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In a unanimous board decision May 9, Columbia Gorge Community College joined the State of Oregon and a growing list of colleges, universities and municipalities adopting sanctuary status over concerns regarding federal immigration policy.

Sanctuary does not change existing college policy, which already offered its students protection through state and federal laws such as the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). In enacting Resolution 031417, a “Declaration of Open Access and Protection,” the college board affirmed the institution’s compliance with those laws but also stated its intention to “oppose any change in federal law requiring it to aid the federal government in immigration law enforcement, and, if necessary, ... will seek its own legal counsel in this effort.”