I am fighting to protect our residents from ICE abuses and drink spiking. Please donate and volunteer to support my mission!
ICE Out of Tempe!
In 2025, Colorado journalists discovered that Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been granted access to the surveillance footage generated by Flock Safety camera networks in cities that declined to share their data with federal agencies.
Soon after, a University of Washington Center for Human Rights review of Flock Network Audits uncovered that, from at least May 9, 2025 through August 24, 2025, Flock networks in multiple cities were subject to thousands of searches by “US Border Patrol”. These searches were made by dozens of different unauthorized users, who identified the reason for their search with terms like “immigration.”
These discoveries proved a frightening truth: ICE had accessed Flock cameras without permission from contracted cities.
That could mean massive trouble for Tempe. ICE is becoming more active in our area, and Arizona has no laws regulating the appropriate use of Flock's technology or protecting our data from ICE.
Tempe has 40,000 Hispanic and Latino residents who are potentially at risk of arrest, abuse, and deportation by ICE.
As the murders of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter have shown, interactions with ICE agents may result in death, even for innocent people with no criminal record. It is irresponsible and dangerous for Tempe to keep Flock's unsecured cameras when there is no way to guarantee that ICE won't turn them against us.
That's why I have been demanding that Tempe terminate its contract with Flock.
It is not enough to assume that these risks will not impact our residents. The only way to ensure the protection of our sensitive data, is to proactively end this agreement.
But ending the Flock contract is just the first step. City governments can't control federal immigration policies. But we can and we should make our communities feel safe. When our communities include immigrants, which they do, it is our job to make sure those immigrants feel as safe as possible, in order to ensure social and economic stability for everyone.
In Tempe, that looks like keeping our public servants from participating in immigration enforcement raids or giving away our residents' private information to immigration enforcement agencies. It means making sure that our law enforcement officers do not profile or detain anyone based on the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the job that they work. In order to keep our public facilities, like schools, libraries, and government buildings open to our residents, it means keeping immigration enforcement agencies from staging raids in our public spaces, and standing up for private businesses who don't want immigration enforcement agencies staging on their property.
All of these proposals are legal under Arizona law, and they are intended to keep our city resources focused on making Tempe as affordable and accessible as it can be.
I am the only candidate running for Tempe city council with a comprehensive plan to protect our residents from ICE abuses, but I need your help to make it happen. If you want Tempe to cancel its Flock contract and prevent collaboration between city employees and ICE, please donate and volunteer with my campaign today.
Stop Drink Spiking!
As new residents in a large college town with an active nightlife culture and a history of underage drinking, Tempe's college students are exposed to drink spiking and similar incidents on a surprisingly regular basis. A 2026 KnoNap study found that over 75% of Arizona State University Students perceived drink spiking as common and 54% of students reported having their drink spiked at one point or knowing somebody whose drink had once been spiked.
According to a 2024 study from the United Kingdom, at most in 10 drink spiking incidents are reported to authorities, and approximately 2.2% of respondents reported having been the victim of drink spiking within the previous 12 months.
That 2.2% number, if applied ASU's in person student population and Tempe's adult population, would mean that over 900 ASU students and over 3,000 Tempe residents may have been victims of drink spiking in the last year alone.
Low reporting numbers might make the problem look less significant, but the risks are unreasonable and very easily avoided.
A recently proposed Tempe ordinance, introduced by councilmember Randy Keating, would put protections in place. Councilmember Keating's proposed ordinance would require Bars and restaurants that serve alcohol after midnight to carry a stock of drink spiking tests for concerned guests and put up signs to inform patrons. The ordinance allows a reasonable opportunity for businesses to reach full compliance, and it includes generous tax rebates for bars that provide both tests and drink covers. Several businesses have offered to donate thousands of tests and drink covers to Tempe's bars and restaurants upon passage of this ordinance, reducing the cost of compliance to virtually nothing but the one jar behind the bar.
I recently attended a city council meeting to speak in support of this ordinance, and I was surprised to hear pushback from several members of council.
I encourage everyone to contact our city council members to voice your support for this ordinance, and I promise to support this ordinance if I am elected before it passes.
If you think Tempe deserves a council member who will stand up for our students and residents by fighting to prevent drink spiking, please donate and volunteer with my campaign today!
Join the Party!
On February 6, we will be hosting a house party with special guests Arizona State Senator Lauren Kuby and Arizona State Representative Brian Garcia, two leaders I am proud to have endorsed this campaign.
This will be a chance to meet me, hear directly about my vision for an affordable Tempe, and learn more about what we are building together. Please click the button below to RSVP.
We are also treating this house party as a fundraiser.
February 6 is just five days before ballots are mailed, which means we will officially be in the final stretch of this race. As much as I dislike asking for money, the reality is that resources matter if we want to win and deliver real change. We don't take any money from corporate developers or private lobbyists, so anything you can contribute will make a massive difference.
That said, whether you can donate or not, you are invited to join the party, and I hope to see you there!
Solidarity and warm regards,
Bobby Nichols
www.Bobby4Tempe.com
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