The Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee convened a special meeting on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 6:15 PM in the City Council Chamber (3rd Floor, City Hall). Chairperson Charlene Wang presided. The meeting ran until 8:32 PM and covered eight agenda items, including contracts for law enforcement technology, violence prevention funding, police oversight audits, and updates on the Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA). The committee voted on each action item, forwarding most to the May 5, 2026 City Council meeting on either the consent or non-consent calendar.
Good evening and welcome to the public safety committee meeting of Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. The time is now six fifteen p.m. and this meeting may come to order. Before taking roll, I will provide instructions on how to submit a speaker card for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please pull one out and turn one into myself or 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. Council member Brown. Excused. Excused for now. Houston. And Chair Wong. Present. Thank you. We have three members present, one excused five. And Chair, before we begin, do you have any announcements at this time? Uh just we have a packed agenda, so uh committee members keep your comments and your questions tight, otherwise we're gonna be here all night. And then um I am gonna change the order a bit of the agenda just to um allow some of our colleagues to not be here all night. Uh so we're gonna start with number seven with DVP, then we'll go to agenda numbers items number six, then eight, three, four, and then five. Thank you, Chair. Uh, just noting that uh going over the modifications made to the agenda to hear items six, sorry, seven, six, eight, three, four, and five after items one and two. Now reading in item one, as today is a special meeting. There are no minutes to be approved. Item two, determination of schedule about standing committee items, and we have one speaker that signed up to speak. Okay, we'll go ahead to public comment. Mrs. Sada Olawala. I know later on you're gonna be talking about the NSA, and you gotta remember that that primary one of the primary issues is uh racial profiling, and one of the issues I see that could potentially be profiling or based on race is when you report to the media the identification of the individual accused arrested. Now, sometimes they give the names and sometimes they don't. Why is it that you do that practice? And you go always see a picture of a black person with their name if a crime is committed by them. Another thing is citations and warnings based on equity. What is what is the data? Because you don't realize officers have a lot of choice on how they can handle a situation involving a possible arrest, involving a citation, involving a warning. We don't see that data. Lastly, truancy. I've said this before. Stop data required by the NSA has truant stops. And we don't have anything that follows up on what's happening when officers stop these young people for truancy. And of course, the OUSD has nothing in writing on how they deal with truancy. So just a few things about race equity that we need to see the data. And the last thing is Dr. Everhart's report, what she's been doing related to the NSA. That's not in the report today, and I never see it ever. Thank you for your comments. Chair that concludes all speakers on item two. All right, great. Well, let's go ahead and move. Uh oh, wait. ACA Phillips, anything to not at this time through the chair.