A coalition of local governments that includes Marin County is suing the Trump administration over attempts to impose conditions on more than $350 million in emergency and disaster preparedness funds across the 28 jurisdictions.

Led by Santa Clara County and San Francisco, the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday, asks a federal judge to block the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency from conditioning critical funding on each city or county’s participation in immigrant enforcement efforts and the abandonment of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

This is the third time Marin County has sued the Trump administration this year. Marin received more than $5.5 million in homeland security grants and over $7 million in FEMA funding to respond to federally declared disasters in fiscal year 2023-24, according to the county.

Annual federal funding is used for a variety of emergency preparedness programs, the county said.

“This federal funding is critical for the operation of the County’s Office of Emergency Management and plays an essential role in our ability to respond to disasters,” Marin County Counsel Brian Washington said in a statement. “The DEI-related conditions have no connection to the grant programs at issue and far exceed the authority delegated by Congress to DHS.”

Local governments rely on the dollars from FEMA and DHS to retrofit buildings, fund search-and-rescue operations and purchase equipment needed to respond to disaster, Santa Clara County Counsel Tony LoPresti said.

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu called the conditioning of the funds “unlawful” and said the Trump administration is “asserting a right it does not have.”

Other Bay Area jurisdictions that have signed onto the lawsuit include Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Jose and San Mateo County.

Santa Clara County and San Francisco officials said this week that the potential loss of funding is especially dire now as the region prepares to host the Super Bowl and World Cup next year — a massive undertaking that requires the Bay Area to prepare for the worst.

Jill Habig, the founder and chief executive officer of the Public Rights Project — an organization that provides litigation support to public entities in civil rights cases — said state and local governments need more support than ever now because of “federal overreach and relentless attacks.”

“Our coalition has a clear message,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to choose between safety and justice.”