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Bernalillo County Policy Responding to ICE Detainer Requests and Bond Rules

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) New Mexico

Source Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Public Safety

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...

Manhattan Community Board 10 Immigration Equal Protection and Sanctuary City Resolution

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source New York City

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Democracy & Governance

This resolution supports and reaffirms the establishment of laws, policies, and practices that ensure access to legal protections regardless of immigration status, and urges the City of New York to not cooperate with federal immigration efforts. ...

War Brought Us Here: Organizing for Sanctuary through an Anti-War Lens: A Toolkit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Institute for Policy Studies

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance

This toolkit is designed to help strengthen the sanctuary and refugee rights movements by providing a platform to look at and strengthen sanctuary campaigns and policies through an anti-war lens. The goal is to highlight the role of the U.S.’ actions in producing migration; the multiple...

1989 San Francisco Sanctuary City Ordinance No. 375-89

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 1989

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source City and County of San Francisco

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety, Children & Families

An ordinance declaring San Francisco to be a sanctuary city and outlining prohibitions on obligating funds toward deportation-related purposes. In particular, no department, agency, commission, officer, or employee of the City and County of San Francisco shall use any City funds or...

Model Resolution for Protecting Immigrant Students

Type Ordinance or Resolution

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. ACLU recommends that any resolution contain language to address these critical issues: limiting the sharing of...

2014 King County Ordinance Ending the Honoring of ICE Hold Requests

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2014

Level County

State(s) Washington

Source King County Council

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,...

2003 Seattle Ordinance 121063 Prohibiting City Employees from Inquiring about Immigration Status

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2003

Level City or Town

State(s) Washington

Source Seattle City Council

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

This ordinance prohibits Seattle City officers and employees from inquiring into the immigration status of any person or engaging in activities designed to attain this information....

Advancing a Welcoming Infrastructure for Humanitarian Relief

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town, County, National, State

State(s) All States

Source Welcoming America

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights, Economic Justice

This report outlines five ways for local leaders to create equitable and welcoming environments in response to humanitarian relief. Local leaders can find checklists, resource links, and ideas for building a durable infrastructure within communities so that they are ready to respond...

2016 Seattle Executive Order 2016-08 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

This executive order ensures that city benefits and services are available to all Seattle residents, without regard to immigration status....

2017 Columbus Executive Order Declaring Sanctuary Status

Type Executive Order

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) Ohio

Source Mayor of the City of Columbus

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Public Safety, Civil Rights

This executive order protects people without documentation from deportation and expands immigration protection services....

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....

Culver City Police Department Policy Regarding ICE Detainer Requests and the Reporting of Undocumented Immigrants

Type Executive Order

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Culver City

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights, Public Safety

This policy states that the Culver City Police Department will not honor ICE detainer requests unless a Federal Probable Cause hearing has occurred. It also prohibits officers from reporting suspected undocumented immigrants to ICE unless circumstances indicate such reporting as reasonably...

All Immigration is Local: Receiving Communities and Their Role in Successful Immigrant Integration

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Center for American Progress

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Housing, Public Safety

This report emphasizes the importance of involving both immigrant and native-born residents in the process of immigrant integration. It provides four key strategies for successful integration: encouraging local leadership, fostering contact between immigrants and natives, building...

ICE's Criminal Alien Program (CAP): Dismantling the Biggest Jail to Deportation Pipeline

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2016

Level County, City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Public Safety

The infographic discusses ICE's Criminal Alien Program (CAP), the largest deportation program in the United States. It outlines the three phases of the deportation process: identification, custody transfer, and removal. CAP allows ICE officials to access local and state jails to identify...

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

This document outlines Monterey County's policy on detention of undocumented persons, responding to ICE detainer requests, and refusal to participate in ICE operations....

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...

Ending Local Collaboration with ICE: A Toolkit for Immigrant Advocates

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...

Getting a Sanctuary City Resolution Passed/ Sample Resolution Language

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2019

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source Institute for Policy Studies

Policy Areas Education

This document includes a sample of resolution language along with a list of links to resolutions that have been passed in cities across the country....

Sanctuary Not Deportation: A Faithful Witness to Building Welcoming Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town, National

State(s) All States

Source Faith in Action

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Spaces, Public Safety

Sanctuary is a tool that provides a place of refuge and safety to those facing deportation. This report provides a brief history of the Sanctuary movement and outlines the resurgence of the Sanctuary movement under the Trump Administration. Additionally, this report calls for the...

Who We Are: Municipal ID cards as a local strategy to promote belonging 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

Municipal ID policies-where local governments issue their own identification credentials-improve access to services and institutions. This report examines case studies of municipal ID programs and examines how many of these policies have impacted immigrant communities. It also features...

New York City Local Law 59 Regulating Responses ICE Detainers

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source City Council of New York City

Policy Areas Civil Rights

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...

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...

King County Superior Court Policy on No Courtroom Arrests Based on Immigration Status

Type Executive Order

Year 2008

Level County

State(s) Washington

Source King County Superior Court Judges

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families

The King County Superior Court affirmed its commitment to keeping the courts open and accessible for everyone by establishing a policy stating that warrants based on immigration status should not be executed in courtrooms unless ordered by a judge and that discourages processing within...

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....

2011 Cook County Policy for Responding to ICE Detainers

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2011

Level County

State(s) Illinois

Source Cook County Board

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety

This ordinance requires the Sheriff of Cook County to decline ICE detainer requests unless there is written agreement stating that all costs incurred by Cook County in complying with the ICE detainer shall be reimbursed. It also prohibits ICE agents from accessing individuals or County...

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