The Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee convened on September 22, 2026, at 6:56 PM and adjourned at 8:30 PM. The meeting included an informational report on human trafficking, a grant for the crime laboratory, and public comments on various public safety issues. All four committee members (Brown, Fife, Houston, Wang) were present.
If we can have the council members um to their seats, we'll be starting public safety shortly. The time is now 656 p.m. and this meeting may come to order. Before taking role, I will provide instructions on how to submit speaker cards for items on this agenda. If you're here with us in chamber and would like to submit a speaker card, please fill 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. If you were trying to register to speak uh via zoom, that is now due 24 hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting time this meeting came to order at 6 56 p.m. and speaker cards will no longer be accepted. 10 minutes after, making that time 7.06 p.m. We'll now proceed with taking roll. Council members Brown. Present. Five. Hi. Present. Houston. Here. And Chair Wong. Present. Thank you. We have four members present. Chair, do you have any announcements at this time? Uh no, just uh welcome back. And uh let's get to it. Thank you. Starting off with item one approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting of July 14, 2026. We have no speakers on this item, just need a motion. Councilmember Fife. Move approval. I'll second that. Thank you. That's a motion made by Councilmember Fife, seconded by Chair Wong to ex to approve the draft minutes from the committee meeting of July 14, 2026. Honoral council members Brown. Aye. Five. Aye. Houston. Aye. And Chair Wong. Aye. Thank you. Item number one passes with four eyes to accept the draft minutes from the July 14th committee meeting. Item two, determination of schedule of outstanding committee items, and we have two speakers on this item. Okay, let's go to public comment. Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item two, Jesse Rosemore and Asada Olabala. Hi, how are you? Jesse Rosemore. Um, I think I spoke already to the uh the item on the no date specific list. Uh the the great legislation by Carol Fife that I I cannot wait for this council to actually take up. It's been over a year, so it's boggling to me why this the city council won't take that up.