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          IS THERE A MOTION ITEM ONE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING HELD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31ST, 2023. 
          IT HAS BEEN MOVED BY SUPER NA, SECONDED BY DUGGAN. 
          IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE MINUTES? IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM NOW. 
          NO PUBLIC COMMENT, CHAIR HEARING, NO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT ITEM PLEASE. 
          ITEM TWO IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION FROM THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ON ITS 
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			24-52318
			Recommendation to approve the minutes of the Public Safety Committee meeting held Tuesday, October 31, 2023.
		
		
			 
			 
		
		
			 
			Suggested Action:
			Approve recommendation.
		
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RECENTLY UPDATED CASH BAIL SYSTEM, KNOWN AS PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS. 
          GREAT. 
          I KNEW, DO KNOW WE HAVE A MOTION, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A GUEST TO, UH, GIVE A PRESENTATION. 
          MR. SLATON, CAN YOU PLEASE, UH, COME FORWARD, INTRODUCE YOURSELF, AND PROCEED. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          OH, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? HERE WE GO. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MEMBERS, IT'S SO NICE TO BE WITH YOU TODAY. 
          MY NAME IS DAVID SLATON, AND I'M THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS LOS ANGELES COUNTY. 
          UM, I HAVE FOR YOU, UM, SOME INFORMATION REGARDING THE LA SUPERIOR COURT'S 
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			24-52319
			Recommendation to receive and file a presentation from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on its recently updated cash bail system known as Pre-Arraignment Release Protocols.
		
		
			 
			 
		
		
			 
			Suggested Action:
			Approve recommendation.
		
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RECENT UPDATE TO ITS BAIL SCHEDULE, SPECIFICALLY REFERRED TO AS THE PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS. 
          I'VE BEEN ABLE TO BE DR. 
          UH, WALKING THROUGH A COUPLE OF SLIDES. 
          I'LL JUST SAY NEXT SLIDE TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          HOPEFULLY SOMEONE CAN HELP ME WITH THAT. 
          AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, UM, INFORMATION SINCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE, THE CHANGES IN OCTOBER. 
          AND WE HAVE DATA REALLY UP TO LAST WEEK. 
          SO THIS IS THE MOST RECENT DATA, UH, AVAILABLE. 
          UM, AND I'M GONNA PROVIDE IN THE, OVER IN THE PRESENTATION HERE, INFORMATION ON THE COUNTYWIDE DATA. 
          BUT I ALSO HAVE INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO LONG BEACH, UM, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. 
          SO, NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, IT'S ALWAYS, I THINK, IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE DOING A PRESENTATION ON BAIL TO REMIND US ALL, UH, INCLUDING THE PUBLIC, WHAT THE PURPOSE OF BAIL IS. 
          UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK IT'S FOR PUNISHMENT OR OTHER THINGS, BUT REALLY THE PURPOSE OF BAIL IS LAID OUT IN THE CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION. 
          AND THERE ARE REALLY TWO PURPOSES. 
          THE FIRST IS TO, UM, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S AN ARRESTEE SHOWS BACK UP TO COURT, UM, TO FACE WHATEVER CHARGES ARE, UM, AGAINST THEM. 
          UH, AND SECONDLY, TO REDUCE THE RISK TO THE PUBLIC AND TO, UH, VICTIM SAFETY. 
          UH, AND AS THE US SUPREME COURT FOUND IN THE EIGHTIES, UM, REALLY THE INTENTION IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, LIBERTY IS THE NORM, BUT THAT THE DETENTION PRIOR TO TRIAL IS A CAREFULLY LIMITED EXCEPTION, SO THAT WHEN SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE DETAINED, THEY CAN BE, UH, BUT THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE NORM. 
          IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE HAVE, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CHANGE THAT HAPPENED LAST OCTOBER IS NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED, UM, SORT OF IN A VACUUM. 
          THIS WAS, UH, A EXPERIENCE OVER A COUPLE OF YEARS WHERE THE SUPERIOR COURT, UH, REALLY WORKED TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A SYSTEM THAT MADE SENSE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BALANCING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, UH, RESPONSIBILITIES IT HAD OF ENSURING THE INDIVIDUALS ARE HELD AND THE CAREFULLY LIMIT EXCEPTION, BUT ALSO MAKING SURE TO PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY SAFETY. 
          IT REALLY BEGAN IN 2020, UM, WITH A, THE PRETRIAL RISK ASSESS, UH, RISK RISK EVALUATION PILOT PROGRAM WHERE THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDED FUNDING TO THE COURT, UH, AND A COUPLE OF OTHER COUNTIES ACROSS THE STATE TO REALLY LOOK AT HOW DO WE MAKE DETERMINATIONS ON INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ARRESTED BASED ON RISK, UH, NOT BASED UPON THEIR ACCESS TO MONEY. 
          AND SO THE COURT BEGAN TO WORK ON THIS, UH, IN 2020 AND PUT IN PLACE A LOT OF WHAT WE ARE USING TODAY. 
          UH, STARTING BACK THEN, THEN OF COURSE, DURING THE PANDEMIC, UM, THE SUPREME COURT HAD AUTHORIZED AN EMERGENCY AND THE, UH, THE COUNTY AND THE STATE IMPLEMENTED THE EMERGENCY BAIL SCHEDULES. 
          THOSE BAIL SCHEDULES REALLY, UM, WERE SORT OF BROAD CLASSIFICATIONS OF LOOKING AT RELEASING INDIVIDUALS BASED UPON THEIR CLASSIFICATIONS, UH, WITH SOME LIMITED EXCEPTIONS. 
          UH, AND THEN, UM, THE LEGISLATURE MADE PERMANENT THE PILOT PROGRAM THAT HAD STARTED IN 2020, IN 2021. 
          AND SO THE COURT RECEIVES FUNDING, UH, AND HAS CONTINUED TO OPERATE UNDERNEATH THAT SINCE 2021. 
          WE'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THAT POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES AND MADE ADJUSTMENTS, UH, AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT A LOT OF DATA. 
          AND SO BASED UPON ALL OF THAT EXPERIENCE, UH, THE COURT IN, UH, LAST JULY, UH, ANNOUNCED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW BAIL SCHEDULE THAT BECAME EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1ST, 2023. 
          IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, THE PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS, WHICH IS THE CHANGE IN THE BAIL SCHEDULE, UM, APPLY TO WHAT WE REFER TO AS NON 1270 0.1 OFFENSES. 
          AND WHAT THIS IS, IS THE LEGISLATURE, UM, DEFINES IN THE PENAL CODE WHAT ARE SERIOUS AND VIOLENT OFFENSES. 
          UM, SO THESE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE NON-SERIOUS NON-VIOLENT OFFENSES AS DEFINED BY THE LEGISLATURE. 
          AND SO WHEN, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY IN A SECOND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THOSE SERIOUS AND VIOLENT OFFENSES, NOTHING HAS CHANGED FROM THE, FROM THE PREOC OCTOBER 1ST TIMEFRAME. 
          UM, IT'S STILL THE SAME TODAY AS IT WAS THEN. 
          BUT 
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FOR THOSE NON-SERIOUS NONVIOLENT OFFENSES, REALLY WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS WE'RE BASING THE CONDITIONS OF RELEASE WHETHER OR NOT SOMEONE GETS OUT OF JAIL, UH, PRE ARRAIGNMENT BASED UPON THEIR INDIVIDUALIZED RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY OR VICTIM SAFETY, UH, AND ON THEIR LIKELIHOOD OF RETURNING TO COURT. 
          AND THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS NOT BASED UPON WEALTH ANY LONGER. 
          IT USED TO BE PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST THAT SOMEONE WAS EITHER DETAINED OR RELEASED, UH, FROM CUSTODY BASED UPON THEIR ACCESS TO MONEY. 
          UM, IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER THEY WERE THE RISKIEST PERSON OR THE LEAST RISKY PERSON, IT WAS WHETHER OR NOT THEY COULD COME UP WITH THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT THE, THE BAIL SCHEDULE HAD DETERMINED WAS THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT FOR THAT OFFENSE. 
          UM, NOW WE MAKE THOSE DETERMINATIONS BASED UPON THAT INDIVIDUAL'S RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY, VICTIM SAFETY, AND A RETURNING TO COURT. 
          SO YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMEONE WHO HAS THE MOST ACCESS TO MONEY, UM, WHO STILL REMAINS IN CUSTODY BECAUSE THEY'RE HIGH RISK, BUT YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE SOMEONE WHO HAS NO ACCESS TO WEALTH, UH, WHO'S BEING RELEASED, UH, PRE ARRAIGNMENT BECAUSE, UM, THEY'RE A LOW RISK INDIVIDUAL. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE REALLY JUST LOOKS AT WHEN DO THESE, UH, PROTOCOLS APPLY? AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS APPLY ONLY DURING THE PHASE FROM BOOKING, UH, TO ARRAIGNMENT. 
          SO IT'S A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. 
          AND I WANNA POINT OUT A COUPLE OF THINGS ON HERE. 
          IT DOES NOT, THEY DO NOT APPLY AT ARREST. 
          LAW ENFORCEMENT MAINTAINS THE DISCRETION TO CHOOSE WHO TO ARREST AND TO BOOK IN THE JAIL AND WHO TO RECITE AND RELEASE IN THE FIELD. 
          SO THE LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS JUST AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE. 
          AND THE BAIL SCHEDULE LAYS OUT A VERY EXPLICIT STATEMENT THAT SAYS NOTHING ALTERS THEIR AUTHORITY TO DO SO. 
          UH, SO THAT, UH, THEY STILL HAVE THAT AUTHORITY TO CHOOSE WHO TO BOOK AND WHO TO RELEASE, UH, IN THE FIELD WHO THEY WANT TO. 
          AND THEN ONCE SOMEONE GETS TO ARRAIGNMENT, THE JUDGES MAINTAIN ALL THE DISCRETION THEY ALWAYS HAD, UH, WITH THE TOOLS THAT THEY CAN USE TO LOOK AT THE, THE, WHAT THE, UH, RELEASE CONDITIONS SHOULD BE AT THAT POINT. 
          SO THAT PERIOD OF TIME IS ONCE SOMEONE GETS BOOKED INTO JAILS AND SINCE FINGERPRINTED, UH, AT THE BOOKING STATION, UM, THAT'S WHEN THESE BEGIN TO APPLY. 
          AND THEY MAINTAIN, THEY STAY THAT WAY UNTIL THAT ARRAIGNMENT, WHICH HAPPENS UNDER STATUTE, EITHER 48 HOURS LATER IF THEY REMAIN IN CUSTODY, OR WHEN THEY'RE CITED BACK MAYBE 30, 60 DAYS, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE SITE BACK TIMEFRAME IS, IF THEY'RE OUT OF CUSTODY. 
          UM, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, JUST WANNA SORT OF POINT OUT WHAT THE DIFFERENCES ARE IN THE BAIL SCHEDULES. 
          SO ON THE LEFT, YOU SEE A COPY OF WHAT OUR BAIL SCHEDULE LOOKED LIKE PRIOR TO OCTOBER THE FIRST, AND YOU SEE A LIST OF OFFENSES THERE, AND THEN A LIST OF DOLLAR AMOUNTS, PRESUMPTIVE BAIL AMOUNTS. 
          SO I'LL JUST TAKE ELDER ABUSE AS AN EXAMPLE. 
          UM, HERE YOU SEE ELDER ABUSE, THE BAIL AMOUNT, PRESUMPTIVE BAIL AMOUNT WAS $50,000, UH, BEFORE. 
          AND YOU SEE OVER ON THE RIGHT, UH, SIDE THE NEW BAIL SCHEDULE, WHICH DOESN'T, HAS SOME DOLLAR AMOUNTS. 
          THOSE ARE FOR THE SERIOUS AND VIOLENT OFFENSES, WHICH ARE UNCHANGED. 
          BUT NOW YOU SEE SOME LETTERS, CRB AND MR, WHICH I'LL DESCRIBE MORE IN JUST A MINUTE, BUT FOR ELDER ABUSE, YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT IT'S $50,000. 
          WHAT THAT MEANS THAT PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST, SOMEONE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO JAIL FOR ELDER ABUSE. 
          THEIR BAIL WAS PRESUMPTIVELY SET AT $50,000. 
          THAT WAS THE AMOUNT. 
          THEY COULD BE A FIRST TIME OFFENDER OF ELDER ABUSE. 
          UM, AND IT WOULD BE $50,000. 
          THEY COULD HAVE DONE IT 15 TIMES IN THE LAST THREE DAYS, UM, AND IT WOULD BE $50,000. 
          THERE WAS NO BASIS IN THE PREVIOUS MONEY BAIL SCHEDULE BASED UPON THAT PERSON'S INDIVIDUALIZED RISK OF RECOMMITTING NEW OFFENSES, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMITTING NEW OFFENSES AGAINST THE SAME VICTIM OR THEIR FAILURE TO APPEAR. 
          UM, OVER ON THE RIGHT, YOU'LL SEE THAT'S NOW MAGISTRATE REVIEW, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS, WHERE THERE'S AN INDIVIDUALIZED DETERMINATION ABOUT THAT PERSON'S RELEASE CONDITIONS GOING FORWARD. 
          WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          I JUST WANNA SORT OF, UH, WHEN, SINCE WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO, TO MAYBE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, WHAT SOME MISCONCEPTIONS IN THE, IN THE PUBLIC, UM, JUST SINCE IT'S A PUBLIC FORM, IT'S ALWAYS NICE AND THE SLIDE A LITTLE HARD TO READ HERE. 
          BUT BASICALLY, UM, RIGHT NOW THERE'S THIS, UH, A THOUGHT THAT MAYBE, UM, THIS, THE SYSTEM REQUIRES SIGHT AND RELEASE, WHERE BASICALLY PEOPLE CAN JUST BE CAUGHT IN RELEASED FOR ANY OFFENSE. 
          AND AS I'VE MENTIONED, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS STILL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO, UM, CHOOSE, UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UM, EVEN THOSE THAT QUALIFY FOR SITE AND RELEASE CAN BE BOOKED. 
          UM, SO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RETAIN THE OPTION TO TAKE ANYONE INTO CUSTODY AND TAKE THEM INTO THE BOOKING STATION IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO, AND WE'VE MADE THAT CLEAR. 
          UM, THE SECOND THING IS, IS IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, ANOTHER UM, COMMON MISCONCEPTION IS THAT, UM, CERTAIN OFFENSES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING NEW, A NEW TOOL WE PROVIDED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT STARTING OCTOBER 1ST, PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST, THERE WAS A VERY NARROW, UM, SET OF, UH, OF SITUATIONS WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER COULD BASICALLY REACH OUT TO THE MAGISTRATE AND SAY, HEY, WE DON'T THINK THAT 50,000 IS ENOUGH. 
          AND THOSE WERE ONLY IN FELONIES AND, UH, MISDEMEANORS WHERE IT WAS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          STARTING OCTOBER 1ST, THE COURT SAID, LAW ENFORCEMENT, YOU CAN CALL ON ANY OFFENSE, UM, AND YOU CAN LET US KNOW THAT JOE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF PUBLIC SAFETY OR VICTIM SAFETY, OR AN ENHANCED RISK OF FLIGHT. 
          AND THE MAGISTRATE WILL TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN THEY'RE SETTING BAIL. 
          SO EVERY OFFENSE, NO 
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MATTER WHAT ITS CATEGORY, IS ELIGIBLE FOR THAT, WHAT I CALL ENHANCED REVIEW. 
          AND THAT IS SOMETHING NEW THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD BEFORE. 
          SO IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, BASICALLY HOW THEY DO THAT IS THEY PLACE A ONE MINUTE PHONE CALL. 
          UH, MIGHT TAKE THEM MORE THAN A MINUTE IF THEY HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA INFORMATION, BUT BASICALLY IT'S A QUICK PHONE CALL TO THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS AVAILABLE 24 7 365, AND THEN THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT PASSES THAT INFORMATION ONTO THE MAGISTRATE BEFORE THEY MAKE THE DECISION. 
          LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS ABOUT FOUR HOURS TO MAKE THAT PHONE CALL, BECAUSE AT FOUR HOURS, THE MAGISTRATE'S GONNA MAKE THE DECISION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. 
          SO IF WE DON'T GET THAT INFORMATION BY THEN, OF COURSE IT'S KIND OF TOO LATE. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S REALLY THE PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH LAW ENFORCEMENT MAKES THAT INFORMATION, UM, KNOWN TO THE MAGISTRATE. 
          UM, THE LAST, UH, COMMON MISCONCEPTION IS THAT THE NEW SYSTEM REMOVES ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          UH, YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD SOME OF THIS OR READ SOME OF THIS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, BUT BASICALLY IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, IF, WELL ONE, ONE MORE SLIDE FORWARD, PLEASE. 
          UH, YEAH, I THINK IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT AS WE STARTED OUT, AS I STARTED OUT THIS PRESENTATION, TO REMEMBER THAT BAIL IS REALLY NOT ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          UM, HONESTLY, BELL IS ABOUT RELEASING PEOPLE SAFELY WHILE THEY WAIT TO FACE THE ACCOUNTABILITY. 
          UM, BUT AS YOU KNOW, EVERY CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW. 
          UH, AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY COMES AFTER THEY'RE PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, UH, AND SENTENCED, UM, NOT BEFORE. 
          AND SO WE TRY TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF BAIL. 
          UH, THE PURPOSE OF BAIL, IN FACT, BAIL WAS SET UP, UM, AFTER, UH, THE MAGNA CARTA WAS SIGNED IN ENGLAND BECAUSE THE KING WAS KEEPING PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY ABILITY TO GET OUTTA JAIL. 
          AND IT WAS BASICALLY TO LET PEOPLE OUT. 
          UM, IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT HASN'T CHANGED. 
          UM, THE MAIN THING THAT HASN'T CHANGED IS WITH THOSE SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSES. 
          SO THESE ARE PERSONS, AGAIN, UH, ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO JAIL FOR SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSES. 
          IT'S THE ONE PEOPLE READ ABOUT MURDER, RAPE, UM, SMASH AND GRAB ROBBERIES, THOSE TYPE OF, UM, OFFENSES. 
          NOTHING HAS CHANGED. 
          THOSE ARE, ARE STILL MONEY BAIL OFFENSES. 
          AND THAT RE THEIR RELEASE FROM CUSTODY IS RE IS SOLELY BASED UPON THEIR ABILITY TO PAY. 
          CAN THEY COME UP, COME UP WITH THAT PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S IN THE BAIL SCHEDULE, UH, OR SOME PORTION OF THAT IF THEY USE A BAIL BOND COMPANY OR SOME OTHER, UH, FASHION TO GET OUT, IT'S NOT BASED UPON THAT PERSON'S INDIVIDUALIZED RISK. 
          AND COUNTYWIDE, THAT'S ABOUT 41% OF ALL BOOKINGS, UH, IN THE FIRST, UH, FIVE MONTHS. 
          JUST LOOKING AT THE DATA HERE. 
          UM, IT'S ALSO ABOUT 55% OF ALL BOOKINGS IN LONG BEACH. 
          UM, SO EVEN A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THE BOOKINGS IN LONG BEACH ARE IN THAT SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSES, UH, OVERALL. 
          BUT THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL, THEIR CUSTODY, UH, DETENTION IS NOT BASED UPON THEIR, UH, INDIVIDUALIZED RISK ASSESSMENT. 
          IT'S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY CAN PAY THOSE PRESUMPTIVE BAIL AMOUNTS. 
          IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS SORT OF REITERATES THAT 0% OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE ASSESSED FOR INDIVIDUALIZED RISK. 
          UH, IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT THEIR ACCESS TO THE FUNDS TO GET OUT. 
          IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ONES THAT, UM, HAVE CHANGED. 
          AND THESE ARE THE OFFENSES WHICH ARE CR WHICH STANDS FOR SIGHT AND RELEASE, OR BR, WHICH IS BOOK AND RELEASE. 
          AND IN PRACTICE, WHAT THAT REALLY MEANS IS ONCE SOMEONE GETS TO THE JAIL IS FINGERPRINTED AND BOOKED IN, THOSE FOLKS, UM, WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BUY THE COURSE OF THE BAIL SCHEDULE, BE THEN RELEASED, UH, OUT OF CUSTODY, UM, WITH A CONDITION THAT THEY RETURN TO COURT AND NOT COMMIT NEW OFFENSES. 
          UM, THAT THOSE TWO CATEGORIES ADD UP TO ABOUT 32% OF ALL BOOKINGS, UH, COUNTYWIDE. 
          UM, AND IN LONG BEACH IT'S ABOUT 21% OF THE BOOKINGS, UH, THAT ARE OCCURRING HERE. 
          UM, SO THOSE ARE THE, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WOULD BE OUT SORT OF THE DOOR ONCE THEY'RE BOOKED INTO JAIL. 
          THOSE ARE THE LOWEST LEVEL OFFENSES AND TRADITIONALLY WOULD'VE BEEN ONES THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN RELEASED OTHERWISE. 
          UM, THEN THERE ARE A CATEGORY OF OFFENSES, WHICH, I'M SORRY, THAT'S 24%, I THINK I SAID 21%, 24% OF ALL BOOKINGS FALL IN THAT CATEGORY. 
          AND THEN THERE ARE A CATEGORY OF OFFENSES, WHICH ON THE BAIL SCHEDULE ARE MR. ARE MAGISTRATE REVIEW, AND THOSE ARE ONES THAT AUTOMATICALLY GO TO A MAGISTRATE. 
          THEY ARE NOT TO BE RELEASED FROM CUSTODY UNTIL THE MAGISTRATE HAS DONE THE INDIVIDUALIZED REVIEW OF THAT PERSON AND THEN MADE A DETERMINATION ABOUT HOW TO SAFELY RELEASE THEM INTO THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, THAT COUNTYWIDE IS ABOUT 23% OF ALL BOOKINGS. 
          AND IN, UH, LONG BEACH, IT IS 21% OF THE BOOKINGS IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS. 
          SO THEN WHAT ABOUT THE ARROW IN THE MIDDLE AND THE PERCENTAGE, UM, THIS IS REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT, UM, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OF CASES MAKE THAT JUMP FROM CRBR TO MR. BECAUSE AS I MENTIONED TO YOU A MINUTE AGO, LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS THE NEW TOOL, UH, SINCE OCTOBER 1ST TO ASK FOR ANY OFFENSE, UM, TO BE REVIEWED BY A MAGISTRATE AND DO THAT INDIVIDUALIZED DETERMINATION. 
          AND SO, UH, COUNTYWIDE ABOUT 13% OF THE, UH, OF THE, UH, CASES HAVE BEEN ELEVATED FROM THAT CRBR TO MR. UH, AND IN LONG BEACH, UM, I SHOULD HAVE THE PERCENTAGE, I DON'T. 
          IT'S 27 CASES. 
          UM, 27 BOOKINGS HAVE BEEN ELEVATED OUT OF THE 1,546 TOTAL BOOKINGS COUNTY, UH, IN, IN LONG BEACH. 
          SO IT'S NOT BEING USED, UM, EXCUSE ME, IT'S NOT BEING USED MUCH IN THE COUNTY, AND IT'S NOT BEING USED MUCH HERE, 
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BUT LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS THE OPTION TO DO SO WHEN THEY FIND SOMEONE WHO THEY BELIEVE IS AN ENHANCED RISK TO THE PUBLIC, UH, TO DO SO. 
          IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS SORT OF GOES INTO THE, SOME OF THE DETAILS ABOUT WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. 
          THE BAIL SCHEDULE LAYS OUT THREE CATEGORIES. 
          ONE, THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS. 
          THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON FELONY PROBATION, PAROLE, OR POST-RELEASE COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. 
          THERE ARE ENHANCEMENTS. 
          THESE ARE, UM, ALLEGED STATUTORY SENTENCING ENHANCEMENTS. 
          SO THIS MIGHT BE, UM, SOMEONE WHO COMMITS AN OFFENSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF A GANG THAT'S A STATUTORY SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT, OR THEY COULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, FOR INSTANCE. 
          AND THE BAIL SCHEDULE LAYS OUT WHAT THOSE, UM, ENHANCEMENTS LOOK LIKE. 
          SO IT EITHER BECOMES MONEY BAIL OR BECOMES AUTOMATIC MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          UH, AND THEN THE LAST ONE, THIS IS REALLY THE, THE ONE THAT'S MOSTLY USED, WHICH IS A PROCESS CALLED BAIL DEVIATION, WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN AGAIN, CALL IN THE INFORMATION, UH, AND LET THE MAGISTRATE KNOW ABOUT THOSE ENHANCED RISK FACTORS. 
          AND THEN THEY USE THAT TO MAKE A DETERMINATION. 
          SO THOSE ARE REALLY THE THREE OPTIONS. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED TO YOU, UH, IT'S BEEN USED ABOUT 27 TIMES IN LONG BEACH IN THE PAST FIVE MONTHS. 
          UM, IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS AT MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          UM, THIS IS WHERE THE MAGISTRATE DOES A REVIEW BASED UPON THE INDIVIDUALIZED RISK FACTORS. 
          SO THIS IS LOOKING AT THE INDIVIDUAL'S CRIMINAL HISTORY, THEIR PREVIOUS FAILURES TO APPEAR, ANY OTHER INFORMATION LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS PROVIDED TO THEM ABOUT THE INSTANT CASE, THE, THE, THE FACTORS. 
          'CAUSE MAYBE IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S A SMALL, UM, NON-VIOLENT, NON-SERIOUS OFFENSE, BUT MAYBE THE FACTORS IN THE CASE MAKE IT MORE SERIOUS. 
          UH, AND THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO THE MAGISTRATE THROUGH THAT, UM, PHONE CALL TO PROBATION. 
          UM, THERE IS NOTHING IN THE REVIEW THAT'S BASED UPON THAT PERSON'S ACCESS TO, TO FINANCES BECAUSE THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR WAY OUT OF JAIL. 
          UH, AND THEY EITHER WAY, UH, IN, IN THE POSITIVE OR THE NEGATIVE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE SITTING IN JAIL 'CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MONEY, BUT THEY'RE ALSO NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR WAY OUT. 
          IT'S REALLY A DETERMINATION WHERE THE MAGISTRATE'S SAYING, YES, YOU CAN GET OUT AND HERE'S THE CONDITIONS, OR NO, NO CONDITIONS, OR NO, YOU'RE NOT GETTING OUT BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE ARE ANY CONDITIONS TO SAFELY RELEASE YOU. 
          UM, AND THEN THE MAGISTRATE WILL THEN DETERMINE WHAT THOSE APPROPRIATE FINANCIAL TERM, I'M SORRY, NON-FINANCIAL RELEASE TERMS ARE. 
          UM, THOSE MAY BE DIFFERENT TYPES OF, UH, CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY, THEY, THE MAGISTRATE FEELS THAT PERSON CAN BE SAFELY RELEASED. 
          IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE THIS IN PLAY, AND THIS IS A REAL EXAMPLE FROM OCTOBER. 
          IT DOESN'T LOOK ANY DIFFERENT TODAY. 
          I JUST STILL, I'M STILL USING THE SAME SLIDE FROM OCTOBER OF A SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS BOOKED INTO JAIL ON OCTOBER 11TH. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE UNDER THAT SCORE SECTION THREE NUMBERS. 
          THE FIRST ONE IS A FTA SCORE, AND IT'S A SIX OUT OF SIX. 
          THAT'S THE HIGHEST RISK SCORE YOU CAN GET FOR A FAILURE TO APPEAR SCORE. 
          AND IF YOU SCORE LOOK OVER TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, YOU WILL SEE WHY THIS PERSON HAS A REPEATED, UM, UH, BEEN REPEAT REPETITIVELY NOT SHOWING UP TO COURT IN LA COUNTY. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY THAT'S PREDICTING, UH, A FAILURE TO APPEAR SCORE OF SIX OUT SIX, WHICH FROM OUR DATA WOULD SAY THIS PERSON IF RELEASED, WILL NOT SHOW UP TO COURT. 
          THERE'S A 98% CHANCE THEY WON'T SHOW UP TO COURT. 
          UM, IF YOU LOOK IN THE MIDDLE CATEGORY, NEW CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OR NCA, THIS PERSON'S ALSO A SIX OUT OF SIX, THE HIGHEST RISK SCORE YOU COULD HAVE. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE, YOU'LL SEE WHAT'S DRIVING THAT SCORE. 
          AND THEY HAVE, UH, THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS TWO PENDING CASES, UH, SEVERAL PRIOR CONVICTIONS AND SEVERAL PRIOR SENTENCES, UM, WHICH IS SHOWING SORT OF THE RAP SHEET FOR THIS INDIVIDUAL OVERALL. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, THERE'S A-N-V-C-A OR NEW VIOLENT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY FLAG. 
          AND THIS IS A PREDICTOR OF FUTURE VIOLENT CRIME. 
          UM, AND THIS PERSON WAS A FOUR OUT OF SIX, AND REALLY THAT'S BEING DRIVEN BY THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE A PRE, A COUPLE OF PREVIOUS VIOLENT CONVICTIONS IN THEIR RECORD, UM, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER FACTORS THAT ARE DRIVING THAT. 
          SO OVERALL, THE MAGISTRATE LOOKS AT ALL THIS INFORMATION, UH, CAN SEE THE SPECIFICS BEHIND ALL OF THAT, AS WELL AS OTHER INFORMATION THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT PROVIDES TO THEM. 
          AND THEN THEY MAKE A DETERMINATION. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE IN THIS EXAMPLE, UM, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRST, UH, ON THE LEFT SIDE, UM, THE, THE MAGISTRATE MADE THE DETERMINATION TO HOLD THIS PERSON FOR FURTHER REVIEW. 
          WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THE PERSON CANNOT GET OUT OF CUSTODY PRIOR TO ARRAIGNMENT. 
          SO THEY'RE GONNA BE SITTING IN JAIL FOR 48 HOURS. 
          THEY CAN'T POST BAIL AND GET OUT. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE WAITING FOR ARRAIGNMENT. 
          AND THEN WHEN THEY GET TO ARRAIGNMENT, THERE'LL BE A PROSECUTOR THERE WHO WILL, UM, MAKE A PITCH FOR WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHOULD STAY IN JAIL OR WHAT THE, THE CONDITIONS SHOULD BE. 
          YOU'LL HAVE A PUBLIC DEFENDER, ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC DEFENDER WHO WILL BE THERE TO MAKE A CASE FOR WHY THIS PERSON SHOULD BE RELEASED OR NOT, AND WHAT APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS ARE. 
          AND OF COURSE, YOU'LL HAVE A FORMAL CHARGING DOCUMENT, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THE PERSON HAS DONE ALLEGED A ALLEGEDLY DONE. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S BASICALLY, UH, HOW THE PROCESS WORKS FOR THE HOLD FOR FURTHER REVIEW. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE SOME MORE STATISTICS ON THAT IN A MINUTE. 
          IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THIS. 
          AND THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS A 1, 1 0 ON THOSE, UM, RISK FACTORS. 
          AND YOU'LL, YOU CAN SEE AS YOU LOOK TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, IT'S A FIRST TIME OFFENDER. 
          THEY'VE NEVER BEEN IN, THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ARRESTED OR CONVICTED. 
          UM, THEY DON'T HAVE ANY PREVIOUS FAILURES TO APPEAR. 
          UM, SO THIS PERSON, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE DECISION WAS MADE TO RELEASE THEM ON CONDITIONS. 
          UM, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO MAKE IT POST ANY BAIL, ANY MONEY TO, TO DO THIS. 
          THEY GOT OUT BECAUSE THE JUDGE SAID THEY'RE, 
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THEY'RE NOT A RISK TO THE PUBLIC OR VICTIM, AND THEY'RE NOT A RISK OF SHOWING UP TO COURT. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO ORDER THEM OUT, UH, OF CUSTODY WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS. 
          UM, SO THAT'S REALLY KIND OF HOW THIS SIFTS AND SORTS INTO THOSE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. 
          IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN THE PAST FIVE MONTHS AT MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          UM, AND BASICALLY WHAT WE SEE IS THAT COUNTYWIDE ABOUT, UM, 11.5% OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN REVIEWED AT THE MAGISTRATE REVIEW HAD BEEN ORDERED, RELEASED ON CONDITIONS. 
          UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, A A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD ALREADY RELEASED BY THE TIME WE EVEN GOT TO DOING SO, THEY HAD MADE THE DECISION ON THEIR OWN, THIS PERSON IS LOW ENOUGH RISK THAT THEY CAN BE RE RELEASED. 
          BUT BASICALLY, UM, 11.5%, ANOTHER 1.4% RELEASE ON THEIR OWN RECOGNIZANCE, WHICH HAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS BEEN OR RELEASE, ALWAYS BEEN AROUND, UH, AND THEN 87.1% TEMPORARILY HELD FOR FURTHER REVIEWED ARRAIGNMENTS. 
          SO WHEN CASES GET TO THESE MAGISTRATE FOR MAGISTRATES FOR REVIEW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT A A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THEM ARE BEING HELD, UH, FOR FURTHER REVIEW. 
          AND YOU MIGHT SAY, WOW, THAT'S, THAT'S A LOT OF FOLKS. 
          UM, WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          I THINK IT MIGHT HELP PUT THAT INTO CONTEXT. 
          UM, FIRST IS THAT WHAT WE SEE IS THAT 89% OF THE PEOPLE BEING ORDERED, RELEASED BY THE MAGISTRATES HAD A LOW RISK SCORE. 
          IT'S KINDA WHAT WE WOULD PREDICT. 
          MOST PEOPLE WITH A LOW RISK SCORE OUGHT TO BE ORDERED, RELEASED FROM CUSTODY BECAUSE WE DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT THEY WOULD BE A RISK TO THE PUBLIC OR THE VICTIM, OR THAT THEY WOULD BE A RISK NOT TO SHOW UP TO COURT. 
          ON THE OTHER HAND, 75% OF THOSE WHO ARE IN THAT MEDIUM TO HIGH RISK SCORE ARE BEING ORDERED TEMPORARILY HELD. 
          SO THAT'S HOW IT'S SIFTING AND SORTING. 
          THE LOW RISK PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY BEING, UH, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM ARE BEING ORDERED RELEASED, AND THE, UH, VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO ARE HIGH RISK OR MEDIUM RISK ARE BEING ORDERED HELD. 
          UM, I SHOULD POINT OUT, EVEN THOUGH, UM, THE, THE PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS DON'T APPLY THAT OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING CHARGED WITH THESE SERIOUS AND VIOLENT OFFENSES AND THEREFORE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR MONEY BAIL, 52% OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN THAT MEDIUM TO HIGH RISK SCORE AND ARE ELIGIBLE TO PAY THEIR WAY OUT OF JAIL, UH, WITHOUT ANY CONSIDERATION OF THEIR RISK. 
          IF WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN BOOKED ON THE, THOSE TEMPORARILY HELD NUMBERS. 
          UM, THIS GETS A REAL REALLY DEEP, REALLY FAST, BUT, UH, BOTTOM LINE IS THAT, UM, THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS THAT COME INTO PLAY WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE LOW RISK BUT HELD. 
          UM, IT MAY BE THAT WE GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM PROBATION ABOUT, UM, OTHER, UH, CHARGES OR CONVICTIONS FROM OTHER COUNTIES OR OTHER STATES. 
          UM, IT COULD BE THAT THEY'RE, THEY, THEY'RE LOW ON THE NEW CRIMINAL ACTIVITY RISK SCORE, BUT THEY'RE HIGH ON THE FAILURE TO APPEAR RISK SCORES. 
          UM, SO BASICALLY WE END UP SEEING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, UH, WHO FALL INTO OTHER CATEGORIES. 
          I TESTIFIED THIS MORNING AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, AND SO THIS IS ALL PUBLIC. 
          UM, BUT BASICALLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, UM, A NUMBER DROP OUT ABOUT OF PEOPLE THAT WERE HELD ABOUT WHY THEY WERE HELD, AND THEN THERE'S A NUMBER LEFT THAT'S ABOUT 929 PEOPLE WHO WERE HELD WHO AREN'T REALLY EXPLAINABLE EXCEPT FOR 927 OF THEM ARE CHARGED WITH, EXCUSE ME, ARE CHARGED WITH FELONY BURGLARY. 
          SO THAT'S THE NUMBER, THE OTHER BIG GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING HELD, EXCUSE ME, I'VE DONE A LOT OF TALKING TODAY. 
          OKAY, NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THEN I'LL, AND THEN I'LL TAKE QUESTIONS OR LISTEN TO YOU ALL IF I CAN FINISH. 
          UM, SO RE BOOKINGS ARE ANOTHER IMPORTANT ISSUE, WHICH THAT WE'VE BEEN TRACKING. 
          UM, YES, PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOT A TICKLE IN MY THROAT. 
          UH, SO WE'VE BEEN WATCHING BOOKINGS RE BOOKINGS ALONG THE WAY TO SEE, MAYBE I SHOULD WAIT A SECOND TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE RE-BOOKED ALONG THE WAY. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THAT ABOUT 8% OF ALL THE BOOKINGS COUNTYWIDE WERE RE-BOOKED IN THE, IN THE PERIOD OF TIME AT THE BEGINNING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO, UM, 8% OF THOSE FOLKS REBOOKED, 1,618 PEOPLE RE UH, BOOKING RE BOOKINGS. 
          UM, THEY WERE BOOKED ONCE AND THEN REBOOKED, UM, OUT OF THOSE BOOKINGS, YOU, WHAT WE SEE IS THAT ABOUT 58% OF THEM ARE PEOPLE WHO WERE RE-BOOKED ON MONEY BELL OFFENSES. 
          SO IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, THAT MEANS PEOPLE WERE BOOKED ON A SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSE, PAID THEIR WAY OUT OF JAIL, AND WERE REBOOKED MOST OF THE TIME ON ANOTHER SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSE, WHICH POINTS TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FACT THAT MONEY BE IS NOT REALLY A, A ADEQUATE PREDICTOR OF RISK. 
          UM, AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, WHAT WE SEE IS ONCE SOMEONE GOES THROUGH THAT MAGISTRATE REVIEW, ONLY FIVE OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE REBOOKED IN THAT SAME PERIOD OF TIME. 
          THAT'S NOT 5%, THAT'S FIVE PEOPLE. 
          UM, SO WE CONSIDER THAT TO BE A PRETTY GOOD PREDICTOR OF WHERE WE'RE SIFTING AND SORTING PEOPLE INTO THE RIGHT GROUPS. 
          THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY, AND IT'S NOT IN THE SLIDES, IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS IT, BUT IS THAT, UM, WE'VE SEEN ABOUT A 21% DROP IN BOOKINGS OVERALL SINCE WE STARTED. 
          SO IF YOU KIND OF TAKE THE OVERALL 
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POT AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE HAD RIGHT OFF THE BAT, 21% FEWER PEOPLE BEING BOOKED, AND THEN 32% OF THE PEOPLE ARE IN THAT BOOK AND RELEASE AND SOUGHT AND RELEASE CATEGORY. 
          SO THAT MAGISTRATE REVIEW CATEGORY YOU'RE BEING LEFT WITH ARE PRETTY MUCH THE SORT OF THE RISKIEST OF THE ONES THAT ARE REMAINING, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS CHOSEN, UM, HAS MADE THE DECISION TO BOOK THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO RISKY TO SITE AND RELEASE, OR THEY WEREN'T, THEY WERE TOO RISKY TO SORT OF FALL INTO THAT BOOK AND RELEASE OR SITE AND RELEASE CATEGORY. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF THE ONES THAT WE REALLY FEEL LIKE OUR MAGISTRATES SHOULD BE SPENDING THEIR ATTENTION ON TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO SEE WHICH ONES SHOULD REMAIN IN CUSTODY, UH, PENDING ARRAIGNMENT TILL WE CAN FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM AND WHICH ONES SHOULD BE ORDERED RELEASED FROM CUSTODY. 
          SO, UM, WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND HOPEFULLY NOT COUGH MY WAY THROUGH IT. 
          WELL, WE DO HAVE AT LEAST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FROM BEHIND THE RAIL. 
          I WANT TO, TO, UM, KIND OF CHANGE THINGS UP THOUGH, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE SOME, SOME COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME, MAY COME FROM PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          SO IF I COULD GET PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST PERFECT. 
          UH, AND THEN WE'LL TAKE IT BEHIND THE RAIL. 
          HAPPY TO DO SO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO PLEASE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT IF YOU SIGNED UP, IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, PLEASE LINE UP AT THE PODIUM NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU MA'AM. 
          CLERK, UH, MY NAME IS SAIFE SIX, DISTRICT RESIDENT. 
          UM, I WANT TO COMMENT ANECDOTALLY, UM, WITH RESPECT TO, UM, THE PRE ARRAIGNMENT RELEASE PROTOCOLS. 
          UM, I'M SPEAKING AS NOT JUST AS A RESIDENT AND SOMEONE WHO, UH, ENGAGES IN REFIGHTING RECIDIVISM WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE THAT I LIVE IN, BUT ALSO SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN A VICTIM OF THE CASH BAIL SYSTEM. 
          UM, AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR, UM, I WAS IMPRISONED WITHIN, UM, THE, THE JAIL SYSTEM, UH, TWIN TOWERS, UM, WITH RELATION TO A CALL THAT I MADE TO LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, IN, IN NEED MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 
          AND, UM, MY EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE SYSTEM, UH, HAS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED, UH, A LOT OF THE FAITH WITH RESPECT TO THE SYSTEM AT LARGE THAT I'VE MAYBE FORMALLY HAD, UM, CASE IN POINT, PRETRIAL DETENTION, UH, PRETRIAL DETENTION BEFORE YOU EVEN GET TO YOUR ARRAIGNMENT, AS WAS NOTIF, UH, WAS JUST SPOKEN ON, IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST COERCIVE FACTORS IN TAKING A PLEA. 
          OR, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, 46% OF PEOPLE WHO TAKE A PLEA BARGAIN BEFORE THEY EVEN GET TO THE POINT OF, UH, THE BAIL ARRANGEMENT ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE SITTING IN THESE OVERPACKED OVERCROWDED AREAS. 
          UH, I SAT FOR OVER A MONTH BEFORE I EVEN SAW A, A JUDGE NEVER HAD A CRIMINAL INFRACTION A DAY IN MY LIFE. 
          UH, SPEAKING AS SOMEONE WHO'S THE CARETAKER OF MY MOTHER AND MY DISABLED UNCLE AND GRANDMOTHER, UH, HAVING TO MAINTAIN THREE MORTGAGES, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COMES IN, COMES IN ALIGNMENT WITH DECISIONS THAT YOU MAKE ON WHAT, WHAT PLEAS YOU'RE GONNA TAKE, WHAT BAIL YOU'RE GONNA TAKE. 
          MY BAIL WAS $500,000. 
          UM, JUST TO MAKE THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT, UH, MURDER OR ARE ALLEGED TO MURDER PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOWER BAIL AMOUNTS THAN ME. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I HAD TO, UH, SIT IN, UH, LEVEL FOUR, UH, SITUATION WITH, UH, PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS WITH LONG TRACK RECORDS WHO WERE SURPRISED I WAS EVEN THERE, UH, IN MY THIRTIES THE FIRST TIME EVER TO THEN BE PUT INTO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE 85 MAN DORM WITH, UH, MY FIRST INFRACTION EVER IN LIFE. 
          SO ONLY TO THEN, YOU KNOW, HAVE SIX, SEVEN SENTENCES, UH, CHARGES DROPPED OFF MY BAIL, WHICH MADE MY BAIL GO FROM $500,000 TO UNDER A HUNDRED GRAND. 
          SO I'M JUST, UH, INTERESTED TO SEE MORE DATA WITH RESPECT TO HOW BAIL IS ENCOURAGING CERTAIN OUTCOMES THAT, UH, STANDS IN THE WAY OF, UH, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE HAPPENING FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE CITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MR. VEG, PLEASE STEP FORWARD. 
          HELLO? UH, MY NAME IS JAMES, AND, UH, I HAVE ONE QUESTION OF CONCERN. 
          UH, I, UH, AND IT'S CONCERNING THE, UH, SITE AND RELEASE AND THE BOOK AND RELEASE, WHICH, UH, THEN GOES INTO THE MR 
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I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT PROCESS BECAUSE THERE'S A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE, UH, THIS AFFECTS MORE, UH, PROPORTIONATELY THAN OTHERS, BUT THAT, UH, DEMOGRAPHIC OF INDIVIDUALS, THEY ARE THE MINORITY. 
          SO I'M REALLY, UH, CONCERNED ABOUT THIS MR. MAGISTRATE REVIEW BECAUSE WHO IS THE BALANCE AND CHECK SYSTEM OF MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S PARITY INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS? AND IT'S NOT JUST LEFT UP TO ONE INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE AS IT IS BEING LEFT UP IN THIS WAY, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE, CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN ATTACKED, AND BEING, UH, I DON'T SEE ANY PARITY EQUITY. 
          SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT JUST, UH, CROSSED MY MIND THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, THAT PROCESS RIGHT THERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT? NOT, I'LL TAKE IT BACK BEHIND THE RAIL OR VICE CHAIR DUGGAN , THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          THAT IS, UM, REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE ALL THE STATISTICS ON THE CHANGE. 
          I DIDN'T CATCH ONE OF THE PERCENTAGES YOU HAVE. 
          HOW MUCH IS THE SITE AND RELEASE AND BOOK AND RELEASE IN LONG BEACH? YEAH, UH, OKAY, SO 41%, IT WAS, UH, 24%. 
          SO I, UM, I CAN GIVE YOU, I'LL GIVE YOU ALL THE NUMBERS AND I'LL, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT HAVING THIS FOR YOU. 
          WE'LL GET THIS TO YOU. 
          BUT, SO FROM OCTOBER 1ST TO, UH, FEBRUARY 23RD, THERE WERE 1,546 BOOKINGS IN LONG BEACH. 
          UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THAT'S OF 1,448 INDIVIDUALS. 
          SO THERE'S A COUPLE PEOPLE THAT, UH, WERE BOOKED MULTIPLE TIMES. 
          MM-HMM, , UM, OF, OF ALL THOSE BOOKINGS, UH, 55% OF THEM, OR 856 OF THEM WERE THE SERIOUS OR VIOLENT OFFENSES. 
          UM, 369 OF THEM, OR 24% WERE THE CR BR BOOKINGS. 
          AND THEN 321 OF THEM, OR 21% WERE THE ONES THAT WERE MAGISTRATE REVIEWS OR ONES THAT WERE ELEVATED TO MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          SO I HAD A SIMILAR, WELL, IT HAD A QUESTION REGARDING THE, THE MAGISTRATE REVIEW. 
          CAN YOU JUST JUST WALK US THROUGH WHAT TRIGGERS THAT? AGAIN? IS IT THE INTERACTION WITH THE, IS IT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THAT, THAT TRIGGERS THE MAGISTRATE REVIEW OR WHERE, WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? SO THERE'S A CATEGORY OF OFFENSES, WHICH WE'VE GENERALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BAIL SCHEDULE, THEY'RE ALL THE ONES INDICATED BY MR. MM-HMM, , THEY'RE GENERALLY FALLING INTO FOUR CATEGORIES OF OFFENSE. 
          THEY'RE GUN CRIMES, THEY'RE SEX CRIMES, THEY'RE CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN, AND THEY'RE CRIMES AGAINST ELDERLY. 
          THOSE ARE THE PRIMARY ONES, BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THAT. 
          BUT BASICALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BAIL SCHEDULE, THEY'RE ALL DESIGNATED BY MR. SO THAT'S THE PRIMARY PLACE WHERE THE MRS ARE OCCURRING, MAGISTRATE REVIEWS ARE OCCURRING. 
          THAT BEING SAID, UM, LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS THE, UH, UH, ABILITY, UM, AS DO FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS AND LAWYERS OR OTHERS WHO WANNA DO SO SORT OF DOWNWARD DEVIATION, HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ASK FOR, UM, ENHANCED REVIEW. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, IF SOMEONE'S ARRESTED FOR A OFFENSE SUCH AS DESIGNATING THE BELL SCHEDULE AS C OR B LAW ENFORCEMENT, OR CAN PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL AND SAY, WE WOULD LIKE A MAGISTRATE TO REVIEW THIS INDIVIDUAL A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY. 
          UM, AND THEY COULD DO SO. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED, UM, SO OUT OF ALL THE MRS IN LONG BEACH, FOR INSTANCE, THERE WERE 321 TOTAL, 27 OF THOSE WERE BASED UPON THAT REQUEST FOR ENHANCED REVIEW. 
          SO THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE HAPPENING BECAUSE OF THE NATURAL WAY THE BAIL SCHEDULE WORKS. 
          BUT IT CAN BE TRIGGERED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASKING THAT WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES THAT, THEY CAN'T JUST CALL AND SAY, HEY, WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS PERSON A LITTLE CLOSER. 
          THEY REQUIRE TO SWEAR UNDER OATH, UM, WHY THIS PERSON IS AN ENHANCED RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY OR VICTIM SAFETY, SAFETY OR WHY THIS PERSON IS ENHANCED RISK TO A FLIGHT. 
          AND THEY HAVE TO GIVE SPECIFIC FACTS. 
          IF THEY DON'T, THEY CAN REQUEST IT, AND THE MAGISTRATE'S LIKELY TO THROW IT OUT BECAUSE IT'S NOT, UM, THEY HAVEN'T PROVIDED THE INFORMATION, BUT THEY HAVE TO DO SO UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          SO WHAT WOULD AN EXAMPLE BE OF AN ENFORCEMENT OFFICER? ARE THEY LISTENING TO SOMEONE WHO IS THERE, THERE THAT CAN BE WHAT, WHAT WOULD TRIGGER A MR REVIEW? SO, UM, I'LL JUST MAKE SOMETHING UP. 
          I MAY, I MAY GET TO SOME OF THESE DETAILS WRONG AND I'LL APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE, BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT SOMEONE IS ARRESTED FOR, UM, LET'S JUST SAY FELONY BURGLARY. 
          UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE ONES I MENTIONED TO YOU, HAS BEEN A, A, A CASE WHERE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, OF, OF HOLDS. 
          UM, BUT MAYBE IF I'LL JUST ON THE FACT ON THE, ON THE FACE OF IT, MAYBE IT'S A FIRST TIME OFFENDER, UM, WHO'S NEVER BEEN, UH, CONVICTED OR ARRESTED FOR ANYTHING ELSE. 
          AND SO MAYBE ON THE FACE OF IT, IT MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE THIS PERSON'S A REALLY ENHANCED RISK, BUT THEY MAYBE LAW 
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ENFORCEMENT HAS INFORMATION ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY ARE THE SUSPECT IN THREE OTHER, UM, UH, FELONY BURGLARIES, THAT THEY HAVE EVIDENCE THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GATHERING TO, TO BRING THOSE CASES. 
          AND MAYBE THEY WERE CAUGHT PEEPING IN ON SOME, I MEAN, MAYBE THERE'S ALL KINDS OF FACTORS, WHICH MIGHT BE CASE SPECIFIC, UM, WHICH MIGHT SEEM TO INDICATE THIS PERSON'S AN ENHANCED REVIEW OR, UM, SO I MEAN, I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S REALLY THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THEY'D HAVE TO PROVIDE, IT WOULD HAVE TO CROSS A THRESHOLD FOR THE JUDGE TO REALLY BELIEVE THAT DOES SHOW THIS PERSON'S AN ENHANCED REVIEW, I'M SORRY, ENHANCED RISK. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S REALLY HOW WE WOULD GET TO THAT POINT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I I HAD ONE LAST QUESTION, AND THAT WAS RELATING TO THE, UH, SITE AND RELEASE. 
          YES. 
          I THINK YOU MENTIONED IN YOUR PRESENTATION THAT, THAT THAT NUMBER WAS, WAS DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          UM, AND I'M TRYING TO JUST RATIONALIZE WHY THAT IS. 
          I I DON'T, SO WE DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE CITED AND RELEASED IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF THE BOOKING SYSTEM AND OUT, WE, WE KNOW ONCE THEY GET TO COURT. 
          UM, SO I, I CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT I CAN, WHAT I CAN TELL YOU. 
          I, I THINK IT MAY BE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, AND I'M, LAW ENFORCEMENT COULD TELL YOU EXACTLY HOW MANY SATIN RELEASES THERE ARE. 
          UM, MY, MY GUESS IS IT'S EITHER CONSTANT OR UP. 
          AND THE REASON WHY I WOULD SAY THAT IS BECAUSE TOTAL BOOKINGS COUNTYWIDE ARE DOWN 21% FROM THE PREOC OCTOBER 1ST DAYS. 
          SO JUST TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, ABOUT 265 PEOPLE WERE BEING BOOKED COUNTYWIDE, UM, UH, PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1ST AVERAGE PER DAY, AND WE'RE DOWN TO 2 0 9 PER DAY COUNTYWIDE RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, SO UNLESS ALL OF A SUDDEN CRIME HAS DROPPED BY 21% IN THE PAST FIVE MONTHS, UM, THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY BEING CITED AND RELEASED INTO THE COMMUNITY OR, UH, SOME OTHER, SOME OTHER WAY OF HANDLING THAT. 
          BUT THAT, SO I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IF I SAID IT PER PERHAPS THAT THAT QUESTION WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER POSED TOWARD OUR, OUR PD PERFECTLY YES. 
          IN TERMS OF UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT, UM, IT'S, IT'S WORTH THE TIME TO GO THROUGH A BOOKING PROCESS, UM, UNDER THE, THE CURRENT SCHEDULE AND THE WAY THINGS ARE. 
          UM, WOULD THERE BE ANYBODY? WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GONNA LET LET THAT HANG RIGHT THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I THINK IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. 
          UH, YOU, I THINK DEBUNKED SOME MYTHS, UH, AND GAVE US SOME, SOME, UM, SUBSTANTIVE INFORMATION TO, TO LOOK AT AND DATA TO, TO FOLLOW, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO TO, TO, TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THIS PROCESS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          IF IT'S OKAY, CAN I ADD ONE THING? YOU MAY. 
          UM, SINCE IT'S A PUBLIC FORUM AND THE PUBLIC'S LISTENING, UM, WE JUST ANNOUNCED THIS I THINK PROBABLY IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES WHILE WE'VE BEEN SITTING HERE, THAT THE COURT HAS JUST POSTED ON ITS WEBSITE A PUBLIC DASHBOARD, WHICH WILL BE UPDATED WITH THIS DATA REGULARLY. 
          SO THE PUBLIC CAN GO TO SEE THAT IT'S AT LA COURT.ORG/BAIL. 
          UM, AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE, THERE'S A PUBLIC, A PARP, A PARP, PUBLIC DATA DASHBOARD. 
          SO IF INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS IN THE PUBLIC ARE INTERESTED IN THIS TYPE OF DATA ONGOING, THEN GO LOOK FOR THEMSELVES. 
          UM, AND SO WE WOULD WELCOME ANYONE BEING ABLE TO GO LOOK AT THAT, 'CAUSE TRANSPARENCY WE WILL FEEL IS REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          I, I CERTAINLY AGREE. 
          I TH THANK YOU FOR, UH, MENTIONING THE DASHBOARD AND WE'LL BE SURE TO BE BE LOOKING AT IT OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. 
          THANK YOU ALL MUCH. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND REP FILE THE, UH, PRESENTATION FROM THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES ON THE, UH, NEW BAIL SCHEDULE. 
          UH, I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. 
          PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT ITEM, ITEM THREE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION FROM THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT WITH UPDATES ON THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, I'M GONNA TURN THIS OVER TO STAFF FOR PRESENTATION. 
          THERE'LL BE THREE OF US PRESENTING TODAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU TO THE PUBLIC 
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			Recommendation to receive and file a presentation from the Department of Health and Human Services with updates on the Safe Passage Program.
		
		
			 
			 
		
		
			 
			Suggested Action:
			Approve recommendation.
		
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SAFETY COMMITTEE FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH YOU TODAY TO SPEAK ON THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          MY NAME IS ERICA VALENCIA DCI. 
          I AM THE COLLECTIVE IMPACT BUREAU MANAGER AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND THE COLLECTIVE IMPACT BUREAU OVERSEES THE DEPARTMENT'S RACIAL AND HEALTH EQUITY WORK FUND DEVELOPMENT AND IS COMPRISED OF TWO OH, I'M A LITTLE SHORT, A LITTLE SHORTER THAN A PREVIOUS PRESENTER. 
          IS THAT BETTER? ? OKAY, GREAT. 
          UM, AND ALSO COMPRISED OF TWO CLICKER, THANK YOU. 
          ALSO COMPRISED OF TWO SEPARATE DIVISIONS. 
          AND SO THE FIRST DIVISION IS THE RESOURCE CONNECTION DIVISION, WHICH IS COMPRISE, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF THE CITY'S COMMUNITY CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM, MENTAL HEALTH SOURCING, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVES. 
          AND THE SECOND DIVISION IS WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY IS THE COMMUNITY IMPACT DIVISION, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF THE OFFICE OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, 
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REENTRY COORDINATION, STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMMING, AND THE LONG BEACH ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE, WHICH IS OUR VIOLENCE PREVENTION WORK. 
          UM, AND THAT'S WHERE THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM LIVES. 
          I'M HERE WITH MY COLLEAGUE STEPHANIE KALIK. 
          SHE'S THE ACTING COMMUNITY IMPACT DIVISION OFFICER, AND TEAL SAMUELS, WHO'S THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION MANAGER RIGHT BEHIND ME. 
          AND SO, OH, I HAVE THE CLICKER. 
          OKAY. 
          SO AS I MENTIONED TO YOU, WE'LL BE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, BUT I ALSO JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT ABOUT THE APPROACH THAT WE TAKE AND OUR WORK. 
          AND SO TO DO THAT, UM, WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT TAKING A PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO VIOLENCE AND OUR LONG BEACH ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE. 
          SO THIS IS OUR MODEL, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH MODEL, TO APPROACH VIOLENCE. 
          AND, UM, IT'S REALLY ROOTED IN COLLECTIVE IMPACT. 
          EVERYONE, EVERY DEPARTMENT, EVERY SECTOR IS INVOLVED AND THEY HAVE A KEY ROLE TO PLAY. 
          AND WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON CREATING PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND DIFFERENT SECTORS, BECAUSE THAT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO THE WORK. 
          AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT PREVENTION MODELS AND PREVENTION INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE, WE'RE FOCUSING ON COORDINATING. 
          WE'RE FOCUSING ON COLLABORATING AND ALLOCATING RESOURCES AND INVESTMENTS THAT IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OTHERS. 
          WE ALSO ENGAGE COMMUNITY AND PROVIDE ACTIVITIES LIKE SAFE PASSAGE THAT WILL CREATE SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS AND FOCUS ON UPSTREAM APPROACHES TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL ENVIRONMENT. 
          PREVENTION ACTIVITIES INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STABLE SOCIOECONOMIC AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO INCREASE PATHWAYS OVER THE LIFE COURSE. 
          AND SO PREVENTION IS, SHOULD BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY, OF COURSE, BUT IT'S ALSO HAPPENING AT EVERY LIFE STAGE. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SECOND PART OF OUR MODEL, WHICH IS INTERVENTION AND BIAS INTERRUPTION, WE'RE FOCUSED ON ACTIVITIES THAT REDIRECT AND INVEST IN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE AT THE HIGHEST RISK OF ENGAGING IN VIOLENCE. 
          THESE ACTIVITIES SHOULD ALSO CREATE SUPPORT FOR AND INVEST THOSE AT, IN INVEST IN THOSE AT HIGHEST RISK OF BEING VICTIMIZED BY VIOLENCE AND SHOULD INTERRUPT MULTIPLE FORMS OF VIOLENCE. 
          UM, VIOLENT INTERRUPTION MODELS ALSO RESPOND TO INCIDENCES TO PREVENT OR LESSEN FURTHER VIOLENCE FROM OCCURRING. 
          PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE ACTIVATION OF SPACES IS ALSO IMPORTANT. 
          AND SO THINGS LIKE REMOVING GRAFFITI OR OTHER SYMBOLS THAT ENCOURAGE VIOLENCE OR DETTER SOCIAL ACTIVITY IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          AND NOW TAKEN ALL TOGETHER, YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THE MODEL THAT PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, VIOLENCE INTERRUPTION, THEY'RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER. 
          THEY'RE ALL WORKING SIMULTANEOUSLY. 
          AND WHEN WE INVEST IN THESE EFFORTS, WE BRING ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY AND HEALING. 
          ACCOUNTABILITY AND HEALING IS COLLECTIVE WORK ROOTED IN CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. 
          WE ARE PROMOTING AND EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY AND OURSELVES, AND ALSO, UM, IT LEADS TO CREATING SAFE SPACES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE AND VICARIOUS TRAUMA. 
          AND SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO STEPHANIE KALIK TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE LONG BEACH ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE, WHICH ADDRESSES MULTIPLE COMPONENTS OF OUR, UM, ADVANCING PEACE MODEL. 
          AND NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANK YOU, ERICA. 
          OUR LONG BEACH ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE ADDRESSES VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO ADDRESSING VIOLENCE WITH FOUR GOALS IN MIND, SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS, SUPPORTIVE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, BUILDING SAFE AND HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS, AND USING TRAUMA-INFORMED SYSTEMS. THE ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE STEERING COMMITTEE, A FEW OF WHOM ARE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH US TODAY, IS A FORMALIZED ADVISORY GROUP. 
          COMBINE COMPRISED OF 16 COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS WHO WORK TOGETHER TO SET THE AGENDA FOR THE COLLABORATIVE NETWORK AND DIRECT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGIES IN NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          THE PURPOSE OF THE COLLABORATIVE NETWORK IS TO CREATE PARTNERSHIPS THAT CAN HELP INTERRUPT COMMUNITY VIOLENCE THROUGH PLACE-BASED NEIGHBORHOODS SUPPORTS AND SERVICES. 
          COLLABORATIVE NETWORK MEMBERS INCLUDE NONPROFIT LEADERS, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, RESIDENT LEADERS, AND CITY STAFF, ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO REIMAGINE PUBLIC SAFETY IN LONG BEACH. 
          AND I WANT TO ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONE OF OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT TEAM MEMBERS WHO'S BEEN INTEGRAL IN OUR SAFE PASSAGE EFFORTS, EDUARDO GARCIA IS HERE WITH US AS WELL. 
          AND NOW I'LL HAND IT OVER TO TEAL, WHO'S GONNA DIVE DEEPER INTO ONE OF THOSE PLACE-BASED EFFORTS. 
          SAFE PASSAGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, STEPHANIE. 
          HI, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MY NAME IS TEAL SAMUELS AND I'M THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION MANAGER, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY IMPACT DIVISION. 
          AND I'M HERE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A BASIC OVERVIEW OF SAFE PASSAGE IMPLEMENTATION IN LONG BEACH. 
          UM, SO SAFE PASSAGE IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGY THAT CAN LEAD TO DECREASE IN PEDESTRIAN INJURY, VIOLENT INCIDENTS AND ABSENTEEISM. 
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THIS IS ACHIEVED BY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ADULT MONITORS NEAR VIOLENT AND, UM, VIOLENT AND PEDESTRIAN INJURY HOTSPOTS. 
          THE LONG BEACH HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS ADOPTED THIS MODEL TO IMPROVE SAFETY FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          WITH THIS MODEL, SOME OF OUR ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES INCLUDE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WALKING TO AND FROM SCHOOL SAFELY, REDUCING THE INVOLVEMENT OF YOUTH AND GANGS, INCREASING, UH, PERCEPTION OF SAFETY FOR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          AND LASTLY, INCREASING SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS AND ENGAGEMENT AMONG PARTICIPATING SCHOOL SITE VOLUNTEERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS. 
          IN THIS SLIDE, WE DELVE INTO THE ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN THE SAFE PASSAGE AND THE DISTINCT MODELS THEY EMPLOY TO ENSURE COMMUNITY SAFETY ALONG DESIGNATED ROUTES. 
          PLEASE KNOW, EACH AGENCY CHOSE THE MODEL THEY FELT BEST SUITED THE NEEDS OF THEIR COMMUNITY AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE. 
          UH, IN THE NORTH LONG BEACH, WE'VE PARTNERED WITH SECOND CALL A USER OF THE MODEL IN OTHER PARTS OF LA COUNTY, TO WHICH THEIR SAFE PASSAGE INITIATIVE ADOPTS THE PROFESSIONAL OR PARAPROFESSIONAL MODEL. 
          AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MEMBER, UH, FROM SECOND CALL HERE IN THE AUDIENCE, JAMES MARKS. 
          UM, THIS APPROACH FOCUSES ON EMPLOYING TRAIN PROFESSIONALS OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO MONITOR SAFETY ALONG DESIGNATED WALKING ROUTES, PARTICULARLY IN HIGH TRAFFIC OR HIGH CRIME AREAS. 
          THE DESIGNATED WALKING ROUTES INCLUDE JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL AND HOUGHTON PARK. 
          UH, THE PROFESSIONAL MODEL IS TYPICALLY IMPLEMENTED IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES IN URBAN AREAS WHERE SAFETY CONCERNS ARE PREVALENT. 
          IT BRINGS TOGETHER VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING PUBLIC AGENCIES, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND COMMUNITY GROUPS TO IMPLEMENT THE MULTIFACETED PROGRAM AIMED AT ENSURING THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS DURING THEIR COMMUTE TO AND FROM SCHOOL. 
          UH, CONVERSELY, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIDE, UH, UH, IN CENTRAL LONG BEACH'S SAFE PASSAGE IN INITIATIVE OPERATES UNDER THE VOLUNTEER MODEL WITH, WITH DAY, WITH, EXCUSE ME, WITH DAYS LONG BEACH ACTING AS OUR PROVIDER. 
          THIS MODEL IS OFTEN ADMINISTERED BY COMMUNITY-BASED AGENCIES OR SCHOOLS, ENLISTING THE HELP OF PARENTS, RESIDENTS, OR BUSINESS OWNER VOLUNTEERS STATIONED ALONG HIGHLY TRAVEL SCHOOL ROUTES. 
          THESE VOLUNTEERS ACT AS NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, MONITORING AND REPORTING POTENTIALLY UNSAFE INCIDENTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OR SCHOOL SECURITY PERSONNEL. 
          THE DESIGNATED WALKING ROUTES IN CENTRAL LONG BEACH INCLUDE FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND WHITTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THESE MODELS ALIGN WITH OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S PLACE-BASED STRATEGY, WHICH FOCUSES ON NORTH AND CENTRAL EAST LONG BEACH. 
          BY TAILORING OUR APPROACH TO THE SPECIFIC NEEDS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AREAS, WE CAN EFFECTIVELY ENHANCE COMMUNITY SAFETY AND PROMOTE PEACE WITHIN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          UM, AND AS AN EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY, SAFE PASSAGE HAS A LONGSTANDING HISTORY OF IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN LONG BEACH. 
          THE STRATEGY CONTINUES TO BE USED BY COMMUNITY BASED AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, OTHER PAST AND PRESENT USERS OF THE SAFE PASSAGE MODEL THROUGHOUT LONG BEACH. 
          INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO CENTRAL CHA, UH, TO A PRESENT, UM, A A PRESENT USER OF THE SAFE PASSAGE MODEL ALONG THE SANTA FE CORRIDOR, WHICH INCLUDES CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND WE ACTUALLY ALSO HAVE TWO MEMBERS FROM CENTRAL CHA HERE, CINDY AND EDDIE. 
          UM, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, ANOTHER PRESIDENT USER OF THE MODEL, WHICH FOCUSES ON WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, UH, FOCUS, F-O-C-U-S, LED BY BILLY BROWN, AN ENTREPRENEUR WHO HAS LED EFFORTS AROUND WALKING ROUNDS TO FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND LOVE BEYOND LIMITS, A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED BY THE CURRENT CO-CHAIR OF THE ADVANCING PEACE STEERING COMMITTEE, MALIKA CHRIS, WHO USES ELEMENTS OF THE SAFE PASSAGE MODEL TO ENHANCE HER PROGRAMMING AROUND L-B-U-S-D SCHOOLS IN SIGNAL HILL. 
          AS FAR AS NEXT STEPS, WE ANTICIPATE THE CITY LED SAFE PASSAGE, UH, WILL GO INTO EFFECT STARTING MARCH, 2000, UM, MARCH, UH, 2024 UNTIL ROUGHLY DECEMBER, 2024. 
          UH, ADDITIONALLY, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS BEGUN HOSTING MONTHLY CONVENINGS FOR ALL SAFE PASSAGE PROVIDERS AND USERS OF THE MODEL, INCLUDING THE LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          IN REGARDS TO COMMUNICATION EFFORTS, WE'RE 
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CURRENTLY HAVING ONGOING DISCUSSIONS WITH THE LONG, WITH THE LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS THE, UH, PARKS, RECREATION, AND MARINES TO ALIGN, UH, OUR BEST PRACTICES. 
          AND LASTLY, UH, UH, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING OUT A SYSTEM TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE DATA TO INFORM, UH, FUTURE PROGRAMMING AND INITIATIVES IN LONG BEACH. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR GIVING, GIVING US THE SPACE TO PRESENT AND WE WILL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY. 
          SURE. 
          IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL? I, I WANT TO JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I'M VERY ENCOURAGED TO SEE THAT OUR, UH, SAFE PASSAGE INITIATIVE IS MOVING FORWARD THROUGH OUR, UH, ADVANCING PEACE, UH, PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND, AND IT IS, IT'S INTEGRATED INTO THE WORK THROUGH VIOLENCE PREVENTION THAT WE'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN FOR, FOR MANY YEARS. 
          UM, I YOU DID, I DID HAVE, UH, SOME, SOME CLARIFICATION 'CAUSE YOU MENTIONED CITY LED VIOLENCE OR, OR SAFE PASSAGE, UM, VERSUS WHAT ELSE? WHO ELSE IN, IN OTHER, DID YOU LIST ALL OF THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS GOING ON HERE IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW? AND CAN YOU DIS DISTINGUISH WHICH ONES ARE CITY LED VERSUS THOSE THAT AREN'T? AND ARE THERE, AND WILL THERE BE ANY SORT OF COLLABORATION, UM, IN TERMS OF DATA? YES. 
          UM, SO, UH, WHEN I SPEAK TO CITY LED, I, I SPECIFICALLY MEAN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, SO, UH, ANY CITY LED EFFORTS WOULD INCLUDE, UH, THANK YOU, ERICA. 
          THESE, UH, TWO ORGANIZATIONS, SECOND CALL AND DAYS LONG BEACH WILL BE WORKING ALONGSIDE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT THE CITY LED, UM, SAFE PASSAGES. 
          MM-HMM, . 
          UM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER SAFE PASSAGE USERS. 
          UH, THEY CAN GO BY DIFFERENT NAMES. 
          SOME GO BY SAFE PASSAGES. 
          I'VE HEARD OTHER NAMES THAT I CAN'T SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER IN THIS MOMENT. 
          BUT, UH, UH, AS MENTIONED IN THIS SLIDE, UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, PAST, UH, WE HAVE PRESENT AND PAST USERS OF THE MODEL THAT WE ARE CONVENING WITH, UH, WHERE WE'RE WORKING TO IDENTIFY WHO THOSE USERS ARE CURRENTLY, WHO HAVE BEEN SOME OF THOSE USERS. 
          THE ONES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SO FAR INCLUDE CENTRAL CHA, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, UH, AN ORGANIZATION CALLED FOCUS THAT WAS LED BY BILLY BROWN, UM, AND LOVE BEYOND LIMITS. 
          UH, SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE'RE BEGINNING TO CONVENE WITH, UH, TO ALIGN OUR BEST PRACTICES AND SEE WHERE THERE MIGHT BE OVERLAP AND, UH, PROVIDE, BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, UH, UPDATES ON, ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING AND, AND, UH, HOW WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND IS DO WE, AND, AND I WOULDN'T, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW THE CITY LED PROGRAMS ARE FUNDED, UM, BUT THE OTHER SAY PASSAGE PROJECTS GOING ON IN THE CITY, UM, THAT YOU MENTIONED HERE ON THIS SLIDE, UM, ARE HOW ARE THEY BEING FUNDED THROUGH? ARE WE AWARE THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS? UM, UH, OR IF THEY'RE BEING FUNDED AT ALL? YEAH, SO CENTRO CHA IS BEING FUNDED CURRENTLY BY THE LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND THEY, THEY ARE ANTICIPATED TO START, I BELIEVE, UM, VERY, VERY SOON. 
          AND THEN THE CITY LED EFFORTS ARE THROUGH LBRA FUNDING, WHICH WE KNOW ENDS IN DECEMBER OF 2024. 
          AND THOSE ARE HAPPENING NOW, THE CITY LED EFFORTS, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF EXECUTING THOSE CONTRACTS. 
          AND SO IN FACT, THEY'VE JUST BEEN EXECUTED. 
          SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING THOSE FORWARD. 
          SO THE ANTICIPATED START DATE WILL BE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, SO IN TIME FOR SPRING BREAK, HOPEFULLY BEFORE SUMMER VACATION. 
          RIGHT. 
          . 
          BUT THE PROGRAM WILL CONTINUE ON THROUGH THE END OF DECEMBER. 
          SO THROUGH THE END OF DECEMBER MEANS THAT, UM, WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IS POTENTIALLY HAVING A, A STANDUP PROGRAM FOR MM-HMM. 
           A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR, AND THEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF THE NEXT BEGINNING OF THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. 
          BUT THEN WE, WE HAVE A FALL OFF AFTER DECEMBER. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? AND HOW MUCH OF THE LBRA FUNDS THAT WE DEDICATE TOWARD SAFE PASSAGE? 100% OF THE FUNDING FOR SAFE PASSAGE IS THROUGH LBRA. 
          UM, ARE YOU ASKING SPECIFICALLY HOW MUCH, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT DO WE KNOW? UH, I BELIEVE THERE'S 90,000 THAT'S GOING TO ACTUALLY HAVE IT WRITTEN DOWN. 
          UM, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S 90,000 GOING TO ONE ORGANIZATION AND ABOUT 200,000 GOING TO A SECOND ORGANIZATION. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UH, WE, WE MAY BE SCHEDULING THIS FOR A FULL CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION AT SOME POINT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? NO. 
          HEARING NONE. 
          IS THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? THANK YOU STAFF FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM NOW. 
          UH, THANK YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER COVINGTON. 
          UH, MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY, AND HE, I'M ACTUALLY ONE OF THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE ADVANCING PEACE INITIATIVE, SO I'M GLAD TO BE HERE. 
          UH, ALSO SPEAKING AS A RESIDENT, UM, PERTAINING TO THE SAFE PASSES PROGRAM, I JUST WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO STAFF, UH, FOR ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO CONVENE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, COMMUN CONVENE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, TO BE ABLE TO GET THEM INTO THE PROGRAM. 
          UH, THEY'VE HAD THESE FUNDS FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND THERE'S AN APPROVAL PROCESS THROUGH THE CITY THAT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR THEM TO GET APPROVED. 
          SO, UM, AS CHAIR HAD MENTIONED, THEY JUST GOT IN, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, SUMMER BREAK, AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE FIRST YEAR. 
          UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY A LOT, IN MY OPINION, AS A RESIDENT, THAT'S DUE TO THE CUMBERSOME PROCESS, UH, THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY TO BE ABLE TO GET PARTNERS IN AND PAID TO BE ACTUALLY ABLE TO CONDUCT THE SERVICES THAT WE NEED. 
          UM, CHRISTINA, CHRISTINA DUGGAN, YOU'RE ACTUALLY ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE THIS YEAR. 
          SO THIS CONVERSATION IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          UM, WHEN CITIES INVEST IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROGRAMS JUST LIKE THIS, WE SEE HIGHER, WE SEE LOWER RATES OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THE MOST SAFEST COMMUNITIES ARE THE MOST OVER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES. 
          AND SO IN THIS CURRENT BURGESS CYCLE, UM, WE ARE FACING A DEFICIT, $28 MILLION DEFICIT. 
          UM, AND THERE'S A LOT OF ADVOCATES PROTECTING CERTAIN POTS OF MONEY. 
          UM, BUT WHAT WE, AND I MYSELF SEE ON A REGULAR BASIS IS VIOLENCE PREVENTION IS ALWAYS A PROJECT OR OVER, ALWAYS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. 
          UM, SO MY RECOMMENDATION TO YOU ALL AS A COMMITTEE, I KNOW TODAY'S A RECEIVING FILE, BUT MAYBE AT A FUTURE MEETING, YOU CAN, UH, AGENDIZE A, UH, EXPLORATION OF WHAT AN OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND, UM, REENTRY LOOKS LIKE, SO THAT THE CITY CAN DEDICATE A MILLION DOLLARS, MILLION PLUS WHATEVER ON A CONSTANT BASIS SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO RUN ON PROJECT BASED FUNDING, ONE TIME FUNDING. 
          UM, AND THE OTHER ELEMENT IS THAT THERE'S A EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP COMMITTEE, UH, THAT, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE HAS MET YET. 
          UM, THAT'S CHAIRED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MEGAN KERR. 
          AND IT MIGHT BE IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR BOTH OF Y'ALL TO COME TOGETHER TO SEE HOW THE CITY CAN SUPPORT, UH, THE, UH, SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAMS. BECAUSE AT THIS MOMENT, AS A RESIDENT, THE WAY THAT SAFE PASSAGES ARE BEING FUNDED IS, UH, MIXED, MATCHED ONE OFF, AND THERE'S NO REALLY, UH, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH FUNDING OR COORDINATED EFFORT TO GIVE IT WHAT IT NEEDS. 
          AND THE BEST PEOPLE TO DO THAT ARE CHAMPIONS JUST LIKE YOU FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          AND I HOPE THAT YOU'LL CONSIDER THIS AS YOU ADVOCATE IN THE BUDGET CYCLE TO SEE THAT WE GET THE, THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THAT WAS GREAT. 
          CAN I GET HIS NINE SECONDS? UH, MADAM CLERK? NO. 
          , NO. 
          UH, KIN FACE, SIX DISTRICT RESIDENT, UH, THANK YOU STAFF FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I LOVE THE CONCEPT OF HOW THE, UM, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN WITH RESPECT TO SAFETY, WHICH, UH, YOU KNOW, BRINGS OUR PUBLIC SAFETY TEAM AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TOGETHER IN ADDITION TO, UH, MAYBE SOME OF THE OTHER PARTNERS THAT ARE IMPACTED, LIKE, UH, L-B-U-S-D. 
          UM, WITH RESPECT TO THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM, UM, I LOOK AT IT AS AN INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, UH, CONCEPT, NOT JUST AS A HEALTH, UH, CONCEPT WITH RESPECT TO HOW WE REGULARLY MAINTAIN, UH, AND INVEST IN OUR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UH, THE SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, MAINTAIN THE SAFETY OF THESE CORRIDORS THAT SURROUND A LOT OF OUR, UM, EDUCATIONAL SPACES, UH, PARKS, ET CETERA. 
          UM, SOMETHING THAT I WAS INTERESTED MAYBE HEARING A LITTLE BIT MORE ON, UM, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IT'S, WE CAN SPEAK ABOUT THE RFP THAT WAS MENTIONED, SO I'LL JUST IGNORE THAT. 
          BUT RELATION TO, UH, WASHINGTON, UH, MIDDLE SCHOOL, THEY ARE GONNA BE CLOSED FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS, AND THE STUDENT BODY'S GONNA BE BEING TRANSPORTED TO, UH, MARY BUTLER. 
          UM, JUST KNOWING THE PROFILE OF THE WASHINGTON STUDENTS AND THE, UM, THE PROFILE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT MARY BUTLER IS IN, 
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I'M JUST CURIOUS TO SEE, UH, WHAT IS THE, UM, AS THE CHAIR JUST MENTIONED, THE IMPLIED SPEED OF THE FUNDING OF THIS PROGRAM, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE A NECESSITY BECAUSE THERE'S A, THERE'S GONNA BE TENSION THAT COMES WITH THE REALITY OF THAT TRANSPORTATION. 
          UH, AND THEN ALSO WITH RESPECT TO DESIGNATED WALKING ROUTES. 
          UM, I APPRECIATE THE WORK OF EVERYONE THAT'S ALREADY DOING THE WORK, BECAUSE IT TAKES A LOT. 
          UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS TO SEE, UH, WITH RESPECT TO IN THE NINTH DISTRICT AND EIGHTH AND NINTH DISTRICT, UH, I DON'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE. 
          UH, WITH RESPECT TO THE EIGHTH DISTRICT, SOME OF THE CORRIDORS THAT AREN'T BEING MENTIONED, THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE, UH, EMPHASIS, UM, IN THE CURRENT RFP, YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE OR THE OTHER. 
          UH, AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS GOING TO BE SUITABLE WITH RELATION TO IMPACT AND SCALABILITY. 
          I'M THINKING OF SCHOOLS LIKE LINDBERGH, SCHOOLS LIKE, UH, POWELL, UH, THESE ARE PLACES THAT DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE THIS, BUT IT NEEDS IT. 
          UH, AND SOME, UM, CBOS IN OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY, UH, IF THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO, THEY COULD JUST AS EFFECTIVELY EXECUTE THE PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY DOING IN ONE PART OF THE CITY, IN ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY. 
          I THINK MAYBE THE CITY COULD BE USING THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS AND THE INCENTIVES OF THE PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NOT JUST OTHER CBOS, BUT CBOS THAT HAVE DIFFERENT DESIGNATED TARGET AUDIENCE, TARGET POPULATIONS. 
          BECAUSE, UH, USUALLY IT'S THE CASE THAT IF A CBO IS, UH, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF CHILDREN FROM ONE DEMOGRAPHIC, THEY PROBABLY ARE SOME TYPE OF CULTURAL OR RACIAL DIVISION OR TENSION WITH A CBO WITH ANOTHER ONE. 
          SO IT JUST AS A OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE EVERYONE WORK TOGETHER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IS THERE ANY MORE PUBLIC COMMENT? WELCOME. 
          HI. 
          UM, GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          I WASN'T GONNA SPEAK, BUT I WAS, UH, MOTIVATED AND, UH, INSPIRED BY NIA AND, UH, CHRIS. 
          UM, MY NAME IS EDDIE RAMIREZ. 
          I'M WITH SAN CHA, UH, BORN AND RAISED IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT. 
          UH, SO THAT'S HOME. 
          UH, ONE THING THAT I DO WANT TO SAY IS, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO SAFE PASSAGES, I KNOW THAT SOMETHING CHILD IS DOING, WE'RE DOING OUR SAFE PASSAGE, AND IT'S FUNDED BY LONG BEACH, UH, LONG BEACH, UH, SORRY, BY THE LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. 
          UH, AND WE ARE GONNA START IN MARCH. 
          UM, BUT ONE THING I JUST WANNA SAY IS, YOU KNOW, INVESTING IN THE YOUTH, THE COMMUNITY, UM, WHAT CHRISTOPHER WAS SAYING IS, WHAT, I JUST WANNA ECHO WHAT HE WAS SAYING, THAT WE REALLY NEED TO INVEST AND SUSTAIN THIS NOT FOR JUST ONE YEAR OR SIX MONTHS. 
          IT HAS TO BE ONGOING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT SAVING LIVES. 
          IT'S ABOUT SAVING THE YOUTH, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE ATTENDING SCHOOL, MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SAFE. 
          YOU KNOW, I KNOW FOR ME IT WAS A CHALLENGE. 
          I WENT TO POLY, GREW UP ON TANTON LEWIS, AND IT WAS A MISSION JUST TO GET TWO BLOCKS FROM THERE. 
          AND I KNOW TO THIS DAY, OUR YOUTH ARE STILL FACING THAT. 
          SO WE NEED TO ADDRESS THAT, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU'RE THE LEADERS OF, OF LONG BEACH AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I I JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE INVEST IN THIS, CONTINUE TO INVEST THIS, INVEST IN THIS, AND, UM, HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS HERE THAT ARE DOING GREAT WORK AND WANNA BE PART OF THIS AND WANNA BE AT THE TABLE. 
          SO PLEASE, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, REACH OUT TO US, UH, 'CAUSE WE HAVE INPUT, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE, WE'RE THE ONES THAT ARE CLOSER TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE, AND PLEASE, IF YOU ARE GONNA SPEAK LINE UP. 
          SO WE HAVE, UH, THIS WAS, UH, SPONTANEOUS THE, EXCUSE ME, I'M SORRY, BUT I WAS INSPIRED BY THE, UH, THE TWO GENTLEMEN THAT JUST WENT PRIOR TO ME. 
          UH, I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT THIS IS, UH, SEEM TO BE RECURRING. 
          WE, WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE, MANY TIMES BEFORE, UH, WITH OUR, WITH OUR ELDERS WHO HAVE, UH, WEED AND SEED THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. UH, BILLY, HE'S, UH, IMPLEMENTED THE FOCUS PROGRAM ON HIS OWN FOR MANY YEARS THAT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AT WASHINGTON MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE, UH, AS A COMMUNITY, WHEN WE DO COMMUNITY LED, COMMUNITY DRIVEN EFFORTS THAT WE BE, UH, WE'RE VICTIMIZED FOR OUR SUCCESS, PENALIZED BECAUSE YOU ALL CUT OUT. 
          WE GET NO SUPPORT, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD AND, UH, QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA TO BACK UP THE, UH, THE EFFORTS AND THE, UH, IMPACT THAT WE'RE HAVING. 
          SO I'M JUST HOPING THAT, UH, ECHO WHAT MY, UH, CO COMMUNITY, UH, MEMBERS JUST MENTIONED, THAT WE GET SOME TYPE OF EFFORT OF SUSTAINABILITY IN OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY IN, IN THE AREAS THAT'S NEEDED MOST. 
          BECAUSE FOR WHATEVER REASON, WHERE THERE'S POLITICAL WILL TO, UH, CONTINUE TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY AND OTHER PLACES, THAT SEEMS TO HAPPEN. 
          AND, AND, AND, AND THIS BRINGS ME BACK TO SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS, A FEW YEARS AGO, I WAS DRIVING MY DAUGHTER AROUND THE CITY, 
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AND SHE ASKED ME, SHE SAID, DAD, SHE SAID, WHERE ARE WE AT? I SAID, WE'RE STILL IN LONG BEACH. 
          AND IT, AND IT WAS, MY DAUGHTER WAS LIKE SEVEN YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, AND SHE NOTICED THE DIFFERENCE OF THE INVESTMENT IN ONE AREA OF THE COMMUNITY COMPARED TO ANOTHER AREA. 
          AND THAT JUST BLEW MY MIND. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COGNIZANT OF THAT AND CONTINUE TO REINVEST IN THE COMMUNITY THAT'S NEEDED THE MOST. 
          BECAUSE FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE HAVE A POPULATION, A DEMOGRAPHIC OF INDIVIDUALS AND, UH, ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMMUNITY. 
          BUT EVERYONE ELSE THAT'S NOT FROM THE COMMUNITY, THEY'RE ALLOWED TO COME AND, UH, SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY IN THE MOMENTS. 
          SO WHEN WILL WE BE A PART OF, YOU KNOW, THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMMUNITY? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. 
          HELLO EVERYONE. 
          MY NAME IS, UH, BILLY BROWN. 
          I AM THE FOUNDER OF FOCUS TILL WE GOT TOUCH BASES, . 
          UM, I JUST HAVE TO GET UP HERE AND, UM, TALK. 
          UM, BASICALLY, UM, WE DEFINITELY NEED, NEEDED THE RESOURCES. 
          WE NEED THE RESOURCES. 
          UM, I'M GOING TO SPEAK ON, UH, A MACRO ASPECT OF WHAT LONE BEACH IS IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE LOOK AT LONE BEACH AND HOW THAT WE CAN TRAIL TRAILBLAZE THIS AND HAVE EVERYONE FOLLOW OUR STEP. 
          UM, AS YOU KNOW, LONG BEACH IS A VERY POWERFUL CITY. 
          UH, PEOPLE MOVE FROM LONG BEACH. 
          THEY WANT TO, UH, WEAR LONG BEACH GEAR. 
          YOU HAVE, UH, MUSICIANS THAT, UH, TALK ABOUT LONG BEACH. 
          YOU HAVE ACADEMIC PEOPLE, YOU HAVE SPORTS, NFL PEOPLE. 
          EVERYBODY LOVES LONG BEACH. 
          IT IS A QUALIFIED AND A BONAFIDE CITY THAT EVERYBODY IS COPYING. 
          AND WHEN I SAY COPYING, I MEAN OTHER CITIES. 
          I MEAN, OTHER STATES, OTHER COUNTRIES ARE MIMICKING WHAT WE HAVE DONE HERE IN LONG BEACH. 
          AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE DID IN THE PAST, FAR AS THE ATHLETICISM, FAR AS THE CULTURE IN THE EIGHTIES, IN THE NINETIES, THE HIP HOP CULTURE. 
          PEOPLE ARE MIMICKING IT. 
          AND THE SAME ISSUES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN LONG BEACH, THEY HAVE OUT THERE AND THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT, BUT THEY'RE 30 YEARS BEHIND, AND WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO FIX THIS NOW. 
          SO, UM, WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT WE WANT TO BE THE TRAILBLAZERS FOR EVERYONE TO FOLLOW. 
          AND RIGHT NOW I'VE BEEN DOING, UM, THIS COMMUNITY STUFF FOR OVER 25 YEARS, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN, UH, A COLLECTIVE OF EVERYBODY WORKING TOGETHER AT ONE TIME. 
          AND EVERYBODY IS ON ACCORDANCE. 
          SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO INTRODUCE THAT AND WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW, LET US BE THE TRAILBLAZERS OF THE WORLD FOLLOWING WHAT WE DO WHEN IT COMES TO SAFE PASSAGE IN OUR STUDENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          AND BEFORE I GO BACK BEHIND THE COUNCIL, I'LL JUST TAKE THE PREROGATIVE TO THANK THE COMPETEN MENTORS FOR, UH, YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS TODAY. 
          THANKS STAFF FOR THEIR PRESENTATION. 
          TO THOSE WHO ARE, UM, ON THE FRONT LINE IN OUR COMMUNITY, PUTTING FORTH THE BRAVE WORK AND STANDING WITH YOUTH AND FAMILIES, WE, WE JUST SAY WE APPRECIATE YOU. 
          I WANNA REMIND YOU THAT, THAT I AM THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THAT BROUGHT FORTH THE ITEM AND THE MOTION TO GET THIS WHOLE STATE PASSAGE CONVERSATION STARTED. 
          AND SO, UM, COMING BACK FULL CIRCLE, ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, UM, HERE, , UM, THINGS TAKE TIME TO GET, UH, IMPLEMENTED. 
          BUT, UH, FULL CIRCLE, I'M ENCOURAGED THAT, THAT THERE'S ACTIVITY OUT THERE. 
          AND WHEN WE BROUGHT IT FORWARD, IT WAS OKAY. 
          I THINK THE, THE INITIAL THOUGHT WAS, OKAY, WELL, WE'LL JUST GET PD TO GIVE US A PLAN AND LOOK, I SAID, NO, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A HOLISTIC PROCESS WHERE WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ON THE GRASSROOTS, OBVIOUSLY COORDINATING CONSULTING WITH OUR, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, OFFICIALS. 
          UH, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE THIS SOMETHING THAT, THAT, UH, IS, IS VERY ORGANIC THE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY COULD GET INVOLVED IN. 
          I DON'T THINK THERE WAS A, AN INTENT TO PUT A BIG PRICE TAG ON THIS, BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE THAT AT THE SAME TIME, EVEN WHEN WE BROUGHT IT FORWARD, THERE WEREN'T, WEREN'T, UM, UNLIMITED RESOURCES TO PUT FORTH. 
          BUT I'M GLAD THAT THERE'S SOMETHING TO GET THIS OFF THE GROUND, UH, TO STUDY, UM, TO, TO HOPEFULLY DEVELOP SOME BEST PRACTICES AND, UM, PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY TO SEE VALUE IN A SAFE PASSAGE PROGRAM. 
          WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY NOW. 
          UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW. 
          UM, A YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF AGO, WE WEREN'T. 
          AND SO I THINK THIS IS PROGRESS. 
          UM, AND ALSO 
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THERE WAS AN IDEA, THANK YOU, CHRIS, FOR YOUR, YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS. 
          BUT YOU, YOU EXPRESSED, UH, THAT THERE'S, UH, THE, THE JOINT COMMITTEE WITH, UH, THE CITY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT SHOULD, SHOULD COME TOGETHER TO MEET. 
          AND, UM, IRONICALLY, IT JUST, HE JUST WALKS IN AT THE  AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, BOARD MEMBER, UH, DOUG OTTO HERE IS HERE. 
          WELCOME, SIR. 
          BUT I THINK THAT IS, THAT IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT. 
          UM, THERE'S, THERE NEEDS TO BE BETTER COLLABORATION. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC RESOURCES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CITY'S RESOURCES. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT RESOURCES AS A, AS A LONG TIME TAXPAYER OF THE CITY PAYING PROPERTY TAX AND SALES AND USE TAX AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          UM, THOSE ARE MY DOLLARS GOING TO BOTH ENTITIES. 
          AND SO I THINK I SPEAK FOR MOST RESIDENTS. 
          THEY WOULD LOVE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, US COORDINATING. 
          WHAT I AM ENCOURAGED BY WHAT I SEE HERE IS ALSO IS THAT, UM, WHEN THERE, THERE'S NO OVERLAP. 
          THE CITY IS WORKING IN THE SAME AREA AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, UH, AND I THINK WE CAN, AND IN COMMUNITY, WE CAN, WE CAN BE STRATEGIC ABOUT HOW WE, WE DO THIS, BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME COORDINATION, UH, WITH ALL OF OUR PUBLIC AGENCIES AND COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THIS RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR, FOR YOUR, YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS, THIS, UH, CONVERSATION TODAY. 
          UH, WE WILL BE MOVING THIS, AND I, IT'S PART OF THE MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE, BUT CAN YOU AMEND THAT MOTION TO, UM, FORWARD THIS ITEM TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING? UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO IT AT A DATE CERTAIN, BUT, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS. 
          YEAH, I AGREE TO THAT. 
          AND I JUST HAD A COMMENTARY, NOT PART OF THE MOTION, BUT I HAVE A VERY KEEN INTEREST IN SAFE PASSAGE AT DAYCARES, PRESCHOOLS AND WHATNOT. 
          NOT PART OF THIS PROGRAM, BUT WE HAD ANOTHER INCIDENT TODAY THAT ROSE THE LEVEL OF WATCH COMMANDER NOTIFICATION. 
          WE'VE HAD SOME IN MY DISTRICT, AND THAT'S A TOPIC THAT I, I'LL BE BRINGING, UH, FORTH AT, UH, A LATER DATE. 
          BUT IF ANYONE HAS ANY IN INFORMATION ON THAT, PLEASE FORWARD IT TO OUR OFFICE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING? SO WAS THAT YOU ACCEPTED MY AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION? YEAH, I JUST GOT A LITTLE WINDY, I'M SORRY, BUT I, YEAH, I'M ACCEPT. 
          I, I ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. 
          ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE HAD PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          UM, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES TO RECEIVE AND FILE AND FORWARD THIS MATTER TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS. 
          AND I'M A YES TO MY SCREEN RECEIVED FROZEN MOTION CARRIES. 
          NEXT ITEM, PLEASE. 
          ITEM FOUR IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON TRAFFIC SAFETY, TRAFFIC COLLISIONS, AND OVERALL TRAFFIC STATISTICS IN THE CITY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
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			24-52321
			Recommendation to receive and file a presentation from the Long Beach Police Department on providing information related to traffic safety, traffic collisions, and overall traffic statistics in the City.
		
		
			 
			 
		
		
			 
			Suggested Action:
			Approve recommendation.
		
	]
SO THANK YOU FOR, UH, INTRODUCING THE ITEM. 
          UM, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO STAFF, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SUPER NA SENDS HIS REGRETS, BUT HE HAS ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. 
          GOOD LUCK. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          I'M COMMANDER SHALINA BENSON WITH THE LONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND I'M HERE TODAY WITH MR. PAUL VAN D**E OF THE PUBLIC, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, UH, TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SECTION TO DO A CO-PRESENTATION ON OUR SAFE STREETS LONG BEACH ACTION PLAN ENFORCEMENT AND DATA. 
          SO, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO PAUL TO START. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, LET'S, UH, DIVE RIGHT IN. 
          SO, UH, WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE SAFE STREET'S LONG BEACH ACTION PLAN, WHICH WAS ADOPTED, UH, IN 2020. 
          UH, WE'LL BE, UH, TALKING A LOT OF STATISTICS TODAY, BUT JUST RIGHT OFF THE BAT, I, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FATAL CRASHES ARE, UM, DEVASTATING EVENTS AND VERY PERSONAL EVENTS. 
          AND EACH OF THESE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT, UM, DO HAVE PEOPLE, FAMILIES, UH, AND COMMUNITIES ATTACHED TO THEM. 
          SO JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THAT'S SAID BEFORE WE GET INTO KIND OF THE NUMBERS AND POLICY THAT, UM, THIS IS, UH, I THINK ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF, OF, OF WHAT WE DO AT HERE, AT THE CITY IS TO PRESERVE LIFE. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, SO THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, UH, WAS ADOPTED IN THE SUMMER OF 2020. 
          UH, IT'S PART OF A GLOBAL MOVEMENT, UM, TOWARDS ZERO DEATHS, UH, WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, UH, ORIGINATED IN EUROPE. 
          UH, WERE NOT ALONE IN THE UNITED STATES IN PURSUING, UH, THESE LOFTY GOALS. 
          UH, AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT, UM, THERE ARE SUCCESS STORIES, UM, TOWARD THAT VISION. 
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UM, WE SET A VERY, UH, AGGRESSIVE SCHEDULE, UH, FOR OUR VISION ZERO YEAR OF 2026. 
          UM, AND WE'VE BEEN ADOPTING, UH, SAFE SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY WITHIN OUR RIGHT OF WAY, UH, AS FAR AS PUBLIC WORKS IS CONCERNED, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DESIGNING OUR STREETS IN A WAY THAT, UM, MAY NOT PREVENT ALL CRASHES, BUT UM, SHOULD PREVENT, UH, FATAL CRASHES. 
          UH, WE WILL GET INTO, UM, UM, HOW THE CITY IS RESPONDING, UM, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACETS TOWARD THAT VISION ZERO GOAL. 
          BUT I WANNA SET THE TABLE, UH, AT THE BEGINNING TALKING ABOUT OUR FATAL COLLISION TRENDS. 
          SO, UH, NATIONWIDE, UH, AGAIN, LONG BEACH WAS NOT ALONE, UH, AND EXPERIENCING A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN FATAL CRASHES DURING THE PANDEMIC. 
          UM, THIS MOST RECENT YEAR, UH, WE HAD 37 TRAFFIC FATALITIES, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN THE, THE PRE PANDEMIC RATE, UM, 37. 
          UM, IF YOU COUNT, UM, A COLLISION THAT TOOK PLACE IN NOVEMBER WHERE THEY SUCCUMBED, UH, IN JANUARY, BUT, UM, STILL HIGHER THAN WHAT WE HAD, UH, PRE PANDEMIC. 
          UH, A LOT OF THE CAUSES THAT WERE TYING TO THIS TREND ARE FOLKS DRIVING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS, UH, WHICH WAS EASIER WHEN THERE WERE FEWER VEHICLES ON THE ROAD DURING THE PANDEMIC. 
          AND THEN ALSO OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE SEEN A WIDER ADOPTION OF HEAVIER VEHICLES, UH, SUVS AND LIGHT PICKUP TRUCKS FOR PERSONAL USE, AS WELL AS, UM, HEAVIER, UM, ELECTRICAL VEHICLES, WHICH HAVE SUBSTANTIAL BATTERIES THAT REALLY INCREASE, UH, THE MASS OF THOSE VEHICLES. 
          UH, WE HAVE MADE SOME, UH, MARKED PROGRESS SINCE JULY, 2020. 
          WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE, UH, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM CALTRANS FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFETY PROGRAMS. UH, WE HAVE, UH, BEEN HERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, REDUCED SPEED LIMITS. 
          UH, WE'VE REDUCED THEM ON 135 STREETS, UH, AROUND TOWN. 
          AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN, UH, VERY SUCCESSFUL IN OUR SAFE STREETS YARD SIGN PROGRAMS SO FOLKS CAN GET INVOLVED BY SIGNING UP, TAKING A PLEDGE, UM, TO DRIVE SAFELY, BE SAFE ROAD USERS, AND, UM, HAVE SIGNS FOR THEIR PARKWAY, UM, THAT THEY CAN POST TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. 
          WE'VE ALSO BEEN DEPLOYING, UH, MILES OF CURB SEPARATED BIKE LANES, UH, WHICH HAVE HAD, UH, A GREAT EFFECT THAT I'LL GET INTO LATER. 
          UM, BUT THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN IS NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH. 
          IT'S A SEVEN PRONGED APPROACH, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL A SEVEN PRONGED TOOL, BUT WE'RE USING IT, UH, WE'RE DEDICATING RESOURCES, UH, TO LOWER VEHICLE SPEEDS. 
          UH, WE'RE CHANGING OUR DESIGN STANDARDS, UH, TOWARD THAT VISION ZERO GOAL, AS WELL AS EXPANDING EDUCATION, UH, BEING BETTER INFORMED, UH, AND EXAMINING AT A CITY LEVEL, UM, HOW WE PARTNER AND PRIORITIZE, UM, THESE EFFORTS. 
          SO, UH, FIRST UP, RESOURCES, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN ACQUIRING MONETARY RESOURCES, BUT ALSO, UM, THANKS TO SOME OF THE STEPS, UM, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAS TAKEN. 
          WE'VE ALSO BEEN SUCCESSFUL RECENTLY IN HIRING MORE POSITIONS RELATED TO PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          SO, UH, WE ARE BUDGETED FOR A NUMBER OF NEW POSITIONS, UH, INCLUDING, UH, VISION ZERO COORDINATOR, UM, TO HELP US TO STREAMLINE THESE PROCESSES, BOTH, UM, FROM A DESIGN STANDPOINT AND, UM, A POLICY STANDPOINT. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO, UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES. 
          UH, COMMANDER BENSON HAS ALSO PREPARED, UM, SOME ITEMS ABOUT HOW WE'RE MANAGING DIRECT ENFORCEMENT, UM, AND EDUCATION. 
          SO I'LL HAND THE MICROPHONE BACK TO HER. 
          SO MENTIONED HERE, UH, OVER $2 MILLION IN OTS GRANTS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, HAVE BEEN SECURED FOR DRUG IMPAIRED DRIVING, DISTRACTED DRIVING, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE SAFETY OPERATIONS. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS DONE, UM, WITH OUR OTS GRANT, AND WE ALSO ASSIST THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN SOME OF THEIR OTS GRANT FUNDING OPERATIONS, IS WE HAVE, UM, SHIFTED FROM MORE OF AN ENFORCEMENT BASED PROGRAM, OUR APPROACH TO MORE OF AN EDUCATION APPROACH IN THE LAST, UH, TWO YEARS. 
          SO LAST YEAR IN OUR GRANT CYCLE FOR 20, UM, 22 TO 23, WE HAD 19 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT WE HOSTED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UM, THOSE INCLUDED FOUR KNOW YOUR LIMIT CAMPAIGNS AND A KNOW YOUR LIMIT CAMPAIGN IS DESIGNED FOR, UM, DUI OR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE EDUCATION, WHEREBY WE ARE GOING TO, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE TARGETING THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS WHERE WE KNOW ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION CAN GET OUT OF HAND. 
          AND WE GO TO THOSE. 
          AND IT'S MORE OF AN INTERACTIVE APPROACH ON WHAT, HOW MUCH ALCOHOL IT TAKES, OR ACTUALLY RATHER HOW LITTLE ALCOHOL IT TAKES TO GET YOU TO AN IMPAIRMENT LEVEL AND TO GET YOU TO THE, PER SE EVERYBODY REFERS TO AS THE LEGAL LIMIT, UM, TO GET TO THAT 0.08 BAC, WHAT, HOW MUCH ALCOHOL WOULD ACTUALLY TAKE YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL AS OPPOSED TO THE AVERAGES THAT COME OUT WHEN DMV SENDS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE RENEWALS. 
          AND SO IT'S AN INTERACTIVE PROCESS WHEREBY WE TALK TO PEOPLE AND THEN WE OFFER THEM, UM, TO BLOW ON A PAS DEVICE OR A PRELIMINARY ALCOHOL SCREENING DEVICE RIGHT THERE. 
          SO 
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THEY KNOW THAT THIS EFFECT RIGHT NOW IS HOW MUCH MY BLOOD ALCOHOL IS AND WHETHER OR NOT I WOULD BE ARRESTABLE IF I WERE STOPPED BY THE POLICE. 
          SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE PROGRAM, THAT'S ONE OF THE PROGRAMS WE DID. 
          UM, THE BIGGER PROGRAMS THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT ARE OUR DUI IN, UH, CDL CHECKPOINTS AND A DUI CHECKPOINT IS NOT NECESSARILY ABOUT ENFORCEMENT. 
          WE DO TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION AT THOSE IF NECESSARY, BUT IT'S A CAMPAIGN TO, UM, ADVISE PEOPLE AND BRING AWARENESS TO IMPAIRED DRIVING AND ALSO THE RISKY BEHAVIORS THAT COME ALONG WITH BEING AN UNLICENSED DRIVER OR A SUSPENDED DRIVER. 
          WHAT ARE THE RISKY BEHAVIORS INVOLVED IN THAT? AND WE, WE TEND TO SEE THAT UNLICENSED DRIVERS ARE INVOLVED IN COLLISIONS MORE THAN THE LICENSED DRIVER. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THE DUI CHECKPOINTS ARE FOR. 
          AND WE COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS ON THAT. 
          WE COLLABORATE WITH MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING. 
          WE'VE COLLABORATED WITH LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE'S, UM, CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM TO BRING OTHERS TO OUR CHECKPOINT TO HELP GET THAT MESSAGE OUT, BUT ALSO TO EDUCATE. 
          UM, WE BROUGHT OUT OUR SEARCH AND RESCUE YOUTH AND OUR LONG BEACH POLICE EXPLORER YOUTH TO HELP US WITH THAT, WITH THE HOPES OF EDUCATING THEM FIRSTHAND SO THEY CAN BE THE PEER TO GO BACK AND TALK TO THEIR CLASSMATES AND EVEN TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF IMPAIRED DRIVING. 
          AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO SEVEN OF THOSE CHECKPOINTS LAST YEAR THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          AND WE CHOOSE THOSE LOCATIONS BASED ON, UH, COLLISION DATA AND CITIZEN COMPLAINT OR RESIDENT COMPLAINT REGARDING POSSIBLE IMPAIRED DRIVING. 
          ADDITIONALLY, WE CONDUCTED EIGHT DIFFERENT COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS, UM, IN THE CITY. 
          UH, THESE PROGRAMS INCLUDED TWO BICYCLE SAFETY, UH, PRESENTATIONS OR RODEOS WITH KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          WE ALSO DID THREE DY SAFETY PRESENTATIONS AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          WE DID ONE MOTORCYCLE SAFETY PRESENTATION IN, UH, COLLABORATION WITH BMW MOTORS. 
          AND WE ALSO DID ONE AGING SENIOR CITIZEN DRIVING PRESENTATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AAA. 
          AND WE ALSO HELD ONE CHILD SAFETY SEAT, UH, PASSENGER SAFETY SEAT, OR CHILD SEAT, UM, SAFETY CHECK DAY WHEREBY THEY CAME OUT, THEY GOT THEIR SEATS CHECKED FOR FREE TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE INSTALLED PROPERLY. 
          AND THEN WE GAVE INFORMATION TO THE PARENTS ABOUT WHEN THE CHILDREN AGE, WHAT SIZE SEAT THEY NEED AS THEY AGE. 
          SO WE WERE ABLE TO DO ALL OF THAT THIS LAST YEAR ON OUR OTS GRANT FUND FOR EDUCATION. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU, COMMANDER. 
          UM, UP NEXT, UH, THE TWO OF US HERE HAVE ALSO BEEN, UH, IN CLOSE COORDINATION, UM, UH, WITH REGARDS TO SPEEDING. 
          UM, SO OUR COMPLETE STREETS PROJECTS HAVE ALLOWED US TO LOWER DESIGN SPEEDS AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS IN THE FUTURE. 
          UM, NOTABLY, WE HAVE, UM, ASSIGNED 45 MILES OF LONG BEACH STREETS WITH SPEED LIMITS OF 20 MILE MILES PER HOUR OR LESS. 
          UM, WHEN AB 45, UM, WAS PASSED, WE WERE READY. 
          UH, WE HAD SPENT THE YEAR PRIOR, UH, CONDUCTING SPEED SURVEYS UP AND DOWN. 
          UM, THE CITY STREETS, UH, COMPREHENSIVELY EVERY SINGLE SPEED LIMIT THAT WAS ON RECORD, UH, WE REASSESSED AND I BELIEVE WE WERE THE FIRST CITY TO ACHIEVE THAT TYPE OF COMPREHENSIVE OVERHAUL OF OUR SPEED LIMITS. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THAT WE HAVE OVER 90 MILES OF REDUCED SEGMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO SPEED LIMITS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO DO, UH, MORE THIS YEAR, UH, WITH A FOCUS ON PLAYGROUNDS SPECIFICALLY. 
          I KNOW WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SAFE PASSAGE EARLIER, BUT, UM, SCHOOL ZONES AND PLAYGROUNDS, UM, ARE AN AREA OF FOCUS FOR US THIS YEAR, UM, ADDITIONALLY, UM, TO HELP US TOWARD REDUCING THE LIABILITY OF SPEED. 
          UM, AND AS THAT INFORMS OUR, OUR FATAL CRASH ANALYSIS, UM, IS USING EVERY TOOL AT OUR DISPOSAL. 
          SO, UH, LONG BEACH HAD SIGNED ON, UM, FOR AB 6 45 TO ALLOW US TO PURSUE AUTOMATED SPEED SAFETY SYSTEMS. UH, AND SO WE WILL BE CONTINUING TO ADVANCE THAT PROGRAM AS WELL. 
          UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING BACK AND TALKING MORE, UM, ABOUT THE EQUITY GUARDRAILS, UM, THAT EXIST WITHIN THAT LAW, UM, AS WELL AS HOW WE'RE GONNA BE ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN DETERMINING, UM, BEST PRACTICES FOR THAT PROGRAM. 
          UH, THAT'S CURRENTLY, UM, JUST BEING PRELIMINARILY INVESTIGATED, UH, BY OUR TEAM. 
          WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING ABLE TO, UH, PURSUE THAT, UH, FULL BORE IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 
          UM, ANOTHER WAY THAT WE'RE RESPONDING TO FATAL CRASHES IS THROUGH DESIGN. 
          SO, UM, WE'RE IN PROCESS OF UPDATING OUR STREET DESIGN MANUAL SO THAT WHEN WE ARE, UH, MAKING THOSE COMPREHENSIVE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS, UM, WE'RE INCLUDING EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE INCLUDING PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS, INCENTIVIZED PEOPLE TO TRANSIT INSTEAD OF DRIVE. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ACQUIRING DOLLARS FROM THE STATE FOR SCHOOL CROSSWALKS. 
          UH, WE'RE IMPROVING OUR COORDINATION FOR OUR RESURFACING PROGRAMS. AND WE HAVE, UM, SEEN TREMENDOUS SUCCESS FROM OUR ROAD DIET PROJECTS, PARTICULARLY, UM, ON SPRING STREET, UM, WHERE WE ADDED A PROTECTED BIKE LANE NEAR EL DORADO PARK. 
          UM, THERE HAD BEEN FIVE 
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FATAL CRASHES, UM, WITHIN THAT ONE MILE, APPROACHING THE PARK WITHIN A FIVE YEAR PERIOD. 
          UM, THE SPEEDS ON THAT SEGMENT OF THE ROADWAY, UH, WERE EXPERIENCING TWO AND THREE CARS TRAVELING ABOVE 50 MILES AN HOUR. 
          UH, THIS IS, AGAIN, ON A LOCAL STREET. 
          WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A HIGHWAY. 
          UM, ONCE WE PUT IN THE BIKEWAY PROJECT, WE SAW A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN MOTORIST BEHAVIOR WHERE THE PREVAILING SPEED DECREASED BY 10 MILES AN HOUR, AND RATHER THAN SEEING 60 PLUS PERCENT OF VEHICLES EXCEEDING 50, THAT WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 4%. 
          SO THESE PROGRAMS ARE, ARE VERY EFFECTIVE. 
          UM, THAT'S BORN OUT IN OUR ABILITY TO, UH, POST LOWER SPEED LIMITS. 
          BUT WE'RE LOOKING TO BUILD ON THAT SUCCESS AGAIN TOWARD THAT GOAL, UM, OF VISION ZERO. 
          UH, UP NEXT WE HAVE, UH, EDUCATION. 
          UH, THE COMMANDER HAD ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, UM, A NUMBER OF THESE PROGRAMS. UH, WE'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS THAT WE CAN CONTINUE, UM, TO EXPAND THOSE. 
          BUT IN INTEREST OF TIME, I'LL, I'LL, UM, SKIP TO THE NEXT ONE. 
          UM, WHEN IT COMES TO DATA, UH, WE RECENTLY COMPLETED AN UPDATE OF OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK. 
          THAT'LL BE ON A, A FOLLOWING SLIDE. 
          UH, THE, THE MAP THAT WE HAD SHARED IN 2020 WHEN THIS PLAN WAS FIRST ADOPTED WAS BASED ON, UH, THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS OF DATA. 
          UM, LAST YEAR. 
          UH, WE AGAIN HAD FIVE YEARS OF DATA SUBSEQUENT TO THAT. 
          SO WE'VE UPDATED OUR MAPS, AND I'LL SPEAK TO THAT SHORTLY. 
          UM, NEEDS, IN TERMS OF DATA, UM, I THINK THE, THE TWO OF US AT THIS DESK IS, UH, JUSTIFICATION FOR BUMPING THE FIRST ITEM UP TO PROGRESS INSTEAD OF NEEDS, UM, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WORKING SO CLOSELY TOGETHER, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM TO, TO DEEPEN OUR RELATIONSHIPS. 
          AND SO, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUED, UM, WAYS THAT WE CAN COORDINATE BETWEEN PUBLIC WORKS AND POLICE AS IT COMES, UH, AS IT RELATES TO FATAL AND SEVERE CRASHES. 
          BUT, UM, WE'RE ALSO, UM, HIRING A COUPLE NEW EMPLOYEES, UH, IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEAM AS A TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AIDE, THAT POSITION IS CURRENTLY OPEN, AND YOU ALL CAN PLAY A ROLE IN HELPING US TO SIFT THROUGH THAT DATA AND SET US ON THE RIGHT TRACK, UM, TOWARD, UH, AGAIN, VISION ZERO, UH, KEYSTONE ACTION NUMBER SIX, PARTNERSHIPS. 
          AGAIN, UH, INTERDEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS, UM, COORDINATION BETWEEN, UM, HEALTH POLICE DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS LONG BEACH TRANSIT, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO GRANT APPLICATIONS, NOT ONLY FOR EDUCATION, BUT ALSO, UH, FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UH, WE'RE WORKING ON ALSO, UM, BEEFING UP OUR, OUR PRACTICES AS IT RELATES TO VEHICLE SAFETY TRAINING, UH, AND COORDINATION WITH, UM, OUR NEIGHBORING JURISDICTIONS, UM, TOWARD THESE GOALS. 
          UH, AND THEN, UM, WITH EQUITY, WE'RE ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, TRACKING LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS US TO, UM, MAKE SURE THAT OUR STREETS HAVE SAFE ENFORCEMENT. 
          UM, THE, UH, AB 6 45 LEGISLATION ALLOWS PUBLIC WORKS TO ADMINISTER THE SPEED CAMERA, UM, SPEED SAFETY SYSTEM PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE ADDING THAT BUFFER SPACE THERE. 
          UH, WE'RE ALSO PRIORITIZING PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES. 
          UH, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT ALSO IN OUR, UM, HIGH INJURY NETWORK MAP SHORTLY. 
          UM, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO, UM, GET THE BALL ROLLING ON, UH, PUBLIC FACING DASHBOARD, UH, TO GIVE THE PUBLIC, UH, MORE TRANSPARENCY. 
          UM, AS WE, UH, PROCEED WITH THIS, UH, BEFORE WE GET TO THE MAP, I DO WANNA SPOTLIGHT SOME OF OUR UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT HAVE SAFETY ELEMENTS. 
          UH, THE PACIFIC AVENUE CYCLE TRACK RUNNING FROM OCEAN BOULEVARD TO PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY. 
          WE'LL BE ADDING ALMOST TWO MILES OF SEPARATED BIKEWAYS AGAIN, UH, AIMED AT, UH, REDUCING VEHICLE SPEEDS AND PROVIDING, UM, SAFER ROUTES FOR, UH, ALL ROADWAY USERS. 
          UH, SIXTH STREET DOWNTOWN, UM, FROM THE S SHOEMAKER BRIDGE TO ALAMITOS AVENUE WILL ALSO BE RECEIVING A NEW BIKE PATH, UH, COINCIDING WITH THE SHORELINE REALIGNMENT PROJECT. 
          DOWNTOWN WALKABLE CORNERS IS A STATE FUNDED PROJECT TO BE EXPANDING PEDESTRIAN SPACES DOWNTOWN. 
          ADDING OVER, UM, A HUNDRED, ADDING 190, UH, CURB EXTENSIONS AND PEDESTRIAN MEDIANS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. 
          AGAIN, UH, BRINGING VEHICLE SPEEDS DOWN, IMPROVING, UH, PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          ARTESIA BOULEVARD IS WELL UNDERWAY, UH, WITH TRAFFIC SIGNAL ENHANCEMENTS, BULL BOUTS, TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS, AND UPGRADED BIKE LANES. 
          AND ANAHEIM STREET IS SOON TO COME, UM, WITH PEDESTRIAN CROSSING MEDIAN SIGNAL UPGRADES, AND ALSO, UH, FLASHING BEACONS FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. 
          UM, I THINK I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, UM, OUR, OUR SPEED LIMITS, UH, ENOUGH. 
          UM, AND THEN, UH, ANOTHER PROGRAM, UM, SPOTLIGHT AGAIN, UM, SAFE STREETS CHAMPION PROGRAM, UM, EDUCATING, UM, STUDENTS IN THE GARFIELD AND HUDSON ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES. 
          UH, WE HAVE A WALK AND ROLL LONG BEACH PROGRAM, UH, WHERE WE SHOW FOLKS HOW, UH, TO BEST HAVE THEIR HELMETS FIT, UH, TALK ABOUT BIKE SAFETY CHECKS, RULES OF THE ROAD, UM, AND THEN EMPOWER, UM, YOUTH SAFETY AMBASSADORS. 
          UH, AND THEN, UM, OUR YARD CAMPAIGN, UH, YARD SIDE CAMPAIGN. 
          WE DISTRIBUTED, I THINK, AN ADDITIONAL 100 SIGNS, UM, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS. 
          SO I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY ROUND THAT UP TO 500 
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NOW. 
          UM, IN THE FUTURE, YOU'LL BE SEEING A LOT MORE OF THESE PROTECTED, UH, BIKEWAYS THAT UTILIZE CURBS INSTEAD OF, UH, THE PLASTIC BALLARDS THAT WE HAD BEEN USING PREVIOUSLY, UH, BOTH TO ASSIST IN OUR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES, BUT ALSO, UH, TO PROVIDE, UH, JUST, UH, UH, A MORE CONSISTENT, UH, DEVICE. 
          SO, UH, WE'VE INSTALLED THOSE, UH, ON ATLANTIC, UH, COSTA DEL SOUL DEL LAMO LOINS AND SPRING. 
          UM, AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WE'LL BE SEEING THEM COME IN ON STUDEBAKER, UM, ON ADDITIONAL SEGMENTS OF DEL LAMO, AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF WARDLOW ROAD, CLARK AVENUE, UM, AND ORANGE AVENUE. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO, UM, LIVE UP TO THE LOFTY GOALS OF THE VISION ZERO PLAN AND OUR BIKE MASTER PLAN TO PROVIDE THIS TYPE OF PROTECTION, UM, FOR OUR, UH, MORE VULNERABLE ROAD USERS. 
          UM, THIS IS UNFORTUNATELY A, A SMALL, UH, IMAGE OF OUR, OUR MAP, WHICH WE'RE EXPECTING TO BE POSTING, UM, TO THE CITY WEBSITE SHORTLY. 
          UM, THIS IS OUR UPDATED HIGH INJURY NETWORK. 
          UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU KEEPING SCORE AT HOME, WHO HAVE, UH, MEMORIZED, UH, THE MAP FROM 2020, I'LL, I'LL POINT OUT SOMETHING THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT, UH, WE HAVE SEEN, UM, A FEW CHANGES, UH, TO THE MAP. 
          SO, UM, SOME AREAS HAVE DROPPED OFF. 
          UH, THE INTERSECTION OF LOS COYOTES, BELAU BOULEVARD AND WILLOW STREET IN PARTICULAR HAS, HAS DROPPED OFF THIS MAP, UH, CARSON STREET AT LOS COYOTES ALSO, AS WELL AS, UH, OUR EASTERN MOST SEGMENT OF PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY. 
          AND THANKS TO THE RECENT, UM, RECONSTRUCTION, THE GERALD DESMOND BRIDGE HAS ALSO DROPPED OFF OF, UM, THIS NETWORK. 
          UM, SOME OF THE SEGMENTS HAVE SHIFTED, UM, PARTICULARLY ON SANTA FE, UM, HAS SHIFTED MORE TO THE SOUTH. 
          AND WE HAVE SOME, UM, EXPANDED SEGMENTS ON CHERRY, ON SOUTH STREET, ON DEL LAMO, UH, OCEAN BOULEVARD, AND THEN BELLFLOWER BOULEVARD. 
          UM, AND, UH, AS WE HAD TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, UM, SOME OF OUR TRAVEL PATTERNS HAVE CHANGED. 
          UH, DURING COVI, UH, THERE ARE A LOT MORE PEOPLE WORKING REMOTELY. 
          UM, SOME STREETS HAVE LESS TRAFFIC THAN THEY DID PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC. 
          UM, OTHERS HAVE SEEN LITTLE CHANGE. 
          SO, UM, THE INITIAL SLIDE SHOWED HOW FATAL CRASHES HAVE INCREASED. 
          UM, SOME OF THE NEW ONES, UM, THAT HAVE ADDED, BEEN ADDED TO THIS LIST ARE UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO AN INCREASE IN FATAL CRASHES RATHER THAN, UM, A DECREASE IN SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS. 
          SO, UH, WHILE WE ARE, UM, CELEBRATING THE FACT THAT FATAL CRASHES HAVE GONE DOWN THIS YEAR, WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE SEEN WHAT'S EFFECTIVE AND WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY, UM, DOUBLING DOWN ON THOSE EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO ACHIEVE, UM, THAT VISION ZERO GOAL. 
          SO, UM, THIS YEAR, UM, SOME CONCRETE STEPS WE'RE TAKING, WE'LL BE ADOPTING OUR STREET DESIGN GUIDE SO OUR PRACTITIONERS CAN DESIGN, UM, SAFER STREETS FROM THE ONSET. 
          UH, WE'LL BE CONTINUING TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS. 
          UH, WE'LL HAVE MORE EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS. 
          WE'LL BE COMPLETING SOME MAJOR PROJECTS, UM, AND STARTING DESIGN ON SOME OTHER ONE, ON SOME OTHER ONES. 
          UM, AND LOOKING FORWARD, WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEEK RESOURCES AND GRANT FUNDS TO FOCUS ON THESE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS. 
          UH, WE'LL CONTINUE TO TRACK LEGISLATION THAT BRINGS US CLOSER TO THAT GOAL, AS WELL AS LOOKING AT WAYS THAT WE CAN, UM, BE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH OUR DATA, UM, AND MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS THERE, AND CONTINUE TO BE HIRING FOLKS TO HELP US, UM, TOWARD THESE GOALS. 
          SO, UM, WITH THAT, UM, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS. 
          UM, YEAH, THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO MIX THINGS UP. 
          FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU, UH, MR. VAN D**E AND COMMANDER BENSON FOR THE VERY INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I'D LIKE TO TAKE IT TO THE PUBLIC FIRST TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY COMMENTS. 
          I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION TO DIGEST REGARDING TRAFFIC SAFETY, VISION ZERO. 
          I SEE SOMEBODY COMING FORWARD, SO IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS, PLEASE LINE UP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I DO. 
          UH, MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER COVINGTON. 
          UH, ON ONE OF THE SLIDES, YOU'VE SHARED THE INTERSECTION OF LIKE PCH AND CHERRY, ALMOST NEAR OCEAN, UH, EXCUSE ME, ORANGE. 
          UH, I ACTUALLY LIVED THERE. 
          UH, AND THERE'S SO MANY CRASHES THAT HAPPEN. 
          I UNDERSTAND THAT PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, UM, UH, IS MANAGED BY CALTRANS. 
          SO A LOT OF THE DECISIONS ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE DONE THROUGH CALTRAN. 
          UM, SO I WOULD ACTUALLY ASK, UM, OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO ADVOCATE TO COW TRENDS TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THESE STRATEGIES, UM, IN LONG BEACH OFF OF PCH AND ALSO THE SA LIKE THE SEVENTH STREET OFF NEAR THE FREEWAY. 
          UM, BECAUSE THOSE ARE WHERE EVERYBODY'S SPEED RACES IS SPEED RACES THROUGH, SOMETIMES I'M WOKEN UP BY CRASHES MULTIPLE DAYS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. 
          MY CAR WAS ACTUALLY SIDESWIPED, UM, BY A DRUNK DRIVER. 
          SO THAT'S LIKE A, UH, RISK THAT MANY OF US WHO LIVE BY PCH HAVE TO FACE. 
          AND SO BY SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC THROUGH PCH, IT WILL INCREASE THE, THE LIVABILITY OF THOSE WHO LIVE BY THERE, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR KIDS WHO ARE CROSSING TO AND FROM, 
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TO GET TO ALKI PARK, AS WELL AS THE NEW, UH, NOT THE NEW, BUT THE, THE REPLACEMENT SCHOOL SITE, UH, AT BUTLER, WHICH WASHINGTON WILL BE NOW GOING THERE. 
          AND MANY STUDENTS WILL BE WALKING ACROSS THOSE STREETS. 
          SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE MY ASK IS JUST TO ADVOCATE TO CALTRANS TO HAVE SOME OF THESE INITIATIVES BE BROUGHT DOWN TO THERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, MY NAME IS BRIAN COCHRAN. 
          I'M A THIRD DISTRICT AND BELMONT FOR RESIDENT. 
          UH, GOOD AFTERNOON COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND THANK YOU TO THE TEAM FOR THE PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          UM, I'VE STRUCK BY A COUPLE THINGS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO MY COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR, AND THE CITY AS A WHOLE. 
          UM, SLIDE 14, WHICH WE ONLY GOT SORT OF A BRIEF VIEW, BRIEF VIEW OF MENTIONS A SINGLE BULLET POINT THAT THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE VISION ZERO TOOL WORLDWIDE IS THE REDUCTION OF SPEED LIMITS. 
          AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WHEN YOU KNOW THE VISION ZERO CONCEPT AND SEE HOW IT'S, UH, IMPLEMENTED, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT ACROSS THE, ACROSS THE US TO IMPLEMENT AND CATCH UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. 
          I WAS STRUCK BY A NUMBER OF THINGS. 
          ONE WAS THE ASPIRATIONAL POLICY CHANGES. 
          TWO IS THE, UH, THE DATA COLLECTION AND MECHANISMS AND DESIRE THERE. 
          AND THIRD, THE ENFORCEMENT, OR LACK THEREOF, UH, BEHIND THE, BEHIND THE SCENES THERE. 
          I'LL NOTE THAT, UM, A RECENT NPR REPORT, UH, QUOTES, THE, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE VISION ZERO CONCEPT IN THE US AND SAYING IT'S EASY FOR CITIES TO ADOPT IT AS A SLOGAN, BUT ACTUALLY CHANGING THE STATUS QUO ON THE STREETS IS PROVING MUCH MORE DIFFICULT. 
          SHE'S QUOTED SAYING THE MAIN REASON THAT COMMUNITIES ARE FAILING, THAT'S NOT THE WILL TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAT ARE IN THE END PROBABLY GOING TO SLOW DOWN, SLOW PEOPLE DOWN DRIVING. 
          SO AGAIN, I GO TO ENFORCEMENT ON THAT ASPECT. 
          UH, THE, UH, REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE LEASE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT, UH, YOU'VE SHIFTED FROM, UH, ENFORCEMENT TO EDUCATION, AND WE SEE A LOT OF THAT IN THE PRESENTATION. 
          BUT IN OUR DISTRICT IN PARTICULAR, IN OUR COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR, WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THREE PLUS YEARS TO LOOK AT MEANINGFUL DATA AROUND SPEED LIMITS, TRAFFIC IMPACTS, PARKING IMPACTS, RIPPLE EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. 
          EVERY ONE OF MY FELLOW MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITIES HAS, UH, ANECDOTAL, INFANT ANECDOTAL INCIDENCES OF THINGS THEY'VE SEEN BUT HAVE NOT BEEN REPORTED, NOT DOCUMENTED, NOT FOLLOWED THROUGH ON THERE. 
          SO I'D FIRST LIKE TO ADVOCATE THAT IN THE NEXT STEPS OF THIS PROGRAM, THAT WE GET THE DATA OUT THERE FIRST, THE EXISTING DATA THAT'S, THAT'S ALREADY BEEN COLLECTED, BUILD THAT OUT, SHARE IT WITH THE COMMUNITIES THAT CARE, CREATE SOMETHING OF A MINI DASHBOARD BEFORE THE FULL THING GOES LIVE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THE, UH, EXISTING STANDARDS AND WHERE THOSE IMPACTS ARE. 
          AND AS YOU BOTH KNOW, UM, THE PARKLET PROGRAM IS ROLLING OUT AND WE'RE SEEING THOSE FIRST PERMANENT ONES IN OUR COMMUNITY TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW. 
          I KNOW OUR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE ASKED FOR THREE PLUS YEARS NOW FOR DATA ABOUT WHAT THOSE IMPACTS SHOULD BE IN SOME STUDY ABOUT THOSE IMPACTS AS THEY ARE IMPLEMENTED SINCE WE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTS AND, UH, POTENTIAL FATALITIES INVOLVED THERE. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT. 
          MY OTHER CONCERN WAS THAT MR. VAN D**E HAS BEEN AT A COUPLE OF PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS RECENTLY SPEAKING ABOUT, UM, THE DAYLIGHTING PROVISIONS OF SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT. 
          AND THEN HE SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGED THERE'S AN OUT IN THAT HE AND OTHERS CAN MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING THAT, THAT CAN LESSEN THOSE THAT THE STATE IS, IS PERMITTING IN THERE. 
          WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION IS SEEN ON THOSE, AND THERE'S NOT AN EASY OUT IN ORDER TO FOSTER BUSINESS OR OTHER CONCERNS OVER COMMUNITY AND SAFETY CONCERNS. 
          THANK YOU BOTH. 
          AUSTIN, I CAN FACE SIX DISTRICT RESIDENT, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I KNOW YOU HAD SOME, UH, BIG SHOES TO FILL. 
          UM, SO APPRECIATE THE WORK WITH RELATION TO THIS REPORT. 
          UM, I SAW THAT THE EXPANSION, WHICH I, I AM NOT GONNA SAY I'M NOSTRADAMUS, BUT THERE WAS EXPANSION ON THE PACIFIC BIKE CORRIDOR. 
          UH, THE LAST PRESENTATION OF THIS, THE, THERE WAS, IT WAS ORIGINALLY GONNA BE PINE AND I YOU, I, I LIKE TO SEE THAT WE, YOU, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? THE BIKE LANE GOING UP PINE? IT WAS SUPPOSED TO END AT, UH, AT WILLOW. 
          IS THAT STILL GOING ON? YEAH, I, I CAN RESPOND IF UH, YOU'D LIKE  GO AHEAD. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          I WAS JUST CURIOUS. 
          I'M GLAD THAT SOMEONE REALIZED THAT THERE'S OVER, UH, THERE WAS LIKE 200 PLUS APARTMENT UNITS THAT WENT INTO DEVELOPMENT PRIOR TO 2020 AND PRIOR TO THE LAST ADMINISTRATION PROBABLY. 
          AND THEN THEY MADE YOU DO A REPORT AND THEY PROBABLY REALIZED THERE'S NO WAY POSSIBLE THAT YOU'RE GONNA PUSH FOR DIAGONAL PARKING UP PINE FROM ANAHEIM ALL THE WAY UP TO WILLOW, AND THEN ALSO PUT A BIKE LANE IN THERE. 
          IT'S JUST NOT POSSIBLE. 
          SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE DATA SHOWS THAT, AND THEN YOU GUYS ADJUSTED, IF ANYONE HAS ANY DOUBTS OFF OF THE ABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF CITY STAFF, I THINK THAT 
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THAT WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE. 
          UM, RESPECT TO THE DIAGONAL PARKING THAT'S COMING INTO THE MORE DENSER AREAS. 
          UH, IT'S WORKING AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER, IT'S WORKING. 
          YOU GUYS JUST NEED TO PUSH THE ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE IT TRULY SUCCEED BECAUSE, UM, IT'S CREATING A LOT OF, UH, TENSE MOMENTS. 
          IT'S THE CULTURE. 
          PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOUBLE PARKING FOR DECADES NOW, AND, UH, UNTIL, UH, THERE'S AN ALIGNMENT WITH RESPECT TO PUBLIC WORKS AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, IT'S GONNA CONTINUE EVEN AS YOU GUYS TRY TO MOVE TOWARDS THE, UH, THE ZERO OR WHATEVER THING THAT THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER WAS TALKING ABOUT. 
          SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. 
          UH, APPRECIATE THE REPORT AND THE DATA AND, UH, JUST, YOU KNOW, I'LL GIVE UP MY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF I'LL GIVE UP MY PARKING SPOT. 
          I ALREADY RAN OUT MY GARAGE TO MY NEIGHBORS, SO I'M, I'M WITH THE FUTURE. 
          I JUST NEED YOU GUYS TO ENFORCE THE FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          WANNA THANK YOU ALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          I'LL TAKE IT BACK BEHIND THE RAIL TO, UH, OUR VICE CHAIR. 
          DUGGAN, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I, PAUL AND I HAVE WORKED, YOU'VE WORKED HARD ON ALL OF THIS AND SHARED A LOT WITH ME. 
          UM, WITH REGARD TO CALTRANS AND PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, CAN YOU JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING AND COLLABORATING WITH CALTRANS? SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          WE INTERFACE WITH CALTRANS AND METRO AND OTHER REGIONAL LEADERS, UM, SOMEWHAT REGULARLY. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, RECURRING MEETINGS, UM, SPECIFICALLY WE, UM, ON PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY AS PART OF, UH, OUR TASK FORCE MEETINGS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE DEVELOPING AND CONTINUING TO DEVELOP, UH, RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR TECHNICAL STAFF, UH, AS WELL AS THEIR LEADERSHIP IN PURSUIT OF THESE GOALS. 
          UH, I THINK THERE'S CLEAR LEADERSHIP FROM SACRAMENTO ABOUT ADOPTING THESE TYPES OF VISION ZERO PRACTICES, UH, AND THEIR STAFF ARE, UM, BECOMING MORE AND MORE, UM, INFORMED OF THOSE TYPES OF DECISIONS. 
          UH, WE'RE SEEING A LOT MORE PARTNERSHIPS, MORE SO THAN WHEN I FIRST STARTED AT THE CITY, UM, TO PURSUE THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS. 
          UM, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF PROJECTS IN THE WORKS ON PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, UM, THAT ARE BEING LED BY CALTRANS, UH, BOTH TO MAKE IT A MORE ACCESSIBLE STREET, UH, AND ALSO TO MAKE IT A SAFER STREET, UM, LONG TERM. 
          UM, THEY ARE LOOKING AT, UH, POTENTIAL, UH, REDESIGN OF THAT STREET. 
          UM, THEY'RE VERY EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS THERE, BUT I AM VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT, UM, THE NATURE OF OUR, UM, COOPERATION WITH CALTRANS, UH, ON PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY IN THE FUTURE. 
          SO, GREAT. 
          THANKS FOR SHARING THAT. 
          UM, AGAIN, GREAT INFORMATION. 
          THAT'S IT FOR ME. 
          THANK YOU COMMANDER BENSON, FOR YOUR INPUT. 
          YES, I CONCUR A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION HERE. 
          UM, I GOT A LOT MORE THAN I THOUGHT THAT I WAS GONNA GET. 
          UM, I, I DO HAVE A QUESTION RELATED, RELATED TO COMPLETE STREETS IN, IN OUR DATA, RIGHT? UM, OBVIOUSLY WE INVEST SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RESOURCES INTO COMPLETE STREETS, AND THAT IS IN LINE WITH OUR VISION ZERO KIND OF VISION OR PLAN. 
          UM, I CAN SPEAK FROM MARKET STREET, WE'VE DONE THAT IN, IN MY DISTRICT IN THE EIGHTH DISTRICT, UH, DEL LAMO. 
          UH, THERE'S A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT WORK IS, AND THEN YOU MENTIONED SEVERAL MILES ACROSS THE CITY HAVE BEEN, UM, CONVERTED TO COMPLETE STREETS. 
          DO WE HAVE ANY DATA TO, TO TELL US WHETHER OR NOT THOSE TREATMENTS ARE, ARE HAVING AN IMPACT ON, ON SAFETY? EITHER WAY? WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY OVERHAULING OUR PRACTICES THAT COME AS IT RELATES TO PROJECT INITIATION AND COMPLETION. 
          AND I DO EXPECT THAT IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HAVE, UM, SPECIFIC PROJECT REPORTS THAT LOOK AT COLLISIONS BEFORE AND AFTER SPEED, BEFORE AND AFTER. 
          UH, WE DO THAT, WE DO, UM, CONDUCT THOSE STUDIES ON MORE OF AN AD HOC BASIS CURRENTLY, UH, WHICH IS WHERE I GOT THOSE NUMBERS FOR, UM, THE SPRING STREET STATISTICS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. 
          BUT, UH, WE, WE HAVE THE DATA CURRENTLY, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF PROCESSING IT INTO MORE TRANSPARENT REPORTS. 
          AND SO AS WE MOVE TOWARD THAT DASHBOARD OF MAKING THAT DATA MORE AVAILABLE, I EXPECT THAT WE'LL HAVE A LOT MORE PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE PUBLIC, UM, ABOUT, UH, THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THESE PROJECTS DO CREATE. 
          UM, I WILL SAY THAT, UM, ONE WAY THAT WE CAN MEASURE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECTS LIKE THESE IS BY CONDUCTING OUR SPEED SURVEYS. 
          AND AS WE SAW, UH, TWO YEARS AGO WHEN WE WENT OUT AND COLLECTED THAT INFORMATION, WE WERE ABLE TO DROP A LOT OF SPEED LIMITS BECAUSE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS. 
          SO, UH, I WILL SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY CONFIDENT THEY ARE WORKING, UM, AND WE'RE GONNA BE BETTER ABOUT REPORTING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE IMPACTS THAT THEY HAVE IN THE FUTURE. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          UH, AND I KNOW SEVERAL MONTHS AGO THE CITY COUNCIL 
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TOOK ACTION TO LOWER SPEED LIMITS. 
          HAVE WE, HAS THAT BEEN IMPLEMENTED YET? AND IS IT HAVING ANY SORT OF EFFECT? ARE PEOPLE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SIGNS? UH, I, I PARTICULARLY AM OKAY, . 
          AND, UH, I WILL SAY THAT, UH, MY, MY COUSIN-IN-LAW HAS AS WELL, BECAUSE AT A RECENT WEDDING, HE SAID, I GOT TWO SPEEDING TICKETS IN THE LAST MONTH. 
          WHAT IS GOING ON? SO, UH, YEAH, UH, PEOPLE ARE HOPEFULLY NOTICING, HOPEFULLY THEY'RE NOT GETTING TICKETS LIKE, UH, MICHAEL IS. 
          BUT, UM, YEAH, UH, THEY, THE SIGNS HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED. 
          I THINK WE HAVE A COUPLE, UM, ONES TO ADD ON, UM, TO THE NUMBER WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED, BUT WE'RE ALREADY GETTING STARTED ON THE NEXT BATCH. 
          GREAT. 
          ONE FINAL QUESTION. 
          UM, WHEN DID YOU SAY THAT YOU WERE GOING TO GET THE DATA DASHBOARD UP? DID I MISS THAT? SO WE ARE FIRST OF ALL GOING TO BE RELEASING, UM, THE MAP, WHICH HAS VERY FINE GRAINED DATA ON, UM, WHERE CRASHES ARE HAPPENING, WHAT TYPES OF CRASHES. 
          SO THAT'LL BE THE FIRST TO GO LIVE. 
          I'M EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN, UM, WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, HOPEFULLY, UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE DASHBOARD ABOUT THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS, THAT'S A, A LONGER TERM EFFORT. 
          AND SO, UM, I, I DON'T HAVE, UH, A STRAIGHTFORWARD TIMELINE ON THAT YET. 
          THANK YOU. 
          LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION. 
          UH, I WILL JUST MAKE A REQUEST BEFORE WE VOTE TO RECEIVE AND FILE THIS REPORT. 
          UH, WHEN THAT DATA OR THE MAPS ARE RELEASED, CAN YOU PLEASE JUST COMMUNICATE THAT TO OUR OFFICES? OFTENTIMES THINGS HAPPEN IN THE CITY AND THEY'RE ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT THEY'RE NOT COMMUNICATED TO, TO EVERYONE. 
          AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE WE, WE GET THAT INFORMATION SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THAT TO, TO OUR CONSTITUENTS TO SHOW THAT THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S A, A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO BE TRANSPARENT WITH, UH, OUR, OUR INFORMATION. 
          WITH THAT. 
          UM, WE'VE HAD PUBLIC COMMENT, GREAT PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          UM, GOOD QUESTIONS I'D LIKE TO CALL A VOTE TO RECEIVE AND FILE THIS REPORT. 
          YES, RECEIVE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          GREAT. 
          UH, AND SO NOW WE'LL GO TO OUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          SEE EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO GIVE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT WHO HASN'T COMMIT COMMENTED ALREADY. 
          OR IF YOU'D LIKE TO COMMENT AGAIN, PLEASE, UH, LINE UP, THEN YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. 
          THREE MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, HOW YOU DOING? MY NAME IS SEAN MORALES AND I WANTED TO MAKE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. 
          UM, CURRENTLY I'M BEING TARGETED BY AUDIO ACOUSTIC ATTACKS. 
          SO IT'S A AUDIO ACOUSTIC SPOTLIGHT THAT CAN TARGET 
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Opportunity to address the Public Safety Committee on non-agenda items. Each speaker is limited to three minutes to make their comments unless extended by the Chair.]
ANY ONE PERSON IN THE CROWD. 
          SO IF I HAD A LASER WITH THE, UH, AUDIO TO IT, I COULD SHOOT IT IN YOUR THROAT AND USE YOUR VOICE BOX TO MAKE YOU THINK YOU'RE SPEAKING TO YOURSELF, OR I CAN HIT YOU ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD WITH IT AND YOU'LL HEAR THE VOICES COMING. 
          AND CURRENTLY IN THAT FASHION, I'M CURRENTLY BEING EXTORTED FROM MY PROPERTY AND THEY'RE TELLING ME TO MOVE OUTTA MY PROPERTY, LEAVE ALL MY BELONGINGS BEHIND, AND, UH, GO LIVE UNDER THEIR BRIDGE SOMEWHERE. 
          SO I'VE CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT THAT. 
          AND WHEN I ASKED, UH, WHEN I RECEIVED TO THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS EXACTLY TELLING THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON, RIGHT? SO, UM, I'M HERE TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT THAT AND HOPEFULLY GET, UH, EVERYBODY INVOLVED. 
          'CAUSE IF YOU HAD A RADIO FREQUENCY METER, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE RADIO FREQUENCY ATTACKING ME. 
          AND WHAT IT DOES IS SOMETHING LIKE, UM, SO IT BURNS YOUR NERVES, RIGHT? AND ACCORDING TO, ACCORDING TO THE US AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB SAFETY STANDARDS THROUGH MILLIMETER WAVES, THEY DISCOVERED AT ROUGHLY 95 GIGAHERTZ, THE ENERGY CAN ACTUALLY PENETRATE THE SKIN AND STIMULATE THE NERVE SYSTEM TO GIVE THE STIMULATION OF A BURN AND ACTUALLY HEATING AS A RESULT. 
          THAT PROVIDES A WAY TO CONTROL HUMANS. 
          SO THROUGH THE AUDIO, UH, ACOUSTICS ON BEING TOLD THAT THEY'RE GONNA SELL ME OFF TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING, THAT THEY BURNED MY NERVES ENOUGH SO I CAN JUST BE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET, THEY CAN BURN MY NERVES WHERE I CAN FALL OFF AND HAVE SOMEBODY BEHIND ME TO PICK ME UP AND TAKE ME AWAY. 
          WHETHER THAT'S ABSURD, WHETHER IT'S POSSIBLE, I WOULD LIKE THE CITY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY LOCATION. 
          ON ARTESIA IN PARAMOUNT OR ON OR ZABA, YOU CAN HAVE A RADIO FREQUENCY METEOR AND YOU WILL SEE MY HOUSE HAS BEEN LIT UP BY RADIO FREQUENCIES. 
          SO IT'S ALSO A, A ACOUSTIC ATTACK AS WELL, UH, WHERE THEY FILL UP YOUR ROOM WITH ALL THESE ACOUSTICS, RIGHT. 
          AND THEY CAN USE SOUND AS A WEAPON. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING NOW FOR ABOUT FIVE MONTHS. 
          AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK TO ANYBODY FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ABOUT THE SITUATION TO, TO RESOLVE IT RIGHT NOW. 
          WHETHER IF I'VE DONE SOMETHING THAT, THAT, UH, SOCIETY DOESN'T LIKE OR SOME WAY I JUST FEEL LIKE I'M BEING TARGETED. 
          UH, THIS ACTUALLY PASSED DOWN ONTO MY, MY 
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SON NOW HE GOES TO LAKEWOOD HIGH, SO HE'S BEING TARGETED AS WELL. 
          WHAT THEY TEND TO DO IS WITH THE RADIO FREQUENCY, INSTEAD OF SENDING AN ACOUSTIC TO YOU A SOUND, AN AUDIO, THEY'LL GO AHEAD AND JUST SEND A FREQUENCY ITSELF AND IT CAN SIT ON YOUR FOOT AND IT PROVIDES ELECTRICITY AND HEAT, WHICH MESSES YOU UP PRETTY BAD, YOU KNOW, DOES YOUR FINGERS AND STUFF AS WELL. 
          SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING AWARENESS TO THAT AND FIGURE HOW CAN WE GET IT ONTO, UH, SOME LEGISLATION PASSED WHERE WE CAN HAVE OFFICERS WITH RADIO FREQUENCY MONITORS AND THEY COULD TAKE THIS SITUATION A LITTLE BIT MORE SERIOUSLY. 
          THANK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TODAY. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE AND COMMANDER HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, YOU SAID YOU'VE REACHED OUT TO LONG BEACH PD AROUND ABOUT THIS. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UH, I, YOU, THEY MAY BE ABLE TO TAKE YOUR INFORMATION AND, AND, UH, AND THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY FOREIGN TO ME. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY EXPERTISE. 
          I'M NOT SURE IF, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER DOUGY DOES EITHER. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE DO APPRECIATE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT WITH US. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I'LL BE BACK TO, UH, WITH MORE INFORMATION, MORE INFORMATION 'CAUSE AS WE SHOULD ALL GET EDUCATED MORE ON THIS SITUATION, UH, BASED ON IT. 
          AGREED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IS THERE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT? NO. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          HEARING NONE. 
          UM, THERE'S, WELL, IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVE A, WE ARE ADJOURNED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU.
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