Below are the demands made by PFF Co-President Lawrence Lawson to Campus Leaders exactly as written in the Jan. 28 email.
1: Clarify employee response procedures when unidentified, armed, (and likely masked) folks with guns appear on campus. (While college policy notes employees must not interfere with federal immigration authorities on campus, even if they exceed their SOPs, until these agents are identified by campus police to employees, we must operate under an active shooter protocol and lock down our classrooms.)
2: Clarify employee response procedures between the time of the appearance of masked, armed folks on campus and the identification of those folks as federal immigration agents. (As we've been told, employees cannot decide if warrants are legit or not, so access to our spaces will be denied (rooms locked down) to ensure student and employee safety until campus police identify federal agents. Once federal immigration agents are identified, college policy around interactions with federal immigration agents would go into effect. What we need to know is procedure for the in-between time as it interacts with our active shooter procedures.)
3: Clarify designated response teams and clear points of contact to all students. (The District cannot prioritize student safety, minimize disruption, and ensure accurate internal communication if students don't know this information. Put signs up in all the classrooms with this information.)
4: Be intrusive when following the CCCCO's guidance to ensure student support remains paramount. (Get these resources into students hands as their onboarded with all the other information they receive.)
5: Be direct to students (and employees) with the CCCCO's message that our campuses are places of learning, not enforcement, and students must be reminded that they belong in our classrooms.
6: Expand SB 98 compliance to match CSU San Marcos' notification network which would, like CSUSM, share confirmed immigration enforcement activity within a one-mile radius of Palomar College--instead of only when on campus. (Students at CSUSM should not enjoy more safety and security coming and going to college than students at Palomar College.)
7: Clarify SB 98-based District procedures when federal immigration agents do not interface with Campus Police before coming onto campus. (A lot of the District's SB 98 language starts with identification by Campus Police of federal immigration agents. Let's pull our heads out of the sand and ensure the safety of our students is assured as best we can when federal immigration officials do not follow established policies.)
8: Develop a one-sheet with all the relevant info related to the above and post in all classrooms and workspaces. (Students need to see this information at all times. Employees as well, of course.)
9: Clarify public and private spaces and place "private space" signs on all areas of private space, including classrooms when class is in session.
