Activists claim victory as Marin County pulls homeland security funding from new budget

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News February 10, 2026February 10, 2026

FILE: Protesters hold signs during the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting in San Rafael on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. The board has rejected federal funding in its new county budget that requires sharing the immigration status of certain people held in county jail. (George Alfaro/Bay City News)

Marin County has removed from its new budget a federal funding source that requires sharing the immigration status of certain people held in county jail.

County Executive Derek Johnson announced the decision to cut the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program grant at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

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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