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2008 Hartford Ordinance 20-08 Protecting Access to City Services for Undocumented Immigrants
Type Ordinance
Year 2008
Level City or Town
State(s) Connecticut
Source City Of Hartford
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
This city ordinance requires that all city services be made available to residents, regardless of immigration status. It also requires that referrals to medical or social service agencies be made in the same manner to all residents, regardless of immigration status. In addition, the...
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Basic Water Utility Management: A Guide for Local Leaders
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Mayors Innovation Project
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources
Part of a mayor’s job is to understand vital operations of a city, including water utilities and infrastructure. This report presents tools to help mayors understand their water systems and utilities better. In particular, it summarizes the elements of a successful water system, including...
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U Visa Basics for Law Enforcement
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level County
State(s) All States
Source The Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act (VTVPA) passed with bipartisan support in 2000. The VTVPA created the U Visa, a nonimmigrant visa for victims of certain crimes who have been, or are likely to be, helpful to law enforcement in the investigation or prosecution...
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City and County of San Francisco Adminstrative Code for Responding to ICE Detainer Requests
Type Ordinance
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source City And County Of San Francisco
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
This ordinance prohibits the use of City funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of Federal immigration law, except for individuals who have been convicted of a violent or serious felony....
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Inclusive Investment Starts with Equitable Community Engagement
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source SPARCC
Policy Areas Community Development
This report offers a set of lessons learned and specific strategies that public agencies and others can deploy to support local organizations and engage traditionally underrepresented community members as partners to shape community development policies, plans, and investments. Adoption...
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Joint Use of Public Schools: A Framework for a New Social Contract
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2010
Level School District, City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Cities & Schools
Policy Areas Education, Community Development, Public Spaces
In this paper, the 21st Century School Fund and the Center for Cities and Schools at the University of California Berkeley provide a conceptual frame for the joint use of PK-12 public schools. There is a growing conversation about and demand for joint use as a way to provide services...
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Making Smart Decisions About Smart Cities
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source American Civil Liberties Union of California
Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Data & Technology
“Smart city” products are often touted as cost-efficient solutions to providing government services and addressing societal challenges, but in reality these technologies are no more intelligent than the data and algorithms behind them. Like other tools, their effectiveness depends...
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ICE's Criminal Alien Program (CAP): Dismantling the Biggest Jail to Deportation Pipeline
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County, City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
ILRC guide to responding to ICE's Criminal Alien Program (CAP). When ICE is in the jail already, they don't need a detainer or notification of release....
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Monterey County Policy on the Detention of Undocumented Persons
Type Executive Order
Year 2014
Level County
State(s) California
Source Monterey County Sheriff
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
Sheriff's policy on detention of undocumented persons, responding to ICE detainer requests, and refusal to particpate in ICE operations....
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Who We Are: Municipal ID cards as a local strategy to promote beloning and shared community identity.
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2013
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source The Center for Popular Democracy
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
One of the paradoxes at the center of the struggle for immigrant rights in the United States is that while immigration law and policy is made at the national level, most of the impacts of those laws occur at the local level. Politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, DC, negotiate...
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Protocols for Ensuring Effective Defense of Noncitzen Defendants in California
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level County
State(s) California
Source The Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
For this article, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center interviewed defenders from four counties in California. Each with a different model. The models include having a full-time or a part-time in-house immigration specialist; contracting with an outside organization; having an in-house...
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Santa Cruz County Exectutive Order Ending ICE Detainter Requests
Type Executive Order
Year 2014
Level County
State(s) California
Source Santa Cruz County Sheriff
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families
Stanta Cruz County Sheriff's Office executive order ending ICE detainer requests follow federal Oregon ruling....
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Model Campus Safety Zones
Type Model Law
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source American Civil Liberties Union of California
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Education
The attached Model Campus Safe Zones Resolution language was developed for K-12 school districts that are contemplating adopting protections for their immigrant students. We recommend that any resolution contain language to address these critical issues: Limiting the sharing of student...
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King County Ordinance Ending ICE Hold Requests
Type Ordinance
Year 2014
Level County
State(s) Washington
Source King County
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families
Previously, King County had honored all civil immigration hold requests from Immigration and Customs enforcement for detainees by holding adult inmates for additional time after they would otherwise be released from county jail facilities. This ordinance puts and end to this practice,...
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2020 Madison Ordinance 61593 Ordinance Creating the Office of Police Independent Monitor & Civilian Oversight Board
Type Ordinance
Year 2020
Level City or Town
State(s) Wisconsin
Source The Common Council of the City of Madison
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Safety
This ordinance creates the Office of the Independent Monitor (OIM) and the Police Civilian Oversight Board. The OIM shall monitor MPD programs, activities, investigations, and use-of-force incidents; make recommendations to the chief of police; appoint counsel for aggrieved individuals;...
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District of Columbia Act to Limit ICE Detainer Holds
Type Act or Session Law
Year 2012
Level County, City or Town
State(s) Washington, D.C.
Source City Of Washington, D.C.
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families
An Act to create a Department of Corrections in the District of Columbia to limit the circumstances under which the District will comply with an immigration detainer requests from the Unites States Immigration and Customs Enforcement....
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Culver City Police Policy of Responding to ICE Detainer Requests
Type Executive Order
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Culver City
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
Culver City Police Policy of Responding to ICE Detainer Requests specifically stipulates they city won't honor hold requests or give ICE notification of release dates....
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The City Upstream and Down: How Integrated Water Management Can Help Cities Thrive
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source American Rivers
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources
Current strategies of managing water are outdated and ineffective at addressing aging water systems and climate change. In response, this report urges cities to adopt integrated water management, an approach to managing water that encourages coordination between all water systems...
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New York City Administractive Code for Responding to ICE Detainers
Type Ordinance
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) New York
Source City Council Of New York City
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
This local law amends the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to persons not to be detained by the police department. In particular, the police department may only honor a civil immigration detainer by holding a person beyond the time when such person would otherwise...
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Bernalillo County Policy Responding to ICE Detainer Requests and Bond Rules
Type Ordinance
Year 2014
Level County
State(s) New Mexico
Source Bernalillo County
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families
This ordinance states that the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center will not detain any inmate and will not delay the otherwise authorized release of any inmate, as a result of detainer requests or administrative warrants received by ICE. An immigration detainer request...
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Lean Charrettes
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source The Project For Lean Urbanism
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement
Charrettes are collaborative meetings where all project stakeholders come together for a period of focused planning activity in order to resolve conflicts and map solutions. Charrettes are highly effective tools for planning and public engagement, but may be too expensive to fit into...
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Seattle Executive Order Providing Immigrants Equal Access to City Services
Type Executive Order
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) Washington
Source City Of Seattle
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Housing, Public Safety
City executive order ensuring city benefits and services are available without regard to immigration status....
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Life Under "PEP-COMM"
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County, City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety
On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced the "end" of the much reviled Secure Communities (SComm) program. In its place, DHS created the "Priority Enforcement Program" or PEP. PEP works exactly the same way as Secure Communities. It tracks fingerprints and helps ICE agents...
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Ending Local Collaboration with ICE: A Toolkit for Immigrant Advoctes
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families
The purpose of this toolkit is to help you understand the various pieces that make up the massive deportation machine, and to give you the tools to dismantle it. Local authorities need to protect and serve their communities, not criminalize them; and local governments need to invest...
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Bank On Coalition Playbook: Equipping Bank On coalitions for local banking access success
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source Cities For Financial Empowerment Fund
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
Across the country and for the last several years, Bank On coalitions have taken similar, but diverse local approaches to boosting banking access for the millions of people still outside of the financial mainstream. Local Bank On coalitions generally share two key characteristics:...
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