Civil Immigration Enforcement Property Ordinance

At a glance

What: An ordinance adding Chapter 12.73 to the Sacramento City Code, restricting the use of city property for civil immigration enforcement (file 2026-01177).
Where it stands: Adopted 9-0 as Ordinance No. 2026-0012 on June 23, 2026, after the council first voted to bypass the Law and Legislation Committee (Motion No. 2026-0189).
What's next: The ordinance must be published in its entirety within ten days of adoption under City Charter section 32(d).

Moved by Vice Mayor Talamantes, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Guerra; majority vote required.
Part 1: Motion No. 2026-0189 passed by a majority vote to bypass the Law and Legislation Committee under Council Rules of Procedure section 13.B.1.b.ii.
Part 2: Ordinance No. 2026-0012 adopted, in lieu of pass for publication, to be published in its entirety.
Yes (9): Roger Dickinson, Guerra, Jennings, Kaplan, Maple, Pluckebaum, Talamantes, Vang and Mayor McCarty. No votes against.
Members of the public provided comments; speakers are not named in the draft minutes.
Disturbance: the council recessed at 7:55 p.m. and the City Clerk, Mindy Cuppy, directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to clear the chambers and, once decorum was maintained, allow back only press and news media (except anyone participating in the disturbance). The full council resumed at 8:08 p.m.
The council moved on to the remaining routine items and adjourned at 8:33 p.m.

Community Immigration Action Plan, adopted the same evening.
Local Police Cooperation with Federal Immigration Enforcement, where speakers in October asked for a binding ordinance in place of the June resolutions.

Bypass motion and Ordinance No. 2026-0012 passed 9-0. Recess at 7:55 p.m. after a disturbance; resumed 8:08 p.m.