SPOKANE, Wash. – Mayor Lisa Brown introduced an interim emergency ordinance prohibiting the use of private property for detention facilities in the City of Spokane.
Her proposed ordinance would restrict private property owners from leasing to the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other entities for detention purposes.
The draft of the ordinance says it aims to “protect the public health and safety of residents by prohibiting the use of private property for detention facilities and eliminating detention facilities as an allowable conditional use” with the exception of as an “Essential Public Facilities process.”…