{"id":8351,"date":"2018-10-09T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:17:33","slug":"charter-city-law-protects-locals-when-sanctuary-state-laws-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2018\/10\/09\/charter-city-law-protects-locals-when-sanctuary-state-laws-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter City Law protects locals when Sanctuary State laws conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Gorn, PUBLICCEO]<\/em><\/p>\n

An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that California\u2019s \u201csanctuary state law\u201d conflicts with Huntington Beach\u2019s rights as a charter city, throwing some protections for undocumented immigrants into question in 120 cities throughout the state.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 54 or the California Values Act, authored by state Sen. Kevin de Le\u00f3n, a Los Angeles Democrat who is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, doesn\u2019t actually make California a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Rather, it puts limits on the amount of work state and local government officials can do to expedite ICE enforcement.<\/p>\n

Though many California cities support the law, arguing it makes immigrant communities less afraid to report crimes and promotes trust in local institutions, dozens of other municipalities have adopted resolutions opposing it in principle. Huntington Beach, in coastal Orange County, was the first to take its challenge to court.<\/p>\n

Judge James Crandall did not issue a legal opinion about the case, but granted a writ of mandate, ruling that the state cannot enforce its sanctuary law there, based on Huntington Beach\u2019s status as a charter city.<\/p>\n

Charter cities are organized under their own municipal codes, rather than under the state\u2019s general law. One hundred twenty-one of California\u2019s 482 cities share the designation, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose, San Diego and San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Huntington Beach argued that the state sanctuary law intruded on the city\u2019s local control.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuntington Beach is saying, \u2018If we want to volunteer to go above and beyond to help immigration officials, we should be able to do that.\u2019 Under SB 54 they can\u2019t,\u201d said immigration law expert Jean Reisz at University of Southern California\u2019s Gould School of Law.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the judge\u2019s decision will affect other charter cities, or whether it will inspire more legal opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly could apply to all of them, but this is an injunction to keep the state from enforcing this law against Huntington Beach, not all charter cities,\u201d Reisz said.<\/p>\n

The state Attorney General\u2019s office is expected to appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreserving the safety and constitutional rights of all our people is a statewide imperative which cannot be undermined by contrary local rules,\u201d state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in an email. \u201cWe will continue working to ensure that our values and laws like the California Values Act are upheld throughout our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ruling is separate from the federal lawsuit challenge filed last year by the Department of Justice to the sanctuary laws, which are actually made up of three pieces of legislation. A U.S. District Judge struck down one of the three, pertaining to business owners\u2019 interactions with immigration authorities, but upheld the other two, including SB 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Gorn, PUBLICCEO] An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that California\u2019s \u201csanctuary state law\u201d conflicts with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}