Asked the City Manager to direct the Cambridge Police Department, and Human Rights Commission, and local immigrant rights and immigrant-serving organizations to develop and implement policies and protocols to prevent illegal detainment, hold Know Your Rights trainings, and ensure that the City of Cambridge is adequately prepared to respond to and mitigate violations of this nature

How it started

Mar 31, 2025 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Azeem, Councillor McGovern, Mayor Siddiqui, and Councillors Wilson and Nolan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 31, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons

Roll call of Mar 31, 2025 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 31, 2025

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2025-04-07). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.