Enrique Alvarado
Candidate for Imperial County Supervisorial District 1
Enrique "Kiki" Alvarado is a 26-year resident of Calexico and a military veteran. He holds a bachelor's degree in business management, a master's in public administration, and a master's in emergency management. Alvarado has worked for Imperial County for more than 25 years, first as a deputy probation officer and now as a criminal investigator with the County Public Defender's office. He has also served on the county's Employee Retirement Board, as a trustee on the Calexico Unified School District board, and as a Calexico Police Commissioner. The Imperial County Deputy Sheriffs' Association has endorsed his candidacy, and he has described his campaign as largely self-funded.
Positions in brief
Alvarado has focused on public safety and government accountability, expanding health-care access, fixing deteriorated county roads, and applying stricter environmental review and community-benefit requirements to new industrial and data-center projects.
Alvarado lists public safety, economic revitalization and community health among his top priorities. In response to sexual-harassment allegations against the district's sitting supervisor, he has called for third-party auditors to review such complaints, mandatory ethics training for county officials, and stronger whistleblower protections. On health care, he wants to expand community health clinics, restore an emergency room to Calexico, increase mobile health unit funding, and recruit more doctors to the Imperial Valley. He supports reopening a local homelessness shelter, strengthening partnerships with the regional homelessness authority, and streamlining permits for affordable housing. He has criticized the condition of county roads and says infrastructure needs repair. On the proposed IVCM data center, he opposes the project as sited — citing its proximity to homes and a school — but says he would support other data-center projects that go through full environmental review, community outreach and legally binding community-benefit agreements, saying "We need industry that serves the Imperial Valley, not industry that just uses it." He has called the deaths at the county's immigration detention facility "a grave concern that demands transparency" and wants county health officials to conduct regular, unannounced inspections of the facility. He also supports funding for road paving and school air filtration and closer coordination with the Air Pollution Control District.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Names public safety as a top campaign priority.
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Calls for third-party auditors to review harassment complaints against county officials, mandatory ethics training, and stronger whistleblower protections.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Wants to expand community health clinics, restore an emergency room in Calexico, increase mobile health unit funding, and recruit more doctors to the Imperial Valley.
“We need to recruit more doctors into the valley and set up some type of system in which we have doctors coming in for that care.”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports reopening a local shelter, strengthening partnerships with the regional homelessness authority, streamlining affordable-housing permits, and seeking state grants.
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Says county roads and infrastructure are in poor condition and need repair.
“Our infrastructure here in the valley is bad. Our roads, if you travel back roads, they're in pretty bad condition.”
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Opposes the proposed IVCM data center as sited, citing proximity to homes and a school, but would support other data-center projects that undergo full environmental review, community outreach and legally binding community-benefit agreements.
“We need industry that serves the Imperial Valley, not industry that just uses it.”
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Wants county health officials to conduct regular, unannounced inspections of the county's immigration detention facility following reported deaths there.
“a grave concern that demands transparency”
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