The ordinance has two components. First, it will require landlords who rent buildings used as detention centers to compensate residents and the city for actual costs incurred as a direct consequence of its tenants' actions. Those costs could include things like police overtime, traffic management, fire and emergency medical responses, and environmental remediation. The collected money will reimburse impacted community members, and the city's general fund.
The report confirms that conditions in California's immigration detention facilities remain troubling, with significant use of solitary confinement and disproportionate force against mentally ill detainees, raising concerns about oversight.
