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Across San Diego County, school district leaders have been bolstering their systems for how to deal with immigration enforcement, spurred by rising arrests in local communities and by new state laws and legal guidance.
After months of escalating enforcement actions, some near local schools, new legislation aims to protect children at school and create plans for what to do if their families are targeted.
By March, school districts across California are supposed to implement new guidance from the attorney general, including by clearly marking non-public areas and codifying a system for refusing access to immigration officers.
So far, progress toward those goals varies. But some local schools have gone further.
In Oceanside Unified, where most students are Latino and about one in every eight students is learning English, leaders have recently begun giving front-office staff at schools much more training in what to do when immigration officers arrive, and how to track such encounters.
“How do you document?” said Jordy Sparks, the district’s executive director of diversity, equity, inclusion and student supports. “What do you record? We have a script that basically front office staff can walk through.”
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