Side Quest: July 6 Know Your Rights & Extended Rapid Response

[chima (Harpreet Chima)]

Update on this from the 2025-09-04 General Meeting Minutes:

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Know Your Rights Focus Campaign Vote

We discussed whether the KYR initiative should be a full focus campaign or a more limited side-quest. The primary concern was a lack of member capacity to fully implement the original focus campaign proposal, such as facility monitoring and rapid response. The general consensus landed on that we do not have the manpower to do this in the right way.

Ultimately, members decided to treat the KYR work as a side-quest for now. The immediate focus will be on distributing already made materials online and via print, and pairing KYR work with tenant outreach. We will revisit this issue next month.

Current status of KYR Work

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Currently Working On

Educational Materials Development

• Completing the design of the trifolds
• Putting the information online
• Providing the flyers to Luis / Solidarity Committee / Papers for All / others and helping them with outreach
• Combining KYR outreach with Tenant Union outreach
• Continuing at least monthly KYR meetings
• Legal Documentation Guides
  • Power of attorney, emergency contacts, childcare plans

Other Parts of Initial Focus Campaign Proposal On Hold

• Educational Materials
  • Recording safety guide
  • Accompaniment guide for appointments
• Rapid Response Alert System
  • Dual-track: Non-Emergency to Valley Watch, active arrests trigger local alerts from us
• Facility Monitoring Program
  • Permanent presence at Stockton ICE facilities
  • Help families navigate detainee locator system
  • Record check-in information and emergency contacts
  • Minimum two-person teams during facility hours
  • Volunteers should expect identification by authorities
• Legal Documentation Support
  • Notary services at in-person sessions
• Community Outreach
  • Network building through vendors, churches, schools, parent groups
• Community Safety Patrols
  • Presence at grocery stores, schools, community gathering places
  • Confirm absence of ICE, provide reassurance
  • Regular shifts at high-traffic locations
    • (On hold because without RR number, we do not have the contacts to promote this)

Currently, we have the following completed:

Document 1 (Google Doc) - English/Spanish

• If ICE comes to your home
• If ICE approaches you in public
• If ICE comes to your work
• Documents to keep on you while in public
• If ICE pulls you over while driving

Document 2 (Google Doc) - English Only

• If your loved one is detained by ICE
• Recording an ICE arrest + Video Script
• Information for Businesses + Employers if ICE raids
• Family Preparedness Planning
• How local and state law enforcement can work “with” ICE

While we wait for @chima to get everything online … we can still prepare the following. If ICE does ramp up activity in San Joaquin County, it would be good if we had onboarding together so it is easier to plug people into our Rapid Response system / safely interact with ICE.

This will most likely require a working meeting, just to talk through what kind(s) of onboard we think we will need. But if you have thoughts / resources from other RR systems, leave them below or in this Google Doc.

If you would like to work on the above, please fill out this Rallly link: Rallly.WCU. We’re aiming to meet sometime between Sept 15 - 21.