Newsweek kind of fucking up the lede here but:
Under Mamdani’s directive, city agencies are required to safeguard personal information and limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
This latest executive order, Mamdani’s 13th since taking office, prohibits sharing information collected for city purposes with federal authorities except when required by law. Each agency has 14 days to appoint a privacy officer and take other steps to ensure compliance.
The order directs the New York Police Department, Department of Correction, Department of Probation, Administration for Children’s Services and Department of Social Services to audit their internal policies on interactions with federal immigration authorities and make any necessary changes public. It also bars ICE agents from entering city-controlled properties such as schools, hospitals, shelters and parking facilities without a judicial warrant.
You can add as many compliance officers as you want to. Hell, you can grab ALL the cops who hang out at high schools and sexually harass/assault kids and make this their job.
It won’t matter if they actively choose not to resist. Which is what almost always happens with stuff like this.
I like Mamdani’s messaging a lot. Stuff like this… reminds me about how worried I am about his ability to act on that messaging. But, “fortunately”, the christofacists are more focused on attacking Minnesota and Illinois than New York so this might not have to meaningfully be tested.
That’s why I said if it’s implemented well. Good implementation implies selecting the right people for the job.
A compliance officer doesn’t have to be a cop, he could hire someone from the public defender’s office or even a civil sector human rights org