NO SECRET POLICE: Policy Toolkit

for Local Electeds by Local Progress

Right now agents without badges are showing up at job sites, courthouses, schools, and places of worship to detain our people, and local governments are proving they can either be complicit in that or actively refuse it. This toolkit from Local Progressis a roadmap for the second option, laying out six concrete ways cities and counties can use the power they already hold to protect their communities: cutting surveillance contracts that feed data to ICE, ending agreements that deputize local police as immigration enforcers, keeping public buildings and school grounds closed to federal operations, and requiring any officer on duty to identify themselves by name and badge. Some of these strategies are built specifically for officials organizing under hostile state governments, which matters for those of us doing this work in places that were never going to make it easy. Every priority comes with model language and messaging support already built, because the point of this moment is not just naming what's happening to our communities, it's building the collective power to stop it.