Okay, good afternoon.

The time is now 240 PM, and I'll go ahead and call our public safety committee meeting to order.

Madam Cook, could you please call the rule?

Councilmember McKee Rodriguez.

Councilmember Castillo.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember White.

Chair Corps?

Here.

Chair, we have a quorum.

Awesome.

Thanks.

So we have just a few items on the agenda.

It's a shorter gender than normal because we were going to go uh do a visit, but we'll plan a different time to do that to make sure everyone can attend in a safe way.

So we'll go ahead and start with item number two, which is oh wait, let's do um, oh, we don't have minutes.

Oh, we do.

Item number one, approval of minutes from the May 28th, 2026 Public Safety Committee meeting.

We have a motion and a second.

Is there any discussion?

Okay, all in favor?

Any opposed abstentions?

Okay, motion carries.

Alright, the second item on the agenda is our fire department performance metrics.

For those folks that are here, there is a copy that's printed for you all if you'd like next to the water bottles.

Um, and so we're gonna go ahead and scroll through this.

I don't know if Chief, if there's anything that you want to highlight from the memo, please.

Good afternoon.

Um I just wanted to uh provide an overview of the um fire stats that were provided to you.

Um hopefully by now you've had an opportunity to look them over, but I would like to present some highlights.

Um in terms of incident activity for FY24, there were approximately 247,000 incidents.

Uh in FY25, there's been approximate or there was approximately 253,000, so an increase of about two and a half percent.

Uh FY26 year to date is trending ahead of prior years.

So uh with this, we uh recognize that demand for service continues to increase as the community grows.

As far as uh in EMS demand, continues to represent roughly 78 to 80 percent of all incidents.

Uh medical calls remain the primary driver of workload, and um there's various breakdowns that we've provided in the document, broken out by council district, and moving on to response time performance.

Overall performance year over year remains stable and it has slightly improved in FY26 year to date.

Average citywide response time improved from eight minutes 38 seconds in FY25 to 8 minutes 32 seconds in FY26 year to date, while the 90th percentile also improved from 12 minutes 39 to 12 minutes 27.

So data obviously it helps us identify areas where growth and traffic patterns possibly are creating pressure on the system.

Um we also have a breakout of the geographic activity, which shows the activity per broken down by council district and districts one, two, and five generated the highest incident volumes.

There are certain stations that continue to experience significantly higher workloads than others, but uh again, station 32 was identified as the busiest station, followed by several other high-volume companies.

These stats help guide the staffing and apparatus placement, so we continue to monitor those very closely.

Um, oh okay.

And then on fire prevention, I would like to highlight a few items.

There have been more than 15,000 inspections that have been completed.

Prevention efforts remain one of the most effective ways to reduce fire loss and improve life safety and efforts with uh community education and code enforcement continue to be a critical component of our mission.

We also have a breakout of the community programs, MIH, continues to connect with residents, or connect.

They continue connecting residents with appropriate resources.

Thousands of contacts have helped reduce the strain on the 911 system and improve patient outcomes.

So overall, the story behind all of these numbers is that demand for service continues to grow.

Our personnel remain committed to provide excellent service, and these trends reinforce the importance of long-term planning through our upcoming needs assessment, staffing analysis, facility planning, and deployment strategies.

So at this time, I would like to ask the committee if there are any areas within today's presentation that you'd like us to explore in greater detail.

Thank you, Chief.

I'll start with my colleagues and then I'll I just have a couple of questions.

But uh councilman Castille, would you like to start us off?

Thank you, Chair and thank you, Chief, for the presentation.

In terms of areas to dive deeper into, uh, in terms of the mobile integrated health care unit, I'm uh curious in terms of some of the trends that we're seeing with overdose prevention, right?

Is it opiate stimulants and or synthetic?

Like what are they responding to and what is that trend look like now?

Um, and then a couple of questions that I have in terms of the information on table eight.

Um, for example, with the lift assist, um, how many of those typically uh r result in transport to a hospital?

Okay, we can we can get that information for you.

And then uh with the unauthorized burns, can you help me understand like what the majority of those calls are in terms of unauthorized burns?

Those are normally compliance issues, whether that be outside burning um of trash or uh possibly barbecue pits that are positioned too close to the apartment building or other type of structures, but normally that is what those uh call types entail.

Okay, I'm curious to see a heat map in which where those unauthorized burns are occurring.

Like, for example, right, there was one instance in which I called fire because there was um like a huge flame coming from under a bridge, but it was just folks that were hanging out setting stuff on fire.

So I'm curious to what the trend is, right?

Yes, in terms of those unauthorized fires.

So a heat map uh offline would be appreciated.

Um but going back to where there's value, it's all worth there's value in all of this.

Um, but where I would like to explore again is uh more into the mobile integrated health care team and what the trends we're seeing there, and then also in terms of a heat map of where services are needed.

Okay, thank you, Chief.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Councilman.

Uh, Councilman Sears, do you have anything on this item?

Thank you, Chief, uh, for the presentation.

Uh can you tell me?

I'm I'm looking at the response times.

I think that's really the most important thing.

I mean, I I I still go back.

I thought that the National Fire Protection Association had it had us aiming for a four-minute response time.

No, that is uh eight minutes.

It's eight minutes because everything I'm seeing says it's four.

Um is there any desire to bring it even lower than the eight?

Always that is our goal to get there faster.

What are some things we should be looking at then to improve that from our side?

Well, how can we work?

We've already taken steps to um try to minimize the response times as much as possible by you know unit placement and strategically deploying assets to um so that large apparatus remain in service and ready to respond to to fires.

Um the squad uh, you know, the implementation of that program has helped quite a bit, as well as um MIH helps to reduce you know call volume by addressing community needs that not necessarily or don't necessarily necessitate an emergency response.

Um, so there's a lot of those calls that we've uh managed to reduce over time, as well as the clinical dispatcher program and good SAM giving us the ability to be smarter about the units that we're deploying.

Clinical dispatcher is that like the tele telehealth yes, yes, ma'am.

Is that working well, or is that resulting to in any escalation after or how are the numbers or the ratios showing in that?

Did I miss that in here?

I'm sorry, can you repeat the question?

Like the telehealth piece.

Does it ever escalate where it actually did need emergency response and we had to deploy assets then or there are occasions that we do dispatch a unit, but oftentimes I would say more than not, we uh we end up you know taking care of the issue over the phone.

So that has um been a tremendous asset to you know not only the community but also the uh department.

Okay.

Um can you tell us too what factors are driving the the table eight, the non-medical incidents.

I guess my uh councilwoman Castillo was asking about that too.

Um I mean they're increasing quite significantly.

Do you know what might be driving that?

Well, if you take a look at the number one call type, which is fire alarm, um, this is often generated just because there are commercial occupancies, multifamily residential that are equipped with life safety systems that uh when they trigger a an alarm, it alerts our dispatch center, and we uh have to dispatch a unit to investigate and to you know assess the situation to make sure that it is not an actual fire or other type of emergency.

So I think um the those type of uh occupancies are generating a lot of those calls.

Plus, there's increase when there's storm activities, you know, rent events and and things like that that contribute also to those numbers.

Um and when we look at the uh the lift assists, that really is just aging population.

Um you know, there's there's various reasons that we we make those calls, and historically they have been in the the top five I would say have been pretty consistent year over year.

Okay.

I hope that answers your question.

Okay.

And then um the structure fires, were any of those abandoned?

Sorry, were any of those abandoned uh or vacant buildings?

Do you know?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, we could get some data on that if you'd like.

Yes, please.

Okay, as always, tremendous respect for all the men and women in the fire department and thank you for everything you do and how you make it work even when it's challenging.

So thank you very much.

And and you know, I'm we're ready to support you in whatever needs you have uh as we continue with the assessments.

So thank you.

Thank you for your continued support.

Thank you, Councilman.

Councilmember McKear, did you have anything on this item?

No, thank you.

Okay.

Um I just have a couple of follow-up questions also.

Um I agree with Councilman Castillo that I was really interested by the mobile integrated health uh breakdown, and I was curious.

Like, are some of those things, for example, the overdose predention prevention increasing because they know that they're going to receive support?

Um that you know they're carrying that they know they can get support from Narcan or whatever it may be.

And so I'm just wondering if we could when we get that presentation, if that's the one we do next, uh Maria, that we can better understand how I don't know if that's data that you all collect, but also how are folks knowing that they can call about some of these things and get help, or is it just because they have to?

Um, and same thing with good neighbor.

I was what I was doing in my head was seeing like for fiscal year 2026, which ones are trending up or down comparison to the previous years, and it seems like good neighbor is trending down, and I know Maria is here, but my thought was maybe because when we started good neighbor, there was like a lot of um or there were more people that we were trying to target and now it's stabilizing, but curious about that.

So when we do um the MIH breakdown, I'd like to maybe dive into each one of those um buckets of work and a little bit more description on how and what the the the supports they're getting when they are called.

And then for the medical um Councilwoman Spears kind of asked this, but for response times, why is the response time so different?

For I would assume that because we have the technology-based app, which I know works really well for, at least from what we've seen seen and heard.

How um wouldn't that make it faster for medical response times?

So which table are you referring to?

Five, table five, it is.

Did I not?

Oh no, but those that's year over year.

But I'm talking about in comparison to the non-medical.

So like medical, and this could be a follow-up, but like medical to non-medical, the non-medical times are consistently faster than medical.

Right.

And I was wondering if that's because of our squad program, or um, I was just wondering what the difference in that breakdown is.

It is because medical, it includes the EMS units responses, whereas non-medical are the fire apparatus, and any other vehicle that is not an ambulance is grouped under non-medical.

Therefore, the uh response times, you know, are we always dispatch fire and EMS when the response time is expected to be um, you know, under a certain time limit.

There's a threshold that we pay attention to.

So that's why fire units are oftentimes dispatched to get a unit there faster to get initiate care and assessment.

Totally, but I was just wondering what the time difference was between the two of them.

Does that make sense?

Like, why in fiscal year 26 has EMS been 40 seconds slower than non-EMS?

I didn't know if they were coming from different places.

It's just a curiosity question, whenever.

Oh, go ahead.

No, I was just gonna say it it comes down to unit availability.

Okay, yes, and their location in the city.

We have more fire apparatus available than we do have EMS.

Right.

There's um 36 full-time ambulances, whereas there's a lot, you know, larger number of fire apparatus that are spread throughout the city.

Okay, so like going back to uh Councilman Spears' point.

If we wanted to decrease medical, it's like sometimes one of the limiting factors is apparatus, yes.

I think the fire needs assessment that we're doing will also be great in showing us some of uh that where we could uh potentially add funding for in the future.

I also really like the 90th percentile.

I don't think we've done that in some of the previous charts that we've seen, and I I appreciate seeing that from my stats perspective, so we can see the upper tier, um, which uh I I appreciate it.

Um then the also the really last question uh what what are polysubstances?

That is uh when there's multiple the addiction involving multiple substances.

Why are we at zero?

Did it change a definition or something?

I know there was a change in uh program, and I believe that program was integrated into another um program name.

Yes.

Okay, that's correct.

What is it integrated into now?

Overdose prevention?

OPCR OPC, yes, ma'am.

Okay, okay.

I was just curious, I was like, I don't know what that's okay.

Thank you so much, Chief.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, we'll move on to item number two, which is um our uh PowerPoint on obscene materials that we did not get to from the last time, and so I think Chief Salaway is gonna present this.

Good afternoon, Chair, uh members of the public safety committee.

I'm assistant chief Jesse Salome, and I'm going to be doing a briefing on pornography and obscene materials this afternoon.

Start off with an overview of this presentation.

I'm gonna talk about the legal definition and some offense categories.

I'll then get into some trends and stats.

I'll talk a little bit about some of the factors leading to the increase, and I'll uh then brief you on our investigative units that are responsible for the follow-up, and most importantly, today I'm gonna talk to you about the impact of victims, prevention and awareness strategies.

So, as you recall at the April 21st public safety committee meeting, we provided quarterly crime stats for 2026.

Uh Councilwoman Castillo and the committee requested some more deeper dive into the NIBER's category of pornography and obscene material to get a better understanding of that 15% increase in that category.

And so just to give you a number, in the first quarter of 2025, we had a hundred and sixty-six reported incidents.

In the first quarter of 2026, we had a hundred and ninety-one reported incidents, and I'll break that down for you here on the next slide.

Talk a little bit about the legal definitions and some of the offenses uh that you see there on the right that are included in that uh pornography and obscene material uh category.

I'll tell you that the Texas Penal code does not actually define pornography.

Um it is put under the category of obscene materials.

And the way they come to that is there is Supreme Court case law that the penal code uses.

And obscene material is defined as material or content that is offensive.

That is most people in the community would consider offensive.

It is material that is intended to arouse the sexual interest of another, and it is material that lacks literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Again, those are the definitions.

I realize that that sounds subjective in some ways because different communities have different standards, but that is a legal definition.

And when I talk about the offenses on the next slide that have led to the increase, I will tell you that there's no doubt that those fall under these categories.

So when we did a deep look into the increase, that 15% increase, we found that there was three specific uh offenses that accounted uh for that increase.

And so the first one is the unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.

That is commonly referred to as the revenge porn statute.

So this law dates all the way back to 2015.

There was a woman in East Texas that had sent her boyfriend uh pictures of her of her uh intimate pictures of herself.

He ended up, they ended up breaking up, and then he posted them all over the internet, and there was no recourse legal or otherwise for her not only to not only for the state to charge him with a crime, but for the internet providers or for the uh for the websites hosting that to even pull those pictures down.

That was a beautiful that was a huge case, and that was kind of one of the first cases, and all again, it wasn't that long ago, but it was back in 2015 that really kind of kick-started the legislative changes that we've seen over the years.

Um, this uh those represented of the 191 reported incidents in this last uh in the first quarter of 20 uh 26, those represented 101 cases.

So the second one is called sexual coercion.

We that's commonly also referred to as a sextortion statute.

As you recall, when I did the Bitcoin presentation, I talked about that being one of the ways to get people to go to the machine to threaten to release these images.

It's also a very common tactic in family violence and stalking cases.

Um, when whenever there's a bad breakup, uh, sometimes the the uh the male will then uh threaten to send pictures, these these pictures and videos to the um the woman's family, to her bosses, and so it is it is uh is a very uh very serious one for us.

Those were 40 cases of the hundred and ninety-one that we saw in the first quarter of this last year.

And the last one was the uh that represented the bigger increase.

So the biggest increase for us was the possession or promotion of child pornography.

And so when I talk about child pornography investigations, you know, we what I think about those is I think about the adults that are intentionally collecting, downloading and distributing explicit images of children for sexual gratification.

What we're seeing in these cases is that many of them involve teens and peers and classmates and friends that are sharing images uh that are peer-to-peer sharing, uh posting uh images online.

Um, it's not organized or trafficking behavior, it is something unfortunate that is very common with the technology, and we'll talk about that in a little bit.

But um, these cases are still pretty complex because we do have victims that are having their photos posted, but we also have really poor decision making uh with the juveniles.

And I'm gonna talk about why that's important to put this in in front of uh in front of you today and talking about what that means for the community at large.

Uh looking at the map here, the heat map.

If you look at the um uh the red squares represent the uh first quarter of 2025, and the blue squares represent the first quarter of 2026.

Um, and again, just wanted to highlight this because as you can see, this is not concentrated to any one particular location.

This is citywide across all of all of our districts.

Um, so this is not an issue that um that we can target um by going out to specific districts.

So when we looked at kind of why is there increased reporting?

What are we seeing?

I mean, look, social media has exploded uh with that technology, um, the dating apps, the smartphones, the sharing, um it's increased opportunities for online exploitation and image sharing.

I mean it's it's literally at your fingertips.

And so with the improved awareness of the of these crimes, I think that's led to timely reporting, and we really enhanced our investigative capabilities to identify more victims and sometimes prevent these cases as well.

And so again, I'll talk to you here shortly about how we're bringing awareness and education.

We really want to think we really want to prevent these things from happening at all.

We've got two major investigation investigative units that are responsible for following up on these crimes, the special victims unit, SVU, and our uh human exploitation unit are both responsible for following up.

Again, we have juvenile and adult victims in these cases, and these investigations still require that level of specialized personnel, specialized training, digital forensic expertise, and strong partnerships with the federal task forces as many of these offenses cross jurisdictional and digital platforms.

It is it is very difficult sometimes to try to get multiple subpoenas for a lot of these uh platforms.

It's become a lot easier because they're a lot more cooperative than they used to be back in 2015, for example.

I think this is the most important thing to talk about today because I said it earlier about poor decision making.

That's not at all to blame the victims.

These are real victims, and whether they shared images voluntarily with someone that they trusted, um, these are these are juveniles or former romantic partners or classmates, uh, these are individuals sometimes that are just targeted through social media and online platforms.

Um, let's be clear that these crimes cause long-term emotional, reputational, and financial harm to the people that are affected.

And like we say with everything is the technology continues to evolve, our best strategy is prevention and awareness.

They're just as important important as what we do to enforce these things once they've happened, and so not only do we focus our approach on investigating these offenders, but we also educate the community through school-based programs and presentations, and in addition to supporting victims through the victims advocacy unit.

So our two primary presenters in this in this area are our community engagement unit and our human exploitation unit that will go out to different schools and engage uh in different presentations uh with school administrators, uh, and sometimes part of other programs that are uh that we're engaged in to kind of put this message out there, um, because again, these is this is well, I think we're kind of at the beginning of all we're seeing, especially with the deep fake and the artificial intelligence generated things where it's not even you but it's your likeness, and so the laws were implemented last year for in Texas to prevent that, but again, we have to educate um our our friends and our children about the dangers of the technology and bringing them awareness, uh, making sure they have awareness so that we can prevent some of these things from happening.

And so, with that, that concludes my presentation.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Chief.

Any of my council colleagues like to start?

Councilman Castillo?

Uh thank you, Chair, and thank you, Chief, for the presentation.

Um, this was an item that I believe that was evaluating us visiting, in which it was one of the few crimes that we saw an increase in the city of San Antonio, so I wanted to understand the trends.

Uh, and then of course, as you laid out the factors leading to increased reporting.

Uh, and I I'm curious if the there was a um a bipartisan bill that was submitted uh to combat non-consensual sexually explicit deep imagery.

Uh I'm not quite sure where that is in the governance process, but as you pointed out, there is uh state policy in which there's more accountability in terms of individuals that um are being reported for taking any of these actions.

Uh I'm curious in terms of the process and PD response.

Uh, for example, if an individual's calling to report a crime of the case, every laid out.

For example, let's go with the first one, unlawful disclosure, promotion of intimate visual material.

What is the process for a police officer to walk with that victim in terms of what next steps are and the police reporting process?

Absolutely.

Like everything else, if they whether they show up at police headquarters, a police substation, or they call an officer out to their house or their place of employment, uh, the initial officer has a responsibility for going out.

And from there, the detective uh should be available and assigned right away to go out there and collect either collect the information on the phone, try to get a voluntary download, or look for the particular area, the website that it's posted on there and and make sure to get a preservation order so that we can go back and trace it.

But their victims are then engaged with the um with the victim's advocacy unit as well and provided some support services along the way.

So it's it is a it is a very um kind of it's a thorough process, it's the same process every time, and then if again if there's an exigent circumstance that requires us to take a little bit more immediate action that we can respond accordingly.

But I will talk to you about the bipartisan bill.

I think that was a take it down act, and I believe that went into effect, and I think that requires a social media company to have something removed within 48 hours of the report from their platform.

And so we're aware of that law too, and I believe that we can also the law enforcement also has a mechanism to report that.

It doesn't just have to be victims.

I appreciate that.

And uh in addition to that, like for example, with some of these changing laws, and I mentioned it during the legislative briefing, I didn't um uh what the states identified as something to follow is up scene photos, right?

And exploring like what bills will be filed in terms of potentially more accountability, it's very vague right now.

Um, but I'm curious in terms of some of these changes that are happening both at the federal and state level in terms of communication with um the rank and file officers.

Is it at roll call in which they're briefed on what these uh state changes are and what the process is and how often are those presented uh to the officers?

So the laws go into effect September 1st of every year.

And so once the laws, the new laws go into effect, we provide legislative updates to uh rank and file officers uh through the um to the police uh email system, and then it's also provided it in service.

So we have a legislative updates class every in-service where we go and talk to every officer that's required, every officer's required to go through in-service, and they're given the updates on the laws that have changed, and so sometimes there's very, very unit specific things that the a unit might uh a special victims unit, for example, might even put out some additional training, but we've got two or three different mechanisms that are tried and true for us to keep officers aware of the legislative changes every year.

And then uh lastly, in terms of resources for uh the victims, are there specific delegate agencies that we currently fund that PD may connect a victim to?

Uh, and is that something that could receive offline if you don't have it on hand?

I I don't have that offhand, but I will I will certainly look at that for you and get back to you.

Okay, I think having that list would be a value as we navigate budget conversations and uh delegate agencies, those are my comments.

Thank you, Chief.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, councilwoman councilman Spears.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

Um this is a hard topic, and it's just getting worse and worse, and I'm so glad I didn't grow up with this in my life when I was young.

It haunts um young people, it's a scary thing as a parent.

Um, and so I applaud all the efforts that we're taking here at in our and at SAPD.

But um, is there anything we can do within our individual districts to help with this awareness campaign?

And and then also I know y'all are working reaching out to the schools, but I mean, uh uh it's all about education, right?

And and um, just I I'm interested in how we can be more supportive in our roles and and any other ideas to make this more of a citywide campaign, even because um I mean it's detrimental to so many, and and it's you know, a gateway into really bad things for for potential victims into trafficking and all kinds of other things.

So um I'm just really interested in seeing how we can be more supportive.

I feel like y'all have a good grasp on everything, and um, but this is just it's moving so fast.

You mentioned the AI piece.

I I don't even know where we're going with that.

And I mean, you can take anyone's picture.

I mean, who's not on socials, right?

So um really I I don't have a whole lot of questions.

I just want to know how we can be more supportive.

Um, integrate more toolkits or or make this a wider campaign citywide and what kind of support you need, even at the state or federal level, if there's things we need to be doing to be more supportive here locally.

I mean, I I appreciate the question.

I I think first and foremost, the education starts at at the home with the individual that is providing the cell phone.

Um, there's a number of things that they can be done to kind of guardrails or blockers for lack of a better word, especially when you've got a a younger child, middle school age, even high school age where they're still early on in brain development and again one not wanting to make decisions that not only will affect them at their school, but they go to the next school and it follows them there too.

And and we've seen that, and and I think that contributes to a lot of other things, um, you know, on the mental health side for somebody that's going through that.

So I I think that just having awareness and just letting parents know that this is sometimes what happens and if if we're not careful and just talking about it.

Uh for us, again, it's one of those things, it's a sensitive messaging topic for the police department to put that out.

I do think we we do that um, you know, kind of organically at that level with the schools.

I know that they're talking about it at the schools because it happens far more often than than we even find out about.

Um, and again, we don't know what we prevent, but we'll certainly look for ways to uh partner up and maybe that's just creating graphics that we can share with each district and just bringing awareness to uh the issue and maybe working with other partners that might have um more credibility, sometimes more um just a better understanding of of what's how school age children consume information to where that's where we need to get to.

I think the parents we we can't you can't watch your kids 24-7.

Um we need to get the message to the kids.

On that note too, uh, makes me think about the what's happening within the medical industry because they're gonna see things and maybe catch things too um pediatricians and things like that, and how we can get messaging even through that as well.

But yeah, I'm super open to being helpful in this space.

Um and it sounds like you're saying we need to really be hitting the parents as much or more than the kids.

So yeah, I mean, I I think that that's where you know parents and guardians and and older siblings, and I mean it it it really is a conversation.

I think that you we we can give our kids a phone and then not pay attention to what they're looking at too, but you can I mean the world is at your fingertips, and so you you can use it for really great things, or you can find like the most awful things um to look up and and get a bunch of information on.

And so I I think that's where it starts uh for me.

I think that's what I would like to where I'd like to approach it, but it it begins by having a conversation.

So whenever we're outreaching, whether that's at a community uh neighborhood meeting, it helps to bring the to bring some of those things up.

And again, we can talk to SAFE as well.

Maybe there's some literature, some flyers, some stickers, and there's some other ways where we can engage, and so we need to we'll put our heads together and see if we can come up with something a little more comprehensive.

Thank you, Chief Salami.

Thanks, Councilman.

Councilmember McKee, do you guys did you have anything on this item?

Uh no, just thank you for all the work.

Thank y'all for the presentation.

And and I agree with my colleagues.

Yeah, as a classroom teacher and as someone now with a child, I'm constantly thinking about the world that's evolving around us and how technology plays a role in that.

And so I appreciate the how steadfast you all have been and and addressing this issue with the seriousness and the gravity that uh that it demands.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, thanks, Chief.

I have just a couple of questions on the map on slide seven.

Um, this is I always love looking at the heat maps.

I know councilwoman just asked for it previously on the previous item too, but because it just shows us how things are being affected by all of our residents across the city.

And I wonder the only real way to to have a report on this is through a reporting process, right?

Like someone has to report that someone violated one of these laws, right?

Yeah, so I wonder like if this is actually where the cases are or just where that they've been reported.

And so I wonder if there's any more education work that we can do just around some of the areas.

I know this sounds terrible, but just at least if it's getting reported, people feel like they have a place where they can get help, or you know, if it is a situation where we need to take it down that they can um get the help that they need to do that.

So um just it, you know, you can see the south side is less in the re less um on here, and just wondering if that's a reporting issue, and we've seen that in some other types of cases.

So I don't know if you have any thoughts on that.

Yeah, typically um when an officer goes out and whether they, you know, you you they call into City Hall or whatever.

The call may be dispatched to City Hall, but when they're taking the report and they find out that it happened at uh Fredericksburg and I-10, then they've got to they're what should happen is they should document the exact location where that where that happened.

And so I think with most of these cases and kind of the cases that I've described, um, the offense is going to be where it's listed because that's where you found it, whether you were looking on your phone and you found pictures of yourself, whether your ex-boyfriend sent you a message saying he's going to post these pictures if you don't get back with him.

And so I think in these cases, I would I would I would hazard a guess, and I would say with with pretty good accurate that those are very accurate locations for this particular crime.

Got it.

And um the other question I had was like, I love what you guys are doing on the awareness piece, and I didn't even know that um the human exploitation unit was presenting to schools.

I would love to see which schools those are and what presentations they've been able to do over the last year.

Um I think that's wonderful that you guys are reaching out to kids because that's when we um I think folks are most at risk.

And um the last thing I was gonna ask was uh I'd love this is kind of going off of what councilwoman Castillo mentioned regarding the officer that first gets there, like that the officer that takes the report and what the what they're providing information in terms of like are they gonna are they able like how much information are they providing versus taking?

Like, are they telling them someone's gonna reach out to you from the special um investigations unit and you know you can expect a resolution in X amount of days or this kind of follow-up?

That's uh just like is that do we verify?

I don't know if verify is the right word, but like do we go audit some of our officers' reports to say like what information did they provide?

Yeah, so when we find out typically it's when if somebody didn't do that and somebody and and SVU didn't follow up, then we're gonna go and address that situation.

So anybody that gets a call for a case like this is going to get a case card, it's going to have the number, um, the follow-up number circle.

Say if you have any additional information before you're contacted by a detective, the number to SVU is 207, it's gonna give the phone number or human exploitation based on what what offense is described, whatever the offense is the follow-up unit.

And so there is a you know, that is the level of customer service that we train, that is a level of customer service that we expect, and if officers for whatever reason are not living up to that standard, then we'll address it.

And so SBU will find out because again, or these cases are time sensitive, and so every every minute, every day that's wasted because it wasn't appropriately communicated to where to follow up, that is detrimental to solving a case, and that is something that we take very seriously and and could potentially be.

And the average time that you could share for us for these type of cases of like not I don't know if closing is the right word, but like takedown maybe um or whatever it may be for addressing, um, I I don't, I would say that again, because some of these are very complex, and some of these could be wrapped up in a day, and some of these could take months um based on the number of subpoenas, the number of preservation orders that were required to go to you know, Google's relatively easy, X is a little bit harder.

Uh Facebook is a little bit easier, Instagram, even though they're the same company, that's they they take a little bit longer to respond.

And so there's a lot of factors that go into that.

I I couldn't, you know, again, solvability is is also um contingent.

If it the higher the factor than the known individual, the quicker it is to resolve.

And so I I really couldn't give you that, and I don't think that we could accurately give that information that would not be any, it would not be so skewed because it's so it's so varied.

Okay, then last question do we do any kind of like satisfaction survey for folks for anyone that's calling in for the to get support?

Um maybe not just specific to this, but just in general.

So I know we were using um some technology, the spider technology that has some of that functionality.

I think that there are better mechanisms and better ways for us to make sure that we are doing what the community expects of us.

And so that's certainly something that we can look into because to your point, um, we need to know when we're when we're doing a great job and going above and beyond, and when we're falling short of expectations.

So that's certainly something we can look into.

Yeah, I think so.

I think you we could also even use it as a way for um the CMO's office to do um officer highlights and things like that when people folks are going above and beyond.

So I would love for us to explore what uh some kind of like post uh investigation survey is for cases that are you know uh maybe appropriate and I feel like you guys can figure out what that uh would look like.

Okay, thank you so much, Chief, for this presentation.

The last item is uh a briefing on the annual progress report from the collaborative commission on domestic violence, and uh Maria is gonna present.

I know Judge Diaz is here, I know Marta is here.

And are there any other folks from the uh collaborative commission that are here that I may have missed?

Oh, yes, of course.

Joe Nino from uh Joe Niniya from our city attorney's office.

So um Mayor and Council, I'm sorry, uh members of the public safety committee.

Um, here in my capacity as a co-chair of the City County Collaborative on Domestic Violence to give you some highlights of our 2025 uh report, and as you mentioned, we have some members of the CCDB here with us, and my co-chair uh Judge Monique Diaz is gonna co-present with me in this presentation.

So just very briefly, as you may recall, um, we established the CCDB back in 2019, and the goal of the CCDB was really to look at all the different aspects that impact domestic violence in our community.

Domestic violence continues to be uh one of those um issues in San Antonio that um we have worked very hard to prevent and address.

Uh however, there's a lot of work to be done.

So one of the reasons why the CCDB was created was with the understanding that domestic violence is impacting every part of our community, and it's not only one individual group that can address it, but it's a collaboration of the many entities that we are working towards addressing this issue.

So from our nonprofit organizations that are providing services to the victims, uh also um members of our law enforcement, um, the sheriff's office, the San Antonio police department, prosecution, judiciary, uh health care, and higher education.

Uh, within the city of San Antonio, just alone, we have many different departments providing support to domestic violence, Metro Health, the Department of Human Services, our city attorney's office, the police department, um, as municipal court, and the city manager's office.

So the focus of the C C D V is we are not providing direct services to the community, but our goal is to be able to collaborate and address gaps that we can identify in the service that we are providing to the victims of domestic violence and the families that are also impacted by domestic violence in our community.

So, one of the things that we have done since the inception of the CCDB is that the CCDB adopted the Metro Health Violence Prevention Plan strategies to really look at domestic violence as a public health issue, and to be able to address it in that fashion with the efforts that we were doing here in the city along with our um partners in the county and our nonprofit organizations.

So the reports that we do annually highlight the work of the C CCDV, as well as addresses some of the challenges that we continue to see, and it provides transparency and accountability of our work to share with our community what we're doing, and what is it that we're focusing on as we continue with this with this work.

So one of the three areas that we're focusing on, and that we focus in calendar year 2025 included improving data acquisition and utilization of that data, implementing a comprehensive communication campaign, and incorporating education on healthy relationships early in life.

So I'm gonna give you just some highlights on strategy number one in terms of data acquisition and utilization, and then Judge Monique Diaz will do the other two items.

So one of the things that we have done since we put together the CCDV, we identify the need to be able to have a single repository or report where we can show what's happening in our community, both the city and the county in terms of domestic violence, the efforts of all the partners that are involved.

So we have work in alignment of definitions of domestic and family violence to make sure that we're using the same terminology.

We continue to improve the annual statistic report that we provide to the public to ensure that we are providing from the number of calls that we're getting at the city, the Sheriff's Office, our 211 number through United Way, as well as the calls that go directly to our nonprofit organizations, the number of um police reports that are filed countywide, as well as those services that we are providing for prevention and also for intervention when it comes to our nonprofit organizations, like the Peace Initiative, as well as Marta Pelares and her team, what they provide in terms of shelter services and other support services to victims and also to perpetrators.

We also talk about those cases that come through the judiciary, municipal court, the district attorney's office, protective orders, all that information is consolidated in one report.

We know there's more work to do when it comes to data, and combining all the data from the different organizations provides opportunities every year for us to improve so we continue to explore that.

A couple of items that we have discussed heavily and that we hope to be able to implement this year is a community-wide assessment process to be able to understand from our community directly, in terms of areas that we can improve when it comes to domestic violence, as well as we have explored creating or having an advisory board for the CCDB with individuals with live experiences.

So that way the work that we that we are doing mirrors the needs that our members of our community have experienced and how we can improve and direct some of the work that we do through our different agencies.

So we continue to do this work, and you'll see on the report and the statistical reports some of those areas that I mentioned.

And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Judge Diaz for the rest of the presentation.

Thank you, Maria.

Thank you all for having us, and I understand uh council member McKee Rodriguez is somewhere out there as well on Zoom.

Thank you so much for the opportunity.

It's been uh such an honor to work with the city, work with Maria over the past uh six, seven years in these efforts.

So I'm going to pick up where she left off.

She just talked about one of three strategies that we're focused on, and we're in the middle of a five-year strategic plan in which we're focusing on these three strategies.

The second strategy I will go over with you all that's covered in our progress report is the work we've done to implement an ongoing comprehensive communications campaign.

This campaign is intended to increase awareness, strengthen our engagement, and position ourselves as trusted regional voices on domestic violence.

And of course, this is grounded in a public health approach that we have taken from the inception of the CCDV that recognizes that prevention requires a shared understanding across our community of the dynamics of domestic violence, available resources, and what the CCDV does.

Through this comprehensive communications campaign, which is an ongoing living campaign, some of the things we have done incorporate utilizing multiple platforms and strategies to reach a broad and diverse audience.

The first I will touch upon is the annual domestic violence awareness symposium.

Last year, we had our first hybrid, both in-person and remote, very successful symposium.

This is a cornerstone of the CCDB's work, and we are grateful for the city and the county coming together to fund this initiative each year.

Last year alone, we had over 500 participants for it being our first year of having an in-person opportunity.

We sold out, I say that loosely because the tickets were free, but we met capacity very quickly there and had to turn people away.

So there was an obvious need in our community and drive for that education.

We had participants across healthcare, education, advocacy, legal, and community sectors.

We also have been working on strengthening our media partnerships and coverage when it comes to domestic violence resources, dynamics, and the work of the CCDV, and that's helped us elevate awareness.

We have an ongoing social media campaign that focuses on storytelling, making sure our community understands that domestic violence is an issue that impacts all of us.

It does not discriminate by race, gender, socioeconomic status, geographic location, or anything else.

So we have a wide range of storytelling opportunities that are focused primarily on prevention, education, resources, and safety planning.

We partnered with the City of San Antonio's La Mesa podcast and had an interesting podcast that touched on the intersection of domestic violence and homelessness that garnered over 8,000 views.

And one of our most successful communications efforts has also been a partnership, thanks to the City of San Antonio and Clear Channel partnering together to provide billboards for a billboard campaign that's helped us again increase awareness on things like resources, teen dating violence prevention, our upcoming symposium, domestic violence awareness month in October, and that alone has garnered over 58 million impressions.

This layered approach allows the CCDB to meet people where they are across both traditional and digital spaces, and again is an ongoing effort.

Our third of three strategies that we are working on during this five-year plan is incorporating education on healthy relationships early in life, because we recognize that that is essential to long-term violence prevention, and understand that prevention must begin early and continue across the lifespan.

This effort has been focused on understanding and strengthening prevention efforts.

Last year we focused on doing so by mapping education and intervention programs across Texas, which was very enlightening.

We were able to map programs that were focused on early childhood, youth and teens, young adults, adults and families, older adults, and community-wide prevention.

Through that mapping exercise, we were able to identify some of the strengths that we have in Texas with opportunities focused on youth and teen dating violence prevention, as well as establish school and community-based programs, which becomes critical as we all know there are various barriers to us getting into schools and teaching youth about healthy relationships and domestic violence, and so we have to try to meet these students where they are, and one of those ways is through established school and community-based programs.

We did identify some opportunities through the mapping process to expand prevention education for adults and families, to increase focus on older populations, strengthen community and societal level strategies, and to align messaging across age groups.

These efforts have provided a clearer understanding of where investment and coordination are needed.

So moving forward, the CCDB remains committed to focusing on prevention alongside intervention, accountability, and long-term support for all impacted by family violence.

This includes, yes, survivors and their children, but also those who have inflicted harm upon individuals because we know the only way we can break these generational cycles of abuse is by providing support across that spectrum.

We are committed to upholding our mission of accountability to our community members and to the systems that they encounter, and this progress report that we're here to discuss today provides an opportunity for transparency and accountability for our efforts.

And that concludes our presentation.

Thank you, Judge.

Martha, since you are here, would you like to add any uh comments for the report?

Thank you very much, Councilwoman and all the members of the council.

Um, other than just to say that I am in awe, in spite of being a participant with the collaborative commission and what it um attempts to do.

It's a very uh very um ambitious uh uh strategy that they have devised, and I am honored to be a participant.

Um perhaps one thing that I want to share with everybody, and um you may have heard me say this in the past there are two uh trends that are um disturbing if we we see them only in one direction, and that is the participation of men in um as victims of domestic violence.

It is something that has not happened in a long time in the numbers that we're seeing.

Uh, 12% in the increase of men that we have seen in the past two years, um, and uh which is can be a reflection of um a disturbing trend, as I said, uh, or it could also be uh that men are coming forth and maybe fighting the intimidation that this socialization process has imposed on them.

The other one is the participation of babies in coming to the shelter.

We are seeing uh one week, two-week uh old babies coming to the shelter in higher numbers, and uh mothers having babies' well-being at the shelter as well.

So that is quite concerning and disturbing.

We're following that trend, and perhaps we need to add it to our statistical report to make sure that we track that.

Other than that, thank you, thank you, thank you.

We have two magnificent co-chairs leading this effort, and I am very, very um thankful for what they have done.

Thanks.

Would any of our additional city staff members that work with the commission like to add any comments?

Okay.

Well, thank you, Martha, and um thank you so much for this presentation.

I before I go over to my colleagues, I'll just highlight that today.

Councilman Casey and I sit on the educational opportunities committee as well, and they did a survey on youth in terms of what they think their budget priorities are, and domestic violence was I think their fifth priority that they had listed, uh, just several behind affordable housing and supporting our in-house population.

And so it was a very big issue that the youth had found is important for them, which I think was it was important for us as we're going to into this conversation because it shows us that there's a real big need in supporting our youth in these conversations, and so I love that that is the one of the focuses of the commission as well.

Um, I'll pass it over to my colleagues and then I'll wrap this up.

Councilman Cassier would like to start us.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Maria and Judge and Marta for uh your leadership with this initiative.

It's really important work and to vote upon what the chair mentioned.

Based off the youth commission's uh input and surveys.

What that tells me, uh, is when they're highlighting things that they uh may be seeing in school or at their family table.

Uh, and I think that's uh documentation and a budget survey that I'm hopeful that council will take into account uh when determining what our budget priorities are.

Um, but in addition to that, um I'm curious in terms of uh unfortunately how the city of San Antonio continues to be one of the highest uh intimate partner uh has the highest uh intimate partner uh murder rates uh in the state.

I'm curious in terms of of what uh trends or direction has changed uh given that we continue to lead uh in that area.

Uh I also want to go back to the legislative agenda under the corrections direction is vacational programs and or training within um uh prisons in the state of Texas.

And I'm curious if there's value to your point uh with the educational component of the prevention and intervention programming across Texas, uh, if there's value uh in um sharing that some that curriculum within prisons for individuals who may be there for domestic violence.

Uh, is that something that you all have recommended uh done in the past?

Can you walk me through uh what that relationship looks like with offenders in terms of education and rehabilitation?

I wear heels today.

We're gonna need a second.

Sorry.

Um so uh I'm gonna work backwards and let me know if you're just making questions for the record uh and don't need a response.

Uh in terms of helping offenders, uh, and we try to use the um trauma-informed and people-centered language, people who cause harm.

Um, so judges often are seeing both sides of these situations, and their role is to provide supportive services for both the survivor as well as the person who causes harm.

There are particular courts, diversion courts that are focused on educating the offenders on those issues, and the peace initiative and fatherhood campaign also do pretty extensive work trying to really rehabilitate that frame of mind in terms of acting on violence and turning to a non-violent approach.

I guess my question is in terms of the curriculum, for example, in Bear County Jail or in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Is that something that you all have proposed, explored?

Uh, not as yet, but it's something we can consider.

Okay, I think there's um uh much value in in tapping into that, especially if it's one of the state priorities to potentially help set the direction of what type of curriculum could be offered.

Uh typically right it focuses on more vocational the trades, but there are some um uh courses similar to what y'all may be offering here.

Um, in addition to that, I'm I'm curious in terms of the lived experience board.

Is that something that's already been established?

Or um what is that process look like and as well as um the syllabus, if you will.

Right.

It has not been established yet.

It's one of our five-year priorities, um, which I expect that we're going to probably get off the ground next calendar year.

We want to bring on survivors as well as people who have caused harm.

And there are some dynamics there that we have to work out.

Uh, we want to be advised by both parts of that that experience, and we're kind of working through how to do that in the way that's most psychologically safe for everyone.

And then uh lastly, in terms of like the community courts, for example, uh, with municipal court, if there is like a classy misdemeanor, uh family violence case, um, what what is like the next step in terms of of connecting that individual to potential curriculum so they understand, right?

One, their impact, um the violation of law, but also how do they redirect their unhealthy relationship into a potential healthy relationship?

There's no question that any uh defendant that comes to municipal court, uh, their first priority is to give them whatever programs they need.

So we work with all the resources within the CCDB as well as others with the idea that uh of course uh we look at both the victim and the complainant as well.

So it's one of those uh the best part.

Well, we're trying to very, very do.

There's really uh the courses for defendants sometimes cost a lot of money.

So let's they're trying to find programs that are free that they're able to use.

So that's kind of the first steps we try to do.

I I appreciate that I'm curious as well in terms of who is offering the curriculum how is it subsidized and I'm thinking about for example um parenting plus and I I sit on the board right um but what Gina does is she offers classes um just family courses domestic violence courses like etc etc um but I'm curious like how many providers are there right and then also how many participants are they having opt in uh to to take on those courses yeah we could provide you the list we do have a list of providers and I could get that to you after this after this meeting that would be helpful I'd appreciate that thank you thank you chair thank you councilman councilman spears thank you chair um thank you for your presentation um this is a huge issue in our in our in our community and it's so sad and um I really applaud your effort to to really educate people and I really want to focus on the prevention piece I have some questions on how we can um measure the outcomes when we start really implementing some of these how I don't know how we do that when we're trying to do a comprehensive campaign you're gonna need to touch people what six some I don't know the number times before you make an impact where they might reach out like those kinds of things maybe understanding that but also how what were the effective ways to do that so I don't know how we can measure measuring the work is incredibly complex.

We know statistically speaking that most survivors um make seven attempts before they leave a relationship they're in many people endure years of you of abuse without any support uh even just from an educational standpoint being able to assess that is challenging one thing that the CCDV is is proud to partner in is Bear County has acquired funding to do a domestic violence system assessment and the CCDV members are advising that assessment so they're going to bring researchers together to give us a better picture of what's going on in the system and the process and some ways we can measure things.

Right now we can kind of on the first level look at how many 911 calls there are how many five cases are filed you know how many people receive services from different partners but there are nuances to that right and as we make people more comfortable with seeking services we're going to see an increase in people using services so that's not the answer by itself.

It's a pretty complex situation to measure okay um yeah just to add to your question briefly and your point um the communication strategy is partnering up with the data strategy that Maria Via Gomez is co-leading and one of the things we are also working on is uh partnering with UTSA to develop a uh some focus groups and hopefully a survey that will help inform our communications campaigns so that we are sure that we're using messaging that's effective for our community so that is one of the things that we're exploring to your point of how do we know that what we're doing is working what we're going to take an evidence based approach to that and and I wanted to just briefly for the record correct that thankfully we are not the number one in the state of Texas when it comes to domestic violence homicides the last time we were number one was in 2018 which led to the impetus of the creation of the CCDV and if you look at um population size compared to rankings we have generally ranked around where our population is as well the last report that came out from TCF V had us at number two ranked across the state of Texas.

Prior to that, for the last several years, we've been in the third and the fourth position.

And Erica touched on some of the reasons why that might be.

We are investing heavily on making sure people understand they can reach out to get help.

But of course, there's no final answer on why those numbers fluctuate.

But I just wanted to correct that to your point.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, where curriculum would be tailored toward toward the different groups, right?

So and if there's any ideas toward pilot programs that we can help implement to, you know, kind of parcel these out so we can really get an idea of what's working well and and get before we do a big rollout, which may be more costly, certainly supportive of that, both on public on public safety, and then just in district nine.

So I mean, I can think of a lot of partners.

I know, you know, I just want to shout out to Courtney Friedman at CASA.

This is the big focus for her, and she works really hard on this.

And um, yeah, I applaud your effort to get a lot of backing in our community and all the efforts you're doing, and I, and uh, so to your point, Marta, about reaching the um offenders, the the people that are committing the abuse.

I think that's really key, and um, you've really struck a nerve there, and that's challenging.

So I don't clearly y'all know a whole lot more and have a plan, but um yeah, anyway we can be supportive of it, and um really interested in partnering and doing any pilot programs or connecting stakeholders to help implement your different initiatives in a more tailored approach, and even finding curriculum, you know, on I know y'all are looking, but however we can go about doing that, um, interested in helping there too.

Thank you very much.

And incidentally, I wanted to share uh with you that maybe two weeks ago I received a word from the criminal justice uh department that we have uh our request for a waiver to provide uh batteries and defensive prevention program at the jail.

The full program uh has been approved.

So that was uh wonderful, wonderful news.

I I haven't shared those with with you all yet.

Uh so we will be um providing um the instruction uh that includes individual counseling, um, and uh once a child, which is a parenting program that is exclusively designed for um men who choose to abuse, who may not necessarily be parents themselves, but who may find themselves in a guardianship or boyfriend uh living with a mother uh who has children situation.

But uh it is very exciting.

We have already begun implementing uh the BIP uh at the jail, and the waiver consists in there is one guideline, guideline number 11 of the batteries and defensive prevention program that stipulates that uh sessions will be provided uh in a dosage no uh more intensive than once a week.

However, while these men, mostly men, we're also um uh implementing it with women, but um these individuals who are in an attentive uh situation while being detained uh and uh um may leave may leave the detention center before they complete the 24 weeks that is our BIP or 52 weeks as the the case may be.

Um so they leave before they complete the program.

So what I have requested is to be able to um change the dosage to two sessions a week to um uh um make sure that there is a better chance for them to complete before they leave.

And if they leave the detention center before they are completed, then they can attend uh the BIP uh at our regular um place where we implement um uh our office on Broadway.

Um, and um without any uh charge whatsoever.

So the criminal justice department has as I said agreed and waived.

I just wanted to also bring up one other, you know, we've talked a lot about um romantic partner abuse and children, but there's seniors and financial abuse too.

And um, so how we can integrate things at our senior centers is also important, and uh, because I know a lot of my seniors uh I have concerns just in my own interaction, like are you okay?

You know, and um so how we can help there and implement things there, uh it's often overlooked and not talked enough about for them.

So just wanted to add that.

Thank you, Chair.

Absolutely, thank you.

Thank you.

Councilman Castillo.

Thank you, Chair, and uh thank you, Judge, for the correction.

Uh lastly, I wanted to highlight in terms of the opportunities and expanding prevention for adults and families.

Um, are there typically delegate agencies that you all connect folks to and or invite to these conversations?

Uh and I asked for that because, for example, uh a couple of public comments ago, we had the CEO for her give public comment to talk about the role and the value of their work.

Uh, and she shared that oftentimes city uh, for example, PD and different organizations send folks to her to case manage and help the victim.

So I just want to ensure that as we're navigating the delegate agency conversation and budget that we're aligning based off of the priorities of this committee and of council, but also we know as a body that this is what we should ensure stays uh within the delegate agency funding.

This might help as you move forward.

Uh, the delegate agency contracts, all of the applications submitted to them must align with the violence prevention strategic plan, which the CCDV subscribes to as well.

So there is a natural alignment between the delegate agencies and the work of the CCDV, and we are very familiar with the entities that receive those funds at delegate agencies and have act connections to reach out and bring in some feedback.

And I appreciate that.

I think it's more in terms of council discussion of making the argument to my colleagues that there's the the value in terms of the role of these delegate agencies, but I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

Sorry.

Uh Councilmember McKee Ridigas?

There we go.

Did you have anything on the same thing?

Um, no, thank you.

Thank you all so much for all the work that you do again.

A really serious and important topic.

And so uh really appreciate it, and I look forward to more updates and more conversation with you all.

Always good to see you, Jesse.

Yes.

Thanks, Councilmember.

Um, okay, I just have a couple of questions.

When is the statistical report?

Is that an annual report or when could we expect that?

Yes, that is an annual report, and we uh typically get it out in March, April.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

October.

I'm sorry, I'm off.

So in October of this year, we'll have the 2025 statistical report.

Okay, great.

And then I loved the descriptions that were listed in um the I went through the report of some of the work that you guys are doing around um the community assessment and the complex case review team, and how does that like the the meat of that I guess get distributed, or is that more for like awareness around strategy?

So we have not embarked fully on the community assessment yet, but I imagine that we will be sharing at least some components of that more publicly, but it's intended to direct our work.

The complex case review so far has just been piloted.

We wanted to see what we could do with what we had uh and how it would inform us, and so we're actually poisoning kind of positioning ourselves to move forward on to another complex case review, and that gives us a chance to look at how an individual navigates the system.

I remember Maria briefly about this.

The different points where they intersect, what the services looked like, um, did was there a missed opportunity?

And at this point, we're kind of using that to advise ourselves, but I expect that if we have useful information, that we would provide that to others, Erica or Marta, can you highlight the um fatality review process that uh we work together in terms of the different entities that that is a little bit similar to the complex review, but this involves a fatalities, and Marta has been leading that effort with the city and the county.

Yes, I'll be happy to Maria.

It uh consists of uh participants who can provide information towards the discussion of the cases that are being considered.

So there have been we just we just began the process.

Um it took some time to to compose the team.

Um in fact, I just had a conversation um about the participation of uh the city, um, which was amply represented with um personnel from SAPD.

Um, but now we will have the addition of two uh more members.

Um so it it is basically a series of meetings where uh cases are discussed.

We begin at the point of the fatality and move backwards to identify uh gaps and opportunities.

Um, what we are doing that is kind of uh unique this time around is to include some of the unincorporated uh cities, universal cities, Universal uh city, for example, um, has the second highest uh incidence of uh domestic violence after Bear County.

Uh so we thought that it was important that they participate, so they will be participating.

Another unique element that we have added this time around is the participation of a um survivor of domestic violence, uh not necessarily participating in the very sessions themselves to make sure that there is no chance of re-victimization, but at the time when a draft report is prepared, we will ask that victim to uh take a look and give us opinion, give us insight as to what may have been missed given the uh um experiences lived by that individual.

Thank you, Marta.

Thank you.

We have been asked by the um by the county.

Uh we have been assigned to be the um agency to um compose and process the um domestic violence fatality review team, and that report will be provided to the state, and uh um I don't know that that report can be made public until the state has responded.

Okay.

Well, once it is made public, um we would love to see it so that we can better understand what that looks like and what we're learning from it, and hopefully the numbers are decreasing, at least in the fatality perspective as awareness increases.

Um, and for the CCRT, I know why some of that would be sensitive, but anything that you could review you can relate from the complex case review team to us, I think would be helpful.

Um, one of the um pieces that I mentioned around awareness was that we our interpersonal violence subcommittee was going to do the seven mindsets curriculum in some of our school after-school programs this last spring.

We had some um challenges that we're facing with the surveys that parents had some pushbacks on, but we would like to uh given that the youth mentioned this is one of their priority, I think we should make a strong push to try to implement that as a pilot for this upcoming year.

We were able to do it without additional budgetary costs because we already have those programs in place and it was going to be a plug-in to those programs.

So I'd love to be able to do that program this fall.

So, if we can follow back up and see what um you need from this committee to be able to make that happen, so that we can see if it how effective it can be.

And then one other thing that Martha and I had talked about was like a public perception survey.

Any kind of food or any establishment, you know, I I was giving an homage to uh previous council member Palaeus with the stickers in the bathroom.

And we were talking about like how do we assess impact of that and what ways could we enhance that program as well.

And I don't know, Martha, if you have any thoughts that you wanted to share on a survey, like a citywide survey that we could conduct to better understand.

But do you have any perspective on that you want to share?

Not at this point, but I would love to know what the impact of the stickers has been throughout the city.

And I I think you've been doing something with that, right?

Yeah, we so we if do you already have that?

Okay.

On an ongoing basis, we monitor the web traffic to the place where the QR code goes.

We also check the national hotline and monitor that.

There's less traffic interestingly to the national hotline, which is a phone call or a text message, versus the web page.

Um so we've been monitoring that regularly.

Um, of course, the sticker ordinance only applies within the city limits of San Antonio, but there are a number of county and state-owned properties that also adopted the stickers.

That's great.

Um, and then the La Mesa podcast, I know Judge mentioned this.

I didn't even know that existed.

Can someone tell me a little bit about it?

So La Mesa is um our CNE department that created that podcast, and we talk about different issues that are impacting our community.

So we did one for domestic violence.

What we'll do is send the committee a link so you can watch it.

The team did a great job.

I want to give kudos to Rick Graperich with uh Metro Health.

He actually um was the facilitator for that podcast, and he did an awesome job.

You will be impressed.

I can't wait to hear it.

Thank you, Greg.

And Ray, sorry, Rick, too.

Okay, well, we'll uh we'll get to listen to them then.

That'll be great information for us.

And I also did not know the C C D V had an Instagram.

I saw it at the end of the report.

So I followed it.

So everybody in the room, go follow CCDV underscore SATX.

Um I think the more we can use social to our benefit and edu and create awareness that way, I think the better.

We um and then just the last thing I wanted to mention.

Um, I lost my train of thought.

Okay, well, thank you guys so much for this presentation, and um we'll come back and present a little bit about the subcommittees that were um that we were assigned to later in the fall about um progress on those two uh measures.

I know we have to add council member white to one of those subcommittees as well.

I just thought of that since he joined a couple months ago.

Okay, any last comments?

Okay, great.

Well, thank you all so much for being here.

The time is 4 04 p.m.

and the committee meeting is adjourned.