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Immigration, surveillance and rent gouging top public-comments at Richmond council meeting
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged Richmond City Council to adopt a legal trust policy protecting immigrants from ICE collaboration, end the city's contract with Flock license-plate readers, and prioritize anti-rent-gouging legislation on the city's state agenda.
During the public-comment period at the Richmond City Council meeting, several residents and advocates called on council to adopt legally enforceable protections for immigrants, to end contracts with mass surveillance vendors, and to prioritize state legislation to limit rent gouging.
Calls for a trust policy and to end surveillance. Fern Diaz Castro and speakers representing New Virginia Majority and other immigrant-rights groups urged council to adopt a legally binding "trust policy" like Arlington County's, which would bar local agencies from honoring ICE detainers without a judicial warrant,…
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