Chair Avilés Questions Significant Gaps in Agency ICE Reporting

Um we meet um and have met throughout this process in leading up to the release of the audit quite regularly to you know discuss um how are we going to roll out this information.

I'm I was pleased to see that we had such great participation from our partners in the council for the briefing as well.

Yeah, it was great, and then moving forward, um will Moya be kind of like the lead of those conversations and the ongoing um audits for lack of a better word here?

Yeah, Moya is a a member of the IRC in a leadership capacity, so we will be continuing um our role in that process.

Okay, um, and in that report, there uh the audit reports and talks about significant gaps in city agency reporting on interactions with federal immigration authorities.

Can you describe in a little bit of detail what those significant gaps were?

Yeah, the audit revealed that um many interactions between city agencies and federal immigration authorities were not reported at all, um, either because agencies weren't effectively tracking um those interactions, because incidents surfaced maybe after relevant reports had already been published, or because the existing guidance um didn't require reporting interactions such as subpoenas and warrants and and other instances where federal agents forcefully entered city property.

Um and I think to to um directly address um these gaps, the mayor has uh updated and approved um additional guidance that will be issued by the IRC.

And in this um guidance, reporting requirements have been strengthened and clarified, um, including by expanding the types of interactions that are subject to that reporting.

In short, um, you know, agencies are now directed to be over inclusive um in what they report to Moya.