After city lawmakers asked the San Francisco Police Department to come up with a policy to address federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity, the interim police chief has answered one supervisor’s letter of inquiry to the department. But queer District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder stated that interim Police Chief Paul Yep’s answers are woefully inadequate.

“San Francisco can’t call itself a sanctuary city if local law enforcement stands by while ICE operates unchecked in our neighborhoods,” Fielder stated in a news release. “SFPD claims it will intervene in suspected kidnappings but refuses to acknowledge that ICE agents snatching people off the street might warrant the same scrutiny. They dodge responsibility by saying it’s not within their authority to compel purported ICE age

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