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Medford public commenters press council on ICE enforcement, meeting cadence and executive session rules
Summary
During public participation, multiple residents urged the council to address federal immigration enforcement actions, reconsider meeting cadence, and clarify reasons for executive sessions; the council replied with procedural explanations and staff follow-up.
Several residents used the council's public-participation period to raise pressing local concerns, ranging from federal immigration enforcement to meeting procedures and Zoom access.
Michael Kesselman (499 Main St.) urged the council and mayor to take stronger action on what he characterized as federal overreach by ICE and DHS. "The mayor has not even made it a twinkle in her eye, given any attention whatsoever that it merits," Kesselman said, and he described what he characterized as aggressive enforcement…
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