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Description
Minneapolis Public Safety, Civil Rights & Emergency Management Committee Meeting
A
Good
afternoon
today
is
October
18
2016.
This
is
the
regularly
scheduled
meeting
of
the
public
safety,
civil
rights
and
emergency
management
committee.
My
name
is
blonde
yang
I'm,
the
chair
of
this
committee
and
with
me
today,
our
Council
President,
Johnson,
councilmember,
Gordon,
Palmisano
and
right
and
councilmember
Quincy
will
not
be
joining
us
a
day
as
he
had
some
business
to
attend
to.
We
are
a
quorum
of
this
committee,
and
so
we
conduct
we
can
conduct
the
committee's
business.
Today
we
have
eight
items
on
our
agenda.
A
The
first
item
is
a
travel
expense
donation.
Acceptance
from
the
police
executive,
Research.
Forum.
Second
item
is
a
travel
expense
donation,
acceptance
from
the
Jewish
Community
Relations
Council.
The
third
item
is
a
travel
expense
donation,
acceptance
from
the
national
initiative
for
building
trust
in
justice,
John
Jay
College
of
Criminal
Justice.
The
fourth
item
is
a
memorandum
of
understanding
with
the
Arts
Institute
international
Minnesota.
The
fifth
item
is
grant
acceptance
from
the
Minnesota
Department
of
Public
Safety,
Homeland
Security
and
emergency
management
division
for
the
urban
area.
Security
Initiative.
A
Grand
six
item
is
a
contract
with
foresight
consulting
to
provide
comprehensive
emergency
operations
center
exercise
services.
Then
last
two
items
are
discussion
items
one
of
the
items
is
a
memorandum
of
understanding
with
the
Bureau
of
Alcohol,
Tobacco,
Firearms
and
Explosives
and
second
item
is
a
public
accommodations
anti-discrimination
resolution
and
with
that
our
council
members,
any
questions
on
items
1
through
6
the
consent
items.
B
A
Any
other
questions
right,
seeing
none
I
will
move
all
6
items
from
the
consent
agenda
for
approval
need
discussion,
all
those
in
favor,
please
say:
aye
aye,
any
opposed.
Practicin
carries
item
number
seven,
which
is
a
discussion
item,
is
a
memorandum
of
understanding
with
the
bureau
of
alcohol,
tobacco
firearms
explosives
and
with
us
a
day
is
a
deputy
chief
Bruce
Falcons.
Thank
you,
sir,
for
being
here.
Thank
you.
C
E
C
They
look
at
the
individual
shell
casings
under
a
microscope.
They
actually
retrieve
the
evidence
and
put
it
under
microscope
to
verify
if
or
not,
if
they're
a
match
to
each
other.
What
this
Memorandum
of
Understanding
does
is.
It
allows
us
to
use
the
National
correlation
Center
that
the
ATF
has
established
down
its
tone.
So
southern
United
States
I
forgot
this
idiots
in
I'm,
sorry,
but
what
it
does
is
they
have
their
own
version
of
our
Tim
sit
low
down
there
that
are
doing
the
computer
comparisons.
C
What
they
can
do
for
us
in
this
process
is
if
they,
if
there's
a
computer,
match
to
the
shell
casings,
they
can
send
that
information
back
to
us
as
a
lead
and
not
probable
cause,
because,
due
to
our
crime,
labs
accreditation
policies
and
procedures,
they
have
to
be
verified
by
a
firearms
examiner
which
takes
time
and
before
it
can
be
disseminated
to
the
investigator.
This
allows
us
to
get
that
lead,
not
probable
cause,
but
a
lead
back
to
the
investigators
within
24
to
48
hours
of
submission
to
the
correlation
Center.
So.
D
B
Thank
You
mr.
chair
and
thanks
chief,
that
that's
helpful
I
know
we're
meeting
next.
We
just
talked
about
this
very
thing,
but
I
do
remember
when
I
toured
the
crime
lab
and
it
was
probably
as
it
was
forensics
week
or
something,
but
it
was
probably
a
year
ago.
It
was
because
was
before
the
mayor's
last
budget
and
she
was
putting
another
forensic
scientist
in
the
in
in
her
budget.
So
what
was
said
to
me
at
that
time
was
that
we
were
behind
in
processing
that
shell
casings,
that
we
had
a
backlog.
C
Ma'am
we
are
I,
checked
last
Wednesday
after
receiving
an
email
from
your
co-president
and
we're
we
were
current
as
of
the
day
before.
Okay
during
our
shell
casings,
the
only
time
that
we
would
fall
anywhere
behind
so
to
see
say
is
if,
like
Tim
said
lo,
he
had
surgery
recently
God
for
weak,
but
then
we
had
made
arrangements
to
have
somebody
else
actually
doing
those
entries.
So
we
are
keeping
up
to
date
on
those
entries.
A
A
A
Eight
is
a
public
accommodations
anti-discrimination
resolution
and
to
start
us
out,
I'm
no
welcome
councilmember
war
zombie,
who
used
to
be
a
member
of
this
committee
and
somehow
you
loved
us,
and
so
he's
back
at
least
for
today
and
he's
going
to
give
us
the
introduction
of
this
resolution
and
then
from
there
we
will
have
staff
present,
and
so
these
against
member
boards
all
means
go
ahead.
Thank.
A
E
Good
to
be
back
camellias
a
guest
today
and
first
of
all,
let
me
start
with
the
fact.
The
reason
why
we
took
this
up
is
because
of
the
national
discourse
that
we
have
been
currently
where
you
have.
You
know
blatant
discrimination
against
members
of
the
LGBT
community,
members
of
the
Muslim
community
and
immigrants
and
where
you
have
cities
and
other
jurisdictions
that
have
had
discrimination.
Who'd
regards
the
public
accommodation
and,
as
you
know,
mr.
E
chair,
it
was
nineteen
sixty
four,
that
congress
enacted
the
civil
rights,
the
civil
rights
act,
banning
discrimination
in
public
accommodations,
and
you
know,
federal
law
has
since
expanded
this
protected
classes
to
include
religion.
A
disability.
However,
cities
such
as
minneapolis
also
provides
protections
for
creed,
ancestry,
sex,
sexual
orientation,
gender
identity,
marital
status
or
status
were
divided
into
public
assistance.
So
the
reason
why
we
brought
this
up
is
to
highlight
we
have
these
laws
and
we
find
it.
E
First,
not
just
you
know
not
not
to
punish
not
to
you
know,
point
fingers
at
those
businesses
that
are
that
we
feel,
and
with
some
title
we
have
evidence
that
are
discriminating,
what
to
educate
and
to
persuade
them
to
follow
the
provisions
of
the
Civil,
Rights
Ordinance
of
our
city
and
then
to
gather
evidence.
You
know
and
and
then
to
take
the
steps
that
we
need
to
take
in
order
to
get
corrective
measures.
C
E
D
Good
afternoon
afternoon,
at
area
in
committee
members,
my
name
is
danielle
shelton
volchok
and
I'm
the
director
of
the
complaint
investigations,
division
for
the
Minneapolis
department
of
civil
rights
and
I'm
just
going
to
add
a
little
bit
more
context
to
what
councilman
oversaw
me
just
spoke
about
today,
we're
in
front
of
you
to
urge
your
passage
in
support
of
the
public
accommodations
anti-discrimination
resolution
that
you
see
before
you
today.
The
city
of
Minneapolis
has
long
history
of
furthering
anti
discrimination
in
public
accommodations.
In
fact,
the
city
of
Minneapolis
has
greater
protected
classes
in
public
accommodation.
D
Gone
are
the
days
when
a
business
person
might
say
I'm
not
serving
you,
because
you're
black
we're
gone
are
the
days
when
a
business
person
might
say
to
a
woman
I'm
going
to
defer
to
your
husband
and
wait
for
wait
for
me
to
talk
to
him
now
we're
in
the
21st
century
and
while
industries,
while
the
industries
of
public
accommodation
discrimination,
may
not
have
changed
the
ways
in
which
discrimination
presents
itself
has
in
the
city's
most
recent
Resident
survey,
which
was
in
2012-13
percent
of
respondents,
indicated
that
they
had
been
discriminated
against
while
getting
serviced
in
a
restaurant
or
a
store.
D
Now
it's
less
conspicuous
at
times
and
it
can
exhibit
itself
in
multiple
ways,
including
slow
or
non-existent
service
following
an
individual
in
a
store
relegation
to
less
desirable
tables
at
restaurants,
differing
applications
and
dress
codes,
failure
to
pick
up
people
of
color
or
drop
off
people
in
the
transportation
context
in
certain
neighborhoods
or
allowing
intolerance
or
harassment
in
a
public
accommodations
fear
based
on
ethnic,
religious
or
gender
identity.
D
This
resolution
provides
an
opportunity
to
discuss
these
issues
in
front
of
this
committee
and
to
start
a
greater
conversation,
but
because
we
don't
have
any
single
charging
parties
or
complaints
in
these
various
discrimination
mechanisms.
The
resolution
allows
us
to
first,
as
the
department
go
out
and
educate
businesses
as
councilman
or
Sami,
indicated
earlier,
and
educate
them
about
their
rights
and
obligations
as
to
consumers.
It
also
allows
us
to
educate
consumers
about
prohibiting
behavior
and
the
recourse
third.
D
It
allows
us
to
give
notice
to
everyone
that
the
department
in
the
city
will
have
an
emphasis
on
public
accommodation,
research
and
investigation,
and
then,
finally,
it
will
allow
us
to
be
conciliatory
in
advance
of
any
stricter
enforcement,
because
public
accommodations
are
establishments
that
provide
goods
and
services
to
the
general
public,
which
include,
but
aren't
limited
to
restaurants,
theaters,
hotels,
hospitals,
gas
stations,
private
transportation
and
retail
stores.
Equal
access
for
all
people
is
paramount
to
meet
basic
necessities,
as
well
as
increasing
residents
overall.
Satisfaction
with
living
in
our
community.
D
F
So
I
did
want
to
hear
a
little
bit
more
about
the
targeted
testing.
That's
going
to
be
done,
I
think
in
the
resolution.
One
of
the
resolved
clause
has
people
are
going
to
go
out
and
and
I
just
want
to
understand.
Are
we
hiring
people
are
volunteers
going
to
do
this?
The
staff
people
doing
this?
Is
this
going
to
be
focused
on
particular
businesses?
I'm
assuming
this
isn't
it
doesn't
involve
employment
or
housing?
Correct.
F
D
We
don't
have
anything
specific
at
this
point
regarding
who
will
be
the
testing
we
have
reached
out.
Who
will
do
the
testing
we
have
reached
out
to
business
licensing?
They
have
done
this
type
of
thing
before
so
we
reached
out
to
them
to
say,
okay,
what
type
of
procedures
did
you
put
in
place?
What
worked?
What
didn't?
Whom
did
you
use?
Why
did
you
use
those
particular
people?
What
were
the
costs
associated
with
it?
What
was
the
time
associated
with
it?
What
were
the
results?
Did
you
from
their
perspective?
D
Did
they
feel
as
if
they
that
the
results
were
were
valid?
Were
there
any
issues
that
may
have
brought
into
question
the
testing
that
they
did
so
we're
right
now
we're
exploring
that,
because
when
we
do
go
into
testing,
we
want
to
make
sure
that
it's
done
correctly,
that
we're
using
the
right
people,
whether
it's
staff
or
hiring
someone
and
then
assessing
the
cost
associated
with
that.
So
at
this
point
we
don't
have
that
information
on
who
specifically
we're
going
to
be
using.
D
The
other
thing
is,
is
that
we
are
working
with
our
Civil
Rights
Commission
and
they
are
doing
further
investigation
and
research.
A
group
of
them
to
look
into
testing
in
other
jurisdictions
based
on
the
industries
would
be
looking
at
probably
more
broad,
restaurants,
retail,
possibly
possibly
public
transport.
A
ver
excuse
me,
private
transportation
and
they'll
gather
their
data
and
then
we'll
sit
down
and
determine
what's
the
best
recourse
and
are
we
in
line
with
maybe
breasts
practices
around
other
regions
in
doing
our
testing
I.
D
Don't
think
that
you
can
go
into
testing
very
lightly
because
you
wanted
to
be
substantial.
We
want
to
make
sure
that
it's
also
cost-effective,
and
so,
when
we're
doing
it,
not
only
are
we
looking
at
just
the
bottom
line,
but
making
sure
that
it
can
stand
on
its
own
as
something
that
that
the
communicate
community
can
look
at
and
verify
that.
Yes,
in
fact,
this
was
a
this
was
a
good
testing
procedure
and
that
we
can
rely
on
it
rely
on
it
as
a
department
and
as
a
city.
So
that
was
that's
my
answer.
That.
F
So,
and
so
this
reminds
me
quite
a
bit
of
compliance
checks
for
underage
selling
of
cigarettes
or
even
drinking
I
mean
that
I
know
so.
I
know
that
business,
licensing
and
other
partners
like
the
police.
I
do
these
kinds
of
phone
tests,
but
in
those
cases
then
they
actually
lead
to
citations
and
prosecutions,
and
is
that
that
is?
Is
that
the
kind
of
testing
that
will
be
done
here
or
are
we?
Do
we
think
it's
going
to
go
there?
We're
not
sure
yet?
But
I.
D
Do
want
to
indicate
that,
first,
before
we
do
this
enforcement
in
this
testing,
we
do
want
to
reach
out
to
businesses
first
and
educate
that
we're
not
about
catching
people
in
the
act.
We're
making
sure
that
everybody
understands
how
this
manifests
and
how
this
looks
and
in
our
21st
century
discrimination
and
what
rights
and
responsibilities
are
when
we
get
to
the
testing
portion
of
it,
we
will
be
looking
at
enforcing
the
ordinance.
That's
what
we're
here
to
do.
D
We
are
an
enforcement
department,
but
before
doing
that,
we
do
want
to
educate
people
how
that
enforcement
looks
at
this
point.
We
haven't
worked
out
yet,
but
ultimately
people
will
be
held
responsible
or
discriminatory
behavior.
That's
what
we
do
within
the
Civil
Rights
Department.
D
That's
why
our
ordinance
and
anti-discrimination
ordinances
and
is
in
place,
but
we
want
to
give
them
an
opportunity
ahead
of
time
to
be
educated
about
it
and
to
be
able
to
look
and
assess
within
their
within
their
organization
or
within
their
their
business,
that
what
are
these
problems
are
happening
and
give
them
an
opportunity
to
address
them
before
we
get
to
those
points.
I
appreciate.
F
That
I
like
that
approach
as
well,
I
think-
and
I
understand
that
this
is
about
education.
This
is
about
setting
the
intention.
This
is
just
about
letting
people
know
who's
protected
and
who
isn't
and
what
we
consider
discrimination.
I
just
was
drilling
into
that
testing
idea,
because
it's
intriguing
to
me
for
other
reasons
and
I
agree
that
if
somebody
comes
in
and
there's
a
problem,
it's
great
to
give
them
a
chance
to
demonstrate
how
they
can
fix
the
problem.
That's
really
what
we
want.
We
want
people
complying
and
not
discriminating.
F
We
don't
necessarily
want
to
add
more
burdens
on
to
people
unnecessarily.
So
I
appreciate
that
I
think
I'm,
going
to
kind
of
think
of
this
as
a
pilot,
I
think
you're
developing
a
kind
of
a
new
approach
in
terms
of
the
testing
idea
and
the
testers
and
I'll
be
curious
to
hear
about
how
it
goes
in
and
what
happens,
and
maybe
even
how
it's
going
as
it's
being
developed,
because
it
might
have
potential
than
in
other
areas
where
we
see
there's
problems,
for
example,
in
housing
and
employment
and
I.
F
It
in
in
the
community
I
there
might
be
ways
to
do
it.
It
is
even
low
cost.
So
this
also
reminds
me
of
the
police
conduct
oversight
Commission,
where
they
just
did
a
little
bit
of
an
audit
of
filing
a
police
complaint
and
I
think
they
had
volunteers
do
that
I
might
have
been
some
city
staff
in
the
department,
I'm
not
sure,
but
that
just
it
was
only
13
or
16.
F
It
was
a
bit
small
sampling,
but
it
revealed
some
information
even
something
as
as
as
cheap
as
calling
for
a
cab
from
different
parts
of
the
city
and
seeing
what
kind
of
responses
and
reactions
come.
Give
us
some
good
information
about
services
and
if
there
seems
to
be
discriminated
so,
I
think
it's
a
interesting.