Stop Santa Clara Jails From Becoming ICE Traps Stop the Santa Clara County Sheriff from Communicating with ICE to Detain Community Members at the Jails

Thin Blue Lie is a series telling the stories of families who experienced the systemic police practice of coercively interrogating families moments after killing their loved ones, in an attempt to gain evidence to justify the killing. The series is made in support of new legislation AB 572 that would end this practice. In this episode of the Thin Blue Lie Series, we hear the story of Sharon Watkins from San Jose, CA.

Editor's note: Below is a letter submitted to the San Jose City Council before the recent 2025-2026 budget vote that included the...

May 22nd, 2025 -- San Jose Police conducted a sweep on houseless encampments along the Guadalupe River in San Jose, CA. They told residents of the encampments that the sweep would take place in June and then suddenly descended on the encampment. The sweeps are part of an ongoing campaign by Mayor Matt Mahan whose self-proclaimed “innovative” policies on houselessness include the recently proposed Responsibility to Shelter policy, which creates a new police unit to arrest hous