Overview
- The proposed Due Process and Safety ordinance would require federal officers, including ICE, to present a judicial warrant to enter non-public areas of city-controlled property such as offices, maintenance yards, infrastructure facilities and restricted zones at transit centers.
- Sponsors said the policy extends its standards to city contractors, grantees and lessees, decoupling local resources from federal enforcement on city-funded sites and mandating multilingual Know Your Rights signage.
- The measure establishes data-privacy safeguards and would bar the San Diego Police Department and other city entities from sharing sensitive resident information without a warrant.
- A draft provision would require the police chief to publish an incident report within three business days whenever local officers are called to a federal enforcement action, detailing agencies present, whether a warrant was shown and available identifying information for federal officers.
- Officials plan to introduce similar proposals in Oceanside, Chula Vista and La Mesa as well as at the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, and civil-rights groups including the ACLU signaled they are prepared to sue if the ordinance is violated.