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Santa Barbara Newsmakers Supervisors Laura Capps and Roy Lee; April 24, 2026

Supervisors Roy Lee and Laura Capps return to Newsmakers TV to discuss the measures they passed this week in a bid to restrain and restrict ICE activities in the county and local elections.

Supervisors Roy Lee and Laura Capps return to Newsmakers TV to discuss the measures they passed this week in a bid to restrain and restrict ICE activities in the county and local elections. The two express concerns that violent federal deportation actions have created a “tinderbox” in the community and offer withering criticism of Sheriff Bill Brown’s failures to balance local concerns about safety and access with federal crackdown demands.