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Skokie board votes to codify police guidance supporting village’s 2017 welcoming ordinance
Summary
Trustees voted to explicitly incorporate the police chief’s 2025 guidance on immigration‑related interactions — including non‑compliance with ICE administrative detainers without a criminal warrant — into the village’s existing Chapter 58 welcoming ordinance and to continue working with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
Trustees unanimously approved a motion to make explicit, within the village’s ordinance, police guidance that limits local law-enforcement involvement in federal civil immigration enforcement and reaffirms the village’s longstanding policies to offer services regardless of immigration status.
The board considered a motion, introduced by Trustee (name not specified in transcript), to state explicitly that the police chief’s 2025 guidance regarding immigration enforcement is supported by and incorporated into Section 58‑8 of the Skokie Village Code. The motion,…
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