California's Safe Haven Schools Act

Alameda Unified School District adopted its Safe Haven Resolution in 2017, making an “unequivocal commitment to ensuring a safe educational environment for all” regardless of immigration status.

The state recently passed a similar law, called California’s Safe Haven Schools Act. The Safe Haven Schools Act reflects the importance of upholding schools as safe places for children as families face the danger of sweeping immigration enforcement. The law requires all public schools across the state to do the following:

• School officials and employees must prohibit an officer or employee of an agency conducting immigration enforcement to enter a nonpublic area of a school unless there is a valid judicial warrant, judicial subpoena, or court order.
• Schools cannot disclose or provide any information about a student or that student’s family or household, teachers, or school employees to an officer or employee of an agency conducting immigration enforcement unless there is a valid judicial warrant, judicial subpoena, or court order.

For more information, visit the California Department of Education page on Including Immigrant Families. They also have printable posters available.