Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee - SBWPC

TRUTH Act Forum
Santa Barbara County

Transparency and accountability in local interactions with ICE. Board of Supervisors

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
**Time: Arrive by 1:30 PM (or even earlier) to get seats in the hearing room and start filling out speaker cards. 511 Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria Zoom attendance available

Learn about local law enforcement’s interactions with federal immigration authorities. Your participation helps ensure transparency and community.
accountability. Ask & request facts.
One year of ICE enforcement in Santa Barbara County. From June 2025 to June 2026, these numbers tell a story of enforcement, resilience, and community response.

The power of community. Following setbacks in state court, the Justice Department is transferring a legal fight over the restart of a California oil pipeline to a federal bench.

The Trump administration notified a federal district court in California late last week that it was shifting venues after a judge on the California Superior Court declined to dissolve her injunction blocking the restart of Sable Offshore’s Santa Ynez pipeline system.

Sable Offshore, which joined the federal government in its removal notice, is in the process of reviving oil production near the Santa Barbara Channel after a 2015 oil spill that shuttered the Santa Ynez Unit for a decade. Source: E&ENEWS
By POLITICO

gutted Defend the black vote.
rights
fight against voter suppression
Fight for equal representation Background: on April 29, 2026 - Louisiana v. Callais (6-3):
Court strikes second majority-Black congressional district as unconstitutional racial gerrymander, sharply narrowing Section 2 [supremecourt.gov full opinion:
https://www.supremecourt.goviopinions/25pof/24-109_2103.pdf). to the south! " —AOC.

We stand with VC Defensa and Immigrant Rights Groups who exercise their first amendment rights to observe and record in public spaces. Source: Spectrum News May 13, 2026 (https://vcdefensa.org/), says a Homeland Security Investigation team raided the Ventura county homes of its volunteers in four separate incidents."

What You Need To Know
*Homeland Security Investigation confirmed a raid on the homes of VC Defensa volunteers the morning of May 13

*VC Defensa says cell phones, computers, were among the items seized in the raid

*Leo Martinez, a VC Defensa volunteer, says his home and place of business was part of the raid

Leo Martinez, one of the volunteers who was raided that morning, alleges the raid was part of an ongoing effort by HSI to intimidate VC Defensa at large because of their field work monitoring ice agents."
—Spectrum News No arrests took place. community