City Council - Special Meeting

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Look at that. Guess right. Got it together. and call to order a special meeting of January 29th, 2026. Can we stand for the pledge of allegiance? Place your hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

The United States of America and to the one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And justice. Madame city clerk, could you call the role?

Yes, mayor. Uh qu is present for the city council. Uh, however, mayor and council members, I would like to mention that Councilwoman Gray is participating remotely uh via audio only today as permitted by government code section 54953C. Councilwoman Gray, please state whether any individual 18 years or older is present in the room with you, and if so, the general nature of the relationship. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. This is Councilwoman Gloria Gray. My assistant is in the room with me. She's over 18 and no one else. Thank you.

Thank you. That's all. Mayor, I didn't know she was over 18. Oh my goodness. Any persons wishing to address the uh Ingwood City Council on any items on the agenda may do so at this time. You need the microphone.

There we go. guys are asking to expand police powers and the technology guys are looking to acquire has been criticized because it's it's a form of predictive policing which usually discriminates against people of color and has been criticized as not been effective. Now the flip side of that coin is you have to have accountability. Since two 2022, this city has failed to conduct a police commission committee uh meeting. So there has to be a balance. In addition to that, this city will go back into court February the 4th because the ACLU won injunctive relief against the city because the city has systematically and methodically failed to produce police records of abuse and misconduct. Now, the

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where is that balance come from? I would like to see before you guys just pass this motion that there's a report given by the police department. You can't say, "Well, we want to expand police powers," but then say, "We don't need accountability." Because even as the ACLU said, for you guys to continue to fight this lawsuit to disclose records is ridiculous. Now, keep in mind, two people up there were former police officers, one being a police chief. So, accountability has to go hand in hand. What's even more alarming about the reports that came from that judge, he said, "The person in charge of giving these or producing these reports outside the police department, not only you guys deny some requests, you guys even block the emails of certain people that were asking for these requests. So in good faith, you're asking us to assume that you're going to use this information because it's all AI generated information from the this contract you passed us you proposed to pass today. And if you guys have a record of not producing that, the information that's available should be available to the public. How do we know how what what audit system is in place to make sure that this report these reports produced the attended results and are these reports are going to be available to the public? If you guys are already hiding records already, what should we assume with these reports that are not generated by people? This is artificial information that's being considered through algorithms. you know, faulty data. How do we know that's going to be used in the proper way?

Thank you very much. Are there any other public comments, please? You have to go to the microphone. Now, it's for anything on the agenda right now, ma'am. Is is this on the agenda that you want to speak on? Okay. So, that'll be at the end. So, just a little bit. Okay. Okay, with that we'll close public comment. We'll go to the consent calendar items one, two, and three. So moved. Second, Madam City clerk. Council members Gray I. Padilla I. Fog I.

Mayor Buds

I. Um, now we'll have public comment uh for any item related to city business not elsewhere considered on the agenda. Ma'am, now it's your time. One minute. Greetings. I just want to know what's going on in Inglewood. Buildings are being shut down, fenced off, and or torn down. First, it was the library, the high school, Department of Motor Vehicle. If you want to renew your license, you better go to another city. The mortterary and Bourbon Street Fish on Prairie, that's gone. Now, the the mom and pop small businesses, the bar barber shop on region, the beauty shop on region, the the beauty shop over here on Nutwood, the little lady just did senior citizens hair two or three days a week. She said she's just tired of moving from place to place. She quit. Oh, wow. And I just want to know what's next. Heaven forbid Dulan Soul Food Grace Mortterary. Three of my family members were service island there. Thank you.

Thank you so much, ma'am. Okay, with that we'll adjourn the city council and uh thank you everybody for coming. Thank you, mayor.