Public Safety Committee - Special Meeting

Good afternoon and welcome to the public safety meeting of Tuesday 01/13/2026. The time is now 01:34PM. This meeting may come to order. Before taking roll, 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 a 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 twenty four hours prior to the start of this meeting time. This meeting came to order at 01:34PM, and speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after, making that time 01:44 p. M. We'll now proceed with taking roll. Council members Brown?

Present.

Council member Fife? Present. Council member Houston? Present. And chair Wong? Present. Thank you. We have four members present. Chair before we begin do you have any announcements at this time?

Yes. Just an announcement that January is human trafficking prevention month and you know as many of you know that this is one of my top priorities. It is just modern day slavery within happening here in Oakland and especially in District 2. And I just wanna give a a thanks to council member Fife for supporting me yesterday as well as council member Houston for dropping by as well. So and that's it.

Thank you. Reading in item number one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting held on 12/09/2025. We do have two speakers that signed up for this item. Okay.

Yep. Let's go to it.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number one. Miss Asada Olubala and Blair Beekman.

That word slavery is very important word and I don't want it misused. So are you talking about people who have been against their will forced to be in a situation where they do labor for free?

Yes. Accurate.

Okay. Alright.

Or not for free but forced. Yes. It coerced. Okay.

Be careful with that word please.

Yes ma'am.

I would like to see the the minutes reflect that when we're talking about citizens options for public safety grants. I have no problem with the helicopters but that is a very broad topic that includes personnel equipment and training. And if you could have more on the training component being brought forward a little bit more with the use of those funds, it would help because that's a part of the NSA. The cognitive behavior theory that was brought up in that last meeting, now that theory that theory has to do with a person being able to identify and change negative thoughts, patterns, and behavior. But nobody says what are we talking about specifically when we're engaging and creating cognitive behavior theory.

Are we talking about racism? Are we talking about biases? Implicit and explicit bias? And where do we see it existing in the police department that we have to deal with it? We don't go into enough detail when items are coming before us.

And the last one was the ceasefire evaluation. You have to get some type of you say it's evidence based. Ceasefires what is the evidence that the evaluation will produce? And what is the intense social services that ceasefire is supposed to provide? I have never seen that being presented in an evaluation, any presentation, when you all keep saying ceasefire is working, you only talk about the opportunity to deal with an exchange of thought and ideas through the coaching process that you have, the life coaches.

So, let's do a little bit better with the evaluation on ceasefire because y'all really drive me crazy about you keep bragging about how it's working.

Thank you for your comments, miss Olubala. Switching to Zoom user, Blair Beakman. You can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi. Thank you, Blair Beakman. I wanted to speak to the meeting minutes. Thank you for the words of the previous public speaker on cognitive therapy training clarifications, important subject matter that we it's clarified well. Thank you.

I want to the meeting minutes previously, you had a review of surveillance technology items report for 24 or 2,025 items, the yearly review report. I wanted to quickly comment. It's gonna be my mantra here in Oakland for the next few. Hopefully, it can be helpful and convincing. I know it's uncomfortable a bit, but with our upcoming technology issues that you very interestingly have agreed to want to better address the future of Block AOPR vendor use and find a new vendor in the next few years.

I think the complement to that is the idea of that we can actually be considering how to reduce actual surveillance technology in local neighborhoods. That's been proven that more strategically placed technology in local neighborhoods in lesser amounts can actually do the same amounts of public safety work in a neighborhood. And I I can just say that for the next few months, and, hopefully, it can have some sort of resonance and meaning, and we we can begin a bit more of a open public dialogue and subject discussion on it. I think it's important and it should be an important part of the reviewing the importance of a new ALPR vendor. I think it's a part of that whole system of more responsible practices that minimal use of technology can actually do just as much as a plethora of tech.

And, I think we have to explore those options and really be a regular part of our lives. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, chair. That concludes all speakers on item number one.

Okay. Yeah. And I wanna thank the public commenter because that does remind me that we need to reschedule the item that we scheduled for a future date on the surveillance use report. So I will I will plan on doing that. Any comments from colleagues? Council member Brown.

Move approval of the meeting minutes.

Okay. I'll second that.

Thank you. We have a motion made by council member Brown, second by chair Wong to approve the committee meeting committee meeting minutes, draft minutes from 12/09/2025 on roll. Council member Brown? Aye. Aye. Houston? Aye. And chair Wong? Aye. Thank you. Item number one passes with four ayes. Now reading in item two, determination of scheduled outstanding committee items. We have three speakers that signed up for this. Alright let's move to that. Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number two. Miss Asada Olubala, Jennifer Finley, and Rajni Mandal.

I'm requesting that the sched y'all fully understand that. I understand that y'all not gonna do none of this stuff. I'm coming here fully equipped not to have any expectations from this body because you don't do anything that I feel is important in my frame of work that I'm doing particularly around African Americans. So I'm not asking you for anything because you're not doing anything that's important to me and the people I'm I'm concerned about. But you should do a reflection on how you require background checks.

You just had an appointment of two people to the police commission where background it was approved in rules. Background checks had not been done. You brought that up. And you can't move an item forward to say, oh, we're gonna do it before it comes to counsel. Are y'all serious? Background checks are important, and somebody needs to challenge OUSD that does not require background checks for volunteers as long as a teacher is supervising them. Now they're doing that because they're the illegal immigrants. They don't want them to behave background checks. The other thing is the there are two items that have been pushed to the side. The NFL player that was killed were under police supervision.

And November 2024, a police officer shot and killed a person, and we've never had that brought up in any form or fashion right over here by the plaza. Now it was identified early on that this was the person who's over the police officers association. They called him by name and then all of a sudden that story died. The other thing I'm concerned about is the NSA stop data. You have to look at that data. You have to look at the data and nobody's looking at it, particularly who gets citations, who gets warning, who gets no actions, students who are picked up for truancy, whole bunch of stuff. That's my last.

Miss Millie Cleveland, did you wanna speak on item two still? Okay.

Millie Cleveland from district four. There are two items I would like you to consider for scheduling. The first one is macro has existed for going on three years with absolutely no evaluation. The original ordinance actually stated that it wouldn't even become citywide until there was an evaluation. So for the life of me, I cannot understand why this council continues to authorize funding for macro when there's been no evaluation.

I think that's really irresponsible. The other thing that I would like to ask you to consider is having more reports from OPD about ICE. How often has ICE been in the city? How many 911 calls have been received due to ICE? How many interactions have occurred when OPD showed up to an occurrence with ICE?

What training has OPD received regarding issues of ICE? Have you have you requested copies of the training? Do you have any knowledge of the training OPD has? What memos OPD has provided for dealing with ICE? They they say that ICE informs them, but I cannot get a council member to ask OPD to report on what's happening with ICE. So I think these are scheduled items that you need to consider, please.

Thank you for your comments. Switching to Zoom user, Rajni Mandal. You can unmute yourself and begin your comments

comments.

Rajni Mandal, District 4. I wanted to speak to the Skelly hearing process and how it intersects the ongoing transition of misconduct investigations from internal affairs to SIPRA. According to OPD's most recent reporting, there are currently 46 discipline cases waiting for Skelly hearings involving 64 officers. OPD also reports that it has 18 trained Skelly hearing officers available. The Skelly backlog has been steadily declining throughout 2025 following process improvements put in place by OPD and human resources in late twenty twenty four, including moving the process online and expanding who can conduct hearings.

It's important to be clear about roles. Skelly hearings are handled by OPD and Human Resources with support from the city attorney's office. SIPRA does not schedule or conduct Skelly hearings. As the city continues the transition of investigations from internal affairs to SIPRA, I urge the committee to keep investigative timelines separate from Skelly timelines. There are different stages of the discipline process which are controlled by different departments.

Clear reporting on where delays occur, whether during investigation, Skelly, or final discipline, is essential for accountability and for making informed decisions about staffing and resources. My request is simple. As this item moves forward, please ensure that reports clearly distinguish each step in the process and identify which department is responsible so solutions are targeted to the right place. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, chair. That concludes That concludes all speakers on this item.

Okay, fantastic. And I did want to note because I know one of the public speakers has an interest in the macro special session that has been in discussion. You might notice that we've, one of our deputy city administrators, Joe DeVries has transitioned to become the director of animal services and so we were working on that. There has been a leadership transition. ACA Phillips is now, I think he'll be serving in this role now with us. So we are continuing, we will work on that but leadership changes have delayed some of that. Okay. Any other comments from colleagues or questions? Okay, seeing none.

I'll make a motion to move the item. Second. Yep, thank you.

Thank you. We have a motion made by council member Brown, seconded by council member Fife to accept the determination of scheduled outstanding committee items as is. On roll council members Brown. Aye. Aye. Houston.

Aye.

And chair Wong? Aye. Thank you. Item number two passes with four ayes. Reading in item three, adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Santa Clara Stadium Authority and the city of Santa Clara for the Oakland Police Department to provide tactical support and security for Super Bowl sixty on 02/08/2026 and the FIFA World Cup event from 06/11/2026 to 07/19/2026, and we have three speakers that signed up.

Let's go to the staff report first.

Good afternoon. I'm captain Perez Angelus with the Oakland Police Department. And as mentioned, we are seeking, council's approval for via signed MOU to have the ability to assist the city of Santa Clara with Super Bowl sixteen. We will be providing tactical security. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have on on the resolution and agenda report that I that was submitted.

Okay. Let's go to public comment.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number three, miss Asada Olubala, Blair Beekman, and Rajne Mandal.

I thought we were going get a little bit more detail of tactical support, to what extent, and security, to what extent, understaffed police department, can we take the risk of having less officers not available on the streets of Oakland? And you have to say, yes, we can. And if you say, yes, we can, then anything that happens could be identified as because you allowed less officers to be available. And that's your decision to make. I would say no.

Crowd management and what equipment is going to be used, traffic control, they got a lot of stuff. Are we going to be doing all of this stuff? And then, as it relates to the World Cup. Now, I thought y'all were going to take a position of stepping away from any involvement with the World Cup when that organization decided to give Trump this peace prize. Made up an award for Trump saying he was a world peace leader just to appease his behind and that's a lie.

There's nothing peace going on. So, this guy this organization has fraudulently given this leader, so called leader, an opportunity to shine and you're going to back that program. Plus, you need to clear up that $700,000 that you made available for this event when the city of Alameda committed to be a part of the total 700,000 and committed a $150,000 towards this thing happening. You have been you are footing the total bill. The other thing is, the draw has shown that we're getting the least popular contestants to come to Oakland.

The teams that are coming here are not the high ranking teams. So are we gonna be making any benefits from this? To what level? But y'all

Thank you for your comments, miss Asada. Blair Beekman, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi. Thank you. Blair Beekman. Thanks for the words of Asada Olapala. Yeah. I I've I've been feeling the same way about the World Cup, same as City of Oakland and previous speaker, actually. I'm disappointed in how they're thinking and working, and, good luck for trying to make the best of it. And, thank you. Good luck in how Oakland will be working, the Super Bowl things. It's always a headache and a problem in the excitement of of it all, and it it it brings more and more law enforcement issues that sometimes become a pain afterwards.

The after effects of the Super Bowl can be disheartening sometimes. Good luck we work on the after effects of the Super Bowl and just return to our normal lives and not start over policing. It's Wilson learned. You're working a lot with Bayou Wasey on these per Bayou Wasey is going possible through some serious changes in how it's going to administer itself in the future. And I've been trying to talk to you It's important we are aware of that, and we try to be open in conversations about what direction they want to be headed towards in the future.

I don't think they should be solely responsible for that direction, and that it really can't be a big area of immunity effort to define our future from against preparedness and planning. So don't be afraid to ask questions at Super Bowl. They'll be open to discuss, but you have to kind of a little to let answer. I think once you get each deciding.

Mister Beekman? Oh, it looks like we don't have him. Sorry. One moment. Rajni, you could unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Rajni Mandal, District 4. I wanted to raise two practical concerns with this item that I think merit committee attention. First is staffing. OPD is currently operating at roughly 500 active sworn officers compared to an authorized strength of about six eighty. So when OPD deploys officers to assist other jurisdictions under agreements like this, those officers are temporarily unavailable in Oakland.

So even when all costs are reimbursed, staffing availability is not. So the question here isn't fiscal, it's operational. With staffing already well below authorized levels, how does OPD ensure that Oakland's baseline patrol coverage, response times, and neighborhood safety are not impacted when officers are deployed elsewhere? Second, I wanna clarify a common misconception about the federal negotiated settlement agreement. The NSA governs OPD officers wherever they operate, including when they assist other jurisdictions, but it does not bind outside agencies that assist OPD in Oakland.

That creates a real asymmetry. It is procedurally easier for OPD to send officers out under its own policies and federal oversight than it is for OPD to receive assistance from agencies that are not subject to the NSA and may be reluctant to operate under heightened scrutiny. So as the committee evaluates this agreement, I encourage you to keep that asymmetry in mind as part of the broader operational context. Understanding how the NSA affects outbound and inbound assistance differently is important to evaluating these agreements responsibly. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Mister Beekman reraised his hand. Sorry. Did you allow him to finish his comment? Sure.

Let's allow him to finish his comment.

Mister Beekman, you can finish off your comments.

Hi. You. Twenty three seconds. Really nice of you to to allow me to finish. I'm at the BART station, and it just cut me off. I think it's because of a BART train pass through. It was fifteen seconds. Yeah. Good luck that we can be talking about a future of open public participation for the future of Bayou Wasi. Bayou Wasi was built on public oversight. We should continue public oversight. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, chair. That concludes all speakers on item number three.

Okay. Thank you. Captain Perez Angelis, you can come back to the podium. I I did, you know, similar to the line of questioning, as you know, I had some concerns around this proposal too because of the understaffing that we face. Can you speak more about how this would affect?

Yes. And I apologize for my short introduction. So prior to coming to this, we did have a lot of planning meetings with the executive team from OPD and the OPOA. I know our chief of police did have concerns about staffing levels. So one of the directives that we received is that nobody on Super Bowl Sunday that it's work that is scheduled to work can be assigned to this detail of working the Super Bowl.

So what that means is that the individuals that that are gonna work if approved, the detail are individuals that are on the regular day off. So pretty much they're gonna volunteer to work on their day off to work this detail. That will not affect operations because we do not intend to pull anybody who's on duty that day to work this detail. Additional to this, the EOC will be activated at Level 3 just to have communications between the

What is the EOC if

you can Emergency Operations Center.

Okay.

And the goal of that, behind that is to have awareness of all the events that are gonna be happening throughout our city. Like, I know we'll have one in the convention center, a Super Bowl watch party. I understand they're expecting, about 3,000 people to attend this this incident, so that's gotta be staff and that's for situational awareness to ensure that we have the, proper amount of officers to respond in case there's an incident. In addition to that, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, they agreed to provide support for us in case there's an emergency in Oakland that requires a SWAT team, they will, they agree to respond and cover us via mutual aid. But at the same time, at the direction of the chief, we are to break from from the Super Bowl.

And if the SWAT team is required, we are to come back and fulfill the need of of the city if we have a critical incident in the city. Now when we participated in Super Bowl fifty, we took about 25 officers. Santa Clara has not been specific as to how many they need to pay. We, based on our numbers, we plan to take 25, officers from the tactical team to assist with the with the detail. As I mentioned before, I just wanna make ensure that, again, no resources are gonna be pulled from that day to fill that that detail. That detail is gonna be filled by officers who are volunteered who are off on that day.

Okay. And can you because I noticed one of the days that is being proposed is June 19. As you know, that's Juneteenth and historically that day can sometimes be associated unfortunately with shootings. And here in Oakland, would that affect our response at all?

If we have an incident like June like we had in the past?

Uh-huh. Yeah.

Well, the initial response is gonna be the officers that are on on duty. Then from there, the supervisors are on scene making assessment. If they they if they make a decision that tactic there's a tactical need for resources, then they'll activate what we call the blue alert, which means we will get called, which means in turn that we will have to leave that detail and come and respond to that. Or we can, coordinate with the Alameda County Sheriff Department, which they had agreed to to to provide a support while we work if approved that detail. So we pretty much planned it and then have contingencies ready to to address any any safety issues.

Okay. And so it would not affect the response time should something happen?

No. Because one of the things is that the team is already gonna be in tactical gear with their gear down there. And if they call us, we'll come straight to the incident instead of coming to to the department grabbing the gear and then responding to the scene. Think it'll be more time proficient that way. We'll get to here faster.

Okay. And what is how has Santa Clara also in return helped Oakland PD?

Well, we have always been successful when it comes to mutual aid. We obviously in Oakland we have incurred a lot of critical incidents. I think the last one that I can think about was July. In July, when we we when we when law enforcement we lost one law enforcement officer, a parole officer. That required a tactical response.

We had an overwhelming response from San Jose SWAT team, Fremont. All the neighbor cities immediately send our resources, which I was I was really appreciated. Thankfully, the the incident was resolved quickly within four hours. But the amount of support that we get from outside agencies via mutual aid is amazing. I think it's important that we we maintain that relationship with outside agencies whenever we are are in need of mutual aid or vice versa. Now, like this situation, the Super Bowl is the most viewed event in the country that day. Obviously, there's a lot of safety concerns and then what they want trying to do is make sure they have the appropriate amount of tactical security to provide security for the attendees.

I'm gonna turn towards colleagues, council member Brown.

Excellent. Well thank you council member Wong. You asked a handful of the questions that I had but through the chair to the officer. Thank you so much for kind of providing some of the feedback. I did have some questions about of course I guess it was a decade ago the Super Bowl was also being hosted and I had some questions around oh how do we navigate that?

But I think what's most important is that at this time as you all know OPD is extremely understaffed, right? And so I hear you around like what the process would look like in the event that there was an incident here in Oakland and ensuring that officers that are on overtime would return back to Oakland but I guess I'm curious about the process on the front end. So maybe you could walk me through that like is it a phone call that you know the chief receives saying hey you know what we need 15 officers and then there's more of a call out to see who's available. Can you walk me through that process? And then how it relates to the current staffing levels that we have within the city on the Super Bowl day?

Absolutely. Good question. So as of now, the Oakland Police Department tactical team has about 60 members. We are a part time team. There's four sections in the SWAT team. You have your tactical dispatchers, you have your drone operators. You have your hostage negotiators. And then you have the entry team element and then the sniper element. So it's five elements. So if we have if we encounter encounter a a critical incident, the protocol is the following.

The watch commander will respond to the scene. And if he believes that this that type of incident requires a tactical response, what he does, he radios our dispatch center and it directs them to activate a blue alert. Immediately after that, within minutes, every single person who is part of the SWAT team receives a phone call. And that phone call will direct them to of the incident and where to respond. So, because on that day, if approved, I believe half of the team will be in tactical gear, meaning the entry team and the sniper team.

All we would have to do is drive time from Santa Clara to get here and to respond. That's how our protocol works. That's the initial steps that need to be taken. And in addition to that, our emergency operations center, as I mentioned before, is gonna be operating. So they'll receive information and if the Oakland Police Department needs additional resources from different departments, they will have the ability to provide those. Either if we need additional tactical teams for whatever reason, they can summon those via mutual aid.

I see. And are these officers, I guess maybe I'm slightly confused, and so the officers that would be showing up to help support Santa Clara, are they actually on overtime or are they working their regular shifts?

Yes, that's a good question. So they will be on overtime and that overtime is gonna be paid. We're gonna send this Oakland Police Department is gonna send them the bill and we should be getting reimbursed by the city of Santa Clara.

I see. Okay and I guess maybe one last thing for consideration in reading through the report. It doesn't explicitly state that this would be off duty officers operating overtime. And so I want to offer to my colleagues that perhaps we ensure that the resolution kind of explicitly states that it would be off duty officers. I do have the language if you want me to read it on the record.

Yeah let's have that. Okay so it says resolve that the deployment of Oakland Police Department personnel for any event shall not reduce on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below OPD's established operational baseline.

I'll second that. Thank you for preparing that. Yep. Okay. Any other comments or questions council member Brown are you

I'm good. You're good? Okay.

Yeah.

Yes. Thank you chair chair Wong. Through the chair to our officer here, help me understand what happens if an overtime presence is needed in the city of Oakland. Because from what statistics say is things that I've heard over the years is that during Super Bowls, particularly when you know an opposing side loses there's an increase in domestic violence, an increase in nine one one calls, that sex trafficking tends trying to understand how the needs of Oakland will be met if there is an increased need. If this many officers, 25 officers

Yes, ma'am.

Are in Santa Clara. Help me understand what the response could potentially be in the need of increased well, in in the face of increased need in the city of Oakland.

Good question. So yes. So the as mentioned before, these officers that are working are are in volunteer basis. So if there is a need for officers to come in on overtime because of there is a need, we commanders can put out via messaging, email that we need that type of coverage, and they can come and cover for, on overtime the the needs. Unless it's an it's it it stays considered an emergency, then, again, we can activate that one call where we tell everybody to come in and assist with with the critical incident.

This happened during, during previous events during George Floyd. We did get called in where all our days were, up cancelled, and everybody had to come and work. I've been here for nineteen years. I don't think we have ever been to that level besides certain events. So that that's how we would cover it.

When it comes to the the the sex trafficking and domestic violence, we do have our special victims unit does have one officer assigned to the FBI task force, which is monitoring this type of activity. Our special, victims unit is running operations in the city of Oakland in regards to sex trafficking. I know they have an operation, I believe, this week. So we are working with the other other agencies besides the city of Santa Clara, other federal agencies to make sure that, the needs are met, not only in the obviously, in the at the Levi's state and throughout, like in our city when it comes to those those type of incidents.

So is it mandatory if there are if there is a critical need in the city of Oakland, mandatory overtime would be imposed?

We could not impose we cannot mandate people to work overtime unless it's an emergency by that veteran need to come in. Meaning, don't want the the incident I can think. Let's say we we have a large event with with a civil unrest or protest where it requires everybody, the chief of police can mandate everybody to come in and cancel their days off and come and work.

So how do you how would you define emergency? It wouldn't be just a lot of calls. How would how is an emergency defined?

Well, the if we have an increase of calls for service or incidents that need to be addressed, what we do on a daily basis is that area commander puts out emails, notifications saying we need we have openings on for for officers to come and work overtime to come and work details. Again, we cannot mandate them to come and work on on something like to cover a beat or cover a a an assignment. We're not there yet. We can't mandate it to work overtime unless we're dealing with an with an emergency, which requires every all hands on deck to come and work that that situation. And the only one that comes to mind to me is this during like George Floyd, as I mentioned.

All everybody got called in. All our days were canceled because we had to work that during that work period.

Do you know how many officers that the Santa Clara Stadium Authority is requesting from the Bay Area?

I don't know the number, the total number they are requesting.

But they're I'm assuming they're requesting officers from every jurisdiction?

Yes. And then we they're they requested the Oakland Police Department because we helped them during Super Bowl fifty. So we have that relationship with them. So they did reach out and ask us if we could assist.

Oh, they asked specifically for Oakland?

Yes. We

Oh wow. Do you know if they asked for anybody else or is it only OPD?

Oh no. It's not only OPD. There's multiple agencies that are gonna be helping with with with this event.

And is this something that OP because I'm I'm really struggling with authorizing well utilizing my vote to authorize officers when the OPOA is consistently talking about the lack of officers on the streets for Oakland every single day. Contradiction. So I'm struggling with that contradiction and why it would make sense to vote to support sending somebody do the math for me what is 25 or 500? What is the percentage? I'm not the mathematician here. That seems like a significant number of officers to authorize when we have a 500 a little over 500 officers on duty. That just doesn't make sense to me mathematically. Mathematically.

No. That that's a really good concern and again just as I mentioned before the chief of police did emphasize that if you're assigned to work that day you're not to be assigned to that detail. So again the people who are working this detail of approval are people that are volunteering to

So they wanna go to the Super Bowl?

They want they want to work in detail. Yes.

Okay. Thank you.

Due to chair, how you doing sir?

Good. How you doing?

This this makes sense to me. And let me show you why from what I just heard sitting back is that they're gonna already be geared up. They're be geared up. They're 50 miles away. If it's voluntary, I might be at Nolan Park Zoo. Right? And then I gotta leave my kids. I gotta go home. I gotta get my fit on. I gotta go get the car. Then I gotta come down or whatever I gotta do to gear up to come. If you call them, this is voluntary. They're gonna be off. Right? So, whatever they gonna have people that are officers that are volunteered already geared up on overtime that Santa Clara's gonna pay.

This is what I just heard. So, don't see a problem with them if they wanna do it. That's what they wanna do. And if we do have a problem, the officers are already geared up. So I'm willing to move this the way it is. Just the way oh, but my council member made a amendment. So can you say that amendment again council member because I don't understand why we're making an amendment if if they already geared up. Go ahead but but I'm not I just want to hear it though.

Yeah. Go ahead.

Excellent. Thank you. So the resolve clause was resolved that that deployment of Oakland Police Department personnel for any event shall not reduce on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below OPD's established operational baseline.

Yeah. That's good. I'll go for that because that's what he said that too. So, that's going to be real good. So, when we're to get paid when they so, because it's all going back to that money. So, do we have to wait for Santa Clara to get paid or they pay us and then they just how how does that payment work?

The way I understood it is that Santa Clara is gonna reimburse the city of Oakland, the Oakland Police Department and then Santa Clara is gonna get reimbursed by the NFL. But we will get paid by Santa Clara first, and then Santa Clara's gotta seek payment from from the NFL. And then I I I do wanna add something. I mean, just the importance of mutual aid and having those relationships with with our neighbor multiple agencies from as far as Kings County, Chico have come, converged to the city of Oakland to assist us whenever we need any help. I think it's important to have that relationship.

I mean, no matter what, when anytime we seek mutual aid, they will they have always come. We have a good relationship. I wanna continue to have that. And as I mentioned, staffing levels and undeterred personnel will not be affected if this with this deployment.

And through the chair. So I like that. I like it. It's good. We're get our money back. They're gonna be geared up if we need it. We already built the relationship ten years ago,

right? Yes.

Okay. I've seen somebody just walk up.

My back.

That's right. That's right.

How's it going, Ron? Sorry. I I was coming from another meeting and I was out in the field so I apologize for the for the dress. But I was listening as I was driving over here. I saw I heard some of the concerns, some of the questions. Just to clarify a little bit on staffing. So the optimal number is to send 25, But that is not what we will send if the needs are needed here in the city of Oakland. So again, the goal would be send 25. Santa Clara could ask Oakland, we need 50 officers. If we can't accommodate that, we're not going to send that. We're only gonna send the amount of officers that we have that we can accommodate the assistance that we're not jeopardizing what is needed here in the city of Oakland. Sorry. Was like running to get up here. Sorry. I'm out of breath.

So anyways, with that, like I said, I just want everyone to understand that the priority is the city of Oakland. I know there's a couple of events that we're hearing that may be scheduled for a Super Bowl. If those aren't staffed, we're not sending officers to Santa Clara. We're ensuring that those are staffed first. Once those are staffed, anyone else who is not working can then go to Santa Clara.

I know that the j Henry Kaiser Center is looking at hosting a watch party and that was a concern. You know, OPD usually doesn't work Santa Clara I mean, at, j Henry Kaiser Center because they have a pretty good security staff that can handle their own, but they have reached out. And if that is the case, that would they want OPD's assistance, we will ensure to staff that. And I've already given the directive that if we cannot staff that, we're not gonna be sending officers to Santa Clara if we can't staff our own stuff here in the city of Oakland because we will take our own city priority first before sending officers outside the city.

Yeah. I and I will say I spent this morning grilling the police chief because I was worried about all of the questions that we've raised this morning. And one thing, if if you could just confirm this for the public record.

Yes.

That first of all, it sounds like if there was some sort of emergency, I think about the potential for violence to outbreak. Yes. That we don't actually have whoever is off duty we cannot suddenly call them on duty that day, right? That is not something that we could do and also it sounds like it could actually improve the response time because we would have this voluntary unit now deployed out in Santa Clara. If they needed to be called back to Oakland they could. Can you confirm that for the public record?

That that is correct. So if we have officers that are off duty and there's an incident that's occurring, we can't mandate people to come in like captain captain president just said, unless it is considered an emergency. Again, you know, I think someone had asked, I was listening and driving and running up here. I think one of the questions may have been, what do you consider an emergency? When you look at a potential emergency, it'd be some type of large scale event that had the potential to create either mass violence casualty or vandalism that we would consider an emergency where we then mandate officers to come in based on the needs of the department and to keep the city safe.

So that's how we would kinda look at, like, that line of what we would consider an emergency. Again, like captain president Andrews was saying with the George Floyd protests, right, it was large scale, you know, unfortunately there was, you know, some vandalism and looting that was going on, but enough where we had to ensure the safety of everyone here in the city of Oakland. So we mandated all the officers to come in, and we reached out for mutual aid. So again, when we look at, you know, what's an emergency, it would be something we consider a large scale event that could potentially cause mass destruction here in the city of Oakland where we need to just keep the city of Oakland safe.

Okay. And what do you think that the likelihood is that we're actually gonna staff that June June 19 event given Sure.

I heard that question as well. So again, Juneteenth has always been a very kind of hot topic here in the city of Oakland. So we already have preauthorized captains who are going to be incident commanders and operations planned for specific holiday events. So those are already gonna be staffed with overtime officers. Those officers won't be going to work because I know it's in June, that would be FIFA.

So again, if we need 50 officers for that event and we only get 30, I'm not sending 20 to go help with Santa Clara's FIFA. We are going to make sure that whatever that captain determines is needed for that event is filled. And then if there are additional officers left that wanna go, we'll look at that. But again, the priority is going to be the city of Oakland staffing the city of Oakland, ensuring the city is safe, and that we have enough staff on hand during these different events before we even think about sending people outside the city.

Okay. And if were we to vote no on this and we didn't approve it, would there be a rupture with the relationship with Santa Clara, do you think?

I'm sorry. I I didn't hear the first part.

What would be if we as council voted no on this, would there be a rupture in the relationship with Santa Clara? Do you think they may not be willing to help us and return or what would be the consequence there? Sure.

I mean I don't think it I don't think there would be a rupture.

Okay.

I just think it send a little bit of a message. Again, you know with all the Bay Area cities dealing with their own issues, when one city reaches out to another we try and assist when possible.

Okay.

Again, we also know that we may not always be able to assist, but we also like to try and keep those relationships intact where if we may need someone they come to us, if they need us we go to them.

Okay. That's helpful. And then I also have finally a question just around the fee structure here which is the reimbursement that we'd be getting potentially getting from Santa Clara. What is included in that? Is that just straight up the salary or does it are we getting salary plus or is there any yeah.

Sure. So like any other overtime event that we would have our officers working here, we are going to charge the same if they were outside the city. So again, like when you look at PG and E's requesting for officers, the big four downtown requesting for officers, any type of overtime event that's occurring here in the city, we have a structured price for officer sergeant all the way up. And so we will send that same price structure to be reimbursed in Santa Clara.

Okay. Council member Fife, did you have a question? Just

a quick question. This has been really really helpful. So thank you for all the clarifying answers that you provided. Is there dates or events where Santa Clara has sent officers here or sheriffs here? I don't know if they have officers or sheriffs, I don't know what they do over there.

So good question. So Santa Clara County, they have officers. So Santa Clara PD and Santa Clara County sheriffs. I know that the sheriffs have assisted. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department has assisted here in the past in Oakland. I don't believe that the actual police department themselves have. Obviously, they're a much smaller agency, so it's more challenging for them to then provide resources, but the county itself has. And I know that there was another question, I believe, around human trafficking.

Yes.

So captain president had mentioned that we're gonna have one officer that our that our vice unit is running operations. So this month is human trafficking awareness month where our department has ramped up the operations that we're running all the way through the month of January. We will also be running operations through the Super Bowl period. We will also have an officer with the FBI in the San Francisco EOC running operations with them to ensure that we are deterring any type of human trafficking that may be going on. So we are out there strongly trying to make arrests for individuals coming here, trying to solicit for sexual activities, trying to save our victims who are out there being trafficked.

So we are running many, many operations leading up to the Super Bowl, and we will be also continuing to run those operations to deter anyone from coming to the city of Oakland to engage in sexual activity as far as solicitation of sex.

Is there any overlap in the same personnel that could go to staff some of these World Cup events? Just because there's a ripple effect when people do overtime then they have limitations in terms of other things, know, they have to have a rest period, all of that. Could there be that type of ripple effect?

So again, the way we have it structured in the Chief's mandate and my mandate is that those operations are going to be staff first. Obviously, our policies dictate rest period and stuff like that. So Uh-huh. If an officer does not have that rest time in between, we will not authorize them then go try and turn around on two hours of sleep to then go work in Santa Clara. So again, the officers that are going to work outside the city of Oakland and Santa Clara will be following our under all of our own policies and procedures as well. And so the there are multiple operations that are gonna be run as far as like surrounding sex trafficking.

Uh-huh.

And our vice unit has only has stated that they are only gonna give up one person to go help with our federal partners with the FBI to ensure that they're getting information. The rest of the team is gonna be focused strictly on human trafficking. They're not sending any officers to Santa Clara. And again, this is just on overtime, on their days off, but the vice unit is really passionate about trying to reduce human traffic here in the city of Oakland. So they don't wanna be deterred from their operations that they're running. And we don't wanna deter from that because we we want to make sure that when people come here to the city of Oakland, they know that if they are engaging in the purchase of sex trafficking that they will be caught and they will be held

accountable. Okay. Council member Houston, go ahead.

Thank you to the chair. How are doing deputy chief Johnson? How are you doing?

Sir, how are you? I'm good.

Thank you.

All my questions was answered from the beginning, and I moved it with council member Brown's amendments. I just had one question, and it's kinda a little bit outside of the scope. No. No. It's not. You said it was Keep

it keep it somewhat

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It's in it's in Please.

You had mentioned that it was 60 part time tactical officers. Is that's true? It's 60.

Yes. So our our tactical team is made up of of part time. We're a part time team. So what that means is that each officer has a primary job here in the department and their secondary role would either be on the entry team, sniper team, hostess negotiator, or drone operator or our dispatchers. Their primary job will be regular dispatching, but they also do toast dispatching, which is a tactical dispatching, which is a special skill.

And so those men and women have primary functions here at the department. And then if they're off duty, when a critical incident occurs, they are then called back in to address that critical critical incident. So a lot of times, you know, we have officers, our men and women, our and our professional staff that are off duty at the time a critical incident may occur. A lot of times those occurred two, three, four in the morning. Right?

And so they then get called back in to help address that critical incident. It would be no different if something were to occur here in the city of Oakland, you know, during the Super Bowl. I know that, you know, there's a there's a you know, that everyone likes to celebrate during the Super Bowl and, you know, I think someone had mentioned when I was driving up and and running up the stairs and out of breath that you know, domestic violence and things like that occur and call volumes do go up. That does occur. And at that point, would be up to the watch commander if some if additional needs resources were needed.

If the watch commander when the watch commander's on scene and if it's like let's say after hours, they are basically the chief of police in the city making the calls. And so then they would run at the chain of command. Hey, we need x y and z to help with the calls or this critical incident. And then they get that authorization to go ahead and do that. And that call would then come in.

Thank you, chief. You, chief. So I moved it with amendment of Brown and let's keep moving.

Actually, I think based off of that conversation I would wanna make an amendment to the amendment just it sounds like there's the potential for to be increased activity so I would wanna amend it so it's not just baseline but just that we can ensure activities that are not just the baseline but any increased activities that would happen in Oakland during this period. Yes council member Brown.

Thank you Council Member Wong. I'm not quite sure what you specifically mean but I guess like through the chair to either the administration or the parliamentarian. I've submitted the amendment so if and I know this item is going to be going to the council so perhaps council member you can submit a supplemental of what you want

to Yeah be included I like or to amend I can read out Can I read out like a slightly amended version of this?

Okay try it Yes.

Okay so resolved that deployment of Oakland Police Department personnel for any eventual not reduced on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below OPD's established operational baseline and any additional needs that come forward during this time period. Semicolon excuse me NBN.

Forward during this time period?

Yes. Okay.

And through the chair if I may real quick, just to to keep in mind, I think that amendment sounds great, but just keep in mind that during this time period if we are deployed to Santa Clara, that Santa Clara is gonna be reimbursing our cost when we have to then staff additional officers here in the city of Oakland. The city Of Oakland bears that cost. So just when we look at budgetary constraints, we already we have a lot of things set in place to ensure the safety of everyone here in the city Of Oakland during that time period. But just be mindful that, you know, if there are certain amendments that are put in where it's saying that, you know, we shall staff, which we we will do and I have no issue deploying our officers to staff that. But just thinking budgetarily that the city of Oakland is going to be responsible for those costs.

And as a department, we have to make sure that we are following and trying to not go above our budget that we have budgeted for these. So just something to keep in mind.

Sure. And I think the intention of the amendment is not to say that we will be adding but in case there's add there's additional needs here Yep. We will these will be the things that we address first not and Santa Clara is gonna be secondary to Sure. Whatever is needed here in Oakland.

Yeah. And they And that's

the responsible for paying for that too.

Yep. Yeah. And the the chief has made that very clear that we will ensure that all events here in the city of Oakland are prioritized over officers. Again, I get the draw of I wanna go work suitable. I wanna go work FIFA. Right? It's cool. But again, we have a city to protect and the city is going to be the priority. And so I get that you may wanna go, but if we can't fill this, then no one's gonna go. So that that that is directed from the chief and myself.

Good. And that was my other question is even if we go forward with this, if it turns out that there is the next week's unpredictable, it turns out the intent the needs are so intense here in Oakland, we may not send anyone.

Correct. Okay.

And again, like I I know Santa Clara can request they request request a 100 officers. Right? But we can only send what we think is feasible to ensure that the city stays safe while those officers are gone even though they're on their day off, even though they are working overtime. Again, if the unknown happens, do we have the ability to call those men and women back in? So we wanna make sure that we have enough staffing here. We're not deploying resources so much that if this if an event were to occur where we needed additional resources, we didn't have those resources available to us. So that that's definitely on our the forefronts of of myself and Chief Beers mind.

Okay. Council member Brown.

And then I just wanted just for clarity because I I heard and understood you know just the details that you know we wouldn't be sending officers you know that are currently scheduled and the whole purpose of the amendment is actually just put it in the legislation just saying hey these are the parameters. And then I believe that the sentence that council member Wong is adding it just says any additional needs that come forward during this time. Do you still feel that that's appropriate to add?

Do think so because I think if there are things that come here I want to make sure that beyond the operational baseline the additional needs that happen in Oakland come first before Santa Clara?

Okay. I just think that it based on what we know already and what's been budgeted for as far as like operations. The key dates and events that we know always are kind of what's happening in the city of Oakland I feel like those have been accounted for. And so potentially this sentence is like broadening the scope when you say any additional needs that come forward. When we already know the EOC is going to be up and operational for the Super Bowl, just some of the other parameters that we know are in place.

Can you walk me through that? How would this

Just the phrase any additional needs.

Council member Houston.

I already made a motion to accept council member Brown's motion and I'm I'm I'm being respectful but the police know what they're doing. They're not gonna leave our community. He already said it over and over. They're part time. They're already geared up, if they're ready they will come if we need them. So can we just move this and move forward please?

Yes, thank you. It was just brought to my attention that I wanted to get a little clarification while you all are dealing with this. I'm reading from a member of public of the public that says, when an off duty officer makes an arrest outside city limits it's typically considered a private citizens arrest, not an arrest under their official authority unless it's an emergency situation involving immediate threat to life or property. Does that apply here?

So when we are going there for mutual aid that would not apply but if an arrest were made, Santa Clara would be the primary agency who would come and take custodial over that individual and process an individual because it is in their city, in their county. So they would be processing that individual. So Oakland would not be bringing that person back here to the Alameda County for processing. We would write what's called a supplemental report, provide that to the the Alameda I'm sorry Alameda. Provided to Santa Clara PD and they would then take physical custody and charge that case in their county.

So citizens arrest until the jurisdiction al

No. We we still have police authority because of the MOU that would be signed and then they would take custody of that body.

Understood. Thank you.

Mhmm. You're welcome.

Let's proceed with the vote. Yeah. And we'll we'll stick with council member Brown's original amendment.

Alright. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I just wanna

make sure it's clear on the record. Thank you for that.

Okay. So we have a motion made by council member Brown, seconded by council member Houston to approve the recommendations of staff to approve the recommendations of staff as amended to include the res resolved clause stating the deployment of the Oakland Police Department personnel for any event shall not reduce sorry. Reduce on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below OPD's established operational baselines and be it and forward sorry forward this as amended with those amendments to the January 20 city council agenda on consent. Is that the correct motion? Alright on roll. Council members Brown.

Aye. Aye. I'm sorry. I didn't hear where we ended with the amendments.

Can you restate that? Yes.

That was the amendment to include the resolve clause that council member Brown originally read which is the deployment of the Oakland Police Department's personnel for any event shall not reduce on duty staffing levels for patrol or specialized units below OPD's established operational baselines and be it.

Yeah. I was just advised by the city attorney that I guess my amendment to the amendment was going to create some sort of administrative anyways, we're just going with council member Brown's original amendment for this Understood. Yep.

Well, we deliberated this to death. Yes. I I. Sounds good.

Council member Houston. I. And chair Wong. I. Thank you.

Item number three passes with four ayes to be forwarded as amended to the January 20 city council agenda on consent. Now reading in item number four, adopt a resolution one authorizing the city administrator to execute an informational or sorry. An information technology professional services agreement with Medical Priority Consultants Inc, doing business as Priority Dispatch Corp for a licensing and hosting software suite to support fire and medical dispatch operations from 10/01/2025 through 09/30/2028 in an amount not to exceed $150,000 with an option to extend the agreement for two additional years with a total amount not to exceed $250,000 and without returning to counsel. Two, authorizing a onetime payment not to exceed two hundred thirty three thousand and thirty thirty dollars to pay outstanding invoices from fiscal years 2022 to 2025. And three, waiving the competitive multistep solicitation process for the acquisition of information technology systems requirement and local slash slash small business program enterprise requirements.

And we have two speakers that sign up for this.

Okay. We'll go to the staff presentation. Thank you.

Good afternoon, council. I'm Dave Eberle. I'm the fire communications manager for the Oakland Fire Department. If you'll forgive me, I have some background to give you, especially for our newer members, and I have some bullet points to read so I don't ramble. I also have a second part.

It's a little bit of news that I'd like to share at the end of this. The emergency dispatch ProQA dispatch software program we are discussing today has been in place since 1995 and is required by the county of Alameda to maintain the department status as an accredited center of excellence. Maintaining the ACE accreditation in medical dispatch demands adherence to software updates as well as updates in medical triage cards as protocols change. Approval of this resolution will authorize the fire department dispatch center, FDC, to continue providing medical triage and provide fire triage for 911 emergency calls. The medical priority dispatch system, MPDS module allows FDC to quickly triage medical calls and dispatch the right resources.

The fire priority dispatch system, FPDS module will allow FDC dispatchers to quickly triage and dispatch the appropriate resources for all medical emergency structure and vegetation fire call types. Adoption of this resolution and subsequent authorization of a new contract agreement with Priority Dispatch will ensure there's no interruption of critical emergency dispatch services. The Oakland Fire Department dispatch center staff of dispatchers provides emergency medical dispatch to approximately 65,000 emergency calls for services annually. The medical priority dispatch system, MPDS, used by FDC is internationally recognized, standard for providing medical instructions and dispatching services for nine one one callers. The MPDS evaluates calls and allows for rapid dispatch of appropriate first responders and county transport ambulance based on its internationally recognized standards of service to the public.

Oakland is the only city in Alameda County with a tiered response system that evaluates calls and allows for the rapid dispatch of appropriate first responders and county transport ambulance based on its internationally recognized standards of service to the public. Of the 65,000 medical calls triaged in MPDS in 2025, FTC was able to determine that seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety of them were low acuity that did not require a fire department response or lights and siren response from the county transport ambulance. This kept fire department resources available for high acuity emergencies, both medical and suppression related. Medical calls require the highest level of oversight and continuous audit and review. This contract will assist in meeting the requirements to maintain the dispatch center's ACE accreditation as well as provide an unbiased external and consistent audit process for this critical community service.

Adoption of this resolution and subsequent authorization of a new contract agreement with Priority Dispatch will ensure there is no interruption of critical emergency dispatch services. So that is the background I wanted to provide you, and I have some news that is literally hot off the press, if I may. We were notified last Friday, January 9, of the following news. The Oakland Fire Department fire dispatch center has been recognized by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch as an accredited center of excellence for emergency medical dispatch. Out of all the emergency medical dispatch centers in California, Oakland Fire Dispatch Center is the sixteenth ace.

We have received this designation six times in the history of our collaboration with them. The International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, IAD, is the standard setting organization for emergency dispatch services worldwide. Accreditation and subsequent reaccreditation from the IAD is the highest distinction given to emergency communication centers certifying the center is performing at or above established standards for the industry. Centers who earn a status are the embodiment of dispatch done right and have demonstrated strong local oversight, rigorous quality processes, and a commitment to data driven continuous improvement. And I'm here for questions.

Okay. Great. I do have a few questions. So just to confirm, this is just an extension of the ongoing technology. Does this doesn't have any say improvements to our nine one one dispatch center?

Well actually if I could correct the chair. The new product that we want to implement is Fire Pro QA currently and we have been an ace, as I mentioned, for the medical side. We do not have the Fire Pro QA product. This contract allows us to acquire that product so that we are able to do the same thing for fire and rescue calls as we do for medical calls. Is that is that clear, chair?

It it does help. And what would that new thing be if you could explain that?

So this is I so we have the emergency medical dispatch program. This is a separate but equal program called fire pro QA that the dispatchers will be trained on and utilized. So when someone calls that my house is on fire, we follow protocols just like we do for medical calls.

Okay. Gotcha. One thing I just wanted to note is before Joe actually left to his role at the animal services, one thing we'd been working through was actually discrepancies in macro calls like the data in macro calls versus what we were seeing from the 9 from the OPD side of things in the nine one one dispatch center. If this at all can help improve those discrepancies, I would would wanna see that addressed.

Cherry Anne, quite quite frankly Yeah. This is very specific to medical triage and dispatch and fire triage and dispatch Not the macro. And doesn't have a connection to macro.

Okay. Gotcha.

Any questions from colleagues? Councilmember Brown. Excellent. Hello. Good afternoon. Good to see you. Really quick question. So for this current system, how does it compare to other options that are on market, the cost and the quality?

There really are no other options. I don't wanna use the trite term that it's the only game in town. I am aware of some homegrown systems that agencies have developed themselves, and obviously, that would not be available to us. But this is the best system both in, the medical side as well as the fire suppression side. They have, as I've already mentioned, they have been around for many years board certified by physicians on the medical side and certified by fire profession fire professionals as well on the fire side.

Okay. Excellent. And then I guess my other flag it does mention in the report about the invoices on this item and so just wanted to just I guess out of curiosity can you share some awareness on how the invoices were kind of they piled up I guess.

Yes, Council Member Brown. Because we did not have an existing contract, we were not able to pay on those invoices. So they backed up which is why I'm here before you today in hopes that we can move this forward, get those invoices paid and move on. They've been very patient with us. We have an excellent relationship with them. And I could speak to that more if you need, but that is basically the short version.

Excellent. Thank you. Yeah. Five.

Oh, that was my question. Great. Thank you.

Okay.

Public speakers.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number four, miss Asada Olavala and Rajni Mandal.

I'm a get to this in a minute. When you look up the general orders of the Oakland Police Department relative to mutual aid, it references on duty members. You just had a discussion related to off duty members. You need to check into that. You need to check into if there's any conflict with any general orders of the Oakland Police Department that the jurisdiction of Santa Clara would create an issue for our police department because we don't go by those rules.

You also need to look into the fact that Santa Clara is a sanctuary city, but it does have contracts where they give data to ICE. And, do you want to have involvement with that component? Related to this item, this says that the contract is from 10/01/2025. How can we have a contract that starts 10/01/2025? And he just said we didn't have a contract.

So, I don't know how you deal with that because you all don't usually do business like that. That's something OUSD does. Then when it comes to the funding, it says funds from measure M are pending. In other words, the funding have not officially been identified. It also says that you have to seek approval of the carryforward of unused measure M funds from fiscal year 2025.

And under these circumstances, why would you not having funding available ask for optional extension. When you're seeking funding, you don't go after an extension when you don't have the money already to do for what you already have. So I don't understand that. I just don't understand how you were able to operate without a contract, and then from 'twenty two to twenty twenty twenty two to 2025.

Thank you for your comments. Rajani, you can unmute yourself and begin your time.

Rajani Mandal, District 4. I want to use today's agenda item on fire department dispatch technology as a launching point to raise a broader governance question about how major public safety technologies are being implemented. This report describes continued and expanded use of advanced dispatch software at the fire department, including triage systems that directly affect how emergency resources are deployed. These tools are critical, and no one disputes their value. However, this raises an important consistency issue.

The city has been deliberating policies around GPS based vehicle location technology tied to the city's upgraded dispatch system. For OPD, that technology has remained inactive pending policy approvals and council action. At the same time, OFD has moved forward with piloting related dispatch functionality even though the underlying system is shared. So my question is not about whether this technology should be used as a city auditor has already recommended it as a way to improve response times. My question is about process and oversight.

Specifically, what approvals were required for OFD to pilot the dispatch tools? Were those approvals administrative or did they include counsel authorization? And if counsel approval is required for one department's deployment, why is the process different for another when the technology is shared? I raise this because transparency consistency matter, especially for public safety systems that affect every Oakland resident. If pilots are moved forward without council review, that should be clearly articulated.

And if council approval is required, then stalled items should be brought back with clarity about ownership and timelines. I respectfully ask the committee to request a brief status update from staff on how dispatch related technologies including GPS based systems are being approved, piloted and governed across departments. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Cher. That concludes all speakers on this item.

Okay, great. I will entertain a motion. Councilmember Brown.

Yes. I'll make a motion to move this item to the January 20 council meeting. Okay.

Second. Thank you. Thank you. We have

a motion made by council member Brown, seconded by chair Wong to approve the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the January 20 city council agenda on consent on roll council member Brown. Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Houston. Aye. And chair Wong. Aye. Thank you. Item number four passes with four ayes to be forwarded to the January 1 city council agenda. On consent moving on to open forum we do have four members that signed up to speak Miss Asada Olubala, Jennifer Finley, Blair Beekman, and Rajne Mandal.

I wanna address, some concerns around the police commission. I was very disappointed last week with the Roose Commission, the Roose, body questioning an individual recommended by the mayor for the police commission. And I looked into the person background, and I already said y'all didn't do any background checks on the person, but the person's background has no police background whatsoever. He claims he's been at meetings of the police commission, I've never seen him. But, the questions he were asked related to constitutional policing, he couldn't answer it.

The question about three things he would do about the NSA, he couldn't answer. His interpretation that the police commission members weren't getting along, This is the best police commission as far as the relationship they have. We've had some past, but for him to imply that this current police commission is not getting along was a bald faced lie. And then, for Mr. Jenkins to imply that the letter that was being sent out was attacking the counsel, that was a draft letter, and when they met last Thursday, they reconstructed the letter because they don't want to seem like they are adversarially attacking the counsel and they concentrated on some other things.

This commission that you currently have works well together. They know what they're doing. Now, this new person you're bringing in, he's gonna have to be taught a whole bunch of stuff. But, I just can't believe that you would put out here that that commission is trying to attack the city council. And that's not true, saying that they have a letter. The letter has been changed. Read

Thank you for your comments, miss Olapala. Rajni, you can unmute yourself and begin your two minutes.

Rajni Mandel, District four. I wanted to raise an issue related to NSA Task two and how investigative timelines are currently being assessed and reported. Task two requires that at least 85% of misconduct investigations be completed within one hundred and eighty days. Recent monitoring reports indicate that CPR cases have been excluded from task two analysis because many of those investigations are not being completed within the required timeframe. As a result, current Task two compliance assessments do not reflect the full investigative picture.

This is not simply an internal affairs to CPR transition issue. It reflects unresolved capacity, systems, and transparency gaps at CPR. CPR does not publicly report total case volumes, how many cases exceed the one hundred and eighty day deadline or provide a current annual report for fiscal years twenty four-twenty five. These gaps matter because Task two compliance, sustainability findings and court reporting are all affected. Without complete and transparent CPR data, neither counsel nor the public has a clear picture of overall investigative timelines.

I brought this up at police commission meetings over the past six months to no avail and they recently hired director to the full time position in closed session when all previous hires were done publicly with opportunity for community input. I respectfully urge the committee to prioritize transparency by supporting regular public reporting from SIPRA on case volumes and one hundred and eighty day compliance so Task two assessments are accurate, complete and credible. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Blair you can unmute yourself and begin your two minutes.

Hi. Thank you. Blair Beakman. To continue from my beginning list of questions that open forum this morning, I feel it's important to make sure that the PAC and everyday community can have a full equal voice, the same as OPD in decision making and choices about the future of ALPR vendor procurement. And from this, to get into the weeds a bit at this time, it is my personal feeling that if there was some sort of initial internal PR move by Flock and Oakland's decision making to leave Flock, it is my personal feeling that Oakland City Council, Oakland City Government, and OPD together still had to very much weigh balance and arrive at their own decisions in how to best address all parts of the Oakland community about the future of FLOC in Oakland.

This would be no small task. I hope there can be ways to consider this as positive, constructive, and hopeful in our Oakland community future. To continue, mister Eugene Hazard, who has offered public comment often at Oakland public Council and committee meetings, has developed a legal list of procedural best practices and what was not done well procedurally with the agenda item approval of new city council agenda meeting procedures at the December 16 city council meeting. Mister Hazard and Progressive Oakland Community Advocacy also has a list of public meeting procedures that were not followed at Oakland special meetings this fall. And I myself am not fully clear of the procedural rules in the Public Safety Committee vote of November 18, but then allowed for a full ALPR approval and as well attention good compromises at the December 16 city council meeting.

Some in Oakland may want to start over with the Oakland public meetings from this fall. I feel in the very least, we need to better learn in Oakland in 2026 to know when a council agenda item is being overly rushed for approval and that it can be okay to slow it down. As one thing should be clear in looking for an upcoming new LPR vendor, positive good options, choice, and decisions can always be addressed and available for the future of the Oakland public process. Thanks a lot, everyone.

Thank you for your comments, Cher. That concludes all speakers for open forum.

Council member Fife.

Yeah. I just wanted it on the public record that when this initial decision was made about the police commissioners. I was in Europe and was not able to participate in that conversation, but some of the activities and the the origin of the decisions made behind the vote to not move forward Omar Farmer and Ricardo what is Ricardo's last name? It doesn't matter. Garcia.

Acosta Garcia. Acosta was deeply concerning to me. I am in the process of reviewing if there were some legal things that weren't adhered to in terms of our charter. So I will be continuing that research but very concerned about the rationale given to not move their applications forward particularly because the selection committee move forward the same names. So I want to ensure the independence of our police commission and I will be doing the work to ensure that what we're doing as a body is in alignment with the charter and the will of Oakland voters. Thank you. Okay.

Thank you. Well with that let's yep. Okay. And with that, we will go ahead and dismiss today's meetings meeting adjourned.