The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has approved an ordinance that restricts federal law enforcement access to county facilities without a warrant.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Jim Desmond was the lone dissenter on the ordinance, which passed on a 3-1 vote Wednesday, with Joel Anderson absent.<\/p>\n
As proposed by board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer, an updated version of the Civil Liberties Enforcement and Accountability Rules Ordinance would require:<\/p>\n
judicial warrants for federal access to non-public areas of county properties
\nsigns in multiple languages that allow visitors to understand their rights
\ncounty contractors, grantees and lessees to enforce civil-rights protections
\nan annual public report on U.S. Department of Homeland Security activity and any interaction or cooperation with the county sheriff; and
\nsupporting residents to access county services — such as health care, marriage licenses and assistance — “without fear of intimidation or detainment”<\/p>\n
The item was part of Wednesday’s consent agenda and will take effect in 30 days, according to Lawson-Remer’s office.<\/p>\n
The ordinance “supports efforts to ensure that county resources are not used for immigration raids or to target individuals based on protected characteristics,” Lawson-Remer’s office stated.<\/p>\n
Lawson-Remer on Wednesday thanked San Diego City Councilman Sean Elo- Rivera, who proposed the idea of the city and county working together in bringing an ordinance.<\/p>\n
She added that the ordinance will be enforced in part via agreements with the county’s contractors.<\/p>\n
“I think we all want law enforcement to keep our communities safe, but when families are afraid to go into a clinic or report a crime or walk into a county office, that makes everyone less safe,” she added.<\/p>\n
Desmond described the ordinance as “divisive and restrictive, and not collaborative.”<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, it took two tragic shootings in Minnesota for both sides to come together to the table to talk and to compromise,” Desmond said, referring to the January shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37.<\/p>\n
Desmond added that public safety is best protected “when all levels of government communicate clearly and coordinate effectively before crises happen, not after.”<\/p>\n
Supervisor Paloma Aguirre also mentioned Good and Pretti during her comments in support of the CLEAR Ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has approved an ordinance that restricts federal law enforcement access to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855,7943],"class_list":{"0":"post-156220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-celebrities","11":"tag-san-diego-concerts","12":"tag-san-diego-events","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-san-diego-photos","16":"tag-warrant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}