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Richmond residents press council to protect immigrants, limit surveillance and prioritize protections for renters
Summary
During the public-comment period, dozens of Richmond residents urged the City Council to adopt an immigrant trust policy, end contracts for license-plate reader surveillance, prioritize anti-rent-gouging protections on the state legislative agenda and address neighborhood traffic safety and malfunctioning speed-camera enforcement.
Several dozen residents used the public-comment period to press the Richmond City Council on immigrant protections, city surveillance contracts, anti-rent-gouging measures and neighborhood safety problems.
Speakers representing immigrant‑rights groups urged the council to adopt a written trust policy that would limit local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and prohibit release of city data without a judicial warrant. Fern Diaz Castro said, “Stopping hateful and violent people, kidnapping our community members, and putting them through such conditions should be 1 of your top…
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