001I do consider I do consider them good luck but okay I am going to share a document with y'all. Sure. Okay. Through email or G or or drive just so I know where to look. email um okay let's see um what I'm going to share is um an Excel sheet spreadsheet um that outlines all of the action items tied to immigration for us to go through action items in this district or in the in the whole world. No. Uh in this district and we like we can go through um and identify and so you know one if they're contested items that's fine that's why they're here. Um but the other is a means to kind of chart um as a means to chart our progress where we are on those or where we need to
002be on those um so that we have some clear communication and I'm and that can also be done um um um and so this This is pulled from This is pulled from Liz, we've been chair, but it's been pulled from our policy 4,300. It's been pulled from um other policies and resolutions, by other districts, by uh ACLU, by other sites within there. It's just kind of a wonky share issue. Um and basically what I did is I made different tabs. I utilized uh a format that will look familiar to you. Um and each tab has a particular constellation of those elements. Okay. Um, thank you for doing this. Take a fair back and fairies were running. I I was the first of the last one to be left behind on the Tacoma boat that I
003was I was trying when that happened. And I was so hoping they could squeeze me in somewhere because the man said Kia Rio. Look, it's a small car. Oh, please don't say that. I confronted the a line cutter today. Yeah. And they were they resisted all the way in front broke in front of me and they resisted the people behind me and then I talked to him at the get ticket thing and I talked to my eventually we got him out of there. Good work. That was so satisfying. Not today. Not sh Okay. So I have on this piece I see Juniper and Jess on here. I have notes that go with each of these, but I wanted to just give us an action item. It's very easy to kind of fill some of these
004things in, but I don't want to do it where there are items that are contested, right? So that we can go through that. And so basically with the tabs, um, signs and doors, trainings, policy implementation in terms of which policies we've passed, etc., communication materials and procedures. The privacy and f family contacts tab is about um making sure that we are where we need to be in terms of ensuring that all families have two contacts um universally which is what the recommended procedure is. So that um we're not getting um because one of the points of vulnerability is that a lot of families who are in kind of a vulnerable status point might put a contact as another family that is also in a vulnerable status point. And so um one of the recommendations is
005as a school policy to ask for two points of emergency contact. They they for everyone they do that and have done that since I started teaching. It doesn't mean it always happens. So, we may want to check it. And you can't force somebody to say not this person, you should list this person. Yes. Yeah. But it if I think that'd be an easy one for the registars to check, do they have two contacts? And the community, I'm sorry, the community have been working like the who can you leave who can the kids can who could the kids go or uh who will be the point person and the There's Yeah. And that's marrying getting married. Yes. And all I want to do is put the kind of notes in here where they are or where
006do we need to follow up because some of these things we do have policies for but that doesn't mean that the action step has been taken. And so so for instance the obvious one would be just to have the registar school check and flip through and see if everybody has two contacts. So, one thing I want to say is that I had a conversation with an immigration rights attorney and then I followed that up with a pretty decent conversation with Slade. I'm really bummed that he's not here because I think there's a lot of things that are invisible to us appropriately or not that are squarely in the superintendent's domain. And I want to make sure that we are being clear about what's ours and what's not ours. Um, and I do have some lengthy
007notes that I'm at this time not willing to share electronically, but I'm willing I will read them to y'all at some point before we're done here tonight. And I could some of this may take care of a lot of this for what it's worth. Okay. And that, you know, and and part of it is that we have a policy which is a directive and different school boards. And so part of it is simply updating and making sure there's an update process. So possibly this becomes an update mechanism. Maybe it doesn't. But another one um so that we we have that knowledge. But also I know one of the things is that you know last week an email went out to the community but that um community members have expressed a a lack of knowledge on
008some of these. So are there ways to communicate that? So not that they haven't been done um but is the community aware of it. So but I would counter that the community is not necessarily our primary customer here that our primary responsibility is not to make sure that the activists know what's going on. It's to keep kids and families safe. And those two things are are going to sometimes be at odds. that the transparency or the urgency with which some activists are looking for something is not an appropriate ask because it does not meet the directive in which case certain things need to be kept quiet and invisible to the general public. So it is not always going to be those people well-meaning. I had a long conversation with a couple of them the other
009day. They are not our primary customer. I just want to make sure that that's like they their sense of urgency and frustration that they haven't seen evidence doesn't mean those things aren't happening in the background. Well, I think it I mean a way to move through it is to identify these pieces. and so we can identify the piece. I think um I guess my feeling would be a yes a yes and because we are all either appointed or elected for the public trust and it's a public school and we're representing the community and so I do feel um an obligation there and there's a clear line with certain pieces So why don't we see where there's sites of friction? Because the other piece like I know one of the things I heard is that the
010you know that the letter that you sent out in terms of the board and stance on trans for a lot of people what has been articulated to me is there was more communication there in terms of supporting trans students than the feeling um about clear communication from the board about immigration. And I and I'm not saying that's right and I'm not saying it's accurate and I'm not saying any of that, but I I do want to find where we can communicate and we might disagree. He's going to communicate midweek next week for what it's worth and I will again at some point update you on what I believe we're going to hear from you next week. So um River So will you take us through um the tabs then? Yeah. So the signs and doors
011um there are um signs posted at the main door. Um there is um in terms of recommendation with different policies to post at the entrance to school grounds um for parking lots and um looking at all entrances can agree disagree on those pieces in terms of what's recommended but I wanted to be able to talk about that. There's also in terms of all we have right now is a temporary signage which is fine. We have signage up. That's great. Um ideally we will um you know put in at the bottom identify on there um specific areas. Uh so not just school buildings but school campuses and grounds um and buses um which has been a point of vulnerability. I don't know. So should we discuss um this is my recommendation. Okay, that we take number
012two of the signage I mean of the policy 4300 and use it because that at least in my records and my recollection that was part of the signage that we talked about when we I believe you were at that meeting. I was at that meeting. Molly was at meeting and slave. Now, um, for graphic sake and readability, that may have to go in smaller letters because if you put all of that down in big letters, um, you're not I mean, the biggest thing is stop at the door, sign in, and then you could put number two. You know, I I take issue with sign in. That suggests you are welcome to come. But well, what? Yeah, but whatever it is, the signage question is also with the immigration attorney right now. Okay, good. Passed that
013along to him. I gave him some language that I believe actually came from him that I got through Molly and then I passed it back to him. He said the primary issue on this front with the signs is the fourth amendment, unreasonable search and seizure. Seizure. If people in the in the process of activating an immigration enforcement action, push through someone's Fourth Amendment rights, anything that they find, discover a human that they're trying to go after, that will largely be invalidated in court because they they violated someone's fourth amendment rights. That is in fact all that needs to be on a sign. He is working on the language. He says ICE does not care about keep Washington working. That is not something that matters to anybody to hold up in court. It's about trespassing and
014un unreasonable search and seizure. The follow-up piece of that is that because of a foyer request, a Freedom of Information Act request, there are immigration organizations that support immigrants that have seen the playbook for ICE rues. And I have that a roof is a lie that they are using. So it's what they used in um at the LA Unified School District recently when they tried to say that they were doing a wellness check on a student. That was a lie. Luckily the people in LA knew that and they said you cannot come in here. So but there's a whole playbook of all the different lies that they are explicitly taught in their trainings. So, what we are saying is we need the clearest, simplest language on the signs that says you cannot come in here
015and anything beyond that, whatever lie they tell to try and get in the building, the answer is consistently just has to be no. I expect to see that language. I thought I would have it in time for this meeting, but I haven't seen. Okay. So, so the lawyer is going to immigration. Yeah, he's going to send you the language and nothing to do with the RW um what keep nothing I'm not a lawyer. This is what he says. ICE is a federal program. Keep Washington working is a state program. Federal does not have to abide by state on any means. Keep Washington working will not apply to ICE. Federal always trumps state. So, well, that's not 100% true. Well, but but that's why you use the Fourth Amendment. It is why you use the Fourth
016Amendment because if they find something or find someone and it turns out that they trampled on someone's Fourth Amendment and Fourth Amendment is for anybody that is here, regardless of their documentation status. Those apply to everybody. Yeah, I do. I mean even the department of the state superintendent for education um in know has been one of the things that has been a hurdle so not necessarily a barrier but a hurdle has been the keep Washington working act so it's not to me irrelevant having the fourth amendment piece is there is um critical I mean one of the things right now because they don't seem to be interested in any loss, right? And not even returning people that the courts are telling them to return. But see what happens. I I don't see it as is
017irrelevant because the state school superintendent is also saying this is what we're using as a hurdle, as a barrier, as a slow down mechanism. So on sign posted on main door, it's done. Um what is the where is the issue of signage? Um so right now I could potentially come all the way up to the door without without seeing any sign. They can come in the schools right now. They can come into the schools. Well, real realistically, the only place they can't come into this school is Chiaka, right? Because it's the only place that you can see the outside, right? Um, and until our doors and locks come in, and God knows what if that's on a tariff issue. Um, it's still going to be really Yeah, it's supposed to be said. Okay. So, Could
018I just reiterate what I'm hearing? Yes. I'm hearing that there are two different um concerns about the signage that is posted. One is a recommendation that's going to come from an immigration attorney regarding Fourth Amendment rights. Correct. Correct. So that would be one of the possibles, right? Yes. I mean if if Right. We all agree none of us are immigration attorneys. Slate is not an immigration attorney. I think we follow best advice which would be an immigration attorney. Right. I would assume so. So what is will be recommended by will be an immigration m attorney. And then the other question is um do we add more language than than what is recommended by the immigration attorney? Right. That's also not our decision. No, it isn't our decision. And one thing that was cautioned to me
019by just a constituent was using words like immigration or anything should absolutely not be included on any sign. It's upsetting to children. I don't think that's been recommended anywhere. Well, here it says vashon school. tell direct at the bottom of this chunk it says immigration enforcement including federal immigration authority that language does include that but that's not for the sign that's that's um that's tied to the process so the vetted language is about the sign so where it says vetted language and you're saying are you talking about this is this is additional um this is additional information so let me just put that there um okay I wasn't here with the bottom two. Okay. Paragraph information. So, this is the kind of current vetted language what I just highlighted. Um, and the difference between it
020and the temporary sign is that it identifies the campuses, grounds, and buses as well as the buildings. I don't see any reason. I think we can if the fourth amendment is there. I also be curious OSPI and others, does it behoove us to still have the RCW 1093 160 as well? And can we is this is this someone that's been hired by the district now or that we're paying or No, he is retired and he said because of his retirement status he actually would prefer to not take any money because it would mess up his retirement. Um I am I'm waiting to see the sign language from him and because um Slate is out of district today and I think actually tomorrow I want to do an a timely email introduction and connect the two
021of them. He said he would be willing to be a resource to the district. It seems like proono. So, so then if that is uh so the language under consideration may be new language as well and that's fine I think um so he will give you that language and do you have access to him and ask him things you know because my my question will be if the grounds are considered campus yeah campus right the campus um how We're going to do it with the bosses. Do they carry a sign in the window before you know the I'm not sure that we would get to decide that because of it's a separate company. So I don't know. Yeah. But can we because I'm just saying this because police officers just go on the buses without
022even asking. So if that and that triggers some kids's nervous system. Sure. So I think that's a separate that's a separate matter, right? The reality is what this man also said to me is that ICE has has very clear quotas out of their office. It's like some obscene per officer. It's 15 arrests a day, 1,500 per office in a month. I don't know how the math works out on that, but whatever. It is highly unlikely, not zero, but highly unlikely that fashion is even a target. Does it mean we don't do anything? Absolutely not. But for ICE officers to spend their time coming out to Vashon in search of two people, if they were to encounter, let's say it's you, and you're with your children, then they have to call DSHS to come manage your
023children and they've spent their whole day in service of trying to track down two people. It's not worth it for them. These people have these disgusting quotas and that's the reality. It doesn't mean they're not going to try it, but our our island in terms of our vulnerability and us as a target in his opinion as a 40, 50year immigration attorney, it's just not that likely. Again, I'm not saying we don't do anything by all means, but like the chance that an ICE officer is going to get on a bus, I think that chance is like pretty close to zero. We have ICE people coming into the island already like they have been alerts already that they are here. Is this from the last Trump administration? Nope. No, no, no. From here from like yesterday,
024last night and this morning like somebody was trying to send someone to change like they are coming into the island. Uh and what I read also that uh the administration is trying to give a lesson to blue states and uh uh you know this our kind of communities could be targeted because they want to teach a lesson because we are uh so how you I'm curious because I'm on the wise and rapid response email but it wasn't can I bring back action I think a bigger point is I mean and I do there's there's an explicit stated intent to target blue states. I come to Basham and it doesn't even if it is a 1% chance all I care about is that we're doing our due diligence and it would be great if we never
025have to encounter anything but if on the off chance we do have we done our due diligence um and within that these are the recommendations my sense is and you might have updates from Slate on some of these pieces um I put in there the date to be completed for the secure building interest is made. Um, in terms of uh recommended by or the person for followup, it seems like right now this would all be slayed. In terms of followup, I know Stephanie will be spearheading along with tech the secure building frameworks. Um, are there any other concerns about the signs? Is this are we missing something? Are we It's my understanding that there's hesitance to put signs at the entrance to the school grounds because we have open trails to the public that have
026always been open trails to the public and being the heritage of this island, we don't want to cut off those trails. Um whereas the schools we can protect, the trails in the area around it are kind of a different animal. Um, I would be interested in seeing what agreement we have with parks district simply as as something to look into because we do have we do have agreements with them. I I hadn't thought about that until just this second. Um, so we probably I'm just thinking I've got buses question, parks district question. Who's if we're taking these notes, who's going to follow who's going to own who's going to be the mocha of going to own these things and find out? I think they go through slave. I think they go through slave. Um I
027mean, I can do it just because I'm retired and I'd be happy to. So that that's a specific question. So on buses, how how is that handled? Is there anything about parks district and trails? Um, regarding the signs. Okay. Anything else? Um, my sense with the grounds, just to get at your pee, is right now it says the better language is limited to students, fam, their families, staff, and invitees. Um, it doesn't it doesn't to me cut that off. And as a campus, it actually from a safety thing when I think of all kinds of other issues actually outside of immigration, these trails because the kids are on them, the kids like the McMurray kids do mountain biking on the trails, things like that. So, they're utilized for their classes and science experiments and things
028like that. Um, I know I walked my pup there. So posting something um to me doesn't feel that that feels like a marker of safety and it has a filter on it so that others can access it. I don't I honestly don't know because it it generally has I sort of always think of those woods are available to whomever wants to come whatever on them. Um, and I don't woods have anything to do with parks because I always think of the area that like the pool is an issue because the pool is technically owned by the school. The land is owned by the school chair district. The skate park is owned by the school district. Yes. Yes. Har school is owned by the the school district. the the and the fields in you know the
029fields for harbor school I think they're also the fields are owned but there are um but there are there are agreements with the park district on a lot of area that we own. So I'm just saying that's somebody that should be somebody should look into that. I mean, I would imagine the agreements involve it's theirs to manage. Yeah. Yes. And no. And that also is in like when they came and talked about whatever the the pickle ball situation they were going to do at the I don't think you weren't yet on the board. You were here. I think the the parks. Let's not go down this. Yeah. Let's not go down this road. I'll find out. We have trainings. Um the reason that I broke this down and again we don't have to agree is
030that um what was brought to my attention by um several of the educators in our district is that when they're talking about doing an all staff training um that that doesn't mean both certified and classified. So our for example our paras aren't part of um the quote unquote all staff training. our recess monitors are part of the all staff training. Um so that that all all staff meetings there's a distinction between certified and classified. Um and so right now um my understanding and I wanted to kind of put these dates in but I want to make sure my understanding is clear which is why I left this blank. I have not a page of notes but district leadership has been through the training building leadership frontline staff um for educators there's a there's a distinction
031there my understanding is that family link has requested training um that they have not had it and this part of this meeting is because it's misinformation miscommunication um but looking at this and and what is what is our situation again like this is back to the buses where we have contract employees andor volunteers who are going to be here um right now for example um and again may never happen but I don't know if you heard about ICE getting on the trains and walking through the trains in Montana and walking through the trains and that they have approached some buses and other places of transportation so so if it's a contract relationship what legally needs to happen there or what ideally needs to happen there or should andor there conversations happening there. Okay. So you're
032let me just I because I guess I'll be doing a lot of this. Um I want to just reiterate so I know I I'm hearing this correctly. What your question is is if it is a contract relationship with the district, right? um what do you want to know specifically? So um and this would be a question for for Slade in terms of trainings that that's a real point of vulnerability for kids um and getting on the buses and going going home. And so if in that period of time they are still under the district umbrella, right? If they are still considered part of that umbrella as long as they're on the buses, then can we or how can we include trainings for those drivers? If not, maybe it doesn't extend that far. But I also
033think um I just think it needs to be an intentional decision. Well, it certainly is a is a good question. We're going to train family link. That needs to just be changed. believe so that student can get straight to I know that the trainings have rolled out um at various ca like the training for shitakqua only happened yesterday. So the the trainings are rolling out though perhaps not at a cadence or with a sense of urgency that some people would like. Um, I'm assuming there's one on deck for links, but I I don't know. I'm just saying that because they've happened at the high school in McMurray and only yesterday happened at Shitakqua, it states to reason that the the other ones are forthcoming, but I I don't know that for sure. just noting the
034roll out has has been on a schedule that has not been made clear to us right whether or not who can but I I just want to yeah I just want to kind of rephrase that that the training happens how as fast as people want it instead of that I would like to hear that you know trainings haven't hadn't had haven't happen as urgent as it's needed. It's needed. It's not that people want it. It's not that people is pushing it. It's because we need it. So here's we I I just May I tell you? Yes. In my conversation with him yesterday, and I quoted this as closely as I could, every building leader has to be on the same page. The system doesn't support this kind of rapid turnaround, but when it moves, it
035moves steadily, not jurgly. we can't be as responsive as folks would like. So, I'm just naming that this is a multi-pronged district. Yes, we only have four buildings, but still it's x number of staff, you know, 1,400 students. It can't happen sometimes as as urgently or as quickly as as many of us would like. It doesn't mean things aren't happening. There was supposed to be what they call a tabletop scenario with building leaders. Not no wasn't that it was supposed to happen, but it couldn't happen this week because they were all in bargaining and there are limitations around when trainings can happen. It has to happen during school hours. They cannot call extra time for any of these things. So, they are happening and a lot of that also is again some of those things
036are invisible to us. We don't know when staff meetings are. We don't know when these other things are. They're they can't just call an emergency meeting. That violates the the bargaining agreements. So, they are happening and I know there is a sense of urgency from many corners and it isn't that the urgency isn't um heard or um or or that is being ignored. Things are moving. And I said, "Well, could you be a little more transparent about communicating them?" happy and but you know I'm sorry drawing too much attention to what is happening on behalf of vulnerable students does not necessarily make them less vulnerable. It doesn't. No. But when you can print a paper and post it the next day when we talk about this meeting in at the beginning of at the beginning
037of March I think and the poster comes two months later. I mean I just feel that we need to see this with urgency when you can do steps that are so simple that you could you know go towards the goal and nothing is been done. I mean, of course, how just you just be I don't know. Like I I I care so much and I worry so much and I know so many people that are at risk and we it is urgent and um and there's steps that you can do with urgency, but it's not been done. Well, then are we holding his hand to the fire in our weekly meetings? Are you asking him every time you meet, where's the sign? Why isn't the sign up yet? Or like is that happening in your
038meetings? Last Thursday and then it Martha can attest. I was like this and it was and I was told well we don't have the doors we don't and I was like temporary laminate up. So yes and then it went up. But that's what I'm saying for two months did we hold him accountable to that. And if we're not holding accountable then that's that's on us, right? I think we have to push for what we want to happen and come up with temporary solutions sometimes and that's what this meeting is about meeting is to identify and I can promise we can't go back and fix two months. All we can do is moving forward. Yeah. I promise you that if we get a list of things that you want as a group for me to bird
039dog slate on, I will do it every other day. I mean, you know, I I do follow through and I always follow through. So, but that can't just be you. It does need to be a majority of this board. Well, it it could be in the name of the board. You guys have jobs. Okay. You know, well, here I mean, here's here's there is supposed to be a comprehensive update coming after they do their tabletop. It's a particular style of training that's happening next week. And after that, there will be a community communication with a status update of what has been done to date and what is on the near horizon. That is what I asked for yesterday. Good. Great. Good. And again, that to me is is why we're having this meeting to identify
040because our conversations keep going off in a lot of different directions and understandably, but here in terms of the training updates, I think it is very if this is a format that works for y'all um date to be completed um or when it you know when it has been completed updates on that there's also a place there for notes. So if you know there are you've got a bargaining meeting, you have other things. So this you know when but when it can happen I think is it is important to be communicating that right now. And so if this was put on drive, right, and and shared with Slade Exactly. then he could go in and update every time an action happens that he thinks we can legally see. There are going to be things we
041can't see. They're going to be things that are confidential or that should not be discussed. I'm sure this has not been shared with him. No, not just shared with y'all as a kind of working document to like let's, you know, for the work session and then if there's thing, you know, can knock some stuff off or add. Um, the other piece is we had the letter come slate to the community last week, right? Is there a letter that goes from the board to the community or not? That's to me something we can identify. or do we are you're saying I think Jennifer that he's intending to send another letter to the community midweek next week midweek next week. Um do we I feel like we asked for this and it's been happening and that's great
042but do we want to ask for an every other week brief update if anything has changed to the community anything like that? I don't anticipate once these things are set once they are completed I don't imagine that continuing once the trainings are completed once the signs up once all of these pieces and and I don't think it extends beyond that so I don't see this in you know ongoing forever but I do think it's worth thinking about I'm going to click to policy implementation we did pass the policy um there are for some people kind of safe zone resolution s um the annual communication that needs to happen I think in the current landscape I mean that's that's a long in the current landscape even us just knowing okay that annual communication is going to
043take place in the fall it is going to take place at the start of the school year something to that effect but for a lot of these guidelines um we have a legal mandate to to communicate. So I I guess what I'm my cur curiosity here then is is it an annual um update to us and and the public um and are you talking about an annual consideration policy for 300? Um because we did update it in January. And what about safe uh zones? I know that there was some outdated language on that safe zone. I couldn't tell from from the posting when that what uh on your safe zone resolution when that was written. Um and also we did roll back state language to 2020. Correct. Just on what on on um some of
044the non-discrimination um language last week, right? So that's a separate subject. But safe zones is not I don't actually know what that you're talking about with the safe zone stuff. Um go ahead and see. Maybe I'm in the I'm thinking the wrong thing. I'm thinking about when I was a teacher. Um there was oh you're thinking this is a different safe zone pieces. You're thinking from an educator standpoint you're thinking about safe zones that applied in terms of queer students or any bullying any discrimination of any kind. This is talking about um the kind of contested arena in the current landscape of what is and is not considered a a safe space, right? the that churches and schools and other places used to be identified as safe zones up until this administration. It was a
045different language, but yeah, I see what you're talking and so um there are districts that have been passing safe zone resolutions. Now, do they have legal teeth? That's that's a different question. Um and but I think it's incumbent on us to look at the legal teeth they do or don't have and um and there are districts passing them strategically in the sense of building up coordinated and collaborative efforts um across the board as a sense of standing which gives a little bit of heft here, you know, like x number of districts have have passed this or doing this where people are standing in regard to that. So there are public schools. These are all public schools. Yeah. So K through 12, right? So, so people, so there are um a lot of organizations calling for
046the passing of these resolution because it helps communicate the number of individuals who are standing behind the desire to maintain schools as a safe space, to maintain churches as a safe space. Is that something that we want at this point? I for me it goes on the sort of secondary back burner to the the immediate training and everything else. Um because to I mean it's it's a nice idea and I I like the sentiment but it's not something to me that's pressing for this this week or next week. Um because frankly I don't think it'll make much difference legally. Um, and uh, I want to make sure that we button down everything that we are legally required or that we want to legally be required to do. Make sure we've done it so that make
047sure the kids are safe. And then the cushy here we stand. Here we stand stuff afterwards. Yeah, that's right where I'm at. Not that we don't want to do it, just that the priority is keeping the kids taken always. Okay, I'm going to I'm actually going to jump on back to the communication materials and um procedures. I put weekly update to the community. I don't think it needs to be there by monthly, whatever. Um but I do um I do think that to the degree that we can be transparent and yes there are things that we can't communicate that I think I think that's why so much of the community is showing up right that people want to know they want to understand they want to they want a a sense and it can be
048you know can be a bullet pointed thing. I I would like to see us maybe through the end of the school year send out say every two weeks a minor update and once maybe all of these things are in place maybe that you mean specifically about immigration or are you talking about all of the federal actions that affect in broadstroke broadstrokes federal actions that pertain to education because I am disincclined to send something that is specifically about immigration. And I think it can be fine if it is for all the executive orders impact. I mean, right now we have an order that's come out this week that will impact us in terms of education. I think that's fine. You saw the thing that slain forwarded earlier from OSPI that covers all of it, right? It's
049DEI, federal funding, transgender and gender expansive students, US like it. It's the highlights so to speak. Um, and that comes I think it sends out they send that out weekly and we already had Slate include updates on what's going on currently in the country as part of our bi-weekly essentially board meetings. So perhaps we could request that he also include in that what we're specifically doing in regards to immigration protection as part of that update. So, it's all together rather than singling out the immigration topic. Does that make sense? Yeah. Are you you're talking about the bi-weekly making sense to us or you talking about No, our we advocated and we added a portion into our regular board meetings. Are you supposed to update us on what's going on? So, maybe we just simply request
050that we also want to know where we are into immigration as part of that update. So, it's all a bulk of what's going on in the world and how we're reacting to it. And so so that he knows that we are we're here, we're listening, we're doing this. So and that would go into the superintendent's report public session. It's basically once a month. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is just once a month. Is it just once? Once a month. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's like every other week effectively is a work session and then the other two weeks later is a regular board meeting. It's just been half my life here these days. I know. So I'm okay with it. Can I the So, those are the bi-weekly, those are the updates to the board
051and then you're talking about it happening in a board meeting to the public. I think in a superintendent report. Yeah. Right. In the superintendent report. Um, last week he sent out something to the public. So, you mentioned this now a few times. Can someone point me to what where I should be finding that? I just was trying to The only thing I could find was the um and I don't want to rabbit hole in that. I'm just The only thing I could find is the And it's 521, y'all. We are Alexander um because not everyone comes to the board meeting, not everyone is going to tune in to it to the board meeting. Um the updates he's giving us are phenomenal in terms of what's going on with all of the executive orders. That's been
052really grounding legislature. And I guess what I'm thinking is there, you know, one act of translation that might highlight a couple of the executive order pieces for the general public sent out. I don't know if it's parent square. I don't know if I feel like No, I think that's too much work. It's too much. And if people are not paying attention to board meetings and they're not watching, we make them available online to watch at people's leisure. I don't think pushing stuff to parent square or whatever else on any other cadence. I think again I think there's times where we're causing we're asking for someone to do more work than is necessary and focusing more of a laser pointer on a vulnerable population when we should be absolutely doing everything we can to not to
053avoid doing that. So, I want to make sure we're not causing undue communication. If if the information is out there, people should know how to find it. Like, like we I don't I don't know how much more communication other than encouraging him to be as explicit and clear within the bounds of safety in what he sends next week. I don't think a regular cadence of that is necessary. Personally, I I'm inclined to agree simply because for one thing, just being realistic. Um, we are in bargainings with four unions looking for an interim superintendent. He's doing something. I mean, bargaining itself is a heck of a job. And that's the superintendent's job. These are all full-time jobs. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to add one more piece. Um because we could just add it to the
054update in the I mean just stress what you already stressed in the update. I'm I'm I'm with Zuma on that one. I just think it's impractical. Okay. So is is what he is planning to send midweek next week identifying the trainings identifying the kind of if you want to add definitely and his email was sent out on April the 7th if we're one of them um so that would be twice a month right he sent out an update which is great so oh that one so that didn't go wide that went only in response to people who wrote in. No, it went wide. He says, "This is a copy of what I sent to all the staff." Oh, sorry. Right. Sorry. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Sorry. That was the best copy I had. One more
055try. That was the best copy I could find. No, it's great. Thank you. Okay. If it addresses these elements, then I guess to me um what I'm hearing is I guess uh that maybe instead of doing a regular that if I'm hearing a lot of queries for information for this or that then maybe we'll then we'll do a request but we can leave it as as is and those queries can be on the phone calls that we have too because that's one of the purposes of our phone call with Slade is to make sure that he's knowing what we're hearing in the community as well. Um we've only got six minutes. Okay. um website update with clarity. I know that this is a contentious site. Legally, we are required to have a contact person on
056there. Um it's Slate. It says on the website it's Slate. A bilingual contact. He's by Islaw. It has to be bilingual for sure. Yeah. I'm I'm pretty sure he's bilingual in Spanish. Have you talked to him in Spanish? He speaks Spanish but I can help. He can be okay. It cannot be um our community on No no no no. Yes she has naturally we need help for her. We cannot um Okay. Um in terms of publication of pol policies and distributions we are supposed to do that legally. We can kind of come back. I'm just going to go through that come back. Um the this is what I would love an update in in terms of slave may have it in terms of the emergency contact list updated. Um where that stands um and so
057it may be practice at the start of the year to get those two contacts, but I do think that we're in a position of kind of doing due diligence. I know you're working with individuals to get more than one contact there. Um but kind of reviewing that. Um but I mean this is I think it will be great for all students, right? Like just make sure that I mean you have to have some for me I remember someone out somebody Yeah. I so I had you know I listed someone out of state and that was required in my contact list because if there's a big earthquake right on Bashan listing you know my husband it doesn't do anybody a lick of good I remember having to dig really hard to figure out who I was
058going to come up with for contacts. Okay. So I I'll put that in in as well. Okay. Um, but I do want to be conscious as to the um three minutes actual effort that it's going to take to go through all the current contracts and make sure that we have multiples. It's I mean it's part of their practice on onboarding a new student. Now are they updated? No. No. And I don't request that's not a reasonable request. Sure. Yeah. That is not a reasonable request. Uh what is a could be a reasonable request is someone uh who volunteers to sit down and just check see if there's two contacts. Absolutely not. That's a violation of privacy and well if it is a person who is vetted in the district and I don't think anybody has
059time an email to family saying if you haven't updated your contacts in a long time zero mention of any reason why but People move, people die. Okay, that's absolutely. So that should be that's perfectly once a year. As part of just an all welcome out of school, by the way, go upate your personal contact. Okay. So that's once a year, I think. So I think I mean they they No one has ever asked me and I'm sure half the things on mine are wrong. Not half, but some of them. Okay. Um, thanks. That's nuts. So, legal and community leaison we can come back to. Is there more you wanted to share from your conversation with Slade in the two minutes we have left? Let's see. [Music] Um, training signs. Oh, you definitely said we should
060have an immigration attorney on speed dial, not just general counsel. He's going to be that person perhaps. Um, was he on? Yeah. Slate is in regular contact the local King County Sheriff's Office local captain. They are prepared to come support overall state safety as explicitly said by anyone that cares to hear. They are not going to enforce immigration action. They are absolutely not going to do that. Um, practice who was sheriff said that. Okay. Yeah. I mean there's probably That's very clear. Mhm. Um, someone in another part of the state did participate and boy did they have their handed to them. Yeah, they did. Um, they're practicing uh scenarios with building leaders using a method called tabletop exercises. I can send you a link to what that looks like. They are doing the hold standard
061response protocol applies to immigration or any law enforcement action and activity. Um uh first or second week of May, the security of the doors is going to be complete. A lot of that has to do with stuff getting stuck at the border. There's nothing we can do about that. Things are stuck in customs or wherever it is they're stuck. Um uh um I've got the list of of ruses or lies if anybody wants to see that. It's bananas. Um yeah. Okay, River. This is really nice to have this laid out like this. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. Is there do you know if those ruses are being distributed as part of the training for whom? For all staff and it be it would be No, it's a heavy read. I mean it's like
062a I don't even think I think I shared it with slate yesterday. I don't think that's a widely known thing. I think it mostly came to light. I think it had already been foyed, but I think it came to light because of the LA the attempted uh immigration enforcement in LA. Yeah, it's time to go for drills. Drills. Drills. What about drills? So, the tabletop exercises are what they are using, which is a standard protocol in education. They're trying to keep the the people's nervous systems in check and not traumatize them. So, this is a proven method. I'm not endorsing it. I'm not not endorsing it. I'm just telling you I can send you a link to what tabletop exercises are like and then you do an afteraction debrief. That is the standard protocol in
063most schools is to use this tabletop exercise. Uh-huh. I hope they So, they're not doing my understanding of what they did with the rapid response training where someone is out there banging on the door and everyone's yelling. They are not going to ever do that here. It is terrible. It is traumatic to people and upsetting to them and makes them believe they will not be able to hi. Hi. Where's the reply? It freaks people out more than it prepares people to to act. Yes. I would be dead against that. I think I mean we don't need papers on I my the piece I do think about that though is learning things when you're under pressure because that's the kind of situation you're the response is pretty basic right now right is I'm going to call
064the superintendent y just say no one call the superintendent if you have a question you just call the superintendent someone is telling you a story say I'm so sorry I've been told to ask you to stand there I don't want to lose my job they can make the superintendent or the school board the bad guy. No, we're just going to walk away. This this meeting is adjourned. Okay. Thank you, YouTube. Thank you, River. This is this has got a real solidity to what we need we ought to look at. Thank you. Yeah. Uh those areas we we'll share in the other videos.