What: Public commenters urged ending police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and adopting a privacy, safety and dignity ordinance; the City Manager said the City is working with the ACLU and no draft is ready.
Where it stands: No action taken; draft ordinance pending.
Sources
Official Proceedings on the City's PrimeGov portal and YouTube auto-generated captions; names and figures may be misheard.
Multiple speakers condemned police cooperation with immigration enforcement after a death and later arrests of family members, and asked for sanctuary-city policies. The Mayor said those trafficking in fear are not welcome but that the federal government cannot be kept out entirely.
Public commenters urged ending police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and adopting a privacy, safety and dignity ordinance; the City Manager said the City is working with the ACLU and no draft is ready.
Speakers urged adoption of sanctuary city policies, criticized the September 12 arrests of protesters at the ICE field office and asked for transparency after a September 20 fatal crash involving ICE; letters opposing police cooperation with ICE were received and filed.
The Police Chief reported on a fatal crash on September 20 after an attempted stop by federal immigration officers; Grand Rapids police only responded afterward and asked the Michigan State Police to assist. Commissioners reaffirmed that the department does not work with the federal agency in such stops.