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Hawaii County Council-25 October 22,2025 MS. KIMBALL: Thank you. I wanted to speak directly to a couple of comments that I made last time, which was I thought the resolution could benefit from some language about restricting masking and identification of ICE agents and whatnot, although at the time I said I would explore our opportunities to do something legislatively around that. So just in the context of having mentioned that before, particularly with the masking and the identification of vehicles, the identification of ICE officials, it seems to be clearly outside of our jurisdiction, and we would not be able to legislate that. However, looking at, I think, I'm not sure if it was you, Council Member Villegas mentioned what was being done in Chicago in terms of prohibiting ICE actions on county-owned, or in that case city-owned, property. Do you think that is within our jurisdictions of—so I'll be putting something forward with respect to that. I know that there's a sense that, you know, damn the torpedoes, let's just introduce stuff even if it's outside of our jurisdiction so that we can have that conversation, and I was thinking about that. But one of the things around us to be really sensitive about is if it were to go to court and we were not satisfactorily armed to defend ourselves, it's the kind of thing that could set a precedent that would hurt the overall picture nationally. So we want to make sure that we solidly have our ducks in line with respect to legal jurisdiction and what we actually have authority to regulate. That said, coming back then to this resolution, I would like to suggest that we include a clause that requests that the State address the masking and identification, the transparency issue, because they would really have to be the one that does it. And I'm going to suggest that we hold this and do that next hearing, and perhaps consider some of these other amendments. Because let me just suggest that the urgency is not actually to deliver this resolution to the people on the list, but the urgency is to publicly put out this information about where this County Council stands on immigration issues, and using this forum, the Council hearing, to discuss that and publicize that. The amount of publicity that was given to the original introduction of this resolution was fantastic. Across the State, folks know what we are trying to do and the message we are trying to send. So my suggestion is actually let's just keep it here, have another conversation in two weeks and expand the scope of the resolution before we send it off, because they're hearing it anyway. Just my thoughts. CHR. INABA: Any further discussion on Resolution 320-25, as amended? Council Member Galimba. MS. GALIMBA: I guess I am open to that and would like to hear, I guess, from my fellow Council Members if they have any reservations. But I guess I'm okay with it, because I want to put it out there to the group. CHR. INABA: Vice Chair Onishi. Page 9