sheriff ahern has a way to collude with ice despite california sanctuary law. he persists in allowing ice officers into nonpublic areas of the jail, as well as transferring people who are detained. so you can't send any people to santa rita jail because this would violate due process legislations, the legislations that were passed by this board of supervisors. so you need to make sure that when closing 850 bryant which should happen immediately, immigrants are protected. sheriff ahern is not someone to trust with immigrant communities or anyone, actually. and so if you are going to be transferring people, again, transfer them back to our communities, not into ice custody, not into another sheriff's department that is going to violate the rights or kill them. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is tacati shaw and i'm an organizer with a project of legal services for prisoners. my deepest concern is that each of you sitting here, if i'm not mistaken, got here through being appointed as an officer or something of the such, correct? yo

sheriff greg ahern says an emergency power shutdown in the bay area is serious. >> for criminal activitye are worried about being able to respond. >> reporter: an estimated 32,000 pg&e customers living or working in the east bay hills, berkeley and fremont could be affected by the shut-off. a prolonged power outage is a major concern. >> increased level of crime because alarms are not working, businesses become more vulnerable. >> reporter: city and county officials are preparing for chaos. in the event of an outage, they want drivers to treat blinking lights as a four-way stop. >> we urge people not to call 9-1-1 if it's not an emergency. >> reporter: bart is responding by setting up emergency generators in key locations. they say aower shutoff will not affect service. still, people are leery. >> getting home, getting, you know, i hate to say this but the convenience of it or the inconvenience of it. >> reporter: hospitals will remain open with backup generators. this emergency power outage could last up to five days. some 51,000 customers will be affected here in contra costa county if