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Zuniga, Diana From: Logan Crow < Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2025 3:04 PM To: eComment Subject: Support of item #32 Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana.Use caution when opening attachments or links. Good afternoon, esteemed City Leaders, My name is Logan Crow, and I live and work in the 6th Ward of Santa Ana. Thank you once again for providing these opportunities to hear from the citizens of our shared community. I can only imagine how complex and challenging your roles must be at times like these, and I thank you for shouldering the leadership of our city. I am writing to voice my strong support of item#32 on the Council agenda for today, Tuesday,July 1, 2025. It continues to be deeply alarming to see footage of local residents being pursued and/or captured by individuals who purport to be working as part of immigration enforcement, but who fail to make their identities and authority to act known. Under such practices, members of our community are at risk of being intimidated, harassed, kidnapped, or worse by individuals posing as authority figures in bad faith. Moreover, in situations where such activities are indeed being carried out by legitimate enforcement officers, a lack of proper identification prohibits investigation and litigation should any of these officers act in a manner that exceeds their authority. Allowing officers to proceed without a modicum of transparency about who they are, let alone their authority to conduct such operations, threatens a sense of safety for us all in Santa Ana, lowering our quality of life and our trust in the government to act lawfully and with transparency. Agenda item 32 is in line with actions being taken at the federal level,with the No Secret Police Act, co-authored by our own Congressman Lou Correa, intended to demand more lawful accountability. And our state lawmakers have proposed related legislation with SIB 805 and SIB 627. Should it be a factor in your consideration, please consider that the argument of"protestors wear masks,why shouldn't the police?" is wholly irrelevant. Law enforcement officers are armed agents of the state, sworn to serve and protect, and must be held to a higher standard of transparency and accountability than our general public. An erosion of that trust of transparency and accountability is exactly what the current climate of masked, unidentified officers is causing for our community.This is a matter of rights at their most basic. Please move forward to demand that all law enforcement wear visible identification, and to ban the wearing of masks to conceal officer identities when engaged with our public. Thank you once again for your time and leadership. - Logan Crow 1