A Community For All vs. the Constitutional Sanctuary

Dueling resolutions have opened up a partisan battle that's transforming local government

I called up Matt Bootz, chair of the county’s Public Safety Committee, one afternoon after seeing the committee’s agenda. Where did the idea of a Constitutional Sanctuary County come from, exactly? I asked.

“It’s something a number of my constituents and other supervisors’ constituents have asked us about,” Bootz told me. He decided to put it on the coun…