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Email to Brentwood council raises question about ordinance on immigrant-status data
Summary
A resident emailed the council asking whether Brentwood has complied with an ordinance barring retention of records showing residents' immigrant status and whether staff have filed required regular reports; the clerk read the email during the April 22 meeting and asked staff to follow up.
A member of the public emailed the Brentwood council asking whether the town has complied with an ordinance that the writer said prohibits keeping records that show residents’ immigrant status and whether staff have produced required regular reports documenting compliance.
Town clerk Larry Moran read the email into the record at the April 22 special meeting. The message, from “Sarah on Barnum Street,” said, “According to an ordinance, Brentwood is not supposed to keep info that shows any of its residents' immigrant status. Also, staff was to make regular reports showing that they were following this ordinance. Have they been making these reports?”
Council did not answer the question during the meeting; the mayor asked the clerk to note the email and to let the council know if additional comments were received during the session. No staff report or documentary response was given during the meeting.
Why it matters: the question concerns the town’s recordkeeping practices and potential compliance with a local ordinance; the resident asked for public reporting to demonstrate compliance. The council did not resolve the issue during the meeting and no report date was provided.
Provenance: reading of the public email was recorded in the April 22 meeting minutes and read aloud by the town clerk.
