Public Safety

JOURNAL – PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE Wednesday, January 19, 2022 ROOM 1010, CITY HALL - 3:30 PM 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 COUNCILMEMBER MONICA RODRIGUEZ, MEMBERS: CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER JOHN S. LEE COUNCILMEMBER JOE BUSCAINO COUNCILMEMBER MARQUEECE HARRIS- DAWSON COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KORETZ (Luigi Verano - Legislative Assistant - (213) 978-1082 or Juan.L.Verano@lacity.org) Pursuant to Assembly Bill 361, and due to concerns over COVID-19, this Los Angeles City Council committee meeting will take all public comment by teleconference. The audio for this meeting is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.org/calendar. The live audio can also be heard at: (213) 621-CITY (Metro), (818) 904-9450 (Valley), (310) 471-CITY (Westside) and (310) 547-CITY (San Pedro Area). Members of the public who would like to offer public comment on the items listed on the agenda should call 1 669 254 5252 and use Meeting ID No. 161 586 7607 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID. Once admitted into the meeting, press *9 to request to speak. Requests for reasonable modification or accommodation from individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act can be made by contacting the City Clerk's Office at (213) 978-1133. For Telecommunication Relay Services for the hearing impaired, please see the information located at the end of this agenda. Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com Click here for agenda packets Note: For information regarding the Committee and its operations, please contact the Committee Legislative Assistant at the phone number and/or email address listed above. The Legislative Assistant may answer questions and provide materials and notice of matters scheduled before the City Council. 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MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 21-1489 Board of Fire Commissioners report relative to a donation of a 2021 Toyota Sienna van from the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Board of Fire Commissioners report dated December 21, 2021 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (2) 21-1475 Board of Fire Commissioners report relative to a donation of office furniture from the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation through its Adopt-A- Fire-Station program. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Board of Fire Commissioners report dated December 7, 2021 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (3) 21-1474 Board of Fire Commissioners report relative to a donation of a refrigerator and freezer from the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation through its Adopt-A-Fire-Station program.  Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Board of Fire Commissioners report dated December 7, 2021 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (4) 21-1471 Motion (Buscaino - Rodriguez) relative to increasing the recruitment and hiring of City residents and establishing an incentive program for current personnel who successfully recruit City residents to join the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Fire Department. (Also referred to the Public Safety Committee) Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion AS AMENDED (Buscaino - Rodriguez) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris- Dawson; Koretz; Amended as detailed in Committee Report (5) 21-1209 Motion (Buscaino - Cedillo) relative to the establishment of a volunteer emergency medical corps for the City, to provide medical services to persons experiencing homelessness. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Buscaino - Cedillo) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (6) 21-0869 Motion (Buscaino - Rodriguez) relative to creating a community-building campaign and toolkit that will make it easier for residents to form new Neighborhood Watch programs; making improvements to LAPDOnline.org, and related matters. Community Impact Statement: Yes For:  Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Studio City Neighborhood Council Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Westside Neighborhood Council APPROVED Motion AS AMENDED (Buscaino - Rodriguez) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris- Dawson; Koretz; Amended as detailed in Committee Report (7) 22-0051 Motion (Rodriguez - Krekorian) relative to an overview of Officer Involved Shooting incidents in 2021. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez - Krekorian) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (8) 22-0028 Motion (Krekorian - De Leon - Rodriguez - Price) relative to releasing the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) unreleased body camera footage, 911 calls, radio transmissions, and other recordings related to the December 23, 2021 incident; the status of the internal investigation of the December 23 incident; LAPD policies and practices for pursuing potentially violent suspects in an enclosed space and for protecting and reducing risk to bystanders from an officers’ use of their weapons; and related matters. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Krekorian - De Leon - Rodriguez - Price) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris- Dawson; Koretz (9) 21-1498 Board of Police Commissioners report relative to Request for Proposals for the Medium and Heavy-Duty Towing and Storage Services Official Police Garage contract.  Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Board of Police Commissioners report dated December 14, 2021 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz (10) 21-0051 Motion (Rodriguez - Harris-Dawson) relative to conducting investigations into any employees’ involvement in the recent insurrection at the Capitol; and existing social media policies for employees as it relates to hate speech guidelines and First Amendment rights. (This item was also referred to the Personnel, Audits, and Animal Welfare Committee) Community Impact Statement: Yes For: East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Los Feliz Neighborhood Council Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez - Harris-Dawson) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris-Dawson; Koretz If you challenge this Committee's action(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at or prior to, the public hearing. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. Materials relative to items on this agenda can be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System, at lacouncilfile.com by entering the Council File number listed immediately following the item number (e.g., 00-0000). Telecommunication Relay Services Telephone communication is one of the most important forms of communication in society today. Due to advancements in technology, telephone devices have evolved with new services and capabilities. Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability are following these trends and are rapidly migrating to more advanced telecommunications methods, both for peer- to-peer and third-party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available?There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the CA is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello. This is the relay service .. . " when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard-of-hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit theFCC's Disability Rights Office website.