06/30/2025
June 30th, 🔥Melt ICE🧊 action: Support the "Safe and Welcome in Spokane" ordinance at Spokane City Council tonight.
This Ordinance makes it possible for Spokane Parks Department to declare part of public parks and streets "non-public".
Our immigrant and refugee neighbors are self-selecting out of Spokane's vibrant public events like Hoopfest, Pride, Tacos & Tequila, and more due to fear rampant warrantless arrests and harassment from ICE. This hurts Spokane's events economy, and it threatens the value that "In Spokane, We All Belong".
To be clear, if Department of Homeland Security has a legitimate warrant for someone's arrest, this ordinance does not stop them from acting on that warrant. But we know that ICE, in their own report, said over 65% of arrests have had NO criminal history and no active warrants, but have been arrested using ICE over-empowered use of "probably cause" to profile mostly black and brown people. This ordinance does not stop any law enforcement from acting on a legitimate active crimes or criminal investigation during these park events IF they have done the due diligence of backing it up through our legal system. It does send a message that Spokane will not let our public events be a hunting grounds for ICE's racial profiling and harassment.
Contact Council about your support today!
Email: [email protected]
Attend the 6pm meeting online or in person to give comment.
You must fill our this form between 5pm-6pm tonight to let Council know you want to give feedback at the 6pm meeting: https://forms.gle/Vd7n381x3seaL1NW6
The following is the Spokane City Council's Testimony Sign-up Form for the Legislative Session at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2025. This form will open no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 13 and close at 6:00 p.m. on the date of the meeting. Use this form to sign up to give testimony to Spokan...
