On Monday, San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder sent a letter to city officials demanding answers to questions about the handling of recent protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and alleged police cooperation with federal agents, potentially in violation of California’s sanctuary laws.

The letter was addressed to Interim Police Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Mayor Daniel Lurie and Controller Greg Wagner. Key concerns included recent confrontations with ICE; problematic recent public statements by officials with the San Francisco Police Department; potential legal violations involving SFPD sharing surveillance data with federal agencies; alleged lack of oversight during threats to public safety; and questions about how much First Amendment activities and responses are costing the city.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.