Tell Bangor City Council: Protect our Resources, Public Safety, and Constitutional Rights

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The Bangor City Council will soon consider an ordinance to limit local participation in federal immigration enforcement, safeguard constitutional rights, and ensure that local resources are saved for local priorities. The first public hearing is on Monday, February 9, and the council needs to hear from you.

What will this ordinance do?

This ordinance will clarify the role of all city employees by restricting local resources from supporting certain federal immigration operations. The ordinance does not prohibit cooperation with federal immigration officials if public safety is threatened, but ensures that city resources are not used to fuel the administration's indiscriminate deportation machine. The ordinance will also ensure accountability by creating a publicly accessible reporting mechanism if it is violated. Last, this ordinance will also cover all city employees – not just law enforcement – creating stronger protections than the state law that will take effect later this year.

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Public officials in roles outside of law enforcement have access to residents' private and sensitive data, which the federal government may try to access. For example, we have seen the Department of Justice (DOJ) target the Maine Secretary of State for voter data.

In Maine towns and cities, this data is held by town and city clerks. Limiting data-sharing by all local employees will better protect communities than protections that focus only on law enforcement

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Bangor City Council

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Why include all public officials?

In Maine towns and cities, this data is held by town and city clerks. Limiting data-sharing by all local employees will better protect communities than protections that focus only on law enforcement

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Bangor City Council

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Subject Please pass Bangor's immigration ordinance

Members of the Bangor City Council,

Maine has taken important steps to ensure that local resources are used for local priorities, not for federal immigration priorities set by politicians in Washington. We urge you to strengthen these efforts in Bangor by ensuring that our local city employees focus on our local needs and safety by declining to support certain federal immigration operations.

As you may know, LD 1971 will take effect this summer, limiting the ability of law enforcement to cooperate with certain forms of immigration enforcement. We urge you to strengthen these protections by ensuring clear accountability mechanisms and by widening the scope of protections to cover all city employees, not just law enforcement.

Importantly, LD 1971 and this ordinance have carve-outs allowing for cooperation with federal officials if public safety is threatened.

I respectfully urge you to pass this ordinance to protect our local resources, maintain public safety, and keep Bangor a community where all people can thrive.

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I respectfully urge you to pass this ordinance to protect our local resources, maintain public safety, and keep Bangor a community where all people can thrive.

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