OAKLAND — After her response was put off several times, Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick gave a public presentation at Tuesday’s City Council meeting on the police department’s involvement in an Aug. 16 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid.

Kirkpatrick’s presentation followed a complaint filed against her with the Community Police Review Board by Privacy Advisory Commission Chairman Brian Hofer. In the complaint and at public hearings, Hofer accused Kirkpatrick of misleading the public about the nature of the raid, the facts of the raid and whether it violated the city’s sanctuary policy — which prohibits local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration investigations.

“The issue of my integrity has been called into question,” Kirkpatrick said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I understand that, and I find it disheartening. Regardless, my integrity is strong enough that it can withstand any attack to it and/or any examination of it.”

Kirkpatrick refused to comment to the Oakland Tribune beyond her presentation Tuesday.

Kirkpatrick said she was informed by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin the day before the raid that a federal search warrant stemming from a “longstanding, criminal” human trafficking investigation would be served in West Oakland, and that “the target involved a janitorial business.”

“I specifically made an inquiry as to confirm that this was a criminal investigation, and did not have anything to do with deportation,” Kirkpatrick said, addressing criticism from community leaders that she did not do her due diligence to learn the true nature of the raid before allowing police officers to provide traffic control.

Weeks before the raid occurred, Kirkpatrick listened to Spradlin talk at a meeting about how the branch of Homeland Security that he worked for did not handle deportation matters, but rather focused on criminal investigations, she said.

She decided to send officers to provide traffic control while the raid was underway out of a concern for the public’s safety, she said.

Two men — one 25 and one 19 — were detained during the raid of the Guatemalan family’s home. As of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, no criminal charges have been filed in connection with the investigation, Hofer said at the meeting. The 25-year-old man, however, faces a civil deportation case.

The 19-year-old was released and returned to the home. Federal authorities have said the target of the raid was a woman who lived at the house, and that the men were potential victims.

After the raid, Oakland police issued a news release about the raid that erroneously stated the warrant stemmed from a sex-trafficking case; Kirkpatrick admitted shortly after the news release was sent that it was a mistake. At Tuesday’s meeting, she blamed the mistake on a public information officer. Hofer had previously accused Kirkpatrick of providing false information to the public information officer, resulting in the erroneous news release.

“Regardless, the mistake was made. I own it, I am the chief of police, and we did correct it,” Kirkpatrick said.

After the news release debacle, rumors started to spread about the raid being a deportation matter and not the result of a human trafficking investigation, Kirkpatrick said. Kirkpatrick was on vacation in Norway at the time, and contacted Homeland Security Investigations again to make sure the rumors were not true, she said.

Kirkpatrick held a public forum when she got back, where she erroneously claimed that criminal charges had been filed against at least one person as a result of the raid. Councilwoman Desley Brooks showed a video clip of Kirkpatrick doing so at the meeting.

Kirkpatrick did not acknowledge Tuesday making the false statement.

Brooks and Hofer both expressed disappointment in Kirkpatrick’s presentation Tuesday.

“it is so disingenuous to get up here and act like we’re stupid, because that’s what we would have to be to believe what was just presented,” Brooks said after the presentation.

Brooks again brought up her concerns that Kirkpatrick only saw the warrant after the raid occurred, and that both Kirkpatrick and Mayor Libby Schaaf were shown a sealed warrant. She also said the report should have been presented months ago, but instead was tabled as Kirkpatrick got her story straight.

“It’s clear tonight that we’re not going to have a good-faith discussion,” Hofer said. “Still today not a single person in the administration will publicly acknowledge what actually occurred: that a person suspected of no wrongdoing other than lacking legal status to be present was arrested and his deportation proceeding was initiated.”

Hofer said he had hoped his complaint against Kirkpatrick would prompt her to give a “good-faith” response to the allegations, but instead she responded with “the most misleading staff report I’ve ever read.”

“This report isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on,” Brooks said.

Brooks and Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan introduced a new resolution that expands the sanctuary city policy to bar any branch of city government from cooperating with any ICE action. That resolution will be discussed at the Dec. 5 Public Safety Committee meeting.

Mayor Schaaf, in an interview with the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle before Tuesday’s meeting, said the “experience” of the raid and the community’s response to Oakland police’s involvement warrants a change in policy. Schaaf supports Kaplan and Brooks’ resolution.

“This was very good evidence that the policy needs to not create even the impression that our police department is supporting an ICE operation, or is in any way complicit with deportation actions,” Schaaf said.