The Los Angeles City Council instructed its legal staff Wednesday to prepare an ordinance prohibiting municipal workers and sworn personnel from taking on outside employment with federal agencies conducting immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
In a 14-0 vote, the council approved a motion introduced by members Monica Rodriguez and Ysabel Jurado on Sept. 12 to ensure that city employees \u201cdo not participate in immigration enforcement agency actions,\u201d calling it \u201ccritical to maintaining community trust and ensuring legal compliance with city and state policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilman Curren Price was absent during the vote.<\/p>\n
City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso and City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo are expected to draft the ordinance for the council\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was important for us to really enshrine our city values \u2014 and what would not be considered or entertained is the opportunity to seek outside employment with an agency that has constantly rolled into our city and countless other cities across the country and assaulted and abducted members of our community,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s for that reason that I thought it was important for us to enshrine in our rules the prohibitions from allowing city employees to be able to engage in this outside employment at a time when we need to continue to foster trust in our local government, particularly at a time when our federal government has made it quite clear they have absolutely zero intention in shoring up and strengthening people\u2019s trust in their government,\u201d Rodriguez added.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Administrative Code states that city officials, other than elected city officers and part-time board and commission members, shall not accept a payment for honoraria or other outside earned income or employment without prior written approval.<\/p>\n
Approval must be obtained from the general manager or chief administrative officer of the city official\u2019s department.<\/p>\n
This policy does not restrict any related work with immigration enforcement agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which is what the new policy aims to address for all city and sworn personnel.<\/p>\n
Other secondary employment related to immigration enforcement that may be restricted as it relates to immigration enforcement involves law enforcement support and contractual work such as data analysis, legal support, community outreach or advocacy.<\/p>\n
Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers up to the rank of lieutenant, told City News Service that the union did not provide any guidance on the motion.<\/p>\n
He noted many police officers have outside employment or have their own businesses. The department must approve the outside work to ensure there is no conflict of interest and that officers are not overworked and are adequately rested for their LAPD shifts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remain focused on working to keep our neighborhoods safe and won\u2019t be distracted from that mission,\u201d Saggau told CNS in an email. \u201cWe are evaluating any potential impacts from this effort on police officers, but we won\u2019t be distracted from efforts to increase and improve recruiting and retention efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal agencies have offered a range of incentives to hire more personnel to aid with immigration enforcement. Saggau noted that the union has seen \u201czero impacts\u201d to recruiting efforts as federal agencies ramp up their personnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe LAPD provides a much higher pay and benefits package, and the excitement of being part of a long tradition of service that the LAPD is well known for,\u201d Saggau added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles City Council instructed its legal staff Wednesday to prepare an ordinance prohibiting municipal workers and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6283,5375,409,2961,26403,224,5337,8066],"class_list":{"0":"post-270376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-council","11":"tag-enforcement","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-looks","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-work"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115301442145745909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}