I'm asking that you vote NO on this agenda item. Our status as a "sanctuary city" means nothing if we are materially supporting the kidnapping of people and silencing of dissenting voices. Creating pathways of data between police departments and ICE/homeland security only expands potential for unlawful profiling and harm.

I am asking you to vote NO to Item #8 at 2pm’s City Council meeting that provides funding for the Sacramento Police Department’s participation in the Central California Intelligence Center (CCIC).

I am deeply concerned about local policing resources and data being utilized by ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies, especially given that California sanctuary state law (SB 54) prohibits local law enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement. The City’s own Immigration Platform from January 2026 re-affirms that no city data should be used or shared to determine or trace a person’s Citizenship or Immigration Status.

Using local policing, data, and funding to try and incorporate more into ICE is not what we should be doing with that time, data, or money. You've got a masked unaccountable monster of an organization that you're trying to feed with the people of Sacramento's data. At best you violate some 1st amendment rights. At worst you help turn a bunch of innocent people into targets of state violence. Bad idea.

On behalf of Asian American Liberation Network, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the Sacramento region deeply involved in engaging the community at large and the Sacramento City Council in matters of local immigration policy, I write in opposition to this deeply concerning item.

The staff report cites that "Intelligence and Information Sharing" is a project that will be supported by the sub-award funds passed through by the City of Sacramento at the CCIC, alongside missions of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, in a manner "consistent with federal department of Homeland security grant guidance".

The federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force are explicitly designated on the white house website ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-develops-new-strategy-to-counter-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ ) as being avenues for the Trump administration to advance the implementation of NSPM-7, an unconstitutional and fascist strategy in violation of the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, as well as California and Sacramento's established sanctuary protections ( https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-nspm-7-seeks-to-use-domestic-terrorism-to-target-nonprofits-and-activists ).

Sacramento needs an overarching policy guiding all inter-agency law enforcement collaboration and partnerships to ensure that the city’s sanctuary vision is not violated. There need to be explicit limits, especially to prevent the weaponization of surveillance data and infrastructure, to prevent the Sacramento Police Department and any funds passed through the City of Sacramento from acting in violation of sanctuary law.

The matter "Intelligence and Information Sharing" further underscores the need for a thorough data sanctuary policy deeper than the city's existing implementation to be incorporated into the Community Immigration Action Plan, as well as a change of data retention policy from 2 years to a maximum of 30 days for surveillance and automated license plate reader data.

Also attached here is our recent advocacy letter from April 27th further elaborating on these concerns, and a grand jury report citing the Sacramento Police Department's past violations of California and Sacramento's sanctuary policies.

With care for all who call Sacramento home and discernment for how small changes in policy language transform the potential for harm to our communities,

Moiz Mir
Organizing & Advocacy Manager
Asian American Liberation Network

The Sacramento Police Department must leave the Joint Terrorism Task Force and other federal task forces whose activities support ICE enforcement or violate constitutional rights
The City must pass policy to stop SacPD’s use of pretextual enforcement to cite and arrest anti-ICE protestors who are exercising their First Amendment Rights
The City must end its contracts with Axon for automated license plate readers services. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) License Plate Reader Policies for Vendors allows DHS traceless access to data, making it impossible to generate proof of violations of sanctuary policy when ICE searches our city’s data.

I am emailing to ask the you to vote NO to Item #8 at 2pm’s City Council meeting that provides funding for the Sacramento Police Department’s participation in the Central California Intelligence Center (CCIC).

I am deeply concerned about local policing resources and data being utilized by ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies, especially given that California sanctuary state law (SB 54) prohibits local law enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement. The City’s own Immigration Platform from January 2026 re-affirms that no city data should be used or shared to determine or trace a person’s Citizenship or Immigration Status.

In March 2026, the California State Auditor opened an audit of California fusion centers (SacBee, CalMatters) after a State Senator raised strong concerns of fusion centers being used to violate SB 54 as well as endanger the civil liberties and privacy of California residents.

A private audit from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project found that Northern California Fusion Centers offering DMV data, License Plate scans, Social media, Open Source information, cell phone location, as well as loans of surveillance cameras.

A 2022 study of fusion centers found there is little to suggest that fusion centers have aided “counterterrorism efforts” and instead targets racial justice, environmental, and abortion activists, endangering the civil liberties and privacy of community members. A 2012 U.S. Senate report showed that fusion centers failed to identify a single terrorism plot.

Participation in Fusion Centers threaten to violate State and City sanctuary policies. There is no reason for this council to approve this item before seeing the results of the California State Auditor’s efforts, failing to do so tells our community you are not serious about protecting us from the unlawful actions of the Federal Government.

Additionally, the City should review all of the Sacramento Police department’s policies and partnerships to end all SacPD collaboration with ICE and ensure that no city resources or data are shared with any federal agencies engaged in immigration enforcement. In particular, I echo community advocates’ demands to ensure that no city resources or data are shared with any federal agencies engaged in immigration enforcement:

The Sacramento Police Department must leave the Joint Terrorism Task Force and other federal task forces whose activities support ICE enforcement or violate constitutional rights
The City must pass policy to stop SacPD’s use of pretextual enforcement to cite and arrest anti-ICE protestors who are exercising their First Amendment Rights
The City must end its contracts with Axon for automated license plate readers services. Axon allows the Department of Homeland Security (and therefore ICE) traceless access to data, making it impossible to generate proof of violations of sanctuary policy when traceless searches are conducted.