SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) – Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years, is currently in ICE detention in Kern County, California, after her family claims she was retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contractor.
Sacramento Councilmember Mai Vang is launching a campaign to unseat Rep. Doris Matsui, who has held the seat since 2005. Vang pledges a grassroots run as critics question Matsui’s accessibility.
Sacramento leaders sent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement letters regarding individuals who are allegedly being held in the John Moss Federal Building in Sacramento.
The non-profit digital human rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF, donation link) asserts that electricity provider SMUD in Sacramento County conducted racial profiling and surveillance of customers, passing tips of suspected drug manufacturing to local law enforcement. All this in violation of the California Constitution’s protection of reasonable privacy within the home. EFF and plaintiff Asian American Liberation Network seek a court order to prohibit further carte-blanche sharing of confidential customer information with law enforcement agencies, unless such an agency already has cause for initial suspicion.
A local US citizen was taken by the Feds today. They were said to be a volunteer with NorCal Resist, which is a great and very well organized local activist group for those who don’t know them.
Anybody have info on the source of the smoke in the air tonight? Smelling it here in Land Park, and Reddit shows folks smelling it from Greenhaven to Midtown
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