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Immigrant-rights attorneys and residents urge extra SB 29 hearings before permitting of CoreCivic facility

City of California City Council, Housing Authority, Successor Agency · January 13, 2026

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An attorney from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and other residents urged the council to require additional SB 29 hearings and discretionary review for the CoreCivic detention facility, saying earlier hearings lacked notice and the facility's scale requires more oversight and time for public input.

Jaheen Lehner, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, urged California City's decisionmakers to require an additional SB 29 hearing before further permit action on the CoreCivic detention facility, arguing that recent planning-commission hearings did not provide adequate notice and therefore did not reflect the transparency and…

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