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jmf 12-13-16 G. The City now wishes to enact specific procedures consistent with Resolution No. 2016-086 and the City's commitment to social justice and inclusion. Section 2. Purpose and Intent. The City of Santa Ana is one of the most ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse cities in the United States, with immigrants comprising approximately 46 percent of the City's population. The City has long derived its strength and prosperity from its diverse community, including those who identify as immigrants, and prides itself on their achievements. The cooperation of the City's immigrants is essential to advancing the City's mission, vision, and guiding principles, including community safety, support for youth and education, economic development, and financial stability. Through the City's commitment to social justice and inclusion, one of the City's most important objectives is to enhance its relationship with all its residents, including immigrants. Due to the City's limited resources, the complexity of federal civil immigration laws, the need to promote trust and cooperation from the public, including immigrants, and to attain the City's objectives, the City Council finds that there is a need to clarify the communication and enforcement relationship between the City and the federal government. The purpose of this ordinance is to establish the City's procedures concerning immigration status and enforcement of federal civil immigration laws. Section 3. Requesting or Maintaining Information Prohibited. No City agency, department, officer, employee, or agent shall request or maintain information about sensitive information about any person except as provided in this ordinance. Sensitive information includes any information that may be considered sensitive or personal by nature, including a person's status as a victim of domestic abuse or sexual assault; status as a victim or witness to a crime generally; citizenship or immigration status; status as a recipient of public assistance; sexual orientation; biological sex or gender identity; or disability. Section 4. Disclosing Information Prohibited. No City agency, department, officer, employee, or agent shall disclose sensitive information about any person except as provided in this ordinance. Section 5. Exceptions to Prohibitions. The prohibitions in Sections 3 and 4 of this ordinance shall not apply where the individual to whom such information pertains provides his or her consent (or if such individual is a minor, the consent of that person's parent or guardian), where the information or disclosure is necessary to provide a City service, or where otherwise required by state or federal law orjudicial decision. Section 6. Use of City Resources Prohibited. No City agency, department, officer, employee, or agent shall use City funds, resources, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law, unless such assistance is required by any valid and enforceable federal or state law or is contractually obligated. Nothing in this Section shall prevent the City, including any agency, department, officer, employee, or agent of the City, from lawfully discharging his or her duties in compliance with and in response to a lawfully issued judicial warrant orsubpoena. Ordinance No. NS -2908 Page 2 of 5