Everett City Council

CITY OF EVERETT SAFE COMMUNITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE Date: May 22, 2024 Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Location: Everett City Council Chambers The public is welcome to attend in person or remotely. There will be no public comment during committee meeting. To watch remotely: You may call in or listen to the meeting by dialing: 425-616-3920, Conference ID: 724 887 726# View on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/everettcity/live Agenda Items I. CERT Program overview and Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan Update and Briefing II. Flock Safety Camera Technology for Community Safety Briefing III. Next Meeting Proposed Agenda Items Pending Items for Future Agendas: • CERT program overview and draft Hazard Mitigation Plan Update (May 22, tentative) • Neighborhood Community Awareness Team (Block Watch) Update: June 26 • Parking and Public Safety Issues Discussion, followed by Briefing • Downtown street safety (June 26, tentative) • Buffer Zone implementation recap (June 26, tentative) • Reduce Speed Limits on Arterials • Noise Ordinance Amendments Update • Traffic Enforcement • Jaywalking Enforcement Emphasis • Nuisance Properties and Code Enforcement • Traffic Calming and Arterial Speed Limits • SODA Ordinance and Other Tools for Safe City Parks (2024 Q1) • Retail Theft Prevention • Park Safety Issues as Referred from Parks and Quality of Life Committee • State Legislative impacts The City of Everett does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the admission or access to, or treatment in, its programs or activities. 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For additional information, please visit our website at https://www.everettwa.gov/3129/American-Disabilities-Act-ADA-and-Title-. Safe Community Committee Office of Emergency Management May 22, 2024 2024 HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN UPDATE Plan Scope • Long-term strategy for reducing risk and impacts from natural disasters • Focuses on resilience by identifying hazards • Develops strategies to mitigate potential impacts • Identifies actions to reduce losses from hazards Plan Background • Requirement for certain grant and federal disaster assistance funding • Prior plan developed in 2018 • Service Provider contracted June 2023 • Update began June 2023, kick-off September 2023 Planning Team and Outreach • Planning team and stakeholders – 58+ people from multiple organizations • Municipal, state, tribal, county, federal, industry, education, healthcare • Plan outreach and information gathering included community meetings, surveys, website, newsletter, press releases, social media 2024 Plan Goals • Protect public health, welfare, and public safety • Ensure continuity of critical infrastructure, government, and economy • Foster coordination among public and private organizations • Minimize losses • Increase post-event self-reliance Risk and Vulnerability Assessment • Develop hazard profiles – impact to people, property, economy, environment • Risk assessment – critical facilities identification and analysis, determine loss, population at risk • Risk ranking – probability, severity, extent and location, duration, warning time 2024 Hazards Ranked 1. Earthquake 2. Flood (tie) 2. Severe Weather (tie) 3. Landslide 4. Climate Change 5. Wildfire 6. Tsunami – Hazardous Materials (incorporated within each hazard profile) Example Mitigation Strategies • Assess backup generator needs at water pump sites • Implement water resiliency study recommendations • Build a fiber communication and data loop connecting EOC • Train volunteers in disaster preparedness • Build backup generator capacity Current Status • March: draft completed and available for public review • April 9: submitted to state for review • May 21: state review complete and submitted to FEMA – FEMA review timeline: approximately 45 days • Upon FEMA approval, plan submitted to City Council for review and adoption COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM CERT CERT Program Overview • Designed to teach people how to better prepare themselves and community from hazards • Trained volunteer teams support community disaster efforts through – Assisting public safety agencies in basic response activities – Participation in preparedness events and activities Everett CERT History • City has offered CERT courses since 1999 with several hundred trained during this time • CERT members attend an 8-week training program • Approximately 40 current CERT members CERT Basic Training • Team organization • Disaster medical operations • Light search and rescue • Fire safety – minor fire suppression • Disaster psychology 2024 CERT Activities • January – two membership meetings • March – April – Basic CERT course held – 13 people graduated • May – two trainings • Monthly team meetings • Additional CERT training opportunities May 19 CERT Training Exercise QUESTIONS THANK YOU Shape a safer future, together Flock Safety System Briefing | May 22, 2024  The policing paradox: fewer resources, higher stakes 7/123 49/20.2% 39% 17.6% 1263 total≈3.5 a day Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts Number of shots fired heard 2023 Motor Vehicle Thefts Wanted DV suspects in 2023 in Washington in 2023 calls in 2023 cleared “GOA” compared to 5-year average that fled in a vehicle What we observe What we believe The current reality The opportunity ● Reduced police resources • Technology multiplies the force • Protect the community and first ● Crime continues to hurt responders using technology communities, making them feel unsafe in public spaces such as • Collect and distribute objective our city parks evidence to the right user ● Trust in police response is • Engage community to support and grow needed more than ever  The Flock Safety Platform Detect • Falcon® • Raven® • Condor • Wing® Capture evidence with Flock Safety devices and third-party infrastructure • Real-Time Routing •Vehicle Fingerprint® Search • Convoy Analysis Decode • Visual Search • Gunshot Localization • Fireworks • Multi-Geo Search Make sense of mountains of evidence instantly with AI • Search • Mobile App • Actionable Insights • Situational Deliver • Map • Real-time Alerts • License Plate Lookup Awareness Get the right evidence into the right hands at the right time with FlockOS® Capture more evidence. Solve more crime.  With Flock Safety, you get: Flock Safety provides the police department with indiscriminate evidence from fixed locations. Flock provide all of the maintenance so that police department and city staff can focus on keeping our city safe and prosperous. INFRASTRUCTURE-FREE 24/7 COVERAGE REAL-TIME ALERTS ETHICALLY BUILT Reduce time to value Capture objective vehicle data • NCIC • No people and utility costs with full-service around the clock to multiply • NCMEC (Amber Alert) • No facial recognition deployment. your force. • Custom Hot Lists • No speed tracking • Indiscriminate evidence Proactive policing with real-time alerts Your police officers can receive SMS, email, and in-app alerts when vehicles entered into the FBI’s NCIC, NCMEC (Amber Alerts), or custom Hot Lists pass by a Flock Safety camera in your community. What Vehicle Fingerprint® technology identifies Flock’s machine learning technology allows officers to search vehicles based on unique vehicle criteria, time, and location — objective, investigative evidence. INCLUDING ● Vehicle make ● License plates ● Body type ○ Temporary tags ● Color ○ State recognition ● Back racks ● Top racks What this is: What this is not: ● License Plate Recognition (LPR) ● Not facial recognition ● Gathers objective evidence and facts ● Not collection of biometric or sensitive about vehicles, not people information ● Alerts police of wanted vehicles ● Not used for tracking speed or parking violations ● Used to solve crime ● Not used for immigration enforcement or monitoring of 1st Amendment expressive ● Adheres to all state laws activity ● Data automatically deletes every 30 days* How does this technology deter and eliminate crime? Proactive: Real-Time Alerts when stolen or wanted vehicles enter your city Investigative: As clearance rates increase, overall crime often decreases Flock cameras serve as a deterrent Instant eyes on the scene for better response and officer safety Improve situational awareness allowing officers to see what is occurring in the parks before arriving NO IT REQUIRED BE AWARE SOFTWARE INCLUDED REMOTE CONTROL 100% cloud-based, Officers can view live feed or Hardware, cellular, and Remote PTZ controls so no IT or servers needed. investigate previous criminal VMS software included for situational awareness incidents via FlockOS®. from a safe distance. Flock Safety Condor Flock Safety Condor Condor PTZ cameras include: Condor Fixed Turnkey live and recorded video  Cellular Backhaul Turnkey live and recorded video with remote PTZ controls. Only for with remote zoom controls. Ideal  25X Optical Zoom use in open public areas, like for buildings, city streets, and parks.  High-Quality Night Imagery areas that require constant recording.  Edge Storage  Procurement  Permitting  Installation  Maintenance  Data Storage + Retention What this is: What this is not: ● Situational awareness through • Not facial recognition objective video evidence • Not collection of biometric or ● Encrypted data stored on device sensitive information and in the cloud • Data automatically deletes every ● Accessible via auditable search 30 days ● Used to solve crime and • Not designed as continuous maintain officer/community monitoring tool member safety A Trusted Partner Protecting privacy Accountability mechanisms • Footage owned by Agency/City and • Search reason and employee ID saved in will never be sold to private third indefinitely-available audit trail parties by Flock • NOT facial recognition software, NOT • 30-day data retention, then collecting biometric information automatically hard deleted • NOT used for Immigration Enforcement or monitoring of free speech or other • Takes human bias out of crime- 1st Amendment activities solving by detecting only objective data • Not connected to registration data or 3rd party databases (Carfax, DMV) • All data is stored securely with end • Public-facing Transparency Portal to end encryption of all data Transparency & Insights Measure ROI and promote the ethical use of public safety technology Transparency Portal ● Customizable for each agency ● Display technology policies ● Publish usage metrics Insights Dashboard ● Measure crime patterns and ROI ● Audit Search history Examples ● Morgan Hill PD ● Vallejo PD Solve crime, we’ll handle the rest Our dedicated team provides rapid, full-service deployment. Your police officers focus on solving crime and protecting the community. Within the Flock Safety annual subscription: • Solar power • User Training • Installation + Ongoing Maintenance • Data storage • Hardware Procurement + Permitting • Software Updates Already solving and preventing crime Flock Safety In Washington Spokane County SO Benton County SO Plus, many more Lakewood PD West Richland PD commercial and Sunnyside PD Selah PD private customers Tukwila PD Pasco PD Yakima PD Clyde Hill PD Toppenish PD Wapato PD Kent PD Othello PD Centralia PD Marysville PD Pacific PD Moxee PD Liberty Lake PD Mabton PD Grandview PD Black Diamond PD Moses Lake PD Educational Service District 105 Arlington PD Town Of Yarrow Point Airway Heights PD Warden PD Des Moines PD Omak PD Union Gap PD Tieton PD Zillah PD Town of Harrah Medina PD Yakima Housing Authority Eatonville PD Hoquiam PD Richland PD Kennewick PD Homicide Suspects Located, Arrested Tukwila, WA • July 25th, 2023 • Officers received an alert that a stolen vehicle associated with a recent homicide had been detected nearby. Tukwila PD • Officers quickly located the vehicle and initiated a pursuit as it fled towards Seattle. • The vehicle eventually crashed and two suspects were detained by Tukwila PD. • No injuries were reported. Case Study - LPRs and Public Parks Liberty Lake, WA • Liberty Lake officers and Spokane County deputies responded to reports of an assault that occurred on a local hiking trail in a park. • The female victim told authorities that an unidentified male suspect attacked her before fleeing in his vehicle. Spokane County Sheriff’s Department • Authorities checked a nearby Flock Safety LPR and identified a suspect vehicle, whose registered owner matched the suspect’s description provided by the victim. • Deputies located the vehicle the following day and arrested the suspect on foot nearby. He is charged with 2nd Degree Assault. Program funding Questions?