THE MARIN COUNTY SHERIFF SPOKE directly with his critics and county officials this week as the Board of Supervisors and activists met with him to discuss the county’s involvement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

The event reflected how one blue-state county is processing the anxiety caused by the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown in Minnesota.  

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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.