Birmingham Community Charter High District to bring state "safe zone" template to board
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District administrators presented a California Department of Education template intended to designate campuses as safe zones against immigration-enforcement access; staff said the template has been used in practice and will be an action item for the board.
The Birmingham Community Charter High District administrator reported that the district drafted and has been using a California Department of Education template titled a State Department of Immigration and Enforcement Policy to designate the campus as a "safe zone" and resource center.
The template, the administrator said, was developed after increased immigration enforcement activity in California and Los Angeles and lays out protections restricting access by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and related Homeland Security personnel. "It's basically, anybody that's working for Homeland Security or ICE, they're not allowed on campus unless they have a traditional [warrant], and they're not allowed access to student records," the administrator said.
District staff said they began using the template earlier in the year after consulting campus aides, campus security and faculty. The administrator told the board that the district's charter office requested formal adoption and that the template will be brought to the board as an action item.
The presentation did not include a vote at the meeting. The administrator said staff will place the item on the action calendar so the board can consider formal adoption and any related implementation procedures.
Staff did not provide a text of the final board motion, specific legal citations beyond the California Department of Education template, or a timetable for formal board action during the meeting.