A GROUP OF PROTESTERS crowded the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday to demand that the county reject federal assistance grants that require local law enforcement to share data on immigrant detainees with the U.S. Department of Justice. 

The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program is administered by the DOJ in conjunction with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Department of Homeland Security. According to the DOJ, SCAAP funds are used to pay states and local governments to cover officer salary costs incurred for jailing immigrants lacking permanent legal status who have at least one felony or two misdemeanor convictions and are incarcerated for a minimum of four consecutive days. 

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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.