From: Ellen Obstler
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Agenda item 4.1
Date: Monday, February 9, 2026 7:39:34 PM
Councilmembers,
I understand you are holding a study session tomorrow evening about federal immigration activities. As I know you know, times are very scary for many of us. I hope you will consider enacting a comprehensive ordinance similar to the "ICE Out" legislation the Philadelphia city council recently proposed.
https://phlcouncil.com/philadelphia-elected-leaders-introduce-ice-out- legislative-package-to-protect-immigrant-communities/. Unfortunately a resolution like San Jose passed just won't provide the necessary protection.
I also hope you'll reconsider your contract with Flock. As the Press Democrat reported, there's been "widespread reports of vulnerabilities in Flock's system.”
Public safety must-have or threat to civil liberties? Debate over Flock license plate reader cameras has taken hold in North Bay. Many California cities, including Oakland, Berkeley and Tiburon have found breaches in which they shared data with federal immigration officials; Santa Cruz, Walnut Creek and Los Altos Hills cancelled their contracts because of the breaches and Santa Clara is considering doing the same.
In this political climate, we must be extra vigilant to not even inadvertently expose vulnerable community members' whereabouts. Can we trust Flock a company that is partially funded by Peter Theil's "Founders Fund," which also bankrolls Palantir, a sophisticated data surveillance tool used by ICE and Border Patrol to target migrants, to keep our information safe?
Thank you for your consideration,
Ellen Obstler
From: Tom Schiff
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Weighing Response to ICE?
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 7:32:39 AM
Here's a great idea: why don;t you work on balancing your budget? Poor roads, infrastructure & traffic bottlenecks. Misspending of one-time funds to set up ongoing programs.
But virtue signaling is cool.
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Thomas E. Schiff
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
From: Mark
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Subject: [EXTERNAL] I don’t know if ice is overreaching, but I know that the city council is Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 8:05:50 AM
Observation, progressive Democrats have become emotional retards, no perspective, intellectually rotting.
From: Amy Jolly
To: Stapp, Mark; CityCouncilListPublic; Okrepkie, Jeff; Alvarez, Eddie; MacDonald, Dianna; Fleming, Victoria; Banuelos, Caroline; Rogers, Natalie
Cc: Amy Jolly
Subject: [EXTERNAL] No Collaboration with ICE!
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 9:39:57 AM
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Dear City Council Members:
As a constituent I am writing you to express my strong concern that ICE enforcement of immigration policy has made communities less safe and brought unprecedented violence into cities across the United States. As a leader in Santa Rosa, I ask that you step up and pass a non-collaboration ordinance and protect your constituents from unfettered ICE activity.
Santa Rosa needs to join San Jose, Alameda and other counties and cities in not collaborating with ICE. No use of city property or resources by ICE. No sharing information with ICE by any City employees. No access to City property without a judicial warrant.
The City of Santa Rosa can alert and protect immigrants is ICE is active in our area. City employees can advise people of their rights and alert the Rapid Response Network. The City Council can hold Law Enforcement accountable to our community to keep us safe instead of enabling ICE safety and arrests without warrants. Santa Rosa police should enforce CA SB 627 No Secret Police Act.
Please take leadership to keep our community safe. It is what I, your constituent, voted for you to do.
Thank you.
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From: Wendy Millstine
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Subject: [EXTERNAL] STOP ICE in Santa Rosa!!
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 9:51:23 AM
Dear Santa Rosa City Council,
I write to you all as a resident of Santa Rosa who is deeply concerned for the safety and rights of my immigrant community. If you value our support, here are our demands:
NO COLLABORATION with ICE
NO USE of City property or resources by ICE
NO SHARING of information with ICE by any City employee NO ACCESS to City property without a judicial warrant
PASS a non-collaboration ordinance
ALERT and PROTECT IMMIGRANTS
City of Santa Rosa should alert residents if ICE is active City employees can advise people of their right to remain silent City employees alert Rapid Response Network 707-800-4544 ACCOUNTABILITY of Law Enforcement
Santa Rosa police should stop ICE arrests without a warrant Police will preserve evidence in case of crimes by ICE agents NO MASKS // Identification and badges visible
Thank you for your consideration of these urgent details to protect and uphold the rights of immigrants.
Sincerely,
Wendy Millstine
Santa Rosa, CA
From: Omar Lopez
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Cc: City Council Public Comments
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Public Comment on Study Session Item 4 Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 10:55:29 AM
Good morning councilmembers,
I’m reaching out ahead of today’s discussion on potential City Council action in response to recent federal immigration enforcement activities. I want to thank Councilmembers Fleming and Bañuelos for moving this conversation forward, and to thank the entire Council for engaging in this discussion and being mindful of the physical and emotional safety of Santa Rosa residents.
I want to echo the requests already circulating in the community (below). Beyond those, I want to raise an additional issue for your consideration: the sharing of Flock data.
I’ll be honest -
I am not a fan of the use of these cameras, nor do I believe the company behind them is trustworthy. I’m happy to share more on that at a later time. Santa Rosa currently shares Flock data with over 100 agencies across California. Reporting has found several of these agencies have been reported to
violate state law by sharing Flock data with outside entities.
Santa Rosa currently shares data with El Cajon Police Department, which is being sued by the State Attorney General for sharing data with federal law enforcement and agencies outside of California. Additionally, a CalMatters investigation found evidence that the Los Angeles Police Department and sheriff’s departments in San Diego and Orange counties searched license plate data on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. All of these agencies have access to Santa Rosa’s data. Reporting from the San Francisco Standard has also documented a history of data sharing across agencies from CHP to the Oakland Police Department.
I strongly encourage the City to immediately stop data sharing with El Cajon PD and to establish clear policies governing data sharing with outside agencies, particularly those that have violated SB 34. Creating internal data- sharing policies is appreciated, but failing to address known violations by partner agencies undermines these efforts and creates a backdoor.
Attorney General lawsuit against El Cajon: https://oag.ca.gov/news/press- releases/attorney-general-bonta-continues-legal-challenge-stop-el-cajon-illegally- sharing
CalMatters reporting on Flock data sharing:
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing- license-plate-reader-data/
SF Standard on data sharing history: https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/23/california- police-sharing-flock-license-plate-data/
As mentioned above, please consider
No Collaboration with ICE:
No use of City property or resources by ICE
No Sharing of information with ICE by any City employee + accountability if an infraction occurs
No Access to City property without a judicial warrant
Pass a local non-collaboration/sanctuary ordinance, the Federal Government already treats Santa Rosa as once
Alert and Protect Immigrants:
City of Santa Rosa should alert residents if ICE is active or collaborate with the
Rapid Response Network to do so
City employees can advise people of their right to remain silent In Chicago the Mayor ran a Know Your Rights campaign across the City with advertisements
City employees alert Rapid Response Network 707-800-4544 Adding ICE Reporting to the Santa Rosa app and sharing reports with the Rapid Response Network
Accountability of Law Enforcement:
Santa Rosa police should ensure state and local laws are being followed and to whatever capacity, ensure ICE arrests are done with a judicial warrant
Police will preserve evidence in case of crimes by ICE agents Including monitoring if identification and badges are visible as upheld by a recent judgement
Thank you for your consideration and for your leadership.
____
Omar Lopez
A proud Santa Rosa resident for the last decade.
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From: Jennifer Fish
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Non-collaboration with ICE and other ways to support Santa Rosa Immigrant community Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:32:22 PM
Good afternoon, Santa Rosa Council Members,
I am a local Family Physician in Santa Rosa x 15 years, serving low income, marginalized, and Immigrant patients. I live in SR council district 5 and care for patients in all districts.
Unfortunately, I do not think I will be able to provide public comment today in regards to collaboration with ICE and DHS.
I went to medical school in MPLS. There are community members that will be speaking today that are from MPLS. What is happening there is already happening here in our minds and nervous systems. Terrorizing is the goal. I cannot overstate the impact to the health of my patients and our community. We have patients not leaving their homes at a time when financial/food/housing insecurity is already at high levels. Depression, anxiety-- including in children. Increased risk of cardiac, cerebrovascular and pulmonary disease. I could go on.
Collaboration with ICE in any way is complicity in their terror. This is not about following and enforcing law, as ICE and DHS clearly act unlawfully and without accountability. We are allowing a militarized force detain, disappear, traffic, and murder human beings of all ages. No amount of tweaking, improvements or conditions can fix it. I am 100% for the abolishment of ICE.
I ask for not only Santa Rosa city policy against collaboration with ICE, (from property to surveillance tech) but a coordinated and practiced plan for when they break this policy.
I also ask for a coordinated response to support our immigrant community, including rent freezes, an eviction moratorium, and lastly funding for an increase in bilingual and bicultural mental health services (from orgs like Humanidad, On the Margins, and the Sonoma County Black therapy fund) for all ages starting now.
Thank you so much,
Jenny Fish, MD
From: Hottel
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Subject: [EXTERNAL] NO COLLABORATION WITH ICE
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 2:01:50 PM
Dear Santa Rosa City Council,
I write to you all as a resident of Santa Rosa who is deeply concerned for the safety and rights of my immigrant community. If you value our support, here are our demands:
NO COLLABORATION with ICE
NO USE of City property or resources by ICE
NO SHARING of information with ICE by any City employee NO ACCESS to City property without a judicial warrant
PASS a non-collaboration ordinance
ALERT and PROTECT IMMIGRANTS
City of Santa Rosa should alert residents if ICE is active City employees can advise people of their right to remain silent City employees alert Rapid Response Network 707-800-4544 ACCOUNTABILITY of Law Enforcement
Santa Rosa police should stop ICE arrests without a warrant Police will preserve evidence in case of crimes by ICE agents NO MASKS // Identification and badges visible
Thank you for your consideration of these urgent details to protect and uphold the rights of immigrants.
Sincerely,
Jodi Hottel
From: Fred Allebach
To: CityCouncilListPublic
Cc: Banuelos, Caroline; Fleming, Victoria; David Hoffman Subject: [EXTERNAL] re: ICE, the moral framework matters Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 10:38:52 AM
Free NYT article fyi
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/donald-trump-pagan-king.html? unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.0Lbi.DmL69DpMh8uj&smid=url-share “American leaders, unlike Vikings or Spartans, had to make a moral case for the exercise of our power. It wasn’t enough to simply say that we, as the strong, can do what it is in our interest to do. We had to couch it all, however unconvincingly, in a framework that made it palatable to the Christian conscience. This may not have determined the shape of American foreign and domestic policy, but it was the impossibility of making that case that ultimately contributed to the end of slavery, and of European imperialism and American segregation. The moral framework mattered.”
“That is the world we are leaving behind. By brazenly jacking Venezuela for its oil and
threatening to acquire Greenland against its will, the U.S. is acting as the ancient Greeks, the ancient Persians and the Germanic tribes conducted themselves: brutishly, without shame or apology. And the abdication of Christian values is already shaping the conduct of our government toward its citizens, as in Minneapolis, where immigration agents have killed two protesters. The Trump administration appears unconstrained not only by the limits imposed by the Constitution but by the standards of an average American’s conscience. Federal agents’ treatment of both immigrants and U.S. citizens in Minneapolis is the reflection of a government that has abandoned the moral instinct that it is wrong for the powerful to abuse the weak.”