Let's get started.

Good evening.

And welcome to the special public safety committee meeting of today, Tuesday, September to 10.

Excuse me, September the 30th.

The time is now 6 p.m.

and this meeting has come to order.

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Making that time 6 10 p.m.

With that, we would now proceed to take roll.

Councilmember Brown?

Present.

Councilmember Fife?

Present.

Councilmember Houston.

And Chair Wong.

Present.

Thank you.

We have four members present.

And before you begin, Chair, do you have any announcements for us today?

Um I would just say that I would want to acknowledge that we've been seeing, you know, a rise in, I certainly have seen many gun violence incidents in the last month.

Um earlier today in council there was an ebony alert that came on during the public uh transportation committee, and I have learned since that that was um a uh black child, uh a black girl um was kidnapped from international boulevard, but we also know that we have the issues with um sex trafficking that it may be related.

We don't know for sure, but that that is the latest intel that we have, and so um there's also recently I learned that um a community leader, and I'm going to keep their um identity anonymous for now, but as you all many of you know this individual was also attacked recently, and he's hospitalized, and so this is just weighing on me, and I think um public safety is um yes, this is just a really important topic that I know is on top of all of our minds.

So that's it.

Anything from the administration?

Okay, let's get started.

Thank you.

Moving to the first item of the day, which is item one.

Please, as a reminder, this is a special public safety meeting.

There are no minutes to be approved.

Moving to item two, the termination of schedule outstanding committee items, and this is also known as your pending list.

And you do have three speakers for this item.

We don't have any changes for the list.

Thank you.

Moving to our public speakers, Alexandra Jones, Sharon Cornew, and Jennifer Finley.

If I called your name, please approach the podium, state your name for the record.

If you are participating via Zoom, please raise your hand as you are easily identified.

Thank you.

Um, hi, I'm Alexandria Jones.

Um, I'd like to add something to the schedule.

Yes, okay, thank you.

Um, uh good evening, council committee members.

My name is Alexandria.

I'm a mother nurse and a proud Oakland native, born and raised.

I have a deep respect for the challenging work of our police officers and prosecutors to keep open safe.

Tonight I'm here just to address a gap in our systems.

I believe waste city resources and causes unintended harm to our community members who are victims of a crime.

I'm requesting consideration of the following, and like this added to the schedule.

One, a partnership and transparency between victims.

The Oakland Police Department and the District Attorney's Office.

Uh, to create moments for officers to verify case viability before giving victims information about the potential for prosecution.

Because without clear protocols requiring consultation with prosecutors, law meaning officers may inadvertently provide information that leads to additional trauma for victims and use of police resources on cases that can't move forward legally, enhance training on statute which limitations for officers, professionals development when it comes to cases of historical sexual abuse and assault.

This would give them the knowledge they need to serve their communities from the time of report moving forward, and also reconsidering victims having to use their private contact information when reaching out to abusers.

This practice is a bit archaic, and given the advancement in technology puts us at risk because we do use to have we do have to use our personal cell phone numbers a lot of the times when we do um pretext phone calls that are recorded so that um abusers can call us back.

But what simple Google searches our identities are revealed, and so our addresses and such.

And I just lastly just want to thank you for your time and for your service to Oakland and um thank you for taking the time to come together to listen to your community about collaborative solutions.

Yes, and I also have handouts, please.