Q&A
City's efforts to support immigrant workers
1:38:28
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Council Member Williams asks about the city's efforts to better support immigrant workers and ensure they can secure their rights under the human rights law. Deputy Commissioners JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Katherine Carroll discuss CCHR's strategies.
- CCHR emphasizes education, outreach, and awareness campaigns
- The commission focuses on partnerships with credible community-based organizations
- CCHR is implementing a more robust plan for law enforcement staff to visit community-based organizations
- The goal is to make filing complaints and accessing information more accessible without requiring visits to government offices
Nantasha M. Williams
1:38:28
Just kidding.
1:38:28
In the commission's view, what can the city do to better support immigrant workers and ensure that they can secure their rights under the human rights law?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
1:38:41
Education, education, outreach, awareness, and, I think, increasingly, partnerships with, credible community based organizations.
1:38:50
Right?
1:38:50
Again, we already mentioned and we saw in prior versions of this administration, there's a chilling effect on communications with government from people who, are either, are either, noncitizens or perceived to be noncitizens, or have individuals as such in their families.
1:39:05
So I think repeating the message about what protections are, and reaching people, not waiting for people to come to government, are critical.
Katherine Carroll
1:39:20
I think, additionally, just to, what my colleague mentioned earlier about law enforcement staff going to community based organizations, we are our plan is now, starting a more robust version of that in January.
1:39:34
It's something that we had done previous to COVID and are now rolling out again to make sure that people don't need to come to a government office necessarily to be able to file a complaint or find out information about what their rights might be?
