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Recommendation to Provide Direction to Staff Regarding Police Accountability. (Police 10031130)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With events of conflict throughout the country, the need to strengthen community policing is of utmost importance. As part of this effort, in August 2020, the City Manager appointed the Community-led Steering Committee (Steering Committee) on Police Reform and Racial Equity to make recommendations on the future of policing and systemic racism in Alameda. There were five subcommittees established to focus on task specific recommendations. The five subcommittees were: Unbundling Services Currently Delivered by the Police Department; Review of Police Department Policies and Practices; Police Department Accountability and Oversight; A Review of Laws that Criminalize Survival Systemic; and Community Racism/Anti-Racism.
On March 16, 2021 the City Council considered recommendations from the Community-led Steering Committee and provided direction to the City Manager to follow-up on 22 action items that focus on the Alameda Police Department (PD) and other City of Alameda (City) programs and policies. On May 8, 2021, the City Council met to consider a referral on related matters, and provided eight additional action items for follow-up (see Exhibit 1 Work Plan for full list and status of each action item). The recommendations contained in this report are part of the continued effort by the City to implement the recommendations from the steering committee and direction of City Council. Nearly all of the action items have been completed.
This staff report is focused on the recommendations from the Steering Committee and the direction from City Council regarding independent oversight of the Police Department. The action items in the Work Plan, approved by City Council, include funding a Police Auditor and reviewing and presenting options to City Council for community oversight of the Polic...
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