want to take a moment of silence for the young youth that we've lost already this year. Thank you. Um I'm gonna come down here until the end of February. And after the end of February, I'm gonna take a break. Um there's some constitutional things that's going on down here, and I like to see them addressed.