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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025.03.10 CCP STUDYCOUNCIL STUDY SESSION MEETING City Hall Council Chambers March 10, 2025 AGENDA 1. Call to Order - 6:00 p.m. 2. Council Miscellaneous Discussion Items a. Discussion of Resolution 2021-073 3. City Manager Miscellaneous Discussion Items 4. Adjournment Page 1 of 13 Council Regular Meeting DATE: 3/10/2025 TO: Council Study Session FROM: THROUGH: BY: Barb Suciu, City Clerk SUBJECT: Discussion of Resolution 2021-073 Requested Council Action: Background: Budget Issues: Inclusive Community Engagement: Antiracist/Equity Policy Effect: Strategic Priorities and Values: ATTACHMENTS: 1. Resolution 2021-73 Track Changes/Amendments 2024 2025 2. Resolution 2021-73 Amendments 2024 2025 CLEAN Page 2 of 13 1 BR291-4-1012691.v1 RESOLUTION NO. 202l-73 (Amended 2024-01) RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DAUNTE WRIGHT AND KOBE DIMOCK" HEISLER COMMUNITY SAFETY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center ("City',) can create a safer, healthier, more just, and more thriving community by promoting a diversity of responses to our community’ s safety needs that do not rely solely on our armed law enforcement officers; and WHEREAS, many approaches have proven to be safe and effective for responding to non-moving traffic offenses, low-level violations, to people with mental health needs or disabilities, and to other similar situations that do not involve armed law enforcement officers; and WHEREAS, creating alterative responses in these situations will allow our law enforcement officers to focus their time, training, and expertise on serious threats to the immediate safety of our residents; and WHEREAS, relying on our armed law enforcement officers as first responders in these situations has in some circumstances resulted in escalation, harm, and the tragic and potentially avoidable loss of life for our residents, including Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler; and WHEREAS, a diversity of approaches will improve overall public safety, better address the root causes of many systemic issues, promote racial justice, better protect vulnerable Page 3 of 13 2 members of our community, and more efficiently allocate public resources while recognizing there is still work to be done to address policing mindset and culture; and WHEREAS, the residents of Brooklyn Center have demanded change in our City and will help co-create new approaches to health and safety in our community, and this Act affirms our commitment to an intentional, inclusive and collaborative process that involves City leadership and the community working together to fully implement the intent this Act; and WHEREAS, the City Council will be drawing upon the best aspects of many different existing models and polices from all across the country in order to adapt them for our City with the help of residents, experts and data analysis, and the City is committing to all of these measures in a single, unified Act to deliver true transformational change for our community; and WHEREAS, the City Council is committed to putting in the work necessary to bring about changes as quickly as possible in how the City provides public safety while recognizing that some of these measures will take longer to implement than others, and that additional work remains to be done to create a healthier and more equitable community even beyond this Act. WHEREAS, four years have elapsed since the adoption of this resolution and the City has expanded the view of public safety to include health, wellbeing, prevention, and intervention; and WHEREAS, the City’s new strategic plan and mission statement is to: “Actively provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community, and calls for: (1)Dedicating resources to address the conditions leading to physical, Page 4 of 13 3 psychological, or system harm for our community, and (2)Improving community and employee safety WHEREAS, the City Council would like reaffirm its commitment and promote continued progress to achieve comprehensive public safety and community policing; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as follows: 1.Amend the Adopted Act Adopted. The Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence Prevention Act ("Act") is hereby adopted for the City. 2.Community Expanded Response , an Organizational Unit of the City. Department. The City may create an unarmed Community Expanded Response Organizational Unit (“Community Expanded Response”) Department to respond to all incidents where a City resident is primarily experiencing a medical, mental health, disability-related, or other behavioral or social need. , including by the creation of a The Community Expanded Response Department shall provide consisting of trained medical and mental health professionals, social workers or other staff and volunteers. , and by a Services provided by the Community Expanded Response shall be dispatched by the Hennepin County 911 call system. system routing appropriate calls to the Community Response Government Unit Department and not to the Police Department; and by any other appropriate changes in ordinance practices or policies, 3.Non-Moving Traffic Violation Enforcement , an Organizational Unit of the City. Page 5 of 13 4 Department. The City may create an unarmed civilian Non-Moving Traffic Violation Enforcement Department to enforce all non-moving traffic violations in the City., including by creating the civilian Traffic Enforcement Department and by any other appropriate changes in ordinance, practices or policies, including restricting or eliminating the types of traffic offenses enforced by the City's armed law enforcement patrol officers. 4.Community Prevention, Health, and Safety Organizational Unit of the City. Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention. The City may create a new Department Community Prevention, Health, and Safety Organizational Unit and Violence Prevention ("CPHS Department") that will be responsible for coordinating and collaborating with overseeing all city departments and citywide efforts regarding community prevention, health and public safety. ,CPHS will be responsible for ensuring a well-coordinated, public health- oriented approach throughout Brooklyn Center that relies upon evidence-based prevention and intervention approaches to public safety. existing and to-be-created City agencies will all report directly to the Department and be subject to the authority of its Director: the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Traffic Enforcement Department , and the Community Response Department. 5.Community Health, Safety and Violence Violation Prevention Commission Committee. The City may create a permanent Community Safety and Violence Prevention Commission Committee. The CPHS Director will assist in recruiting and recommending individuals to apply to serve on the Commission. The proposed candidates will apply in accordance with the existing Council Advisory Commission processes. Page 6 of 13 5 All voting members of the Commission Committee shall be residents with direct experience, contact, or expertise with the public safety, judicial, or public health systems. All non-voting advisors shall have direct experience, contact or expertise with public safety, judicial, or public health systems. or had direct City residents with direct experience being arrested, detained, or having other similar contact with Brooklyn Center Police, or have had direct contact with one or more of the other services to be provided by the CPHS Department. Like all other Council Advisor y Commissions, the City Manager will appoint a S taff L iaison, and the Mayor will appoint a City Council Liaison to the Commission. The Commission will be structured similar to all other City Council Advisory Commissions. The City Council may appoint City staff to serve as liaisons to the committee, but no City staff member will have a vote on the committee. 6. Use of Force, The City will continue to review and update its policies, practices and training to more appropriately regulate the use of force by its aimed law enforcement officers including, for example, by requiring de-escalation, exhaustion of reasonable alternatives before using deadly force, prohibitions on using deadly force in certain situations including firing upon moving vehicles, prohibiting certain uses of force or other policing tactics during First Amendment protests and assemblies, and additional revisions as needed. 7. Citation and Summons for Low Level Offenses. The City will continue to execute a citywide "citation and summons" policy requiring officers to issue citations only, and prohibit custodial arrests or consent searches of persons or vehicles, for any non-moving Page 7 of 13 6 traffic infraction, non-felony offense, or non-felony warrant, unless otherwise required by law. . 8. Implementation Committee. The City has created and sunset a Community Safety and Violence Prevention Implementation Committee ("Implementation Committee"), including residents from the City and other local, state and national expe1ts in public health-oriented approaches to community safety, to be chaired by the Mayor, and with members recommended by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council, that will propose amendments, ordinances, resolutions, policies, guidelines or other recommendations for the review, adoption and/or implementation by City Council or City staff, as appropriate, that would fully implement the will and intent of City Council as expressed in this Act. The City Council may appoint City staff to serve as liaisons to the Implementation Committee, but City staff shall not have a vote on the committee. The Implementation Committee shall provide its recommendations directly to the City Council. 9. Community Involvement. T h e C i t y ensured the community had the opportunity to review and comment upon the all implementation plans, including making periodic progress reports and policy recommendations to the City Council.; that the Community Health, Safety and Violence Prevention Commission is empowered to assist the City in exploring external sources of funding to implement the Act. that the Implementation Committee is empowered to explore external sources of funding to implement the Act. 10. Implementation and Staff Support. The City Attorney, City Manager, Chief of Police and other City personnel have been authorized and directed to provide all necessary assistance and to support to all Organizational Units and the Commission created pursuant to this Act.. Page 8 of 13 7 This Act authorizes, to the greatest extent possible, the implementation of the measures identified herein without further policy approvals from the City Council. To the extent additional approvals are needed, or legal barriers are identified, the City Manager or City Attorney are directed to bring those issues to the City Council's attention for further direction or action as needed. Mayor Date ATTEST:______________________________ City Clerk The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. Page 9 of 13 1 RESOLUTION NO. 202l-73 (Amended 2024-01) (Amended 2025-02) RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DAUNTE WRIGHT AND KOBE DIMOCK" HEISLER COMMUNITY SAFETY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center ("City',) can create a safer, healthier, more just, and more thriving community by promoting a diversity of responses to our community’s safety needs that do not rely solely on our armed law enforcement officers; and WHEREAS, many approaches have proven to be safe and effective for responding to non-moving traffic offenses, low-level violations, to people with mental health needs or disabilities, and to other similar situations that do not involve armed law enforcement officers; and WHEREAS, creating alterative responses in these situations will allow our law enforcement officers to focus their time, training, and expertise on serious threats to the immediate safety of our residents; and WHEREAS, relying on our aimed law enforcement officers as first responders in these situations has in some circumstances resulted in escalation, harm, and the tragic and potentially avoidable loss of life for our residents, including Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler; and WHEREAS, a diversity of approaches will improve overall public safety, better address the root causes of many systemic issues, promote racial justice, better protect vulnerable members of our community, and more efficiently allocate public resources while recognizing there is still work to be done to address policing mindset and culture; and WHEREAS, the residents of Brooklyn Center have demanded change in our City and will help co-create new approaches to health and safety in our community, and this Act affirms our commitment to an intentional, inclusive and collaborative process that involves City leadership and the community working together to fully implement the intent this Act; and WHEREAS, the City Council will be drawing upon the best aspects of many different existing models and policies from all across the country in order to adapt them for our City with the help of residents, experts and data analysis, and the City is committing to all of these measures in a single, unified Act to deliver true transformational change for our community; and WHEREAS, the City Council is committed to putting in the work necessary to bring about changes as quickly as possible in how the City provides public safety while recognizing that some of these measures will take longer to implement than others, and that additional work remains to be done to create a healthier and more equitable community even beyond this Act. WHEREAS, four years have elapsed since the adoption of this resolution and the City has expanded the view of public safety to include health, wellbeing, prevention, and intervention; and Page 10 of 13 2 WHEREAS, the City’s new strategic plan and mission statement is to: “Actively provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive community, and calls for: (1) Dedicating resources to address the conditions leading to physical, psychological, or system harm for our community, and (2) Improving community and employee safety WHEREAS, the City Council would like to reaffirm its commitment and promote continued progress to achieve comprehensive public safety and community policing; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as follows: 1. Amend the Adopted Act. The Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence Prevention Act ("Act") is hereby adopted for the City. 2. Community Expanded Response, an Organizational Unit of the City. The City may create an unarmed Community Expanded Response Organizational Unit (“Community Expanded Response”) to respond to all incidents where a City resident is primarily experiencing a medical, mental health, disability-related, or other behavioral or social need. The Community Expanded Response shall provide trained medical and mental health professionals, social workers or other staff and volunteers. Services provided by the Community Expanded Response shall be dispatched by the Hennepin County 911 call system. 3. Non-Moving Traffic Violation Enforcement, an Organizational Unit of the City. The City may create an unarmed Non-Moving Traffic Violation Enforcement to enforce all non- moving traffic violations in the City. 4. Community Prevention, Health, and Safety Organizational Unit of the City. The City may create a new Community Prevention, Health, and Safety Organizational Unit ("CPHS ") that will be responsible for coordinating and collaborating with all city departments and citywide efforts regarding community prevention, health and public safety. CPHS will be responsible for ensuring a well-coordinated, public health-oriented approach throughout Brooklyn Center that relies upon evidence-based prevention and intervention approaches to public safety. 5. Community Health, Safety and Violence Prevention Commission. The City may create a permanent Community Safety and Violence Prevention Commission. The CPHS Director will assist in recruiting and recommending individuals to apply to serve on the Commission. The proposed candidates will apply in accordance with the existing Council Advisory Commission processes. All voting members of the Commission shall be residents with direct experience, contact, or expertise with the public safety, judicial, or public health systems. Page 11 of 13 3 All non-voting advisors shall have direct experience, contact or expertise with public safety, judicial, or public health systems. 6. Use of Force, The City will continue to review and update its policies, practices and training to more appropriately regulate the use of force by its aimed law enforcement officers including, for example, by requiring de-escalation, exhaustion of reasonable alternatives before using deadly force, prohibitions on using deadly force in certain situations including firing upon moving vehicles, prohibiting certain uses of force or other policing tactics during First Amendment protests and assemblies, and additional revisions as needed. 7. Citation and Summons for Low Level Offenses. The City will continue to execute a citywide "citation and summons" policy requiring officers to issue citations only, and prohibit custodial arrests or consent searches of persons or vehicles, for any non-moving traffic infraction, non-felony offense, or non-felony warrant, unless otherwise required by law. 8. Implementation Committee. The City has created and sunset a Community Safety and Violence Prevention Implementation Committee ("Implementation Committee"), including residents from the City and other local, state and national experts in public health-oriented approaches to community safety, to be chaired by the Mayor, and with members recommended by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council, that proposed amendments, ordinances, resolutions, policies, guidelines or other recommendations for the review, adoption and/or implementation by City Council or City staff, as appropriate, that would fully implement the will and intent of City Council as expressed in this Act. The City Council may appoint City staff to serve as liaisons to the Implementation Committee, but City staff shall not have a vote on the committee. The Implementation Committee provided its recommendations directly to the City Council. 9. Community Involvement. The City ensured the community had the opportunity to review and comment upon all implementation plans, including making periodic progress reports and policy recommendations to the City Council. 10. Implementation and Staff Support. The City Attorney, City Manager, Chief of Police and other City personnel have been authorized and directed to provide all necessary assistance, and to support all Organizational Units and the Commission created pursuant to this Act. This Act authorizes, to the greatest extent possible, the implementation of the measures identified herein without further policy approvals from the City Council. To the extent Page 12 of 13 4 additional approvals are needed, or legal barriers are identified, the City Manager or City Attorney are directed to bring those issues to the City Council's attention for further direction or action as needed. Mayor Date ATTEST:______________________________ City Clerk The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. Page 13 of 13