Help Pass the Virginia Trust Act
Strong communities are built on trust. The Virginia Community Safety & Trust Act keeps families together, lets law enforcement focus on public safety, and ensures every Virginian can participate in community life without fear. Join neighbors across the Commonwealth in urging your legislators to support this commonsense legislation.
In 2025, over 60% of ICE arrests in Virginia targeted people with no criminal record—parents, workers, neighbors.
Contact Your Legislator Today
Phone calls make the biggest impact—and take less than two minutes. Use the script below, or put it in your own words.
Call, email, or message legislators to urge support for the Virginia Trust Act Senate Majority Leader (District 34) 📞 804-698-7534 ✉️ senatorsurovell@senate.virginia.gov 🐦 @ssurovell "Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm a Virginia constituent calling about the Virginia Community Safety & Trust Act sponsored by Delegate Lopez & Senator Salim." "I'm calling to urge Senator Surovell to support the Virginia Trust Act." Key Points: "Thank you for your time." Speaker of the House 📞 804-698-1088 ✉️ DelDScott@house.virginia.gov 🐦 @SpeakerDonScott "Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm a Virginia constituent calling about the Virginia Community Safety & Trust Act sponsored by Delegate Lopez & Senator Salim." "I'm calling to urge Speaker Scott to support the Virginia Trust Act." Key Points: "Thank you for your time." Delegate District 1 📞 804-698-1001 ✉️ DelPHope@house.virginia.gov 🐦 @HopeforVirginia "Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm a Virginia constituent calling about the Virginia Community Safety & Trust Act sponsored by Delegate Lopez & Senator Salim." "I'm calling to urge Delegate Hope to support the Virginia Trust Act." Key Points: "Thank you for your time." Governor 📞 804-786-2211 ✉️ abigail.spanberger@governor.virginia.gov 🐦 @GovernorVA "Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm a Virginia constituent calling about the Virginia Community Safety & Trust Act sponsored by Delegate Lopez & Senator Salim." "I'm calling to urge Governor Spanberger to support the Virginia Trust Act." Key Points: "Thank you for your time." Contact Your Virginia Legislators
Senator Scott Surovell
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Speaker Don Scott
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Want to Learn More?
Understanding the details helps you speak confidently—and recruit others.
What Is the Virginia Community Safety and Trust Act?
The Virginia Community Safety and Trust Act ensures that local police cannot detain someone solely based on an ICE request. Instead, a judge must issue a warrant—the same constitutional protection every person in America deserves. This keeps families together and ensures everyone can live without fear.
What Does It Do?
Requires judicial warrants: Stops local jails from holding people based only on ICE requests—a warrant from a judge is required.
Protects personal information: Limits what data local agencies can share for civil immigration enforcement.
Builds community trust: Ensures immigrant families can call police, go to court, and access services without fear.
Creates accountability: Allows people wrongfully detained to seek justice.
Why Does It Matter?
Families are being torn apart. In 2025, over 60% of ICE arrests in our region targeted people with no criminal record—parents, workers, and neighbors.
Fear is spreading. When local police become entangled with immigration enforcement, entire communities stop reporting crimes, seeking medical care, or sending kids to school.
Everyone deserves due process. The Constitution protects all people—not just citizens. ICE detainers are requests, not warrants, and honoring them violates the 4th Amendment.
Our communities are stronger together. Immigrants are our neighbors, coworkers, and friends. Virginia is home to all of us.
The Bottom Line
- This is about protecting families and keeping communities safe—not politics.
- Everyone in America deserves constitutional protections, including due process.
- Local police should focus on keeping us safe—not doing federal immigration work.
- When people are afraid of police, crimes go unreported and everyone is less safe.
How You Can Help
You’ve made your voice heard—now help us grow.
This movement is built by people like you. The more voices, the harder we are to ignore.
Together: Join the Coalition of People in Support
We’re building a broad coalition—individuals, faith communities, businesses, and organizations standing together for a safer Virginia.
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