It’s official, the "Schools & Communities First" ballot initiative that Alliance San Diego helps lead now has a number: Prop 15!

Alliance San Diego, a member of the Coalition for Police Accountability and Transparency (CPAT), hosted a digital press conference (click here to see the recording) to unveil CPAT’s new Police Accountability Now policy package.

Alliance San Diego is an organization founded out of discontent. The discontent of knowing that the promise of this country — that all people are endowed with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — is impeded by the structural inequities and systemic racism that have marred this country from the beginning and are on full display today. 

Immigrants, refugees and those seeking safety at our borders deserve to be welcomed into healthy environments, and to be treated with dignity and respect, especially during times of crisis or emergency. However, the unsanitary and squalid conditions at Otay Mesa Detention Facility and the neglect and abuse detainees face at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has lead to the death of 57-year old Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, the first detained person to die of COVID-19.