Central Unified to use app to alert families of immigration agent sightings at school campuses

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- State and section acquisition leaders are ramping up efforts to support students' rights careless of migration status.

Now, Central Unified is utilizing an app to alert parents astir imaginable migration serviceman sightings connected territory property, schoolhouse campuses, and autobus stops.

Central Unified School District committee members accidental it is simply a mode to assistance support the district's astir 16,000 students successful the classroom.

Operations by Border Patrol agents successful Central California, adjacent earlier President Donald Trump took the Oath of Office successful January, caught the attraction of galore successful the community. That includes Central Unified Board members.

"The effects passim the week were undocumented residents successful Fresno not showing up for work, and immoderate students that should person been successful schoolhouse stayed location due to the fact that those families were acrophobic of being detained connected their mode to school," said Nabil Kherfan, Board Trustee Area 4.

Agents person said their archetypal absorption is radical with transgression ties oregon convictions. But galore interest astir alleged "collateral" detainments.

"The Board requested accusation connected what grooming is being provided to staff, administrators, regulations and Central Unified, what are we doing to support our students and pass families," said Marilyn Lopez, Ed. D., Central Unified Assistant Superintendent.

During its March 11 meeting, the School Board updated the connection successful its Safe Learning For All policy, portion keeping it compliant with national and authorities laws.

All 7 trustees passed the point unanimously.

The updated argumentation includes a caller mode to support families informed.

In the lawsuit of migration agents attempting to participate a Central Unified schoolhouse oregon autobus stop, the District volition usage the Parent Square app to nonstop retired a accelerated effect notification to Central Unified families.

"This volition guarantee that each families successful Central Unified, careless of migration oregon citizenship status, cognize that the safest spot for their children is successful the classroom," said Trustee Kherfan.

On April 2, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond presented a Senate Bill that would grow protections for migrant students. It would bounds the beingness of ICE agents connected schoolhouse campuses.

"This measure does thing to interfere with the enactment that indispensable beryllium done to code immoderate enforcement concerns," said Superintendent Thurmond. "It says intelligibly that a idiosyncratic inactive whitethorn person a judicial warrant if they request to question a idiosyncratic who is simply a concern, and ICE whitethorn bash that."

One idiosyncratic who spoke successful absorption astatine a Senate committee proceeding earlier this week argued the authorities is unnecessary, but supporters judge it is needed aft President Trump rolled backmost a argumentation that prevented migration enforcement successful delicate areas, including schools.

Thurmond says children missing people retired of fearfulness could outgo schools millions of dollars.

"California simply is 1 of the fewer states successful the state that inactive gets its backing based connected mean regular attendance practices, and it is proven that deportation threats suppress attendance successful our schools, which means little gross for our schools," said Superintendent Thurmond. "Our schools person been done truthful much."

During that aforesaid hearing, Fresno Unified School District was successful attendance successful enactment of Senate Bill 48.

Central Unified has not reported immoderate caller sightings of migration officers astatine immoderate of its 26 schoolhouse sites and has not yet issued immoderate notification to parents done the Parents Square app for that purpose.

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