Marin County Executive Derek Johnson (seated) listens to public comment at the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting in San Rafael on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. A protest was organized in opposition to the county's cooperation with ICE, the federal immigration agency. (George Alfaro/Bay City News)
On Tuesday, a group of protesters dominated the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting to demand the county Sheriff’s Office reject federal assistance grants that require local law enforcement to share data on immigrant detainees with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The grant is called the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP, and it is administered by the DOJ in conjunction with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It is the second time the group has acted. The first rally was Oct. 21.
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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.
Protesters urge Marin County supervisors to reject sheriff’s federal immigrant jail grant
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On Tuesday, a group of protesters dominated the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting to demand the county Sheriff’s Office reject federal assistance grants that require local law enforcement to share data on immigrant detainees with the U.S. Department of Justice.
The grant is called the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP, and it is administered by the DOJ in conjunction with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It is the second time the group has acted. The first rally was Oct. 21.
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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.
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