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Public Safety Committee adopts amendment to broaden ban on immigration-enforcement staging on city properties
Summary
The Seattle Public Safety Committee voted 5-0 to adopt Amendment 2 to council bill 121164, expanding the ordinance to cover city "owned or controlled" properties (about 47 additional sites) and recommended the bill for full Council consideration on March 17.
The Seattle Public Safety Committee on March 10 adopted Amendment 2 to council bill 121164, a proposed ordinance that would prohibit civil immigration-enforcement staging on property the city owns or controls. The committee vote to adopt the amendment was 5-0; the committee then voted 5-0 to recommend the bill for adoption by the full City Council on March 17.
The amendment, authored by Council member Foster and moved by Council member Lynn, changes the bill’s operative language from "city owned and controlled" to "city owned or controlled," explicitly capturing leasehold interests and other properties in which the city retains a municipal interest. "It is a small…
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