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 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).”
State Assembly
Candidate for State Assembly, District 12
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Excerpt: “I am 100% in favor of all three actions. These positions stem from the point I’ve been making clearly, publicly, and consistently: ZERO local or state resources should be used to enforce federal immigration law. If Trump wants to weaponize federal immigration law to harm the most vulnerable among us, we will not help; our resources are better directed toward serving and uplifting our hard-working, law-abiding residents—regardless of their immigration status.”
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.]
Candidate for State Assembly, District 12
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Excerpt: “It is appalling that the Marin County Sheriff’s Office continues to cooperate with ICE, even though California is a sanctuary state and our community has made it abundantly clear that we reject these harmful practices. As ICE and DHS escalate their cruel, lawless attacks on immigrant families and peaceful protestors across the country, I believe we must do everything in our power to end collaboration between our sheriff and federal immigration authorities. Our neighbors’ safety, dignity, and humanity depend on it.”
Marin County Board of Supervisors
Candidate for Supervisor, District 5
Expresses partial or conditional support for three demands
Excerpt: “As Supervisor, I will support full enforcement of Marin’s sanctuary ordinances and oppose the use of local resources to assist federal immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant—including notification of ICE regarding jail releases. Our responsibility is to the people of Marin, and to ensuring that local law enforcement can do its job effectively by maintaining the trust of the communities they serve. I will also work to bring our practices into alignment with our values, including re-evaluating participation in SCAAP and modernizing how booking information is handled to protect privacy and civil rights.
[Coalition Note: Aikens is the only candidate surveyed by the coalition who gave a supportive public comment urging the sheriff to stop cooperating with ICE during the 2026 TRUTH Act Forum.
Candidate for Supervisor, District 5
Expresses clear support for all three demands
Excerpt: “I’m born and raised in Novato, the proud daughter of immigrants from Mexico… In regards to your inquiry:
Yes, a judicial warrant should be required to comply with ICE requests.
Yes, I’m supportive of a searchable database for the booking logs.
Yes, I support fully and permanently withdrawing from SCAAP.”
Candidate for Supervisor, District 1
Expresses partial or conditional support for three demands
Excerpt: “Since joining the Board of Supervisors in 2022, I have pushed hard to ensure that communications with ICE are only with people convicted of a serious and violent crime, not people who are charged. I am pleased that in August of 2025, the Sheriff’s Office heeded this request from Supervisor Rodoni and … is now only [responding to ICE detainer requests] when individuals have been convicted of a serious and violent crime. As I stated at the 2026 Truth Act, I have asked the Sheriff’s Office to convert to a searchable booking log. The County is not taking SCAAP funding this year, and I am glad our Board has taken this step.”
[Coalition Note: We view Supervisor Sackett’s reply as inaccurate and misleading. First, she erroneously states that the sheriff only cooperates with ICE detainers where an immigrant is convicted of a serious or violent offense. In fact, the sheriff has publicly admitted he hands immigrants over to ICE who have no prior criminal record and have merely been charged—not tried or convicted—of any of more than 35 categories of felonies and misdemeanors. Moreover, 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. Sackett 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. Second, Sackett evades the coalition’s call to “fully and permanently withdraw” from SCAAP, saying simply that she is glad the board removed SCAAP funding from the current budget. Even this characterization is misleading, as it was the County Executive, not the board, who proposed dropping SCAAP funding from the budget. To date, the Board of Supervisors has made no public statement supporting a policy change to fully and/or permanently withdraw from SCAAP.
Mark Galperin (no active website)
Candidate for Supervisor, District 1
No expressed opposition to ICE/No support for three demands
Excerpt: “From the legal standpoint …, it's clear that as Marin County Supervisors, the Candidates, if elected, legally cannot either severally or jointly control, command, or even influence the Sheriff’s law-enforcement decisions. Rather, we, as the voters who elected the sheriff, can and should work with the sheriff on achieving our goals because he is politically accountable to us and understands that Marin County voters could legally recall him through a petition and recall election under the California Constitution and Elections Code.”
[Coalition Note: Galperin’s claim that the Supervisors have no authority over the sheriff’s actions in the civil immigration context is false. In fact, civil immigration enforcement is entirely outside of the Sheriff’s designated criminal investigative functions. And the California Values Act (SB 54), which governs interactions between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, expressly reserves the right of the Board of Supervisors to enact laws and policies to restrict the sheriff’s cooperation with ICE to a greater degree than is mandated by state law.]