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File #: [23-0152]    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Information Items Status: Filed
File created: 2/6/2023 In control: Town Council
On agenda: 2/22/2023 Final action: 2/22/2023
Title: Re-Imagining Community Safety Task Force Update.
Attachments: 1. RICS Staff Report, 2. Council Questions with Staff Response
Related files: [22-0246], [22-0064], [22-0025], [21-0734], [20-0732], [20-0583]

 

 

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Re-Imagining Community Safety Task Force Update.

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Staff:

Department:

Celisa Lehew, Chief of Police

Police Department

Shenekia Weeks, DEI Officer

Manager’s Office

 

PURPOSE: That Council receives information regarding implementing recommendations of the Re-Imagining Community Safety (RICS) Task Force.

 

OVERVIEW

 

On September 9, 2020, Council established the Task Force with a mission to bring forth concrete, actionable recommendations that will increase public safety, eliminate structural inequities in Town public safety systems, and enable all in the community to thrive. On June 23, 2021, the Task Force presented 28 recommendations and 31 action items to Council organized into three broad categories of prevention, crisis, and post-crisis.

 

Since the last update to Council in September 2021, several key recommendations of the Task Force have been implemented, and are described in this report

 

 

Attachments:

 

February 2023 RICS Update

 

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The Agenda will reflect the text below and/or the motion text will be used during the meeting.

 

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By accepting the report, the Council acknowledges receipt of the Re- Imagining Community Safety report.