The Berkeley City Council adopted the majority of the policies regarding the city’s set of mutual aid agreements with outside law enforcement agencies at their meeting Tuesday night. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council revoked a policy requiring the Berkeley Police Department to hold undocumented immigrants in the local jail by request of the federal government at its Tuesday meeting. Read More…
Imagine yourself picked up by the Berkeley police on a minor matter. You’re quickly cleared for release, but the cops see that you were once suspected — NOT CONVICTED — of a more serious offense. Read More…
The TRUST Act would make it easier for state law enforcement agencies to opt out of a program requiring them to detain immigrants who have not committed serious crimes for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read More…
In November, former UC Berkeley graduate student Pancho Ramos Stierle was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following his arrest at a raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment. Stierle came to the United States with a student visa to pursue his Ph.D in astrophysics at UC Berkeley Read More…