The Public Safety Committee met on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 6:01 PM to consider several items including police department surveillance technology reports, the Skelly hearing backlog, and contracts for the fire department. The meeting was chaired by Councilmember Wong. All four voting members (Brown, Fife, Houston, Wong) were present for most votes, with Councilmember Houston absent for items 3 and 4. Significant progress was reported on reducing the Skelly backlog, and a discrepancy in case counts between OPD and CPRA was identified.
Good evening and welcome to the public safety committee meeting of Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. The time is now 6.01 pm, and this meeting may come to order. Sorry, before taking role, I will provide instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber, would like to submit a speaker card, please fill one out and turn one into myself or a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting or before the item is read into record. Registering to speak via Zoom is now due 24 hours prior to the start of this meeting time. Houston? And Chair Wong. Chair, before we begin, do you have any announcements at this time? Uh no, I don't. Let's go ahead and proceed. Okay. Starting off with item one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting held on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. And we have no speakers at signed up. Okay. Councilmember Brown. I'll move approval of the minutes. Second. Thank you. We have a motion made by Councilmember Brown. Seconded by Councilmember Five to accept, sorry, to accept the draft minutes from February 10, 2026 on roll. Council members Brown. Aye. Five. Aye. Houston. Aye. And Chair Wong. Aye. Thank you. Item number one passes with four ayes to accept the draft minutes from February 10th, 2026. Reading in item two, determination of schedule about standing committee items. And we do have two speakers that signed up. Okay. We'll go to public comment. Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number two, Rajni Mandal and Asada Olawala. I know that it is California law that every high school that has an athletic program must have at least one defibrillator and on the campus. My question is what is the mandate? I didn't find anything for governing bodies. A policy for defibrillators to be available at city facilities. Is there an existing policy? If not, would it be considered appropriate to put that on the agenda? I have to say that we have to have a report on how an individual got into this building, got up to the 11th floor on Friday, stayed the weekend Saturday and Sunday, and then and we don't know what that person was engaging in for four three and a half days, and on Monday, you know the that the car was stolen from the mayors and blah blah blah with this. How did that happen? We need to have a report, not for you, but for me. God help us if we have some situation where we had an individual came into this building with intent to do bodily home, which was not the case, but it could have been the case. So we need to do some reporting out immediately on securing not only this building, but all of our facilities. So there is a structural scale difference. The city auditors follow-up report shows multiple separate recommendations still partially implemented, and a new performance audit is forthcoming. So I'd request that the committee review the performance audit and a comparative capacity analysis before advancing any transition framework. Thank you.