The Asian Affairs Commission (AAC) held its April meeting on 2026-04-07 at 18:15 UTC. The meeting featured a presentation from the Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic and Latinx Affairs Commission, updates on commission finances, leadership transitions, a new leadership roundtable initiative, and planning for upcoming events.
So we are live. Thank you. I am calling our April meeting to order. Quickly, who has not had an opportunity to look at last month's case? But let's email. Okay, let's just spend the next couple of minutes to gloss three because Jackie's here and we want to make sure she has plenty of time to present. So two minutes. Okay, I move that we approve March's minutes. Do I have a second motion? Do I have to entertain yes? We have a motion to approve April's excuse me, March's minutes. Yes. Thank you. All in favor? Great. So up next is the Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic and Latinx Affairs Commissioner, Jackie Gonzalez, to talk about our Fourth Amendment Worksites playbook. Thank you, Jackie, for coming and offering disputes. This came from our thank you for having me. So I'm the current chair for the Hispanic Latinx Affairs Commission. And over the last six months or so, we've been working on this document that we're calling a playbook. I think there are a couple of those sprinkled around. We also have a QR on this, so if you want a digital version, it'll show up as well. But basically, this is a resource that we have recently created, recently kind of approved as a commission, and so I just want to talk a little bit about it and our goals and make it visible to your commission as I think it benefits a lot of people. Okay. So what we did is we put together an employer-friendly handbook to offer guidance that you introduce and the risk of legal practices around unconstitutional search and seizure. Just to take a little step back, our commission has often been inspired by other commissions, and most recently the women's commission, um, because they had a research project and they did, you know, they chose a topic, they dug deep, and so at the time, um about a year ago, maybe two years ago, uh, we started developing our own research project for trying to figure out what our research project was, and we landed on looking at better understanding IDs and how our community, what are barriers to access, what are the impacts of ID possession and non-possession, um, and the effectiveness of support programs of how young people or young people, adults, whoever are getting IDs and what happens when they don't have an ID, and that ranged from giving birth to um getting groceries, and you know, we were seeing various impacts, and so we were starting to do that, we were starting to have a survey, but at the time, you know, the definite like political climate was changing, and we kind of decided we need to be responsive now. Um, this ID stuff is interesting and important, but we really need to have like something. People are coming to us looking for answers. It's been a very precarious time for our community, and so we've been trying to think about how can we be responsive like right away, and so this is part of what we're trying to do in this work, and so um the source of inspiration. So we all have a lot of identities. One of mine led me to being a fellow with the James Beard Foundation, and I was able to go to a conference in Asheville about a year ago called the Chef Policy Action Summit, where I learned about food sustainability and a lot of other things around politics in the world of food. And in that, there was a presentation by an organization called Systema North Carolina. I know that we have a Tulsa chapter, but the North Carolina one was introducing this initiative called Fourth Amendment Worksit. So Fourth Amendment Worksite is really the inspiration, really the bulk of where this partnership comes from. And that is a website that is focused on educating community members and businesses, specifically restaurants in this case, in understanding their rights. And there's talking points, there's ways to help, you know, educate businesses. There's free trainings, they're live trainings, things like that. And so we figured this is an opportunity where an organization is already doing really good work. Let's join forces and create this because our community, our community can still benefit from these trainings. So I'll take a real quick pause. If you want the downloaded, it's also on the back, I think. If everyone has the playbook, so two hours on the back, but we know that there. Yeah, that's okay. I'm often put on the spot. But I appreciate the kindness. Um really just, and you know, you all have done this as well with like the op-ed that was submitted in like after the Tulsa Asia Fest, instead of you know, Chairwoman Gilpin just kind of going off on her own and um submitting an op-ed as an individual person to the Tulsa World or other media outlets. You all voted on the language of that op-ed as a group, and then it was able to be presented as something on behalf of the entire commission. Kind of same thing. Um, you know, being able to have this uh playbook be something that the whole commission came to consensus on and said, yes, we want to share this resource with the community as an official product of the commission, and so we're going to formally vote like yes, you know, this is something that we're wanting to put the full weight of the commission behind. Okay, yeah.