June 4, 2026 Human Relations Committee

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I know, right? Wonderful. All right. Welcome everybody. Um, see here. Welcome to the June 4th, 2026 meeting of the human relations committee. Um, we are beginning at 6:34 p.m. My first meeting. A special welcome to Mary.

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Um and if there are any attendees are not but I there's agenda copies available and I will now ask the principal management analys analyst to take attendance by roll call.

Thank you chair committee member McDonald.

Committee member

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Committee member Smith

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Committee member whip

here. Uh, committee member Yan excitedly have vice chair Lester here and chair pa here. All right, moving on to minutes approval. The minute for the May 7th, 2026 regular meeting have been delivered to committee members and posted on the city hall bulletin board. Would any member of the public like to comment on the minutes? Seeing none. Uh if there are no corrections or additions, a motion is in order to approve these minutes. Um we do have one online. Oh,

no. We do not. Okay. On the city logo, I figured um Okay. So, no comments or corrections from either the public or my fellow committee members?

Move to approve. Seeing none, we will uh a motion is ordered to in order to approve these minutes. Um we can just do a show of hands. Let's see. We do a show of hands or all those in favor. Seconded.

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All righty. Let's see. All those in favor say I. I.

I. I've decided I'm going with All right. We'll move on to four oral communications from the public. This portion of the meeting will reserve for persons wishing to address the committee on any matter that is not on the agenda. Each speaker has up to three minutes to make a comment. State law prohibits the committee from acting on non-aggenda items. For those attending the meeting via Zoom, please use the raise your hand function or press star 9 on your phone to make a comment. The committee will receive inperson comments first. And seeing none and none online, we can move on to item five, unfinished business. Uh the know your rights ad hoc committee will now present an oral update.

Thank you, chair. Um so we're still working on uh finding part partners for uh plausible know your rights uh trainings uh in post September um for the new committee member. for uh forming I know your rights trainings uh with respect to senior rights um labor rights and uh we've been uh working with the youth advisory committee to find what kind of uh know your rights training we would uh want to do there which would most likely be like freedom of speech assembly or first amendment rights um in that respect but uh hoping to have more information for you soon um or after the Wonderful. Thank you, committee member. Are there any committee member questions? No attendees for public comments. I'll move on to the civic participation ad hoc. Uh the civic participation ad hoc committee will now present an oral update. Uh no action will be taken once.

Thank you, chair. Um I'll also give a brief description of uh the civic participation ad hoc committee. Um this work is focused on um collecting feedback from residents on um their engagement with the city or what is keeping them from engaging with the city. Um originally we were doing this person with various groups. Um but we've um over the last year since since I've been on the HRC have embarked on a journey of trying to uh reach folks that normally would that aren't already engaged. Um so instead of um targeting neighborhood associations or other groups that are already familiar with the city, um we decided to pivot to survey distribution. Um so we have that information that we initially collected verbally and in person um via interviews with um those uh groups and then we also have um now online surveys uh Google forms that were distributed in Spanish and Mandarin as well. Um and so I don't have any substantive updates since last month. Eric and I are still working to find a way to um we we have the data collected, but we're in the process of organizing it so that we can present it to the committee uh and so that it could be used as a tool by staff and by council on how to improve civic participation with the city.

Several questions.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh first would you want to go?

Oh, sure. I my question number one is can you share the Google form with me us just so I know where the questions are.

Um Lauren is that something that we can do?

Okay perfect.

And question number three was in terms of the survey target demographic are we sort of aiming to diversify the folks getting the survey right versus just like friends passing to their friends who are already civic engaged etc etc. Do you know what I mean? Like my friends are already civic engaged. It's not the people that you're looking for.

Exactly.

Yeah. So like what are the mechanisms to sort of help get to the people that usually would not respond to these type of service?

Yeah, there were a few different mechanisms. I I think it did start with like just folks that we know and like you know share this with your neighbors, share this in u your distributions. Um and then I know that we did do survey collections at an event at city hall uh plaza um that you know caught people walking by. Um and so yeah, I think in terms of um reaching folks that have like no engagement, no contact with the city whatsoever, that's where we kind of hit a barrier. Um and eventually um we we did hit a a deadline and we didn't want to skew too far from what the project originally was. So we kind of had those confines there. Um but yeah, definitely would love to uh I think this is like what we've realized is that this is ongoing work and obviously the participation is not going to be solved in one project. And so um I' I'd really like to see the committee revisit this and like consider that factor specifically of how do we get to folks that um are not even friends with somebody who's typically engaged with the city. So thank you Then McDonald a long time ago I was asked whether um important things from the city could be translated to into Russian. And I said I would ask and I asked a number of different people in different uh departments and none of them seemed to know whether that was being acted upon or not. So I did thought I'd bring it up again.

Um principal analyst James I think perhaps you can speak to that.

I can. Thank you, chair, and thank you, committee member McDonald, for the question. Russian has been in the past a part of the city's defaults languages for translation of key documents. Um, that is based on thresholds that were established in federal and state law guidelines. Um, since the time that the city has offered Russian as a default language for translation, the Russian community uh population in Mountain View has decreased. So, Russian language materials are now available on request. Um, and we do rather than having hourly part-time interpreter staff on on staff, interpreters on staff rather, we do send it to a third party agency that we work with for translation services. So things can be translated into Russian upon request. uh program staff who work specifically with Russian speaking or groups with large Russian speaking populations mostly at the senior center and in the rental housing um division do regularly request that translation or sometimes interpretation for example for rental housing hearings into Russian.

So it is available but it's no longer the default. So if somebody wants to request translation even in writing work or somebody at a meeting who would do they ask

any staff member that they're working with that offers the program and they will go through our internal process to make that happen.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you for that uh little sharing with James and I'd like to add a another comment on that. Um I it's good to good to be reminded that Russian used to be a um default language for the city and as um as part of my I'm on the the know your rights ad hoc committee focusing on the senior rights and so I'll keep in mind um the need for Russian translations because I also I remember from my past work with recycling outreach that uh by far the most requests for Russian translation were um from the senior comm community and especially the um the senior housing community. Um so thank you for bringing that up and good to know that sounds like anybody can reach out to the city staff contact um for program and they will be able to go through the both panels but it will take time. Okay, wonderful. Um moving on to the LGBTQ plus outreach committee. Uh, the LGBTQ plus outreach committee will present an oral update. No action will be taken on this item. Did we decide was going to do the update?

No.

Uh, uh, first of all, analyst James, would you mind helping helping us with the update real quick on uh,

Absolutely, Chair. So, the LGBTQ plus outreach committee had their kickoff meeting uh in May and began discussing strategies for uh having an outreach table at the city's pride event together in Pride on June 20th here at City Hall Plaza. Um, additionally, they began discussing which organizations they could reach out to to partner with and extend their outreach into the community. um including informal more informal gatherings I should say like the book club at books inc that meets regularly. Um, additionally, as part of that tableling station, the com ad hoc committee discussed potential questions or brainstorming station ideas for something creative. Um, like pinning an idea on the rainbow, I think, was brought up as an option. Um, or having interactive questions or some kind of giveaway to attract people to the table. and then also in looking for a giveaway to potentially research and reach out to queer owned businesses in the state. Um, so that's the direction that the committee is currently headed with the purpose of getting information on how the HRC can better support the LGBTQ plus community with programming in the coming year and then also in letting the LGBTQ plus community know about HRC's work. Thank you very much. I appreciate that medical committee member. Yeah.

Yeah. Um the Chamber of Commerce maintain a list of um queerowned businesses that we can access. That seems like something.

Thank you for the question, Committee Member Yen. I won't answer for the ad hoc committee members, but I will say that I did pick up their business directory brochure for that purpose at a training. Thank you. All right. Um, and I I also have a comment regarding that work. Um, I know that the booking is hosting a um clear meetup group right now. It was Thursday at 6:30. So I was unable to attend unfortunately

but um I have a friend who was planning on attending so I'll hopefully recap with him and see if there was any interesting topics brought up. Um wonderful. Okay. So I believe we can now move on to item six, new business. And our hot topic is the Mountain View Police Department 2025 annual report. Uh the commission will now receive a presentation on the from Chief Michael Canfield. No action will be taken on.

Thank you chair. Thank you vice chair committee. I'm Mike. With me is Captain Ev. We will be presenting the 2025 annual report. Um I' I've let the uh HRC know and the community to know that we are very happy to be here. This is our second year presenting our annual report. Think it's beginning to be a tradition and I fantastic. Um we do save this annual report uh for this HRC meeting. So it is now as of this evening uh on our website and we will distribute it through our robust social media network and I will send it directly uh to our stakeholder groups as well as chief's advisory bodies and we will put it in our city's uh email distribution list but we saved it first uh to share with the HRC and to be on your agenda. So it is significant to us and very grateful to be here. Uh it is a a high level summary of frankly the life's work of 143 and a half people uh that work very hard to provide uh incredible public safety service to our community. It was a large focus for 2025 to ensure that we very responsive and aware of the needs of our community. uh that we were listening to fears and concerns related to policing whether it be uh local or national and that we were really leaning in and engaging even more significantly uh than we have in the past which is saying something uh frankly. So you will see in here significant hiring a lot of uh new faces in our command staff ranks but there's also a lot of movement within the organization that will greatly affect the long-term culture and and development and continuity of operations with our staff. So very purposeful selection with promotions but also specialty positions and very important professional development focus to ensure that for many many years to come we have exceptional people that are well trained and positioned to take on leadership roles within. With that um I will turn it over to Captain Crowell and we'll continue with the presentation.

Thank you Chief. Uh good evening again like chief said very excited to be here to share this information with you. Obviously there's a lot of information in this packet. Uh this is going to be like chief mentioned a very high level summary. So um hopefully we get everything in here that we want to. Um I guess I'm the next slide.

Next slide.

Um so first uh just go over a quickly what we're going to cover tonight in a few of our categories. Um, as you can see, we're going to cover um some a little bit about our department demographics. Uh, we'll go over some crime trends uh throughout the city, uh, calls for service, we'll go over our professional standards unit, um, some division updates with some of the different divisions we have within the department, um, some technology and then kind of finish it off with an officer wellness and obviously be able to answer questions uh, once we finish up at the end. So, with that, you can go next slide. So, we'll start out with our department demographics. Um, the Mount View Police Department is incredibly diverse workforce. Um, we have employees who speak several different languages and I'll highlight a few of them as you can see on the screen. Um, a lot of these languages are also our uh officer's primary languages. Um, which is very nice to be able to connect to the community with all these different languages. U so you can see there's American Sign Language, Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, uh times two actually, uh Russian officers that speak uh Spanish, Tagalague, and Vietnamese. So you can see we have a lot of languages spoken and this is just a testament to how we're able to uh communicate and interact with our community. Um, from a recruiting standpoint, we continue to hire recruit the best possible officer officers that we can uh to go out and serve the community every single day, not only from our sworn staff, but also our professional staff as well. Um, recruiting, like I mentioned, it's a very high priority and uh in 2025, we were able to hire 12 full-time officers and additionally two uh reserve officers as well. Um, it's also worth noting, as you can see, uh, we have more female sworn officers now than I can remember. Um, and in 2025, that number actually jumped from 15% in 2024 to 20% in 2025. And Chief, do you want to elaborate a little bit on that?

Yeah, I mean, I can just say that uh, both personally and professionally, this is the most diverse both by gender and ethnic makeup of our department has ever been. uh 20% is gender diversity at our sworn ranks. So our officer ranks is significant. It is the the type of numbers that agencies aspire to and don't reach. And I'm just thoroughly impressed with the exceptional uh candidates that are coming in. It's a really great sign and a great bell weather for for our industry, but really for our department.

Apologies for a dumb question. Um, is the Mountain View Police Department for not fully staffed or are there still openings?

Yeah. So, I um we will take questions at the end, but I'll answer that one. We have virtually no, we have a couple of openings related to recent retirements. Uh, but we do not really have a a functional vacancy rate right now. I think we have three vacant officer positions. Um, but we filled up all of them with the last hiring process and a few people retired. I will point out when when Captain Carl's talking about the 12 hires uh of full-time officers that we hire, we're an agency of 97 sworn officers. That's not great at math, but I know that that's that is over 10% of hiring of our ranks. In addition, uh we had six probably uh maybe seven officers that carried over began their their field training, their practical hands-on training with our officers in the previous year that continued into this uh 2025 year. Uh meaning that our our officers were training not just those 12 uh but but easily another six from the previous year in 2025.

Thank you. And just to touch on that as well, it it's also an incredible testament to our field training officers who train all these new officers. And I think at one point we had 10 officers and reserves in the training program at once, which is unheard of. Um, and it was an incredible amount of work, but just a testament to our staff and the work they do to train uh these officers and get get them out to serve the community. Um, and just finishing up a little bit about our department demographics. Um, you can see also there's uh info from the 2020 census. Um, and you can see that our racial demographics align fairly well with the city and the census that was taken in 2020. Um, with uh go through a couple of the numbers. So, white we have 46% a little over 46%. Hispanic Latino we're at 26.1%. Asian Pacific Islander is about 19.4% and then black African-American is at 2.4%. So, I just wanted to kind of highlight that that is uh aligned with our demographics from the uh this play. Thank you, Captain Carl. If I can jump in. Um, these are large umbrellas that uh, you know, we we draw from and try to mirror what our census says. So, you'll see 2020 census data in in the pigraph to the right. Um, the the Asian Pacific Islander category includes East Asians. That is an area that I believe uh, we would value in in growing our officer ranks. We have uh, one native Hindi speaker within the department. Uh but certainly we would love to see more applicants from that group. We've spoken with some community uh leaders in the past and have been invited to recruiting organizations, but it doesn't tend to be a group that applies significantly to police agencies in the Bay Area. I hope to see that change and we're certainly uh uh interested in seeing those demographics kind of in a more nuanced way reflect our community as well. See, next slide. Next slide, please. So now we're going to get into some of our crime trends throughout the city. Um crime trends are going to be broken up into this slide and the next slide. So first is we're going to talk about property crimes. Um and you can see in 2025 we actually had a slight decrease in our reported property crimes. Um from 2024 we had 2855 reported property crimes and then in 2025 we saw a slight decrease down to 2842. Um all of this data in our crime trends is also available on our uh public facing uh transparency dashboard and I really really encourage everybody to go look at that. Um it will have this stuff on it but it will allow you to get a real granular go.

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Do we know how long it'll take? Is it like a real quick thing?

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All right, folks. We seem to be reconnected. um confirming that if anybody were to join online they would be able to see and uh we can now continue

continue. Thank you chair. Um so I think I left off talking about our transparency dashboard. Um so again just want to reiterate and uh plug that that it is something that our crime analyst works tirelessly on um to be able to not only have this basic data but give you the ability to really dive into it and see maybe just around your neighborhood or something else you're interested in. you could really break it down to interact with it. It's really nice. Um so I encourage everybody to check that out. Um a little bit more info about prop property crime trends uh from 2025. Um you can see that um just under 29% of property crimes fall into the most general category which is lararseny. Um and this includes package thefts, mail thefts, bicycle thefts. So as with years past they generally fall the majority into that category. Um however um we can

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Okay, um we obviously continue to see uh people thefts uh predominantly in the higher density areas like downtown. So that is still something that that is a large number um that we're constantly looking at um to try to bring down. Um and going through a couple more of the categories and some of the information that you see on the slide. Um a little over nine% of our cases involve burglaries. Um which is actually an almost 10% decline from last year with that about 17%. We're happy to see those numbers go down. Um, and these types of cases and burglaries, these can be kind of what traditionally you would think of of somebody breaking into your home as a type of burglary, but it also includes um any home that's above like a parking structure underground garage, those are considered burglaries as well. If somebody's breaking into like a secure bike locker in a parking com parking garage underground, that is also considered a burglary. So, those are all in that same category as well as the traditional what people I think are more accustomed to is somebody breaking into your house. So those are all in one category.

Are these data broken down by year? Sorry. On the on the website question. Sorry.

Um so uh and obviously our detectives work tirelessly on the property crime in terms of burglary. So including the burglary sprees into people's homes. So um that's hopefully why we're seeing some drops in these numbers. Our detective working really hard to stop some of the burglary groups. Um just a quick note about the category. These categories are all uniformed uh by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. So these are the categories that we report to. So they would uh made universal universal so it's easily to easier to report these crimes have fall. Next slide. So the next division update or excuse me next update crime trends wise we're going to go into our person crimes. um a little bit from 24 to 2025 we did see a slight increase but that increase um was only from 739 to 742 um so it was it was an increase but obviously however slight um

three yeah I'm going to check not that quick um so as expected also a lot of the majority of these offenses felt fell into our cyclical assault category um which includes assaults with injuries um unknown um assaults and unknown parties in those assaults and also assaults with intimate partners violent as well fall into the simple assault category. Um, every one of these cases is obviously very important deserves our intention. However, it's important to recognize that some of the percentages represented by the more serious uh offense categories account for a very very small portion of the incidents compared to the overall um number. So, just wanted to point that out. Um it's also important to note that some of the incidents may meet a legal definition of a category like kidnapping is one of those examples. Uh but yet they differ significantly from what someone would think of like a stranger abduction. Um so the category may fall into that but that obviously the word is is very alarming but there is a difference in some might I probably might fall into that category but it is not what we kind of associate with that's the worst case scenario. Um, and again, I'm going to plug our transparency dashboard on this to go. This info is on there where you can take a look at it, refine it, um, dive deep into the data so you can really see what's going on.

Yeah, I would just say that in addition to that transparency dashboard, that access portal, we want it to be a living document. So, when you when you go online, please provide feedback. That feedback is looked at by our staff and and document is updated regularly based on the feedback what people are interested uh and how it's working and what they're finding value in. My recommendation although we hoping to have it really functional in a mobile format there is so much data that it really becomes difficult to use on a mobile device. So an iPad or computer is best but you can use it in a mobile device as well. Next slide. Yes, please.

Um, in our crime analyst who runs our transparency dashboard, I believe there is a um person on there for feedback. So, if there's something you see uh your words are try to break it to see what you uh if there's something else that you want on there um and she had it.

All right. Uh next we're going to talk about our emergency communication center. I made it refer to the ECC. It's just kind of my brain. So, but it is our emergency communication center which is our dispatch center. Um, obviously our our emergency communication center is 24/7, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Um, they are very very highly skilled at what they do and what they have information they have to take in. Um, they're proficient in multiple dispatching disciplines um which obviously includes answering emergency calls. Um that also includes um dispatching our police personnel just to call for service that come in that might not fall under an emergency, dispatching our fire department um to emergency situations and also providing uh emergency emergency medical dispatch for our um mid peninsula park rangers as well. So they're doing all that at one time um which is it's an incredible amount of information that they take in and are able to decipher and put out correctly. Um, in 2025 we had almost 98,000 calls into our dispatch center. Um, with almost 24,000 of those being 911 emergency calls. Um, very proud to say that um, over 98% of those emergency calls, the 911 calls um, were answered within 10 seconds. Um, as high of a number that is, it's even higher than 2024 um, which was just under 98%. So they actually improved on that already. Incredibly high number um with that amount of call volume. It is just incredibly impre impressive and just a testament to um their professionalism and their dedication to what they do um every single day.

Right. And I will just say when when they're not able to get to a call in 10 seconds, which is very rare, it generally is because we're getting 50 or 60 calls flooding the 911 line for some significant incident, and they're literally just transferring from one to the other, making sure there's not a new, which is its own art form. There we go. Okay. Special events and community outreach. Um, yeah, this wasn't an initial slide that we had in frankly, but it's so significant to what's important to our community in 2025 that I wanted to make sure that we included it. Of course, it's in our annual report, but I wanted to make sure that we at least discussed at a high level of many things that our offices do to engage and connect with our community. You will see everything from motor officers driving in Santa Claus. It's on a firet truck uh for a tree lighting ceremony uh to our officers teaching women self-defense classes. Us teaching classes at St. uh church uh on Sundays to to parents, including answering questions about pressing issues related to child safety, uh youth safety, and uh how they relate to immigration issues in the Mountain View Police Department. We held many special meetings with community organizers and community groups uh specifically related to immigration enforcement and the role of Mountain View Police Department. Just to circle back to that topic, Mountain View Police Department does not engage uh or support civil immigration enforcement. That has been our practice for way before it was state law or at least 28 years. the time that I've been here. I suspect it's somewhere around 38 years. Um, but we don't know for certain because it goes back beyond our records. But sharing that information at numerous community uh meetings and groups was significant. We were listening to what was important to our community and finding ways to make sure that those messages were being shared. That includes uh having a a sergeant who was actually on the board of the dayworker center and attended all 12 of the dayworker center meetings. uh being present with me uh attending capacito meetings uh you know the it's a very very long list of the community outreach and engagement that we do but what I want you to know is that we both tailor it to the needs of our community uh and we bring in a lot of our staff to be part of it so it's not you know the the Chief Canfield and Captain Prowell show it is a broad representation of our organization and it reflects our organization's values and culture when we do That that is one way that I believe that we continue for many many generations the exceptional work that our police department does and how we are and reflect how we're woven into our community's tapestry. That's very important should double in case it's slow. We're good. Um, thank you, Chief. Uh, we'll move on to talk about some of our divisions. Um, talk about first our professional standards unit. Um, our professional standards unit reported directly to Chief Canfield. Um, and it's occupied by one police sergeant. Um they handle both our awards and accommodations uh for our MVPD staff as well as a thorough review and investigation of complaints and policy v violations along with significant incidents such as use of force and also vehicle pursuits all put through our professional standards. Um, in 2025, you can see that we initiated or responded to over 37,000 incidents, um, or calls within the city. Um, and in total, there were 13 uses of force within those 37,000 or over 37,000 incidents. Um, which obviously equates to, again, math isn't my strong suit, but uh, it is uh, about 300th of a percent of those uh, roughly 37,000 calls that resulted in any type of use of force. Um, our officers initiated 10 pursuits in 2025. Um, six of those pursuits resulted in apprehensions. Uh, one resulted in a collision unfortunately by a suspect where they intentionally rammed one of our patrol vehicles.

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no, I saw it at the vehicle day when they had it out and displayed.

That's why not pushed. Um and lastly on this slide of our eight personnel complaints uh two were sustained, five were unfounded and one is still pending. Slide please. Uh some further division updates. We're going to go into our traffic division. Um traffic obviously continues to be an a very high priority for not only the police department but also for the city. Uh we work um closely with our traffic engineering and transportation division um and make sure that we're collaborating and very as comprehensive as possible in our approach to traffic safety knowing how much of a priority that is with all of our drivers um going through the city um every single day. Um in 2025 our department issued um 7,764 I'll just read the exact number traffic citations. Um over 2,000 of those were actually traffic citations and the remaining were parking uh violations for that number. Um in terms of accidents, we had 357 accidents that reported in the city in 2025. Um and one of those collisions unfortunately did turn out to be fatal. Um but we did have a little over 350 total accidents that were actually reported to us in 2025. a lot of people it away push it twice, but I know it's going to happen.

Yeah.

Uh what tends to be a lot of people's favorite topic is talking about our canines and our dogs that we have here at the police department. Um you can see two of our canines are pictured here. We have K9 Maya who is with officer Schaw and then we have K9 Atlas who is with officer Einfall. Um very proud to say that our uh K9 program is one of the longest running programs in Santa Clara County. I don't know the exact number chief of

the longest running in the whole of all of Northern California. I believe it is the longest in Santa Clara County continuous program.

That's a math program. I have a lot of questions.

That was great.

Get the mold.

So, what's uh in 2025, we had 93 total uh deployments by our K9 teams um in calls for service. Um and I'm going to give a little bit of a preview here. There's no picture yet. You'll have to wait for that one. But we do have a new K9 who we just brought on board. His name is Doc. Um picture is not out there yet, but he just recently uh with Officer Laauo finished his training. Um and he is out on the street working with officer LA as we speak actually. Um so very proud of that. Uh Chief, do you want to give a little more about our can program?

Yeah, maybe just a little bit about those deployments. Uh we utilize our canines for a number of different skills. They look for missing persons. They can track somebody that we're looking for. They can and we use them to look for discarded items. So if someone threw a stolen item into the bushes, it's very very hard to find, but not for a dog, not for a very well-trained dog. Uh so we utilize those our dogs for many many things. They are also uh although not Maya on the left, but Atlas on the right, they are trained in apprehension uh which is biting potentially uh but we are very purposeful about the the use of our dogs. We actually train our dogs to a very high standard. They are trained to what's called find an alert or find and hold. Uh so they will search for someone when given a command to search for a missing person. They will or a person that we're seeking rather not a missing person. Uh a person that fits our criteria u that fits a very robust criteria required for using a dog in this manner. We will search for them. If a dog finds that person, they don't find them in bite which is the industry standard. Our dogs will find and bark or alert. So they will find them, sit down and stare at them and bark very loud and intimidating bark. Uh and that first of all the handlers are within a rope's line. Uh anyways, but that alerts the handler that we found the person. That takes a lot of extra training. In fact, I'll tell you just frankly, uh some agencies don't think that it can be done, which is why we film our training in this category because our dogs do it. They're doing very well and it takes a lot of training. We document it and we keep very uh very tight K9 training records but specifically for our searching and alerting uh because it's such an impressive skill. It's a high level of training that you don't find in very many other agencies. Uh it is very very chief. Next slide. Um another one of our division updates we'll talk about is our youth services unit. Um, our youth services unit has really been focused on supporting our youth in the community since about 1962. So, it's we're very very proud of this program and what our uh youth services unit does, which uh it encompasses our school resource officers. So the unit uh consists of one sergeant um three school resource officers and then we have some part-time police assistants um who are obviously all trained and dedicated to be responsive to our youth not only at school but at home as well at the direction uh in working collaborative with the school districts. Um, in addition to being the resources to the schools, um, youth, uh, and their parents, um, we run a couple of programs that are highlighted here, um, that I I can imagine that some of you have heard of, but they're very very proud of these programs, very longunning programs. Um, the first one I'll talk about is COPS Care. Um, so COPS Care in 2025 served almost 900 children. Um what this is is um the in the holiday season get together, get donations uh and lots of stuff for these children um that they might not normally have uh if they're underserved in the community. Not only is it gifts for the holiday season, but it is also essentials um or uh children that need diapers or families that need diapers, hygiene kits, toothbrushes, toothpaste, all that kind of stuff that goes along with the gift. So, you can imagine the joy on a kid's face when they get a present that they might normally get and they get to pick it out um from this event, but the parents also get the things that they that they just need. So, it it we're very proud of this program and our our youth services unit does a phenomenal job every year um serving this um almost 900 kids um in 2025. Um

tell me what roar stands for.

Oh, I knew somebody was gonna ask and I can never remember it.

Oh, I used to know it. Um,

I will find it.

I want me to talk about the ROAR program or do you want to talk about it?

Uh, you can talk specifically about the RO program. I'll get it.

So, the ROAR program, and I'm disappointed that I can't remember the acronym failing under the pressure. Um, but the ROAR program is a youth mentoring program that was created specifically to address concerns and issues uh at uh Graham Middle School uh where we bring in we utilize eighth grade students to be uh hands-on mentors uh for sixth grade students uh who later graduate through these uh development programs and then go on to be the mentors in the eighth grade. So, our school resource officers work on life skills, mentoring, uh, modeling good behavior, and that ROAR program, uh, is a modeling of kind of the big eighth graders that model these brand new kids in sixth grade. really uh the focus was to reduce the number of middle school bites to increase attendance to help uh youth not vape in the middle schools and to increase like overall kind of healthy behaviors and responsible behaviors but not just because a school resource officer told these kids to do it but because a kid that they're also looking up to. So it it both feeds the confidence of those counselors but also enables the younger kids to to look up to these youth.

Yeah. I can remember when this was a long time ago when my son was in third grade I think it was and um police came with K9 and one kid in my son's class was petrified by the boy didn't do anything but scared apparently had either, you know, involvement with dogs and and was frightened by them or had some negative experience one way or the other. And the officer who brought the dog was so patient with this boy that before he left, the boy hugged a dog and the officer. And I thought that was just the best thing that could happen because I love dogs and they do so much for kids. They're the kids love our dogs. Uh our our generally our kids come to our dogs. Our dogs don't go to the kids, but it depends on the community event. Uh, but the dogs are always a big big hit. And you to your I've seen your experience and firsthand as well. It's a problem.

To answer your question, ROAR stands for responsibility, ownership, ambition, and respect.

Got it. I will not forget that ever again.

Responsibility, ownership, ambition, and respect. There you go. Um, so that was that was our uh copy care program. Next I want to talk about which is actually our award-winning dreams and futures program which provides more of a fun and constructive character building activities for kids uh during the summer months um when they may not have that structure um and uh school life every single day. It's it pretty much runs the entire month of July um every year. It's broken up into two two sessions. One is for our elementary school kids and one is for our middle school kids. Um so each is two weeks where they do a variety of things from they talk about healthy eating habits, they do outdoor activities, they do field trips. Um it's really a phenomenal time. Um it's a it's an intense selection process where um these kids are selected to participate in the program with input from the school district, our school resource officers who work with staff every single day to really um identify these kids that really need it. Um, and it it it's really a fun program to end. It's very very soughta. Um, and our school resource officers and our youth services unit did a phenomenal job. Um, and you can see that that served um, a little over a 100 kids last year in 2025 throughout those two weeks um, campus summer month. Um, it's it's very rewarding. We also have a lot of assistance from our great partners um like the rec department mental health Google and also our public safety foundation um program you um we've talked a little bit about the mentoring programs that also our u school resource officers run including ROAR which we all now know what it means or what the acronym stands for. Um and we also have our the general pal mentoring pal mentoring program along with our pow gals which is a mentoring program specifically for female uh students as well. Um that was uh created by female school resource officer uh specific to some needs that she was seeing at Kittinden Middle School uh working with the the school counselor and the school administration and created a really phenomenal Um, the next division update we're going to talk about

one more back. Oh, there we go. You're good. You're good.

The next division is our neighborhood and event services division. So, our neighborhood event services division um is really it collaborates with our city manager office, the human uh services division um and our community based organizations um to really address and tackle the complex needs of our unstably community members. Um this is their primary focus of this unit um which consists of a sergeant and an officer along with um police assistants as well as our community service officers as well. Um, our current community services, uh, excuse me, community outreach officer. Our COO is officer Jesse Medina, who does a phenomenal job in that unit with Sergeant Bora. Um, they to serve as that conduit between our unsafeely house community and community based organizations and resources. Um, and you can see that in uh 2025, um, Officer Medina and Sergeant Modora and everybody else in our neighborhood event services unit referred almost 100 people to uh, our um, permanent housing through the county to try to get them permanent housing um, for their situation. So, they really do a phenomenal job at this every single day. Um, they really deploy a balanced approach of um, compassion, case management, enforcement of applicable laws and violations. Uh but really try to do that balanced approach to understand the situation and really um try to cater to their needs as well. Um with the situation that they're going through

I hit two buttons at once. We'll next move into our investigative services division, which is essentially all our detectives that we have within the department um that take the cases that start with patrol and then they take it to um where it needs to go after that um with their skills and abilities. Um our crimes against person detectives, um obviously they're the ones that investigate our most serious crimes that we have in the city, probably including homicide, crimes against children, robberies, and any sexual crimes too. um those detectives handle all of those cases um when they when they come up. Um in 2025, obviously, we had a lot of major investigations. Um but one of the ones I wanted to highlight was a successful arrest of a sexual assault and drugging suspect with over 60 victims um that we were able to successfully extradite and arrest um here in Mountain View. Um our other investigative unit is our crime suppression unit. So, our crime suppression unit, if you think it, our crimes against persons unit obviously is crimes that happen against people. Um, our crime suppression unit is really more of the burglaries, um, any drug offenses, um, and those those type of investigations as well. Um, burglary crew crews that are targeting our residential neighborhood. So, this is really the focus of that side of the house, which is our current suspension unit. One case I want to highlight from their side is in 2025 we were able to arrest um call it a crew uh they were conducting mail thefts and they actually we were able to identify over 500 victims of mail theft not only in Mountain View but also surrounding counties as well. Um, also encompassed in our uh, investigative services division is our cyber and financial crimes unit. Um, which is really something we're incredibly proud and lucky uh, frankly to have and not view. Not a lot of departments are able to have this in-house kind of digital Brendick unit um, which they can uh, obviously analyze and download and all the types of devices. Uh, they come through from computers to cell phones um, to any tablets anything else. um that highly trained staff. Um in 2025 they were able to examine 434 devices. Um they investigated 150 fraud and cyber financial uh cyber crimes investigations and also 71 internet um crimes against children investigations as well which is our unit is part of the national internet crimes against children task force um which obviously is responsible for um protecting children both obviously in Mountain View and outside of Mountain View as well with our partners at the task force. Um we our officers in our investigative services division are also part of several other task force um including CEST which is primarily responsible for fentanyl related um deaths and overdoses and also other drug related uh crimes throughout the county. Um our REACT task force which is our high-tech and cyber crimes task force. Um, also the last task force that we were a part of is called RADIFF, which is our regional autotheft task force in the county and they're obviously responsible for investigating stolen cars, auto theft rings, um, anything that goes with cars uh, or vehicles. Um, not only do they do phenomenal work every single day, but it also gives us the opportunity to pull from those resources from the county task force to help us when we have something in Mountain View that maybe we need some more uh, help with or just specialized training. Will you advance the slide please?

We'll next move to uh department technology. Um as we all know especially living in Silicon Valley technology is advancing rapidly every day it seems like with everything that we encounter. Um, obviously we have the importance of AI, artificial intelligence and other advanced innovations that are just changing the landscape of everything we do. Uh, and try to keep up as fast as it's growing and evolving. Um, from unmanned aerial systems, which are drones through data collection, through our transparency dashboard, body cameras, automated uh license plate readers. We're continuously evaluating all of this um to make sure that we obvious give our staff and our officers the best possible technology to do their job and serve the community. um which is wide technology anywhere but especially here and if we have opportunities to um use that technology um obviously using that it's can be sensitive and we want to make sure that we're protecting everyone's privacies privacy and ensuring that technology really aligns with our department standards and community expectations with any type of technology that we we bring on board here at the department achieve

yeah I don't think so go ahead You mentioned the flock.

Oh, I'm getting the license plates. And I do recall reading about reported use of those so that the police didn't even know that information was somewhere else.

Absolutely accurate. And Captain Crow was kind of burying the lead for me to to fill in. Um but it is yeah it we would be remiss if we advanced to the next slide. Absolutely. So uh I will say that although our our our automated license plate reader program which was used which we use a vendor named Flop Safety uh that onboarded really in 2024. The program didn't really start in earnest until 2025. So the the cameras really started going up other than one camera. They started going up in 2025 and we just finished uh putting in our 30th camera by the time we we discovered that although we had held up our end of the bargain and our audits of our staff use of those cameras showed consistent uh policy adherence, exceptional crime fighting investigative use uh harm reduction to our community. The vendor's use of that technology did not meet our expectations. They fell short of my expectations. They fell short of our policy and they fell short of their promises. That's why I made the decision to turn off our cameras. It it was not because I don't believe that it is an important technology that can reduce harm in a community, but when utilized wrong and when a vendor uh does not follow through with their end of the bargain, I believe it creates more harm. That decision was made by me. I then uh paused our turned off our cameras, allowed our city council time to to have a staff report and frankly allowed Captain Travel and I time to write a a comprehensive staff report with uh with additional city staff help. Uh presented it to city council with a recommendation to turn off our or to end our contract with flock safety. City Council uh did affirm that decision and ended our contract with Flock Safety. Um I can tell you that that uh I support that decision. I was deeply disappointed to learn uh not only that Flop Safety was sharing information against our policy, against our program, against how we had designed the system with them outside of the state of California, but also against potentially state law. they were sharing it with non-C California law enforcement agencies. Perhaps even more concerning than that was that Flock Safety when they became aware of it didn't notify myself or other chiefs in the state. They just decided or maybe I don't know what they decided but I do know what they did. What they did was they fixed it without notifying myself and other chiefs that I've spoken to. That resulted in uh eventually us discovering it on our own uh and our program being in place for significantly longer and really a sense of harm uh to our community greatly being uh magnified than had they have uh been straightforward and communicated to us in a timely and reasonable manner which my understanding would have been maybe the end of 2024 or very very early 2025. I believe at that timeline, had they have been a uh had they have acted in aligned with our policy and their and their promises, um we likely could have salvaged that relationship and move forward. I don't see how there's that, you know, after that action, after we had to discover their decision to hide that from us or not share that with us, I should say, uh, it became untenable for me as a police chief to leave those cameras on without our city council making that decision. I do want to point out, use that technology to apprehend those the male thieves that have targeted 500 people to make apprehensions in residential burglaries that I believe were targeting people because of their race. uh to locate a a woman who had been kidnapped by her boyfriend who had uh the family was concerned for her safety or all concerned for her safety to find a a missing person who was at risk. Uh the technology is incredible. Um but I believe that there's a great amount of responsibility that needs to come with it. Uh so we are we are uh examining and learning and and researching what is out there. We have learned quite a bit from the experience with this vendor and that is uh certainly will shape any future recommendations dramatically as we move forward.

Sorry, it's a little loud. No,

one one more thing I want to add on our technology. Um, for unmanned aerial systems, our drone program, we do have a a program that's been running for quite a while now for drone system. We were early adopters of body warn cameras for officers. Um, one of the things that significantly changed for our body warn cameras in 2025 was our ability to watch live um during significant or emergency events. so we can see what's going on in real time from our officers point of view um while they're dealing with it. So it'll help not only with audits and but it will help with decision- making and just being able to have that information in real time as opposed to kind of after the fact. So um that that's a really important update that gives us a lot more information in real time to help with that. Yeah, I can say one of the a SWAT operation that was a a arrest of one of the the crew members from one of those large-scale residential burglary crews. Uh I was watching the officers on the front of the house, the officers on the back of the house their their officer warn cameras. Um so I can see in real time at the same time we were uh displaying on the same monitor our drone footage. So you can see an aerial as well as both sides from a tactical and safe decision making uh platform that's just incredible technology that really allows for information sharing the best safest outcomes and it's really phenomenal for just safe uh harm reduction and tactical decision making. We're going to hold up questions till we Oh Sorry. They're all really good questions, but I know everyone has a lot of questions and we want to get through the presentation.

Okay. Um we'll move on to talk about some of our officer wellness. Um officer wellness is a the top priority of the department. Um policing is obviously a very demanding profession that exposes officers and staff to very unique physical, mental, and emotional challenges throughout the daily um throughout every single day they go out on the field to support the community. um to support their well-being. Um along with being really an investment in our people um with some of the programs and things that we've had going and newly uh adopted programs that we think are really going to serve not only officers but staff in general very well. Um we have a newly uh open uh department wellness room for staff to use. We have comprehensive health screenings. Um we have a long-standing peer support team um to help our officers and staff in general. Um a chapy program. We also have a financial wellness component um for our staff and also wellness app that is be that is accessible 247 with a a large amount of resources that anybody can access at any time. Um so we all know the benefits of this and it's really important for us to have healthy supported staff um for the long run and to better serve the community every single day.

I think it was it was here. Now we know who to blame.

That's amazing.

Um, lastly, I want to talk a little bit about our social media real quick. Um, obviously we continue to be uh have a large presence on social media. It really be an opportunity to connect with our community that may not uh be seeing things otherwise whether it's any of these platforms listed on here. I'm not going to go through each one. I think the uh the logos and uh speaking for themselves, but it's really important for us to be able to get those updates out and get that information out to everybody, not just about things that are happening, but also about things that are just going on in the park so everyone feels connected. I mean, we really encourage people to connect um on any of our social media channels or or other pages so we can engage and really keep a good um not only have a good understanding, but just to um understand what's going on every single day within the city. And with that um on behalf of Chief Camp and myself, I just want to thank everybody for the opportunity to present. Um it's just obviously a very quick snapshot and like Chief mentioned earlier of a very large amount of work over the entire year. Uh but we are grateful to be able to share some of this information and Chief Campfield unless you have something else to add to turn it back to the chair. Yeah.

Thank you very much. really appreciate that uh in-depth presentation. I know we all find it very interesting. Um I would I would open the floor for public comment but I don't see any attendees. So

one person online but there's no comment.

Okay, thank you for that. Um so barring any public comment um we will now questions and comments from the committee. Oh, sorry. I have four. We're gonna get through this fast. Um,

I have nine.

All right. Uh, first I want to suggest because I had this when I lived back in Boulder, Colorado. Um, an emergency magnet or an emergency sticker, and it just had the non-emergency line phone number, the emergency line, like other options, you know, gas, some other things. It was great. I had it on my magnet and when I had something come up weird late at night, I didn't have to like go do a Google search and make sure that I got everything right. I was just like, "Oh, yay. I can call these people and that kind of stuff." It was very helpful. And I think you could probably get one between some different departments and all that jazz. You've been talking about field training. So, are you guys field training your dancing choreography for the 20th at Pride?

Yes. I want to see I want to see the move like you guys I mean you guys have this like the exercise room. I mean you guys obviously have the mirrors for the choreography coordination. I'm excited. Okay.

27 Pride. Get those wheels rolling. We can get those. Put it on the list.

Um you guys need new stickers. I have a one-year-old. We have all your stickers. We need some We need some We need some refresh. Some variety.

What you got for me?

Aware of our stickers that come out every single month.

Well, I have been getting a jacko'lantern for the last three months. So, what was you telling me about? H

not a program that we have now. We we received funding from the public safety foundation for this, but we do a monthly sticker. They're often themed. you I I wonder Mr. Smith if you follow us on social media.

I don't have social media so I don't

that's the best possible answer but

exactly

we'll have a K9 sticker. I don't know if I have enough soccer ball

perfect. Oh so seasonally we have we have stickers. We do a monthly sticker special for kind of the theme of the month or different units. Uh last month's was our uh Special Olympics torch run. So, we did a a die-cut torch that was kind of a shiny, if you will, like a shiny sticker. Our most probably one of our most expensive, but also one of our most popular stickers. Um, so we still have some spare ones for those. I would encourage or

Yeah, let's see. Let's see.

Come on. Just go one yesterday. It was Jack.

We do a uh a fundraiser, but also the Special Olympics torch run to support Special Olympics. It is a big fundraiser for them. We raise a lot of money every year for an incredible program. So that was a great sticker.

All right,

last one is on the dogs. Uh, a lot of other agencies have dog trading cards and I want to see if you guys are interested. Dog trading cards.

Trading cards.

Yeah, I'm I'm not Well, trading cards that could be cards. That would be even more interesting and very impressive training for dogs. But um trading cards of dogs is is it's it's hot news on the kid front um and and the adult front. Actually, I have I have multiples from Malaysia. They're they're really awesome. Um just one

Oh, patrol officer. Yeah, they

Oh, you're right. Just saying. Just saying. Mhm. Mhm. I mean, if you guys want to stay cool.

Yeah,

I'm like stay cool if I can stay.

Yeah, well,

I I am not. But these are

back to the tread report. If you guys want to go back to that the trend that's um property crimes versus personal crime. I wanted to know if there are trend, this was just 2025. I just wanted to know if there are trends broken down by year, meaning going back 2024, 2023, etc. on the website, meaning you can reference it across dashboard.

Thank you. See, that's that's just a yes and no.

They go back to 2021, which is when those data categories changed from the FBI. So there categories beyond that.

Great. Next question. Sorry. The breakdown of crimes, property crimes versus crimes, uh, traffic issues, accidents, etc. Is that part of that crime data or is that a separate category?

That'll be separate.

Traffic has its own category.

Somebody's using a vehicle as a correct.

Got it. Thank you.

So classic assault with a deadly weapon which can't include.

Okay. Okay. Any peak by interest call from a park ranger like what other crimes are we talking crimes like

or our public safety dispatchers dispatch for the mid peninsula park rangers right uh they have anything from you know missing persons or or an injury on a trail. It can be a number of different needs. It can be carb or against definitely don't leave things in your car in parks or anything. Uh but it can kind of be whatever their public safety needs are. If they contact someone or they stop a car, they do have police officer powers. My understanding is believe that the rankers are not armed, but they are peace officers in the state. So if they contact or detain somebody to issue them a citation maybe for biking in an area they're not allowed to. Uh they would radio that into our dispatchers just like our officers.

Great. Thank you. And then regards to community events, you mentioned some number of community events which is a lot. Um do these include neighborhood events like the CPNA does a ice cream social every year. We always get three officers and things like that.

Yes, but I'll be honest there is not a great recording mechanism. I believe that we probably do 30% more, maybe more events that aren't recorded in some way, shape, or form because when the request comes in, we always want to get to yes. Um, if it's if it's a standard kind of uh public event that we do, then we know to stat it. But if it's a kind of a a neighborhood meeting that that isn't recorded in some other way, sometimes they do fall off of our data logs.

Okay. Yeah, I think be great to add those because, you know, officers do a ton of work. engagement and donuts. Very good point.

Passing off stickers.

Yeah, we do coffee with coffee.

I love coffee with great.

Okay. And you mentioned um where there's complaints to where substantiated some were the other were how are these investigations handled internally in the police department or is it handled externally through like a third party?

Yeah. So, uh our so they're handled primarily by a professional standards unit. That unit reports directly to me. So there's a professional units uh professional standard unit sergeant. Now they they're not the uh complaint sergeant because they also handle a lot more accolades and and thank yous that come in for our officers. Uh but they do handle all complaint investigations whether they're internally initiated or externally. Now we work we're not siloed off. We work very closely with the city attorney's office and with our HR department. uh any in fact any significant what we would call a a major internal affairs investigation or a major IIA meaning that if substantiated somebody might lose a day off or even an hour of work you lose something other than you get something um those punishments and those investigations are collaboratively what the front department the daylight if you will the city attorney's office

and then you mentioned

if I may also just to I didn't quite answer one thing you specifically asked. If it's too challenging or too cumbersome of an investigation, we can have external uh uh investigators handle those. That would be something that would be collaboratively done between the HR department.

And then you mentioned the um resource officer also deals with housing referrals, 99 housing referrals. Are those cases followed up? because I imagine there's recid recidivism in in some of those sort of recurring personal personalities, right? So housing referral was made and then the next time we see the same people over and over again.

Yeah. So that that's uh not those are not handled by our school resource officers by our neighboring event. Yeah. I just want to make sure. Okay. Yeah. So they there there is some followup um after the referral. Obviously, it can become a little bit challenging in terms of if there's a referral made, but there's some onus on the person to follow up if there's some assistance us to help them get to that referral, get to that agency. We offer whatever we can to help in those situations. Um, so yes, there is some follow-up with it. Um, it's not just a here's where you go and hopefully you get there. It's this is how you can get there. This is how we can help you get there. And we do have other outside resour resources with the county that they can reach out to to help with those situations that may be a little more complex or maybe just a little bit more than our officers in the unit can handle, but they do keep their finger on the pulse of those to make sure that they they they have that opportunity to get there resources are provided.

Thank you.

Yeah, I I'll just chime in if you don't mind. They serve as a bridge. So, you know, we we don't have a few resources. We don't have a lot of resources. We bridge to resources. our our community outreach officers know the people that have the resources and because we're police officers frankly we come in contact with people who need those resources. So their their purpose in that regard is to connect those folks. Uh it's 99 permanent housing referrals which means there's a formal county form. There's a process that's done. It's um it is purposeful. Uh it's not 99 conversations. There's probably a thousand conversations. There's 99 of these people that have agreed and they connected to these services, but it's not adding a thousand. They're not 99 people that they filled out the form and then they all get housing. It is a long-term relationship and a lot of times it's a lot of conversations, a lot of engagement and finding the person when they're at a point they're ready for those those services.

Two more body cam. You mentioned you can see the live stream etc. How did that data stored in terms of security?

It's through uh Amazon Web Services. So, so I will say um having lived through a vendor nightmare with um Amazon web services is is where our apps on officer warn camera footage is stored. It is the gold standard for officer warn cameras for data storage. It goes directly to the district attorney's office. They have a portal access. Uh, as many problems as there have been with other types of of data access, uh, the the footage has not been leaked has not been hacked out of AWS anymore. Now, could somebody burn it on drive and then leave it somewhere?

We have protocol. We have protocols for how this is distributed. There's records and logs. Unlike uh flock safety, there are access logs that record everyone who looks at uh accesses and shares and touches it in any way, shape, or form. And uh they're not you can't change them there. We do have the ability to race an image. Let's say a camera was turned on in the locker room or something like that. It is a very strict process uh that has daylight by myself. That doesn't mean I looked at it, but I made aware we have one specific designated personnel within the organization that is in charge of erasing those when very rarely but when needed and they also are the ones that share those attorneys office.

Thank you. Last one. Um do you guys get calls coming in or requests coming in from the ask because a lot of times these questions are asked on like the mount mom site and people just say go to ask even though it's actually a PD issue and then do you track that right as part of the call process? Yeah, through the ask MB there's yeah you can if they go to there they can actually specifically select the police department. Yeah. So it's depending on the type of question it will get get uh farmed out within the department to the correct area whether it's something for our uh paper services whether it's our school resource offic that that goes to that they can answer it and yeah all that

additional question

you've already had your That's right. That's right.

Like nine. I don't fun.

We can go back around, guys.

Go ahead.

All right. Um, thank you you two for coming. Uh, evening to meet with us. I do have several questions. Uh, first, uh, Chief, you and I have been in several spaces talking to community members, respectively with immigration enforcement. We're just a few days away from the World Cup. Uh my question to you is or to both of y'all really is is there any plans of future outreach that are going to be conducted to let uh community members know pathways for reinforcing statements that our MVPD has made on not collaborating with ICE on civic matters and such or or how to get connected with the rapid response network. Um, so I I don't know about the rapid response network specifically, but I do know that the city was working on as a a larger city uh communication uh a reaffirmation very similar to what was done with Super Bowl uh related to FIFA to reaffirm and to make clear the the Mountain View Police Department's role uh in uh in public safety and our LA our prohibition if you will on civil immigration enforcement. So, I I believe that was in works and I could ask Miss James if she knows if it's come out yet. Are you familiar with anything coming out of the the either the the CMO or not?

Thank you, Chief. I can't speak to that unfortunately.

Uh we will take a look. I'll follow up and see where where that is, but I know it has been discussed. Okay. Um no, thank you for that. Um I think uh one of the our committee members asked questions about this with respect to flock um you know there prior to the flock implementation for real estate uh residents were concerned about its implementation especially when it came to privacy uh unfortunately right we got to witness what happens when a partner acts in bad faith or doesn't really uh communicate with us but I guess like on top of it being like a a a fail failure from the vendor. Uh could is this also part in our part for leaning too heavily on settings that we couldn't independently uh verify? Uh because my concern is that if that's the case then it MBPD is proposing uh new surveillance systems and if so what are the new criteria that that's going to fulfill and when do public when does the public actually get to weigh in on that? Yeah, if it's okay, I'll I'll answer the last portion first. I'm not proposing not police department is not proposing uh either internally or externally to have a new program. Really uh reviewing and looking at what is out there, what would meet our expectations, what community expectations would be related to uh if we did have another program. But I am unwavering in my belief that the technology when used correctly reduces community harm. Uh it was technology that was actually requested from me from to me at cafetto meetings and and at other community meetings because of the disproportionate impact of crime on our marginalized communities. It it is very impactful to have one's car stolen or your tools broken taken out of your car uh if you're living in a kind of paycheck to paycheck situation. Um so it is a significant impact. It is a valuable tool. It's not something that we are going to rush into and certainly not something that I would be interested in proposing without having significant community feedback. Um I I think that uh I am deeply disappointed that we did not see the the access leaks sooner. Um having said that, I'm not familiar with anyone finding out before we did or or much before we did. Uh and I'm very proud of how we handled it when we did discover it. Just I'll give you an example. when we first got our data, we're doing our our external audits. So, our internal audits were happening very regularly, external less frequently uh because we would look at uh the agencies that had access and we would ensure that the agencies that had access had signed an MOU with Mountain View Police Department, which was a much higher level of standard. When we first got data to start looking at our our external access, it came in a raw data form. That's a pretty very challenging for lay persons to be able to navigate through that. Now, we were able to request it and have it changed and put in CSV format so that we could do those audits and so they found those audits, but it speaks to the the fact that we were pushing to make sure that that this was being done right. I wish we would have done it sooner. Uh certainly, and I'm very sorry that we did not. Um there are lessons learned and very highlight highlighted at a very detailed level and a a staff report that we submitted to city council and I would encourage everyone to take a look at it. Uh it will also highlight a lot of the steps that I think would be necessary before we move forward. So it's speaking with uh community groups, creating programs to uh ensure methods to ensure that the data is being utilized uh in the manner in which a vendor would be telling us that it is assuming that there's a this is a vendor based program and not internal. So there's there's a lot to unpack uh commissioner um and we're certainly not proposing that we just jump into some other program.

Yeah, for sure. For sure. Quick follow up with that. I keep hearing, you know, about we're moving forward. The one thing that I'm want to make sure of is are we being compensated for this? Was this a breach of because you kept saying promise, promise, promise, they promise, they promise. If we don't have a new language, promise is made. And if it is in the language, we need recourse because we spent a lot of money on her work. We need to make sure that we get recourse with the state bridge.

Yeah. Though I would say that those are issues that the city attorney's office looks at and was discussing. I can't speak to and and honestly if unless there was some kind of uh something that been made publicly, it really would be inappropriate for me to comment on it. Um but th those would be issues that fall under the city attorney's purview. Um and would be their responsibility. I I think that um the the review of the contracts, uh determination if there is a a breach of contract, uh those are all standard and appropriate questions for the city attorney's office to review, but I'm certainly not capable of providing an answer, but I I appreciate your position. I think it's a very reasonable position uh opinion to to support. So, I'm hoping that going forward since you are the person that's very close to this program, you're in that contract, making sure that language is there. I read contracts every day, so I know how painful it is. But the devil is in the detail. If you live it, you know it, you're the one that can redline it. So, hopefully that happens. But if not, I want to make sure the city attorneys cover that because that's our money. That's our tax dollar system in question.

I appreciate that.

Sorry.

No, no, you're fine. Thank you for that. Um, I wanted to talk on the uh homelessness enforcement, especially with the RV situation. So, I I think if I heard correctly, the 99 uh housing referrals were the successful ones that were being uh related to us through the this uh public. Is that correct? Those are ones that were um done directly through the county's required process filling out the form uh entering it into the system.

Yes.

Yeah. Okay. For for sure. So like I guess my question is is the enforcement of you know people who are either overextending or stay in a 72-hour zone uh far exceeding the amount of resources that we're able to offer the individual. were even able to provide like shelter services.

Can you can you

Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to find I I guess what I'm saying is is the enforcement of the possible policy I I think there's withdrawal go on to with like the case, right? Because that's my concern with the upcoming year is that's about to uh come on. Um, are we able So, I saw that we had 1,300 citations, right, for folks who violate that. Are we able to offer just as many resources to those individuals who got those citations at at that rate? And if we are, like is there anywhere reporting that data? Uh, one, how many have actually received uh resources? two of those how many actually got help through services whether locally or countywide and three of those reach referrals how many of them were actually

yes um so I'll say that uh as part of that Navaro settlement we do provide resources and information to everyone that receives a warning or citations through our enforcement there are recommendations that the community outreach officers are are not just parking enforcement officers service. We say, engage, communicate, and maintain relationships with their living vehicles. It is not illegal to live in a vehicle in the city of Mountain View. It is illegal if it's leaking sewage or if you have items in the the uh the right of way like a generator. So they try to educate folks first uh when if that's not successful or if it's something like suicide enforcement actions but it is not going to all one and not the other. There are resources available certainly uh you know I don't think that that anyone could could say in good faith that there are as many resources readily available as the people that that need those resources. Uh but there are we are lucky enough to have a lot of great uh community partners uh and our our community outreach officer and his sergeant uh they work hand inand to make sure those resources are available. So whether it's home key, uh our safe lots, uh a number of different services that are available for folks to make make those house withdrawals. And so again, and then I guess part of my question, sorry to me, um was like, are we recording the data too, right? So especially with the vehicles that aren't operable or are just faulty because of whatever reason, right? Are we tracking that data of actually getting shelter services as they can know again it's not illegal to live in RV vehicle but it might be unhabitable at certain point so are we that is or are we not is it is that just I think yeah if I were to answer it I could say with a fair amount of confidence that every person that guard that unit contacts whether it's just doing throughout the course of a day or there's some enforcement action or the formal referrals they are offered and that those services are trying to get to them. In terms of a formal tracking that I don't know if there's that the tracking that says that every time it's offered because I think offered is the formal sense like we talked about but also like hey can we help you with anything? Is there anything that we could get to you today? What do you need right now? And they can tell us no. Um so I don't know if that specific getting that granular is tracked. I I don't believe the outcome like the kind of wraparound outcome is tracked. Uh I could be wrong but folks fill out related to in terms of enforcement. So if they go out for enforcement or a contact, I don't think that there's a clean way to come back and say um this person received it on this day versus denied it on another day. I don't think we don't have any systems that are in place uh that can track that. We've had we've been building data systems to better track

uh but but there are not great programs out there that we have seen that

for sure for sure that would likely probably probably like an AI blending data from different systems and then being able to bring it back together that otherwise it would have to be manually done which would take our folks out of the field. So we really look for autopop populating as much as possible or staff frontloading very quickly data entry but a significant amount of like pouring through data to look for those outcomes could literally impede the ability to get those outcomes.

Yeah, thank you for that. And I'll I'll pause right there.

You have one

one last one. Um are we increasing uh personnel at the downtown crossings? Because I've almost been hit three times. because people are treating it more like a stop sign, red lights, like a stop sign rather than a red light and it's getting like it's getting bad.

So the intersections downtown like coming by Castro Street or where would you

up and down Castro?

Uh we do have targeted enforcement that is downtown. However,

it's targeted in a large portion of how we determine where it's targeted is based on feedback from the community. So you don't have to do an ask mountain view right now. We'll make a note of it. Um, but the more of that feedback we can get, the better. But I can tell you, we get feedback from bus drivers who talk about not being able to make right-hand turns from from Villa Street because cars are parked in the red and then we really look for red uh curb violators to address those safety issues because then it pushes the bus out wide. So, we are looking for safety issues specifically in our downtown area, but really we want to deploy the resources to where people are seeing Okay. So, you want that?

I I wrote it down and I'm going to ensure that information gets directly to our traffic unit, especially with a heavily populated pedestrian area like like what you're talking about.

Nothing scary.

We'll make sure that information gets gets to the traffic team so they can do some uh

some uh focused enforcement.

Thank you. Um, in the last month or so, I've had a number of people talk to me about the fact that pedestrians legally have the right of way, but drivers around here don't know that or don't care. One of the two. and and I've talked with a number of different people asking if they have some kind of solution that they'd like to offer and interestingly recently a number of people have said ped we have signed saying pedestrians have the right of way at intersections that are experienc eriencing a lot of violation of that law.

Um that that's something we'll share with with our transportation division. Um that would not be a decision by the police department. Um I will say it can be a little bit confusing if a if a vehicle has started first and has crossed the threshold of the essentially the crosswalk and they're starting into the intersection. Once they start, a pedestrian can't step into the roadway and then have the right away. The car actually if they're there first, whomever is there first has the right away. Um, in when a pedestrians there, you still can't hit them. But, but if the car starts, uh, the pedestrian is supposed to wait for the car to pass and then go. Uh, and I have seen I've been on the receiving end of vehicles not following the the uh right away and and not not giving the right away to pedestrians. But I've also been driving downtown. I have also been driving downtown even in a a police vehicle and have as I'm starting have people walk out into an intersection and then I have to stop in the crosswalk or or in a kind of a gridlock situation and of course you have to allow a pedestrian to cross but they have actually committed a vehicle code violation violated my right of way. I see both of those far too frequently. Wow.

Um, one of the things that I've seen is that the pedestrian starts across and the driver come after the trajectory had started and instead of just stopping and letting the Michigan. The driver edges around, especially if they're making a turn or something. Edges around me around and it almost looks intimidating, deliberately intimidating other pedestrian.

It is very illegal. That is that is absolutely illegal. Even if even if the pedestrian could have taken more time and let the car go, you're not allowed to go through the intersection when the pedestrian is walking there. Those are we do significant amount of OTS or office of traffic safety uh targeted enforcement uh where we're wanting to look for if we look specifically for often uh uh the main indicators or causes of accidents. Pedestrian uh stop sign violations and pedestrian crosswalk violations are a frequent one that our traffic officers look for and often write citations for. Who did you suggest or what agency did you suggest that that I have people check about signage?

So they can do an ask mountain view. So we will so uh it would be the transportation department. They can go into ask mountain view and make a request. However, um uh the request that you're relaying, certainly we can speak with our our traffic engineers and let them know that the request has been made. They may want more specifics related to which intersections and where so they can give a more thorough uh professional evaluation of it, but at least at a high level, that's something that I can relay or Kathy Carl can relay to to our traffic engineering.

Thank you. My turn now.

Go ahead.

No, go ahead.

Um I just have two quick questions and thank you for speaking specifically about um the situation with flock. Um for context, I work for the city of San Jose and so we've had a lot of conversations about um Mountain View and what you guys do with your flop contract versus how um we work with that specific vendor and AI tools generally. So I wanted to ask what other AI tools department has adopted.

So we are not deploying AI tools right now. I'm certainly interested in AI translation services. That is a a a tool that our officer work cameras can do where they can uh translate in real time any number of languages. uh there so I think there is a test case or application I know from others on that we are not rushing into the technology without giving very honest thorough review there are technologies related to cold case investigations reviewing of you know copious amounts of data that are AI driven that I I believe uh and I believe district attorney's offices and others that are very thorough with their processes as well are using those are things we'll look at but not things that we're going to rush into but I believe that there is a place for that type of technology uh with very thoughtful

awesome and yeah I know that um other departments have also adopted um automatic transcription for police reports as well. And there have been some concerns expressed in the community about um mistransation with you know the body cams and u potentially escalating a situation because of a mistransation or similarly a police report. Um you know AI is not perfect. Um, and I think on and on camera usage specifically, um, has the Mountain View Police Department, um, uh, entered in any agreements with local businesses or small businesses to connect to, um, their cameras in, uh, in real time in case of emergency or do you guys have like any kind of real-time intelligence system? We do not have any written agreements with um private parties or or corporate parties to allow us to have 247 access or be able to log into their their data systems.

Thank you.

No, we'll and once this item is over then head out. But certainly if if there are questions or things you want to discuss that are unrelated to the annual report or um or if you just want to reach out in general by all means please reach out to me.

Thank you.

My turn.

Uh want to pull the deck up for me please.

I won't be long. Forward. Forward. Yeah, right there. Thank you guys for doing this. And I was here last year for your first one and I got a little time to digest what was going on. One thing that I would love to see from you guys going forward is some yearoveryear analysis, right? So, if we're seeing this in that way to help us understand what's going on. Case in point is um if you're doing like the NAS activities and you're doing the violations, you know, we just implemented the street signs, right? So, we want to make sure that how effective are they? Is it is it this year to last year went from 500 to,300? Is that a problem? Is there a solution? Then we can get deeper into the data. So, we definitely want to have that One of the other things I'd love to get from you next year for the committee and especially for new people is a small demo of the tool. You saying get into it just a slight demo. So see people how to navigate. Not everyone is text. So just say hey log in here point click you know and maybe say these are some of the things that you can do with data. Maybe a simple download of like CSV file or what you want to do it into a PowerPoint or whatever the case may be. That would be amazing, right? As you I live and breathe data all day long,

right?

So, this stuff is easy for me and I'm thinking about it constantly and especially since we're artists committee and we're going with you every single year, we're going to have that history,

right? So if you're gonna if you're loading it up, it's like we remember the conversation about the flock system.

So I remember seeing that hearing you talking to you about it and then seeing about favorite seeing what's going on. You know, I'm on some chat groups and I'm hearing the chatter about it, right? So we know so we want to see that trend now. This is our second time doing it. Three, four, five years. Once you hit five years, do a fivey year recap. you know those kind of things so that we can digest it all uh together. Uh see I'm not negative. I'm just say giving a little bit of feedback. Uh property crimes all other lararseny is a black hole.

Never want to see a black hole with so much a large percentage of it. We need to figure out what it means. you guys know, we don't know, right? And again, it's just about what what's in the data. Uh and if it means less than 1% of this that and the other, I'd rather see a long line of percentages than some that's so we're just so vast. That's a great point. There's a way for us to break out and describe what would fall in there to help.

Yeah. It is unfortunately the manner in which some of that data is reported is wrote and structured by the FBI. But we can do better with that. I don't think I can break it down with all the different types because they don't they don't correlate it differently. But we can definitely explain in a better way but that all other lion is

and if there's something in it that's higher if there's something that dominates that call it out.

Uh let's see. crimes, trans property crimes. I also picked out uh when you're doing this now, we want to see or I would like to see like your per capita in comparison for other cities same size,

right? You need to do the same size or also do within our area as well. are we compared to Palo Alto but also how are we compared to Kalamazoo which is the same size you know those kind of things are important and also when I'm looking at these numbers you know I want to be able to speak to hey 2285 or 28 25 and 2942 that's a half of six change right why isn't that going down more right I don't want to see crime city I don't want to see it. Why is it not changing? If it's flat, that's great. If it's going up, that's horrible, but I want to see it on the down. What are you guys doing to change that? And what programs are you putting in place? This is something that the citizens want because I want to feel safe when I see this. I'm especially when I walk around here. I don't feel comfortable when I see numbers like that. Said nothing's changing. Nothing's changing in my city to make me feel safe. Same thing with the crosswalks. I wouldn't feel safe and the data tells me I'm not safe.

Yeah, I I I want to very respectfully we are a very safe city. Uh there is crime in our city, but it is a very safe city. Uh

but if you don't say it in comparison to other cities, how do I

That's why I'm saying the data would help us understand that.

Yeah, I hear what you're saying. I This is a standalone. This is a Mountain View annual report. I think there's a place for that. Some of that is done uh in our budget report where we list within the larger city. So we can we could perhaps highlight that.

Just like you said this is high level just a little you know we want to just be frank all agencies do not report data

in the exact same way. Uh and don't speak reports. So I just want to kind of throw that out as a as an acknowledgement. Um, no. I I I see data in all different forms all the time.

Yeah.

And but what I'm asking for our committee and if they if anyone else has other ways of saying it and this is trial and error. You try it, we don't like it, we say, "Hey, we don't need that." But if we say put it out there and then it works, then we continue on, right? because these are concerns that we constantly have and we're glad you're here telling us this so that we can give you that feedback so that we can all sit back and talk later on say yeah I like that now I can go out and tell because I'm conveying this I'm on a chat group with people in my when I get done I'm going to go back to them and I'm going to tell them so I'm helping them to make sure that Mountain View is a great place to live our city our our our police department is working hard They gave us the data. They talked to us about it. And I want to be able to answer the questions because those questions are going to come. Yeah. When I was sitting down, my neighbor by the by the mailbox that was just broken into that, you know, we had to go pick up our mail over somewhere somewhere for like a month and a half. Uh they've already asked me when's that gonna get fixed. What are they gonna fix it? And I said, "Oh, wait. I think that was part of that crew that we caught through the track and city was on it and they said this is what's gonna happen right anyway last one so because I don't want to win which can everyone loves dogs etc etc one thing that I understood that I I really liked was where you they don't hack. That should be a best practice. I'm wondering if you guys are going to because I know you guys go to a lot of events or um conferences. If you're sharing that information at your conferences in some way, shape, or form, that would be good for us to hear back because I know you say, "Yeah, we we do this, not others do it." But we're trying to encourage them to do it. So that that's something that I think would be great to to if you guys are promoting that. Lastly,

maybe through training cards.

Yeah. Yeah. Uh AWS, what was that contract?

No. Um, so the AWS is uh the the service that Axon, which is the company that secures that makes the device uh charges us for the data storage.

They make good devices, but they're a data storage company.

Yeah.

And they use AWS. I don't So we have contracts with Axon. We don't have contracts with AWS for the Axon content.

Okay. How long is that contract? Our axelon contract they come generally it's kind of industry standard to either be five or 10 year contracts and I think we have seven I think it's seven years left on a 10-year contract

and then you'll start your RFI your RFQ about two three years before that

in seven years uh Chief Cra will be

well chief

yeah there will be it'll be very interesting to see what technology with vendors right now. I'll be frank, the uh quality of the technology, the ability to share data in a secured manner is not rivaled by any competitor. Axon is by far the best product, the most secure, the best to use um that supports our work. Uh so right now uh that's the case. In seven years, we'll be looking to see who else is a player, what their costs are. uh and how we can be responsible with our our our city funds.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No, Eric.

Sure. Uh thank you, chair. Um so on page 26, the uh it's mentioned that transparency portals data by demographics and reason contact wasn't provided here. Is that something that will be provided in the larger report that will hopefully go in depth or is that something that could also be provided uh to this body on it being broken down by race and outcome of those uh stops like as a separate page in the future or is that something?

Yeah, like something you're asking for in the future. something in the future or I'm also asking for like 30 that's that information I know we Javier had committee member webb had mentioned about like kind of the navigation of it navigation of it but also the transparency portion of it as well just having those numbers in front of us uh being able to see like how are we doing especially giving the diversity of this uh community mountain view tend to be the outliers that we should be taking note in order to ensure like the city's welcoming for all. Right. So that's kind of like my thought process on that that's a plausible avenue or information that can be related to brought back to the commission at the next years. Staff can take that recommendation on submission. It's an interesting we can look and see how we can look to apply that with data data is complex traffic stop data. Uh there's a lot of analysis. One of the things that we have done in the past is apply what I believe and what we believe is the gold standard for for contact and stop data which is the veil of darkness tests. So that is the stop are during daylight savings time or ordinary time. Um and look at the the stop data when you can see what somebody who looks like inside the car and then during the time of the year when you can't see if there's a change. So if you're stopping folks when you can see what they look like and then what those outcomes are that is something research that we had done in the past uh and they're proud of the results that came from that our transparency portal does have a lot of this data so I think there's probably a way where we can break out away break out some of that into either the presentation uh or the annual report or at least the annual report steer folks to it should they be interested in that specifically That'd be great. Thank you. And then my last question uh was on the uh crisis response section. So I'm glad to hear and I've also experienced how RDPD interact with folks with mental health which has been like superb honestly. Uh but I guess my question is since is going to be like who responds on in in a situation where it's dealing with someone with mental health crisis? um is it usually an officer officer or a clinician and and is there any uh plan to expand to a co responder model in future?

Yes. So um there are a number of services available at and organizations that we work with. Um global crisis response team when we uh respond with them that is a co-responder model but there's also the trust team and they have although we collaborate with them uh they're not a co-responder model where they will respond independently and if they believe that we are needed then they will reach out and elevate their requests. uh our dispatchers are able to transfer now uh folks to 988 for mental health services as well as dispatching police services. So there's a criteria system uh and then they evaluate if it's a 988 available or appropriate or if it's uh a police department services dispatch being dispatched to those in.

So this is all like over the phone. There's not with the exception of trust.

Well, mobile crisis response team uh is in person. There's also um uplift services, so youth services for something similar. Um but we do not have a I guess these acronyms, but like a per model where we have a clinician in a car with an officer. We don't have a per model. If we did look at it, I don't think that we have the volume of calls to justify it very thankfully. Um and I know that there have been some real significant challenges in agencies being able to staff and maintain their teams because uh shift work and essentially field pseudo police work is very difficult and many of the clinicians establish themselves and then move to um more regular hours, more safe working conditions. So they build that resume and then they would leave and that created a lot of challenges but also very hard to fill in the very first place. So very hard for for many agencies that had on paper per teams uh but did not they were not able to fill those positions. My understanding and this is not my subjective expertise but the county has some really significant uh financial challenges and that has been a a struggle for for uh per teams as well. I know that they did approach and ask if we were interested in funding a a program for a number of years. The staff uh the call volume didn't didn't justify full-time staff for that. Uh but certainly we're continuing to leverage those relationships, train and and communicate and work with our mobile crisis response team and the other services that are available.

Thank you, Chief.

Um I'd like to just take a moment to do kind of a temperature check for our meeting. We're approaching the twohour mark. Um and I really appreciate the presentation and all the information. I want to make sure that we're all um getting all of our questions answered. I guess I just want to um suggest that maybe we take uh the five minute break after after um after the presentation just kind of so plan for that. Um and then do you guys have any particular like time or I mean I'm not saying we're we're going to keep you here another two hours but uh

sure when your questions are

No, I think Okay. Um Okay. Well, I just want to make sure um I would like to ask some of my top questions and then if anybody else has any burning ones, then maybe we could do like a

Would you like to go? of the page that's prime trans person and I think it would be helpful the char to the valuation of those 33 24 25. So we have a sense of whether the property crimes are actually lower relative to the population or the the reverse. Um so one of the interesting things about crime is that it affects people who live here don't live here. Uh it is committed by people who visit uh and who live here. So the population you know that's a tough one to tie but we do we can find we can uh tether uh crimes per thousand residents etc. We that is something that we can provide. Uh but just want to point out that that a lot of folks unfortunately that victims of crime may be visiting uh and folks committing those crimes may be visiting.

Police on the daily post in other places um indicate where the people who were arrested or actually resident. So that We get a sense that all these crimes

that's information that we share with them that we provide to them.

Exactly. We'll say like a Mountain View man was arrested for or a Palo Alto resident was

um I'd like to ask a top what are my priorities here? Um, and first of all, thank you very much for the presentation and um, I really appreciate uh, getting to hear everyone's questions and the detailed answers. Um, something that I was wondering, it sounds like I mean clearly um, police a very desirable place to work. Um, we're doing great on uh, filling staff roles and I imagine we you pull recruits from a wide area, very highly qualified. Um, I'm wondering how many staff members, what's your estimate, uh, live in or near Mountain View? And by that I mean is sub one hour

far fewer than I would like. Uh, frankly, um, is and also some of those officers may start closer but then move closer. It's not uncommon. um not just live and not be able

um I I think more of the challenge is in the cost of living and the the the reality of of housing

in the Bay Area. So it's less about wanting to live in Mountain View. perhaps maybe at you know at a point in the the 90s or or different time that was a concern but I think if I was to pull my folks they would say it's the cost and if the housing was more affordable enough they would like to be more inclined to I have also noticed a pattern where uh folks are want to buy single family homes so when they're buying residences they're they're less inclined to buy um you know multi- multi-unit buy into a multi-unit dwelling by small and that that tough if not impossible to do in the city of Cont a police officer south.

Thank you for that.

It is a a concern. Um we have sleeping quarters. We have shifts that are uh amendable for longer commutes, Friday, Saturday and Sunday shifts that are longer shifts that have more time off. It is a it is an industry problem at least in the Bay Area and large parts of Los Angeles. So I think really anywhere where there is high cost of living it is an issue.

Thank you for that. And then um regarding um person crimes at a glance of prostitution offenses um does this number or I guess what I'm wondering about is how does this number reflect or not reflect cost? And I I'm, you know, I'm not because I the the reason it's a top of mind for me is because there was recently a brothel busted into my townhouse complex. Um, and I was like, "Oh, hey, that's what all that was about, you know, like, boy, there sure were a lot of weird dudes around."

Um, but anyway, I and reading about it, I saw that it's um a general practice to not um arrest the women who are there because and I agree with this, they are most often victims of human trafficking. But I'm also wondering, you know, what can you tell us about the trend of that in Mountain View? Because it seems like that statistic might not be the full picture. I know that um there was that bust recently. There was two massage parlors in December. I'm just wondering kind of what's the uh what's the current um trend on that issue in Mountain View.

Yeah. So that's a really astute nuanced observation. Um I appreciate that. So the the shift has been uh to not necessarily arrest all those folks who are working as sex workers in a home with prostitution term is actually a house of refute in the penal code. Um but it doesn't mean it really is a work we work in collaboration very closely uh with with our human trafficking task force. Um, so those are things that we we lean both on a um county protocol but also on subject matter experts that are going to come out in the field whenever possible with us to collaborate. Um, but you're right uh one that the title again is coming from the federal government. So, we don't get to pick the title, but it does not encapsulate folks who in one of those res uh and and working as sex workers uh but not arrested for prostitution but are contacted. Also, one can be contacted but so there could be challenges to making an arrest. So there's without getting into all the details of vice work for lack of a better term um it's more common to contact one and believe that they're engaging in that enable activity than it is to be able to thank you. Um and then final question actually one is just a comment. Um you mentioned the women's self-defense classes as outreach. I took one of those. I really enjoyed it. You

Yeah. And um last uh I appreciate all the um information about the flock contract and all that. Um I'm wondering are there flock cameras on private property um that are operating or is that like is it something that apartment complexes could install their own? And if so, are they still operating? Because I remember last year when I asked you about mail theft, um, you had re you mentioned that, you know, that one of the only things that you like really concretely suggest as a something they could do is to install a camera such as Flock. This obviously was for, you know, all we knew more about that company. I'm wondering um, to your knowledge, are there any Flock cameras operating on private property or under private property contracts? And if so, what is your outreach and messaging to them or to those? So,

it wouldn't be appropriate for me to reach out to a business if they did have a flop contract and make a recommendation. Either way, that's not my position. My position is is formed by my experience uh and my disappointment.

Um I I don't know if any private businesses have bought uh license plate reader cameras. I do think that having uh cameras up on the property is a great way to prevent crime or at least help us to to that crime in the future. Whether it be a license plate reader camera or just a standard camera that every driveway those are powerful tools but we don't we don't have access to any there was one uh one private party vendor when we had a license program they had they had cameras they provided us with those access to those cameras that is no longer in place but we haven't asked them what they're doing

probably that I'm not aware of either. I know there's been some headlines um about specific companies that have them, but I'm I'm not aware of any have those.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

That's the end of my questions. I don't know if anybody has any burning last minute ones. Um or if not, um Oh, wait. Sorry, one last thing. Can you text 911? You can text 911.

Okay. You can

Does that help you or does that just go to

I would recommend calling and not

Yeah. But like if you're in a situation where you don't, you know, you'll be quiet. You can text 911.

Text 911. It should go to us. But with all things cell phone, I can't guarantee that. Is that consistent in most cities around here or is that like a city by city situation? Okay. And that's certainly something we can circle back on if you and maybe that to that point if there are other questions that think of later or that you just want to reach out and communicate but Cath by all means we're it's the same thing I tell everybody in the community but certainly with your even more so please reach out to us with questions we want to hear it uh and we want to be able to to whether they're things you're curious about or things that other people are curious about it really does inform form the the the work product or the the things that we do. Please reach out

in my community chat. We're over by the Crest Motel area and there's a Enterprise rental car and it's now a parking lot on all rentals and they're wondering what can they do to because there's no parking.

They basically their fleet park.

Yeah. So that's one of the concerns that people in our area

I can see why that would be very very frustrating. Um that's something that we will follow up with CDD with community because it would depend on their their licenses. I don't know. Uh, you know, certainly vehicles businesses can park in the public right of way. Can't do business out of the public right away, but you can park vehicles in the public right away, but there may be more recourse that's non kind of criminal more applicable, but uh that that doesn't sound like a a a great way to live. If you can't park on the street because it's full of rental cars, I would be very frustrated as well. came up in one chat. So, that's a great question.

Well, thank you very much, uh, Chief Canfield and, uh, Captain Prowl. I really appreciate you coming out. Um, and I guess, uh, analyst James, how wait, let me see. Can I can I make a recommendation? Uh, sure. Can I recommend that we skip the work plan and uh wrap up the meeting with the with the meeting for next year and then come back to the work plan at the followup meeting?

Um thank you committee member Yan for that question. Unfortunately no. The work plans will be going to council for approval on September 8th.

But I would like to propose that we take a fivem minute break get some water.

Thank you Chief.

Thank you guys very much very much. We'll see you back here at our I wanted to play music.

Okay, folks. Uh we are now resuming the uh human relations at 8:54 p.m. Um okay, moving on to our next item, the fiscal year 2627 work plan. The committee will now receive a presentation on this item from principal management analyst James. the committee may take those.

Thank you, chair. I will keep my oral presentation brief. Um, city council policies require every board commission and committee to submit a recommended works plan for approval annually. Uh and at the last HRC meeting on May 7th, committee members had the opportunity to explore potential projects for the fiscal year 2627 work plan including outreach and events capacity building civil discourse workshop and the valid celebrating women community lived experience survey. Uh two projects related to child and parent care, a new parent and family roundt or childcare resources package. a project on community stability and affordability and a partnership with schools. Since that meeting, staff has prepared a brief analysis based on criteria that the committee approved which is included in attachment two to the memorandum for this item. Um and in short, the projects recommended for consideration for inclusion in the work plan are outreach and events capacity building and the civil discourse workshop. item that may be recommended for consideration with amendments is the event in celebration of women and the remainder of the projects are not recommended for consideration on the basis either of their um lack of alignment with the HRC specific scope or the high capacity or the high capacity required to continue um or projects. With that said, this is a reminder that staff recommends adding up to two projects to the current work plan given the current workload and carry forward projects with potentially the second added project being started following the completion of one of the current work plan projects. The recommended work plan um as prepared by staff is available in attachment one to the item memo. And with that, I will open it up.

Thank you. Any members want to kick off with questions? Oh, sorry.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you, chair. So just clarify if you for project idea if we accept the alternative which is to work with an extern partner it would move to medium meaning it would we could approve it as a potential item that HRC could work on.

Correct. Staff currently recommends if the committee gives a strong preference collectively for holding an event in celebration of women in fiscal year 2627 that they consider swapping that event for the civil discourse workshop or consider staggering the events so that the active work plan projects are never more than three projects at a time. So, so we can do both, but like it would just have to be offsite. It wouldn't be something that after one finishes we could potentially on the other

that would be st.

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

Me, too. Okay. So, do you want to make a note? Uh, which Oh, but after if anyone has any questions, right, I've been gone from chair so long.

Seeing no other committee questions. Sorry. So when you were saying if we stagger this, let's say we do something for celebrating on the community and the event takes place in 2027. Would that count fiscal year? Yes, that would be in the fiscal year for Quinn which will run from July 1st 26 through June 30th 27th. Um that said there are several work planned projects that are carrying forward that are currently planned

to completed in the first half of this. So there may be the opportunity to stagger the other two. And so is this they're not recommending the child and parent care. Is that what they're saying?

That's correct. Um per staff's analysis, those projects are not specifically aligned with the HRC's scope. Um and they are focused on a policy area the council has not delegated to the HRC and has um continued to work on at the council level. And in addition with regard to the child care resources package, um there are several programs that fall into a very similar category. For example, a new state diaper distribution program that provides, I believe it's 400 diapers to all families leaving with a newborn. Um, as well as the Mountain View Public Libraryies new collaboration with the county to deliver free read books to children from birth through age five with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library as well as services provided through Pacific Clinics at two locations in Mountain View at their family resource centers. Could we adjust this instead to say to do something where we're helping to this these organizations?

What I would recommend is to consider including those materials for those programs in the outreach toolkit program project. So, uh, in the process of creating an events list and an outreach toolkit, the outreach tool kit toolkit, pardon me, could potentially include um collateral or material for different programs that the HRC would like to share information about.

Is there no other questions or comments? Can I can I move forward with motion to approve the

We need to work acknowledge.

Okay.

Um Okay. So, seeing no other questions or comments. Um and there are no members of the public present. Open the floor for public comment. No members of the present. Of the public present. Um we can now move on to um Motion to approve except to remove the child care care and the partnership with schools projects from the work plan given that we are not on those two items. It seems great.

Thank you committee member web Yen. I would like to clarify that the attachment one is the recommended work and so the the attachment with the yellow headers attachment two includes all of the projects that were analyzed. Um with currently only two are recommended. Sorry to approve the work.

Second.

Okay. Um do all those who say?

Yeah. Roll call. There we go. Or would you recommend roll?

We can do hands raised. For a point of clarification, did the committee members want to also include the event in celebration of women?

Did we want to vote on both of those options? M then a friendly amendment may be in to that motion.

Yeah, I'll make a friendly amendment to include the celebrate women event uh in the staggered effect that you mentioned upon completion of um the two other projects that rolled over from last year. Okay, I show hands to take a vote on the proposal to accept the short plan as proposed with the friendly amendment to include the um celebrating women's event in the stagger detailed by

Joan, how you do Thank you.

And to clarify for the minutes for the next meeting, I will uh committee member Lester.

Sorry. To clarify for the minutes for the next meeting, Committee member Lester, can I take your friendly amendment as a second to the motion?

Yes. Thank you. We will now move on to item 6.3 uh fiscal year 2627 meeting schedule. Thank you chair. In brief committee is required to adopt a regular meeting schedule. Jersey's bylaw state that meetings shall be on the first Thursday of the month. Uh this memo includes a recommendation that the committee not meet on September 8th because there are no substantive agenda items and the uh fiscal year 2627 work plans will not yet be approved by council meaning that we will not need to form ad hoc committee committees before that date. Um I do want to clarify that there are two pairs on memorandum. So any motion should include an change to the staff recommendation which is that the first Thursday in October 26. It's October it's not October 7th and that the first Thursday in May 2027 is not May 7th and I apologize for the made a note. So I understand that correctly. If somebody wants to motion to approve the schedule as written, we should add the um the amendment with state corrections date corrections.

Y so moved with the amendment by staff that public comment. Oh yes. Um open for public comments. Seeing a there we'll move on to voting. Uh yeah. Okay. So sorry motion has already been made and seconded. Show of hands vote. All right. All right. All right. Uh we are almost there guys. We are now moving on to committee and staff comments, questions, committee reports. Um no action. Committee member do need a break or

No, no, no. Sorry. I was just throwing stuff away. Sorry. We're not done yet. I know. I know. In DT, we always walked around. Um, no action will be taken on any questions raised by the committee at this time. State law prohibits the committee from discussing or acting on substantive non-aggenda items. Um, does anybody have any comments, questions, or reports from the committee?

I have too many to at this. Do you do you want to pick a favor maybe or

I think we need to have some time to study this and come back with some ideas next meeting

that'll be in

by this. Do you mean the work plan or

the work plan? Um if if I may uh try to understand I I the work plan we have already passed

not in this detail.

Um me

yeah to clarify committee member McDonald's the committee including you just voted to approve the work plan with the addition of an event celebrating women. So the majority has passed the work plan for the next fiscal year. So we've we've accepted the the high level

I think the page you're looking at is

staff analysis.

Yeah, that's the project

the staff analysis.

That's why it's so detailed.

What we passed was proposal.

I should have brought last

the draft. Draft one right there. Yeah. Flip it. There you go. Draft.

Yes. Um, this this is what we passed.

Yes.

And this is a whole lot more. I mean, it it start This is up here. This is all the underpinnings.

That's correct, Committee Member McDonald. It was included in the agenda packet to provide context for the recommendation, which is that draft work plan. So, the analysis provides feedback and context for the recommendations that were made in the

in a way we passed a blank check those time.

I would that the amounts in the analysis

the the amounts. So the analysis the projects included in the analysis are not all in the work plan. Only three three of those projects are in the work plan and the committee members on the ad hoc committee get to work on developing the scope of those projects. Thank you.

All right. Um, staff. Um, very very briefly with my apologies, I do want to highlight that for those of you who are interested in a comparison of City of Mountain View crime statistics with other jurisdictions on page 255 of the recently released proposed fiscal year 2627 budget document, which is both on the city website and attached to the budget item that will be going to council on Tuesday. And the agenda was just posted this afternoon. There's information about the city of Mountain View's crime counts for this past year in comparison with the county's crime statistics. Um, and you may want more context. Uh, but that is a starting place where we do have information that's relevant to that question. Um, that we wanted the detail, we wanted a snap a snapshot of it. when they do their presentation.

Thanks.

Well, if you are interested, it is there um as well. And

great, thank you. Um, we will now move on to item nine, adjournment, where we will adjourn the next regular meeting of the human relations committee scheduled for October 1st, 2026 to 6:30 p.m. Conference room. Thank you very much to everyone. marathon. So,