Chair Lee questions EO 13 audit report authorship and findings

And I'm going to get into the city's sanctuary policies across the agencies, Executive Order 13 and what happened there, and then I'm going to allow my colleagues to ask some questions.

For many of you who may not know yet, on February 6th, the mayor issued Executive Order 13 to strengthen the city's sanctuary protections.

And the report for this executive order audit and its findings was published online just recently on May 22nd.

I want to thank the administration for giving the council a briefing on this before it was put online.

It was extremely helpful to hear about it before actually.

reading it.

So I had some questions.

So who in the administration authored the report and what was your role throughout the before the findings came out?

The report was prepared by the Interagency Response Committee, which, as you mentioned, it was created by Executive Order EO-13.

It's chaired by the FDM.

It includes direct consultation from MOIA, our Chief Counsel's Office, and the Special Advisor for Strategic Coordination.

That's who prepared the report.

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

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

It was great.

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

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

Okay.

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