Petition is addressed to: Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts Gina-Louise Sciarra

City Leaders,
 
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. 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. 
 
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. The Mayor and Superintendents of the Northampton Public Schools and Smith Vocational Schools need to release statements in English and Spanish stating 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; 
• 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 you,
Northampton Community Members
 
 
And
 
Quavery Rothenberg, Current and Candidate for Ward 3 City Councilor
Ace Tayloe, Candidate for Ward 3 City Councilor
Michele Ronco, Candidate for Ward 1 City Councilor
Alena Bartoli, Candidate for Ward 1 School Committee
Al Simon, Candidate for Ward 2 City Councilor
Renika Rachelle Montgomery-Tamakloe, Candidate for Ward 3 School Committee
Tiffany Jewell, Candidate for At Large School Committee
Meg Robbins, Candidate for City Council At Large
Amy Martyn, Candidate for Ward 5 School Committee
William O’Dwyer, Candidate for City Council At Large
Michael Stein, Current and Candidate for Ward 4 School Committee
Nikolas Letendre-Cahillane, Candidate for City Council At Large
Deborah Henson, Candidate for City Council At Large
Yakov Kronrod, Candidate for City Council At Large