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SFUSD board introduces resolution urging supervisors to pass ‘Due Process for All’ ordinance
Summary
The San Francisco Unified School District Board on Aug. 27 formally introduced a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors and mayor to pass the ‘Due Process for All’ ordinance, citing harms from immigration detainers and Secure Communities. Community advocates read the resolution into the record and the board voted to introduce it.
The San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Aug. 27 formally introduced a resolution urging the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to pass a ‘Due Process for All’ ordinance aimed at limiting the local use of immigration detainers.
Vice President Feuer asked two community representatives to read the resolution into the record. Fosuet Reyes of Young Workers United, also speaking for the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee, and immigration attorney Laura Polstein of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) read the resolution’s recitals, which cited a study titled Shattered Families, referenced the federal Secure Communities program (also called “SComm” in testimony), and noted an Attorney General memorandum clarifying that immigration detainers are voluntary. The reading said the ordinance was intended to prevent local law enforcement from holding people in custody longer solely because of an immigration detainer and to uphold the city’s commitment to immigrant families and student stability.
Board members recorded no public speakers on the item and raised no additional questions during the hearing. After the reading the board voted by roll call to suspend the rules and formally introduce the resolution for consideration; the clerk recorded six ayes on the motion to introduce the board’s urging of passage by the Board of Supervisors.
The resolution, as presented, urged members of the Board of Supervisors and the mayor to support an ordinance introduced on July 23, 2013 by supervisors Avalos, Breed, Campos, Zhu, Cohen, Kim, Mar and Yi. The text read into the record asks the city and county to decline requests to hold people beyond their release time pursuant to immigration detainers and to affirm San Francisco’s role in advancing equal protection for immigrant residents.
Next steps: the board’s action at this meeting formally introduces the district’s urging into the public record; the resolution itself does not change city law. The ordinance remains with the Board of Supervisors for consideration and any legislative action by the city.
