Candidate Responses Coalition Demands the Sheriff Stop Cooperating with ICE
As part of a months-long pressure campaign to stop the Marin County Sheriff’s cooperation with ICE, we asked the candidates running for State Senate, State Assembly, and Board of Supervisors in Marin to state their positions on our coalition’s three concrete demands:
Refuse all ICE requests without a judicial warrant.
Stop publishing booking logs and instead implement a searchable system like those used by San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz counties.
Fully and permanently withdraw from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).
We evaluated the candidates’ responses and placed them in the following categories:
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Expresses partial or conditional support for three demands
Expresses opposition to ICE without addressing the three demands
Expresses no opposition to ICE and no support for the three demands
Below, we have published the summarized position of each candidate along with key excerpts, contextual notes from the coalition, and a link to their full and unabridged response.
Disclaimer: Please note that these evaluations are based solely on the candidates’ responses to the coalition’s inquiry regarding our three demands to end the Marin County Sheriff’s cooperation with ICE. They do not constitute an endorsement or holistic evaluation of the candidates by the coalition or by any of its individual member organizations.
State Assembly
Candidate for State Assembly, District 12
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Excerpt: “I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and I left as a young woman to flee the political violence that directly impacted my family. I have experienced first-hand the struggles that so many immigrants have endured, especially during the second Trump administration. Trump has slandered immigrants from my home country, specifically, saying in 2024 that the DRC was emptying their prisons and sending the prisoners to America – a bold-faced racist lie. This administration has demonized my country of birth and placed the DRC on its travel ban list. With empathy for our immigrant groups, I side with your coalition on all three of your requests to the Marin County Sheriff.”
Candidate for State Assembly, District 12
Expresses partial or conditional support for three demands
Excerpt: “Marin’s $500,000 budget allocation at the beginning of 2025 for legal aid, family support, and our rapid response network reflect the needs of the community (and we will be making the same allocation again this year). After hearing from many in our community, we withdrew from SCAAP and the change made in August 2025 by the Sheriff to limit [ICE detainer] responses to only cases where there is a prior conviction (or the defendant was held to answer in a preliminary hearing) was also important.”
[Coalition Note: We view Supervisor Lucan’s reply as misleading and nonresponsive. First, the Board of Supervisors, of which Lucan is currently President, did not make a policy decision to withdraw from SCAAP. Rather, the County Executive proposed to temporarily drop SCAAP funding from the next two-year budget. To date, the Board of Supervisors has made no public statement supporting a policy change to fully and/or permanently withdraw from SCAAP. Second, Lucan applauds the “limits” announced by the Sheriff on his cooperation with ICE. This obscures the fact that the cited “limits” are mandated by State law. The Sheriff is never required to cooperate with ICE detainer requests in the absence of a judicial warrant, but voluntarily subjects dozens of local immigrants to ICE detention and deportation each year when he has no legal obligation to do so. Lucan sidesteps the central question of a judicial warrant and appears to endorse the Sheriff’s practice of cooperating with ICE detainer requests to the maximum extent allowed by law. Third, Lucan offered no response to the coalition question regarding booking logs—an issue that the coalition and community have been raising at Board of Supervisors meetings for months.]
State Senate
Candidate for State Senate, District 2
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Excerpt: “I’m writing to confirm that I concur with all three of your goals:
Local authorities should only acquiesce to ICE and CBP requests if there is a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
Booking logs should be replaced with a searchable database, limiting their data mining potential while still empowering the victims of crime to monitor the status of the case that impacted them.
Marin County should end its participation in the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).”