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Meeting Name: Human Relations Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/17/2025 1:15 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Issued on: 9/10/2025
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Attachments: Click to Watch Live, To comment on an item on this agenda, click here, Item 25-3451 Substitution 9.10.25.pdf, PD Mitchell Letter to Human Relations Committee re 25-3451.pdf, PUBLIC SPEAKERS’ HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING 9.17.25 - Post Meeting Update
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25-3768 2  Committee MinutesCOMMITTEE MINUTES Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 7/23/2025approvePass Action details Not available
25-3451 1 DENOUNCING CALLOUS AND DECEPTIVE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN REGARD TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENTResolutionPROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 25-3451 PROPOSED RESOLUTION DENOUNCING THE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS WHEREAS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has more than 20,000 law enforcement officers in more than 400 offices in the United States and around the world, counts with an annual budget of $8 billion, and whose work is carried out by units such as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO); and WHEREAS, under the Trump Administration, ICE and other deputized agents assigned have increasingly used deceptive tactics and brutal force to separate and intimidate immigrant families and individuals, most of whom do not have a criminal record; and WHEREAS, attorneys, nonprofit organizations, and media outlets have reported agents using deceitful practices to arrest and detain individuals without a warrant; and WHEREAS, deceitful practices include the use of data brokers to access the personal data of thousands in Cook County, identifying real-time data on peopleaccept as substitutedPass Action details Not available
25-3451 2 DENOUNCING CALLOUS AND DECEPTIVE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN REGARD TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENTResolutionPROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 25-3451 PROPOSED RESOLUTION DENOUNCING THE TACTICS OF FEDERAL AGENTS INCLUDING U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS WHEREAS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has more than 20,000 law enforcement officers in more than 400 offices in the United States and around the world, counts with an annual budget of $8 billion, and whose work is carried out by units such as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO); and WHEREAS, under the Trump Administration, ICE and other deputized agents assigned have increasingly used deceptive tactics and brutal force to separate and intimidate immigrant families and individuals, most of whom do not have a criminal record; and WHEREAS, attorneys, nonprofit organizations, and media outlets have reported agents using deceitful practices to arrest and detain individuals without a warrant; and WHEREAS, deceitful practices include the use of data brokers to access the personal data of thousands in Cook County, identifying real-time data on peoplerecommend for approval as substitutedPass Action details Not available
25-3489 1 REAFFIRMING COOK COUNTY’S SUPPORT FOR YOUTH’S ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AFTER UNITED STATES V. SKRMETTIResolutionPROPOSED RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING COOK COUNTY’S SUPPORT FOR YOUTH’S ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AFTER UNITED STATES V. SKRMETTI WHEREAS, gender dysphoria is a feeling of distress that describes when a person's gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth and is a diagnosis included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published by the American Psychiatric Association; and WHEREAS, the diagnosis was created to help people with gender dysphoria get access to the healthcare and treatment that they need; and WHEREAS, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), notes that gender identity can run anywhere along a continuum that includes man, woman, a combination of those, neither of those, and/or is fluid; and WHEREAS, for the majority of transgender and/or nonbinary individuals, gender dysphoria is only alleviated through medical interventions; and WHEREAS, gender-affirming care, as defined by the World Health Organization, encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions “designed to support recommend for approvalPass Action details Not available