Residents of Danbury speak out for and against the city's proposal to partner with ICE Common Council Chambers, City Hall: 01.03.08. Photo by ctblogger.
From last night's Common Council meeting, here's the discussion on Item 19: ICE ACCESS.
For those who didn't attend the meeting, the proposal was sent to a "committee of the whole" which is slightly different from an ad-hoc committee. That being the case, after the council meeting, I did a interview with Minority Leader Tom Saadi who gave a full explanation on what transpired.
NOTE: I'll post the public speaking portion of the meeting at a later time...that gem of a video requires my special attention...
As Councilman Saadi stated, if you have information or question regarding this program that you want to present to the Council BEFORE the "committee as a whole" meets, email ALL OF THEM.
To make it easy, just copy and paste the following list in your email program (seeing that the IT department at City Hall didn't think about maybe creating a central email address where ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL would receive the same message...ugh!).
Email addresses of the members of the Common Council copy and paste into your email program
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
