2025-07-16 10:41

Fixed a typo and added language around email verification


New petition description:

City Leaders, InLeaders, In November of 2024, the Mayor of Northampton along with the Chief of Police and the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement confirming the City’s commitment to sanctuary. Muchsanctuary. Much has happened in the past eight months, both in our nation and in our local community. Masked federal agents are conducting enforcement activities nearby and at home.  Ithome.  It is time to make an update to this statement with clear and actionable policies that our sanctuary city will take to keep our community members, including our children, safe.

Northampton schools must remain a place of safety for all children irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or place of birth. Thebirth. The Mayor and Superintendents of the Northampton Public Schools and Smith Vocational Schools need to release statements in English and Spanish stating that: that: 

• We will actively not cooperate with any federal action that harms children in our care;
• We have instructed local law enforcement to not allow such actions to happen or assist in such actions in any public building that houses children, including school buildings, or to any student of either of the Northampton public school systems; systems; 
• We have created a safety plan within the school systems that includes a process to shelter children in non-public spaces and to activate a predetermined legal response.

 Thank Thank you,Northampton Community Members  And QuaveryMembers  And Quavery Rothenberg, Current and Candidate for Ward 3 City CouncilorAce Tayloe, Candidate for Ward 3 City CouncilorMichele Ronco, Candidate for Ward 1 City CouncilorAlena Bartoli, Candidate for Ward 1 School CommitteeAl Simon, Candidate for Ward 2 City CouncilorRenika Rachelle Montgomery-Tamakloe, Candidate for Ward 3 School CommitteeTiffany Jewell, Candidate for At Large School CommitteeMeg Robbins, Candidate for City Council At LargeAmy Martyn, Candidate for Ward 5 School CommitteeWilliam O’Dwyer, Candidate for City Council At LargeMichael Stein, Current and Candidate for Ward 4 School CommitteeNikolas Letendre-Cahillane, Candidate for City Council At LargeDeborah Henson, Candidate for City Council At LargeYakov Kronrod, Candidate for City Council At Large

This is a link to the 2024 Executive Order

northamptonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/28312/Statement-Reaffirming-Northamptons-Commitment-to-Inclusion-and-Sanctuary---November-18-2024

Also, please be aware that to sign the petition on this platform requires you to verify your email address, so check your inbox and spam filters!