[Call to Order]
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          GOOD AFTERNOON. IT IS 1:06 AND WE, I AM CALLING THE MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
TO ORDER. 
          OUR FIRST ITEM IS TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 10TH. 
          [MINUTES]
MOTION FOR APPROVAL. SECOND. ALL RIGHT, I HEAR A MOTION AND A SECOND. 
          ANY DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. 
          AYE. ANY NAY? ALL RIGHT, THE MOTION PASSES. ALL RIGHT,
WE'RE GOING TO GO ON AND STAY WITH THE ORDER OF THE AGENDA AT LEAST 
          [BRIEFING ITEMS]
ON ITEMS A AND B. SO, LET'S GO ON AND HAVE THOSE WHO ARE PRESENTING ITEM A ON RECRUITMENT RETENTION, HIRING. AND I DO WANT TO BE MINDFUL THAT THIS WEEK WE'VE GOT THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION IN TOWN. AND I KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE KIND OF SPREAD A LITTLE THIN RIGHT NOW
BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF FOCUS AROUND THE AAC, AND SO I WANT US TO BE MINDFUL IN OUR QUESTIONS THAT OUR TEAM HAS SOME OTHER THINGS THAT
THEY NEED TO BE DOING IN ADDITION TO REPORTING TO US TODAY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. I'M JORDAN COLUNGA,
DEPUTY CHIEF PERSONNEL GROUP. I GOT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR APRIL IDLEBURG, DIRECTLY TO MARIAHS, MAJOR ARENAS, AND OF COURSE,
CHIEF COMEAUX AT THE END. IF WE COULD GO TO SLIDE THREE, PLEASE TO START OFF. ALL RIGHT, SO TO DATE, WE HAVE HIRED 329 SWORN,
AND WE HAVE 415 TO FINISH OFF THE FISCAL YEAR. THAT'LL BE SEPTEMBER 23RD IS WHEN CLASS 415 WILL START. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. WITH CLASS 415, 415 WILL BEGIN IN TWO WEEKS ON THE 23RD. 
          WE CURRENTLY HAVE 30 RECRUITS ASSIGNED TO THAT CLASS. 
          THAT PUTS US OVER OUR 350-HIRING TOTAL FOR THE YEAR. 
          SO WE'VE HIT OUR GOAL OF 350. WE'LL KEEP PUSHING FORWARD. WE HAVE A PROJECTION OF 370 OR
PLUS FOR THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR FOR OUR HIRING. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW, OF THOSE 329 WE'VE HIRED,
300 ARE CURRENTLY IN THE DALLAS POLICE ACADEMY. 
          WITH CLASS 409, WE'LL BE GRADUATING THURSDAY. 
          GIVE THEM SOME RELIEF. SO, WE HAVE 47 OFFICERS GRADUATING THE ACADEMY THURSDAY. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. I'M LIKE A BROKEN RECORD,
BUT THIS IS WHEN I ALWAYS THANK MY TEAM AFTER PROCESSING OUR RECRUITING TEAM, BACKGROUNDERS A REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WORKING HARD TO GET THESE FOLKS THE BEST FOLKS
THROUGH THE 1321. 
          WE HAVE 1321 PEOPLE THAT APPLIED TO US POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          THAT'S OVER 200 FROM LAST YEAR, WHICH WE HAD A HIGH TOTAL LAST YEAR,
AND WE GOT 30 ASSIGNED TO THIS UPCOMING CLASS, NOT 25. NOW NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO, THIS IS OUR RECRUITING EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST. 
          WE HAVE, STARTING SEPTEMBER, WE'VE REALLY, REALLY HEAVILY PUT IN GEAR TOWARDS OUR NEXT
RECRUITING INITIATIVES, WHICH IS GOING TO BE OUR JUNIOR COLLEGE INITIATIVES,
OUR LATERAL HIRING INITIATIVE. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR MILITARY. WE'VE RAMPED UP,
WE'RE HITTING THE GATES RUNNING, GOING TO EVERYTHING, PUSHING OUT OUR SOCIAL CONTENT TO TRY TO BRING ALL THOSE FOLKS IN. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW, THIS IS A MONTH-BY-MONTH ATTRITION TO DATE. 
          IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. NOW OUR HIGHEST ATTRITION MONTHS WERE AUGUST,
JUNE AND DECEMBER. 
          FOR A TOTAL OF 189 THAT HAVE LEFT THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT EACH YEAR. 
          OUR HIGHEST MONTH, OF COURSE, AUGUST HAD 25,
DECEMBER WE HAD 27, AND THEN JUNE 23RD. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS IS A TOTAL FOR THE YEAR AND THE REASONS FOR. 
          NOW RETIREMENTS LED THE CHARGE, WE HAD 68 RETIRED FROM DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT THIS YEAR
AND IN PERSONAL REASONS WAS NEXT. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NET OF LAST YEAR, WHICH I CONSIDER LAST YEAR REALLY SUCCESSFUL,
WE NETTED 159 SWORN TO END THE YEAR LAST YEAR AND WE ENDED THE YEAR AT 3,280. 
          THIS FISCAL YEAR SO FAR, WITH ONE CLASS REMAINING,
WE'VE NETTED 140, AND WE'RE PROJECTING TO END THE YEAR AT 3,450 WITH A NET OF 170 PLUS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AND THIS IS STILL WHAT REMAINS OF OUR ATTRITION AND WHAT WE'VE HIRED
COMMUNICATIONS OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF. NEXT SLIDE. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE DO. ALL RIGHT,
WELL THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. 
          I THINK THE HEADLINE HERE IS THAT YOU'RE EXCEEDING THAT HIRING GOAL BY 39 OFFICERS. 
          SO THAT'S INCREDIBLE WORK. AND ON THURSDAY WE'LL HAVE THAT FINAL GRADUATING CLASS OF THIS
FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND I BELIEVE YOU HAVE 60 IN THAT CLASS. IS THAT CORRECT? WE HAVE 47 THAT WILL BE GRADUATING IN ON THURSDAY. 
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47. WE STARTED WITH 60. SOME HAVE BEEN RECYCLED AND TRICKLED IN,
BUT NOW WE HAVE 300 TOTAL AT THE ACADEMY. 
          OKAY. 47 OF THOSE WILL GRADUATE. SO THAT EXCEEDING NUMBER IS GOING TO COME DOWN SOME,
BUT IT'S STILL EXCEEDING THE HIRING GOAL. 
          AND THEN AS I LOOK AT THAT SLIDE ON PAGE FIVE ABOUT GRADUATION DATES AND THE CLASS SIZES RIGHT NOW AS IT STANDS, YOU'VE GOT 210 IN THE PIPELINE FOR THE NEXT YEAR. 
          SO THAT'S GREAT WORK. CLEARLY YOU ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB AND DELIVERING ON THIS. 
          SO COMMITTEE MEMBERS I WILL START TO MY RIGHT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. ALL RIGHT. VICE CHAIR. THANK YOU,
CHAIR. 
          QUICK QUESTION ON RECRUITING. ARE WE DOING ANYTHING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ORIGINAL
POLICE ACADEMY IN ARLINGTON? I KNOW THAT THOSE ARE TYPICALLY RESERVED MORE FOR SMALLER CITIES THAT DON'T HAVE THEIR OWN
ACADEMY, BUT ARE WE DOING ANY RECRUITMENT AT THAT LEVEL? SO THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT OUR NEW INITIATIVES WITH THE JUNIOR COLLEGE,
THOSE HAVE THEIR OWN LITTLE SUBSIDIES OF POLICE ACADEMIES TO GET THEM TCOLE CERTIFIED LIKE NAVARRO JUNIOR COLLEGE. I THINK WE JUST WENT TO ONE AT BLINN THAT HAS A SIMILAR PROGRAM. 
          BUT YES, THAT'S IN THE PIPELINE TO GO THERE AND RECRUIT AS WELL. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S PERFECT. OBVIOUSLY, THESE FOLKS THAT ARE ALREADY CAPTURED THERE,
THAT'S THE AREA OF PROFESSION THAT THEY WANT TO GO TO. 
          AND IF WE CAN, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THEM, THEY'RE THERE. 
          AND SO, WE CAN GET THEM TO DALLAS. THAT WOULD BE,
YOU KNOW, I THINK, A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          THANK Y'ALL. COUNCIL MEMBER STEWART, JUST A QUICK CLARIFICATION. 
          I DON'T THINK I WAS ABLE TO WRITE FAST ENOUGH. 
          THE NET INCREASE FOR 24-25. WHAT WAS THAT? REAL QUICK. 
          WAS THAT THE 150. IT WAS 159 FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR. 
          159. OKAY. AND THEN THIS YEAR SO FAR IT'S. WE HAVE 140 WITH ONE CLASSROOM. 
          140, OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S ALL I HAD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          COUNCILMEMBER ROTH, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT,
VERY GOOD. LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM B. 
          SO THIS IS THE DPD LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER AT UNT DALLAS UPDATE. 
          AND FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE PRESENT ON LAST THURSDAY,
IT WAS A VERY EXCITING DAY TO SEE DIRT FINALLY FLYING. 
          AND YOU KNOW, THE, WHAT THE VOTERS HAVE PLEDGED IN THE 2024 BOND AT WHAT PRIVATE DONORS
HAVE PLEDGED. 
          THERE WERE A LOT OF HAPPY PEOPLE THERE TO SEE THAT THAT DIRT TURN. 
          SO IF YOU WANT TO HIT SOME HIGH POINTS ON THIS MEMO,
MISS NISWANDER. 
          GREAT. THANK YOU. SO, JENNY NISWANDER, I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE BOND OFFICE. 
          SO YEAH, JUST TO PROVIDE SOME OVERALL HIGHLIGHTS ON WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IN THE PAST
MONTH, WHEN IT COMES TO THE DESIGN PROCESS, THE GOOD NEWS IS DESIGNS OVER. 
          SO, THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME WE TALK ABOUT THIS IN THE MEMO. 
          AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND FUTURE MEMOS. 
          FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE PAST MONTH, WE DID HAVE THE GROUNDBREAKING AS,
AS YOU MENTIONED, AND IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. WE WERE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. 
          WE DID HAVE QUITE A BIT OF CONTRACTOR OUTREACH FOR GMP 2,
WHICH IS GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE 2, THE PACKAGE THAT WE'RE EXPECTING TO TAKE TO COUNCIL IN OCTOBER. 
          AND THAT PACKAGE WILL BE SPECIFIC TO THE ACTUAL BUILDINGS ON THE SITE. 
          SO GMP 1 THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WAS FOR THE SITE WORK. 
          AND SO, THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL BE FOR THE ACTUAL BUILDING. 
          IN TERMS OF SCHEDULE, SO OUR PROJECT IS ON TRACK. 
          AND AGAIN, WE HAD THE GROUNDBREAKING ABOUT TWO MONTHS AHEAD OF OUR ORIGINAL SCHEDULE,
AND WE ARE EXPECTING TO TAKE THE GMP 2 PACKAGE TO COUNCIL IN OCTOBER. WE'RE SHOOTING FOR OCTOBER 14TH AS THE COUNCIL DATE. 
          I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT THE GROUNDBREAKING EVENT AS PART OF OUR,
THE BUDGETING BULLET ITEM. 
          THAT EVENT WAS ENTIRELY FUNDED BY CORPORATE AND IN-KIND DONATIONS AND WAS NOT PART OF NO
FUNDING FROM THE BOND PROGRAM WENT TO THAT EVENT, SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS CLEAR. 
          FOR PRIVATE FUNDRAISING. I JUST WANT TO AGAIN,
TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU TO YOU FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION AND ALL THAT, THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT. RIGHT NOW WE STILL HAVE THE 31.5 MILLION THAT HAS BEEN COMMITTED
AND WE'RE WORKING FOR THE REMAINING 38.5. IN TERMS OF FUNDING,
THERE HASN'T BEEN A LOT OF CHANGE SINCE LAST MONTH, SO THAT'LL GO REALLY QUICKLY. I DID WANT TO MENTION THOUGH. 
          SO, IN TERMS OF CONTRACTS AND COMMITTED FUNDS THAT WE HAVE REACHED A MILESTONE AND WE'RE
OVER 50 MILLION IN COMMITTED FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT. 
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30 MILLION OF THAT BEING FOR THE GMP 1 CONTRACT THAT WAS APPROVED LAST MONTH. 
          AND WITH THAT WE'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. 
          I'LL START. CAN I JUST ADD A COUPLE OF REMARKS ABOUT THE GROUNDBREAKING? FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE. 
          AND WANTED TO SHARE WE HAD ABOUT 450 ATTENDEES AT THAT GROUNDBREAKING. 
          SO, I THINK IT WAS A BIG SUCCESS. APPRECIATE JENNY AND THE TEAM,
AS WELL AS OUR PRIVATE FUNDRAISERS FOR MAKING SURE WE HAD SPONSORSHIP. AND IT WAS A GREAT CELEBRATION. AND AGAIN,
JUST MENTIONED THAT WE WERE TWO MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE FOR THAT KICKOFF. 
          THAT'S AN IMPORTANT NOTE. WE DON'T ALWAYS HEAR THAT AROUND HERE THAT YOU'RE TWO MONTHS
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, SO THANK YOU FOR CALLING THAT OUT. 
          AND THERE WERE SOME OTHER THINGS HIGHLIGHTED THERE ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT AND
JUST SOME SOME OTHER THINGS THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE'LL BE ABLE TO ILLUMINATE MORE FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE HEADS ABOVE
IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          AND THERE ARE SOME STATISTICS THAT HAVE BEEN SHARED THAT I THINK WE JUST NEED TO BUNDLE
TOGETHER TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC. 
          BUT I'M GOING TO START TO MY LEFT. COUNCIL MEMBER ROTH,
ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. IT WAS A TERRIFIC EVENT AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE GROUNDBREAKING. 
          IT'S FABULOUS. I WANTED TO FIND OUT. I'M NOT QUITE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE IN THE
DESIGN PROCESS. 
          WE'VE GOTTEN THE DESIGN PLANS FOR THE SITE PACKAGE. 
          THAT'S THE SITE CONSTRUCTION IS APPROVED. THAT'S CORRECT,
YEAH. 
          AND SO THAT'S MOVING FORWARD. YEAH. HAVE THEY FINALIZED THE DESIGN ON THE BUILDINGS YET AS
FAR AS THE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND THE AND THE THINGS, OR IS IT JUST ON THE FLOOR PLANS? NO, SO AND WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING WITH OUR PERMITTING DEPARTMENT ON THAT AS WELL SO
THAT WE CAN HAVE OUR PERMITS APPROVED, I THINK, IN NOVEMBER. SO VERY SOON AFTER THE GMP 2 PACKAGE. 
          SO, THE PLANS ARE OUT ON THE STREET FOR THE ACTUAL BUILDINGS. 
          SO, THE DESIGN IS ESSENTIALLY COMPLETE FOR BUILDING AND SITE WORK. 
          WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M ASKING, WHAT I'M GOING TO ASK YOU IS,
IS THAT IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT WE STILL HAVE A SHORTFALL IN THE IN THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE COULD BE SOME DESIGN VALUE ADDED,
DESIGNING FOR THE MATERIALS. 
          I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU ALL ARE LOOKING AT YOU KNOW,
NOT MINIMIZING OR COMPROMISING THE QUALITY AND THE DESIGN AND THE ESTHETICS. 
          BUT I UNDERSTAND WE'RE USING A LOT, A LOT OF WOOD IN THIS,
IN THIS BUILDING THAT MAY BE GETTING VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE IN THE GENERAL WORLD. AND YOU MAY WANT TO BE LOOKING AT SOME OTHER
MATERIALS OR AT LEAST ASKING YOUR CONTRACTORS AND YOUR, YOUR PROJECT MANAGERS TO LOOK AT SOME VALUE COMPARISONS FOR COSTS,
WHICH COULD BE REALLY SIGNIFICANT AND MIGHT BE ALSO EXPEDITING WOULD ALLOW YOU TO EXPEDITE YOUR
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPEDITE YOUR FACILITY OF GETTING MATERIALS AND STUFF. SO AGAIN,
I HAVEN'T SEEN THE DRAWINGS, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS ANY DRAWINGS, BUT I THINK THIS IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT TIME TO LOOK AT COSTS AND,
MAKE SURE THAT THE MATERIALS THAT YOU'RE USING ARE REALLY GOING TO WORK. YEAH. SO. NO, AND I APPRECIATE THE COMMENT. 
          ONE THING THAT WE HAVE HAD TO BALANCE IS RIGHT AFTER THE 2024 BOND PROGRAM WAS PASSED BY
THE VOTERS COUNCIL APPROVED SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION THAT INCLUDED THE BUILDING NEEDING TO MEET LEED GOLD. 
          SO, THE WOOD COMPONENTS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT,
THEY ADD TO THE POINTS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT TO GET LEED GOLD. 
          SO, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT,
BUT WE'RE REALLY KIND OF ON A RAZOR'S EDGE WHEN IT COMES TO MEETING THAT GOAL. 
          SO, THERE ARE YOU KNOW, TRADE OFFS WHEN WE, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT THAT,
BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT, AT WHERE WE CAN SAVE THAT, THAT WE DO. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT COULD
BE POSSIBLY SAVED. 
          SO, I MEAN, SUSTAINABILITY GOALS ARE GREAT. I'M INTERESTED IN ENVIRONMENTAL. 
          I'M INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE THAT WE'RE USING MATERIALS,
BUT WE DON'T. 
          WE GOT TO WRITE A CHECK. SO I WOULD REALLY ASK YOU ALL TO FOCUS ON THE NUMBERS AND ON THE
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS. 
          AND AGAIN, IT'S WHATEVER YOU ALL DECIDE. I DON'T WANT TO COMPROMISE THE ESTHETICS. 
          I DON'T WANT TO COMPROMISE THE DESIGN. I DON'T WANT TO COMPROMISE THE QUALITY. 
          AND I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO DELAY ANYTHING GOING ON HERE. 
          BUT I'M TRYING TO SAY, I THINK YOU ALL NEED TO BE LOOKING AT SOME COST SAVINGS. 
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SO PLEASE TRY TO INCORPORATE THAT WITH YOUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT. 
          AND THAT'LL ALSO MAYBE HELP SPEED UP THE PROCESS TOO TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE EVEN AHEAD
OF SCHEDULE. 
          THANK YOU. SO, I'M SORRY, WILL YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU SAID THAT THIS BODY AGREED TO HAVE AN
LEED GOLD CERTIFICATION? CORRECT, YES. SO, WE HAVE MANDATED SOME OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS. 
          YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEAH, JUST TO DIVE INTO THAT MORE. 
          I THINK THERE IS A GROUP OF STAFF, PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT AND WATCH OVER ALL OF THE BOND
PROJECTS AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE CECAP COMPLIANT. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THIS IS, I THINK STEMMING FROM. 
          I THINK IF WE GET INTO A PINCH AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE THERE,
THEN I WOULD ASK THAT IT MAYBE PERHAPS COME THROUGH THE PTE COMMITTEE AND THEN A FULL COUNCIL BRIEFING. 
          I THINK THAT'S, THOSE ARE DECISIONS THAT I BELIEVE THE BODY WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO AT A
MINIMUM BE AWARE OF AND, AND POTENTIALLY TO ACTUALLY VOTE ON THOSE TYPE OF CHANGES. 
          SO, BECAUSE I THINK THERE WAS THAT INITIAL DESIRE ON THE PART OF THE COUNCIL FOR CECAP TO
BE APPLIED TO ALL BOND PROJECTS, NOT JUST TO THIS ONE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. 
          AND I, THE ONLY OTHER THING I WAS GOING TO SAY WAS I THOUGHT THE GROUNDBREAKING WAS
TERRIFIC. 
          I THOUGHT THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE CITY,
FROM THE STATE, JUST, YOU KNOW, THE 450 PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE INTERESTED JUST THE PRIVATE DONORS, THE, YOU KNOW, QUIKTRIP. SO MANY OF OUR PARTNERS HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR
THIS. 
          THIS IS NOT JUST THE CITY STANDING BY ITSELF ON AN ISLAND SAYING,
LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN. 
          THIS IS A LOT OF INSTITUTIONS COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. 
          AND I THINK IT'S, THAT ALWAYS TO ME SPEAKS TO THE STRENGTH OF A PROJECT WHEN YOU HAVE THAT
TYPE OF COLLABORATION. 
          SO, I WAS EXCITED TO SEE THAT COLLABORATION ON DISPLAY WITH SHOVELS AND LUNCH AND,
YOU KNOW, JUST BEING OUTSIDE AND BEING IN THE SPACE I HAD,
YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS HAD IT IN MY HEAD WHERE IT WAS, BUT THEN I WAS LIKE, OH, WE'RE HERE. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 
          SO, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO HELPED PUT THAT ON. 
          IT WAS GREAT. THANK YOU, CHAIR. ALL RIGHT, CHAIR MORENO. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIR. EVERYONE WHO TOOK PART IN MAKING THE GRAND OPENING HAPPENED WAS
INCREDIBLE. 
          30 YEARS IN THE MAKING. CONGRATULATIONS. THAT'S A BIG ACHIEVEMENT,
A BIG MILESTONE. 
          AND THESE FACILITIES THEY DON'T HAPPEN ONE OVERNIGHT. 
          AND THEY ALSO DON'T HAPPEN IN EVERY CITY. AS WE STATED EARLIER SOME OF OUR SMALLER SUBURBS
SHARE JOINT ACADEMIES AND THIS WILL REALLY MAKE DALLAS STAND OUT. AND I BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO ABSOLUTELY HELP WITH RECRUITMENT,
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WITH OUR PROMISE, OUR PROMISE TO THE RESIDENTS OF DALLAS, OUR PROMISE TO OUR FIRST RESPONDERS INTO DPD THAT
THIS IS FINALLY HAPPENING. 
          EARLIER WE TALKED ABOUT THAT THERE WAS A SHORTFALL. 
          NOW I DON'T REALLY SEE IT AS A SHORTFALL BECAUSE WE HAVE A FUNDING MECHANISM IN PLACE NOW
WHEN THE VOTERS, THIS GOES IN NOVEMBER AND THIS GETS APPROVED,
WE WILL BE ABLE TO FULLY FUND OUR ACADEMY. 
          AND THERE'S NOT A SHORTFALL IF THIS GOES THROUGH,
IS THAT CORRECT? YES, THAT IS CORRECT. SO WE WILL BE ABLE TO FULLY CONSTRUCT AND BUILD AND HAVE THIS
ACADEMY READY IF WE'RE ABLE TO DELIVER THIS IN NOVEMBER. 
          YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SURE. AND SINCE YOU MENTIONED THE BOND,
I WAS DISAPPOINTED TO SEE SOME MISINFORMATION IN THE MARKETPLACE ABOUT PRIOR BONDS. 
          AND MISS NISWANDER AND I MET ABOUT THAT THIS MORNING. 
          SO, WE CAN CLEAR THAT UP AND BE SURE WE'RE JUST TRADING IN FACTS IN DALLAS. 
          MR. RESENDEZ? NOTHING. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM C, THE VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN UPDATE. 
          AND I THINK WE WERE GOING TO KIND OF HIT THE HIGH POINTS ON THIS. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, COMMITTEE. LET'S SEE, MAJOR ANDRE TAYLOR WITH THE DEPARTMENT HERE WITH
CHIEF. 
          AND WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THE VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION UPDATE. LET'S START ON SLIDE THREE, 
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PLEASE. OVERALL CRIME IS STILL COMING DOWN IN THE CITY OF DALLAS. 
          WE ARE AT A REDUCTION OF 8.67% YEAR TO DATE. WE HAD A COUPLE OF THINGS FOR THE MONTH THAT
REALLY CONTRIBUTED WITH THAT. 
          OPERATION SAFE KIDS TO HELP KEEP OUR KIDS AND STUFF KIDS AND STUFF SAFE WHEN SCHOOL
STARTED BACK. 
          OPERATION UPTOWN-DOWNTOWN WHERE WE WORKED ON THAT DURING FIFA AND CONTINUED IT INTO THE
MONTH OF AUGUST. 
          WE ARRESTED SEVERAL HUNDRED AND 25 TOTAL FOLKS,
AND THEN WE CONTINUE TO HAVE LESS VICTIMS OF OUR ROBBERIES. 
          NEXT SLIDE. I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT ON THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE,
IT LOOKS LIKE MURDERS ARE GOING UP IN DALLAS BECAUSE WE HAVE AN INCREASE OF 3.41%, BUT THEY ARE NOT. FROM LAST MONTH TO THIS MONTH,
WE HAVE DECREASED AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT MURDERS OR THREE MURDERS LESS THAN WE WERE IN JULY. AND JULY IS TYPICALLY A HIGH MONTH FOR US. 
          SO, ALL THE OTHER NUMBERS ARE DOWN. THIS 3.41 IS THE DIFFERENCE FROM YEAR TO DATE. 
          SO, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. NEXT SLIDE. 
          AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THIS ROBBERIES, MURDERS AND AG ASSAULTS OVERALL ARE DOWN FOR THE
MONTH OF AUGUST. 
          NEXT SLIDE. AND BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS AND INCIDENTS ARE LOWER YEAR TO DATE, AS THEY WERE WITH EXCUSE ME,
AS THEY WERE FROM LAST YEAR. 
          SO AGAIN, IN AUGUST, WE HAVE LESS VICTIMS AND LESS INCIDENTS OF CRIME. 
          AND WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. THAT WOULD BE THE VICTIMS. NEXT SLIDE. AND OUR MURDER DEMOGRAPHICS ARE PRETTY MUCH STILL THE SAME. 
          ESSENTIALLY, WE'RE KNOWING THAT OUR VICTIMS ARE OF THESE MURDERS ARE PRIMARILY AFRICAN
AMERICAN AND THEY ARE OF, THE SUSPECT AGES ARE IN THE HIGH TEENS AND LOW 20S. 
          NEXT SLIDE. AND THE NEXT STEPS FOR THE VIOLENT CRIME DIVISION. 
          I REALLY WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AND MAKE IT KNOWN THAT BECAUSE WE NO LONGER HAVE UTSA WITH US,
WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE PRACTICE OF BEING EVIDENCE LED. EVIDENCE BASED POLICING. 
          SO, WE HAVE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE AT THE GROUNDBREAKING,
WE ARE TEAMING UP WITH UNT DALLAS AND UT DALLAS IN ORDER THAT WE CAN CONTINUE WITH THAT EVIDENCE-BASED POLICING. 
          WE DID BRING THEM IN TODAY IN CASE YOU GUYS HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 
          BUT WE KNOW THAT AS A DEPARTMENT EVIDENCE LED POLICING IS THE WAY TO GO. 
          THAT IS ALL I HAVE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO. I'M HEARING THAT
UT DALLAS IS GOING TO BE OUR NEW PARTNER. 
          CRIMINOLOGY PARTNER? YES, THEY ARE HERE WITH US TODAY. 
          SO YES, UT DALLAS AND UNT DALLAS TOGETHER. SO,
WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THAT IS WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING NOT ONLY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF CRIME, BUT WE'RE ALSO DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT AND OUR
FUTURE LEADERS. 
          SO TOGETHER, WE'RE MAKING THE DEPARTMENT BETTER. 
          OKAY. WHEN DOES THIS CONTRACT COMMENCE? WE ARE ACTUALLY WORKING THROUGH THAT. 
          THAT'S THE OTHER PART OF THE PAPERWORK GETTING THAT DONE. BUT WE HAVE THE AGREEMENTS THAT
WE'RE WORKING, WE'RE GOING TO START THAT WORK AND WE'RE GETTING THE PAPERWORK TOGETHER NOW. 
          WELL, IT COULD BE PRELIMINARY. I MEAN, MAYBE IT'S TOO SOON FOR YOU ALL TO COME AND REPORT
ON THIS. 
          I MEAN, IS THERE SOMETHING IN PARTICULAR THAT YOU WANTED THEM TO HIGHLIGHT TO US OR SHOULD
WE FOCUS ON THIS ANOTHER TIME? NOPE, JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT THEY'RE HERE JUST IN CASE YOU WANTED TO. 
          WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING LIKE,
LIKE DRE SAID, THE, THE EVIDENCE PART, BUT ALSO THE LEADERSHIP PART IS BIG. AND WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP,
ESPECIALLY FOR ANYONE THAT PROMOTES, WE'RE GETTING TOGETHER A COMPLETE PLAN FOR THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. BUT I JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE THE REAL BODIES THAT
WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          ALL RIGHT, MR. RESENDEZ, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          MR. ROTH? MISS CADENA? STEWART? OKAY. I AM A HUGE FAN OF THIS PLAN THAT WE'VE BEEN USING. SO. SORRY. I'M GETTING A TICKLE IN MY THROAT. 
          I'M JUST GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTED IN WHERE WE GO FROM HERE. 
          I THINK THE, THE PLAN THAT WE'VE HAD IN PLACE HAS MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO
VIOLENT CRIME IN THIS CITY SIGNIFICANT. 
          SO, IF IT WERE ME, I WOULDN'T VEER TOO MUCH OFF OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING,
ALTHOUGH I REALIZE OUR MURDER RATES HAVE GONE UP. 
          SO, DO YOU ALL ENVISION SOMETHING LIKE HAVING THE GRIDS AND THE PNIS AND THE FOCUSED
DETERRENCE, 
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THAT SAME THREE-PART PLAN, OR DO YOU HAVE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO LOOKING AT
THIS? IS THAT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK AT THIS POINT? YES. SO, WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT MAKING IT BETTER. 
          WE'RE GOING TO USE THE SAME INFORMATION, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW WE CAN TWEAK AND
IMPROVE IT. 
          SO, USE THE SAME THREE-PART PLAN BUT MAKE TWEAKS TO THE PLAN OR MAKE TO THE PIECES OF THAT
PLAN OR TO THE PLAN OVERALL? TWO PIECES OF THE PLAN. WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT WORKS. 
          OKAY, GREAT. THAT'S JUST I JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALWAYS WE'RE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE
SOMETIMES WE THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER AND START FRESH. 
          AND WE, WE'VE LEFT SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT WE,
WE SHOULD HAVE KEPT. 
          SO, I JUST DIDN'T WANT US TO DO THAT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. 
          SO, I'M ANXIOUS TO HEAR WHAT YOUR PLAN IS AND WHAT YOUR TWEAKS ARE AND HOW WE CAN GET OUR
MURDER RATE GOING BACK IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          I HAD ONE ON WELL, YESTERDAY THAT WAS IN THE HEART OF MY DISTRICT AND NEAR SINGLE FAMILY
HOMES AND A SCHOOL. 
          AND I WAS GLAD THE SCHOOL WASN'T IN SESSION YESTERDAY. 
          SO, IT'S. THE IMPACT OF VIOLENT CRIME ON THE CITY IS,
YOU KNOW, CLEARLY ON THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. RIGHT. 
          AND THE NEIGHBORS. BUT IT GOES BEYOND THAT. IT GOES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          IT GOES TO ALL KINDS OF THINGS. SO IT'S, IT'S A,
IT'S JUST A CRITICAL PIECE TO GET RIGHT. 
          AND, AND WE HAVE BEEN GETTING IT RIGHT. AND I THINK WE CAN GET BACK ON TRACK WITH THE
MURDERS AND OVERALL THE ROBBERIES. 
          THAT HAS BEEN A HUGE, A HUGE CHANGE THERE. AND FROM,
AGAIN, FROM MY DISTRICT'S PERSPECTIVE, WHAT I SAW IS SEMINARS BEING HELD FOR BUSINESSES AND OUR REC CENTERS ABOUT WHAT THEY COULD
DO TO MAKE THEIR BUSINESS MORE SAFE HAD TO DO WITH VISIBILITY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS AND JUST DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED TO BE
AWARE OF. 
          AND THAT'S WHEN I BEGAN TO SEE THOSE ROBBERIES DROP,
IS WHEN YOU HAD PUT TOOLS IN THE HANDS OF THE PROPERTY AND BUSINESS OWNERS, BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO. SO,
I HOPE THERE'S MORE OF THAT AS WELL. 
          SO, YOU CAN TELL I'M A BIG FAN OF THE OF THIS PLAN,
AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T THAT WE KEEP THE REALLY THE PIECES OF IT THAT ARE WORKING HAVE WORKED WELL FOR US. AND I THINK THAT'S IT. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, I CONCUR WITH CHAIR STEWART ON THAT. 
          I DID HAVE A QUESTION ON PAGE NINE ABOUT FOCUS DETERRENTS BECAUSE THIS IS SO CRITICAL IF
WE CAN'T CATCH THE FRONT END, AT LEAST WE CAN MAKE MODIFICATIONS ON THE BACK END. 
          AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE THESE NUMBERS, BUT I'M WONDERING IF THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN THIS
PROGRAM AND THOSE WHO ARE TAKING RESOURCES MIRROR THE SAME RATIO THAT YOU'RE SEEING ON PAGE EIGHT WITH THE SUSPECTS. I MEAN, ARE WE GETTING,
I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT A VERY HIGH NUMBER OF SUSPECTS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CATEGORY, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, I MEAN, ARE WE SEEING THAT SAME PROPORTION IN WHO'S TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF THE FOCUSED DETERRENCE PROGRAM? YES AND NO. SO AGAIN, THE ASPECT OF THE FOCUS DETERRENCE IS THOSE RESOURCES ARE OFFERED. 
          THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT. THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM. SO,
THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. THE ONES THAT DO ARE AGREEING TO ENHANCE PROSECUTION IF THEY ARE CONTINUING IN THAT LIFESTYLE. SO, THAT BECOMES A DIFFICULT PART OF THEM RECEIVING
THOSE RESOURCES. 
          SO, NOT NECESSARILY AS REFLECTIVE AS WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, MA'AM. WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM D,
WHICH IS DALLAS POLICE FLOCK AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READER PROGRAM UPDATE. 
          THIS MAY SEEM A LITTLE LIKE DEJA VU, SINCE WE HAD QUITE A DISCUSSION AROUND THIS SUBJECT
AT THE BUDGET MEETING LAST WEEK. 
          BUT THANK YOU. I'M GLAD THIS IS ON OUR AGENDA TO BE ABLE TO EXPLORE. 
          AND I BELIEVE WE ALSO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE FROM FLOCK WHO IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO
ANSWER SOME FURTHER QUESTIONS JUST SO EVERYBODY CAN KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS DECK. SO, GO AHEAD. ALL RIGHT. I'M SERGEANT REINHART WITH THE DALLAS POLICE
DEPARTMENT OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY UNIT. 
          I'M DEPUTY CHIEF WILLIAM GRIFFITH OF THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS GROUP. 
          ALL RIGHT. SO, THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FLOCK PROGRAM ARE LISTED IN THE IN THE SLIDE HERE,
BUT IT'S DELIVERING REAL TIME ALERTS TO OFFICERS IN THE FIELD FOR REAL TIME CRIME GOING ON LIKE STOLEN VEHICLES THAT PASSED BY A FLOCK CAMERA THAT IN THE
AREA OF OFFICERS IN THE FIELD. 
          ANOTHER PART IS THE ENHANCING INVESTIGATIVE EFFICIENCY,
RIGHT? 
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BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY SUSPECT VEHICLES IDENTIFY VEHICLES OF INTEREST FOR THE
INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS THAT FOLLOWS OFFENSES. 
          ANOTHER PART OF THE FLOCK AND LPR PROGRAM IS TO ALSO ADD THAT OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE INTO
CASES THAT ENHANCE THE INTEGRITY, I GUESS, OF INVESTIGATIONS, RIGHT? WE'RE USING ACTUAL EVIDENCE,
PHOTOGRAPHS OF VEHICLES AND LICENSE PLATES OF VEHICLES AND NOT RELYING SOLELY ON EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY OR HEARSAY FROM PEOPLE AT THE OFFENSE LOCATION. 
          AND THEN, OF COURSE, JUST REDUCING CRIME OVERALL BY IDENTIFYING SUSPECT VEHICLES,
IDENTIFYING SUSPECTS AND HAVING THEM APPREHENDED SOONER. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS, YOU KNOW, IN THE VIOLENT CRIME OR VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN IS 215
FEWER ROBBERY VICTIMS, RIGHT? WE CAN'T TELL THE FUTURE, SO WE CAN'T SAY HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE RELATED TO US
CATCHING SUSPECTS SOONER AND NOT LETTING THEM BE OUT IN THE PUBLIC BEING ABLE TO COMMIT MORE CRIMES. NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW, A MAP OF WHERE THE FLOCK CAMERAS LOCATIONS ARE. 
          AND IT JUST TOUCHES ON WHERE WE INSTALL THEM AND WHY WE INSTALL THEM,
RIGHT. 
          BASED OFF OF CRIME PATTERNS AND INVESTIGATIVE VALUE IS WHY THOSE LOCATIONS ARE CHOSEN
MOSTLY IN, YOU KNOW, HIGH CRIME CORRIDORS ONLY ON PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS,
PUBLIC ROADWAYS. 
          CURRENTLY WE HAVE 684. BUT WITH THE STATE FUNDING REMOVED,
THAT WILL GO DOWN TO ABOUT 360 CAMERAS. 
          AND THEN OUR RETENTION IS 365 DAYS. WE ALSO DO HAVE A PUBLIC PORTAL THAT HAS SOME OF THIS
INFORMATION LISTED ON IT AS WELL. 
          THAT IS UPDATED REGULARLY NOW. NEXT SLIDE. SO,
DPD HAS HAD ALPR TECHNOLOGY SINCE 2013. IT'S AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READER TECHNOLOGY SINCE 2013. 
          THESE CAMERAS ONLY CATCH IMAGES. THEY DON'T CONSTANTLY RECORD. 
          THEY'RE NOT A CCTV CAMERA. IT ONLY IDENTIFIES AND CAPTURES LICENSE PLATES AND VEHICLES. 
          IT'S NOT THE ALGORITHMS DON'T IDENTIFY PEOPLE AND THEN TAKE A PHOTO OF IT. 
          THERE CAN BE PEOPLE THAT ARE CAUGHT IN THE CAMERA WHENEVER A VEHICLE DRIVES BY AND
IDENTIFIES A VEHICLE, IT CAN'T TAKE THE PICTURE. AND IF SOMEBODY IS WALKING DOWN THE ROAD OR IN THE ROAD,
IT WOULD CATCH SOMEBODY. 
          BUT THAT'S NOT MEANT FOR PEOPLE IDENTIFICATION. 
          THE DATA THAT'S RETAINED IS ANONYMIZED. SO, WHEN IT TAKES A PHOTO OF THE VEHICLE AND THE
LICENSE PLATE, IT DOESN'T TAP INTO ANY DATABASE THAT SAYS THIS IS THE REGISTERED OWNER. 
          THIS IS THE INSURANCE OF THIS VEHICLE. THIS IS WHERE THE PERSON LIVES. 
          IT DOESN'T CORRELATE ANY OF THAT INFORMATION TO THE LICENSE PLATE THAT IT CATCHES. 
          THE ONLY THING THAT IT TIES INTO IS THE STATE AND NATIONAL HOT LIST,
WHICH LET US KNOW IF THAT LICENSE PLATE IS A STOLEN VEHICLE, A STOLEN PLATE, OR HAS A WARRANT ON IT OR IS A MISSING PERSON. 
          AND THEN IT'S JUST VIEWS THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. 
          SO, THE CAMERAS DON'T FACE PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY OR RESIDENCES OR BACKYARDS OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          IT IS JUST PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS. NEXT SLIDE. AND SO,
THIS IS JUST HOW THE CAMERAS OPERATE. 
          VEHICLES DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD. IF IT PASSES IN,
IN THE FIELD OF VIEW OF A FLOCK CAMERA, THE FLOCK CAMERA THEN IDENTIFIES BASED ON THE ALGORITHMS OF WHAT A VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS ARE. 
          IT THEN CAPTURES THE IMAGE OF THE VEHICLE AND THE LICENSE PLATE. 
          IT THEN RUNS THE ANALYTICS TO SAY, THIS IS A VEHICLE OF THIS COLOR,
THIS TYPE, AND THEN IT IS STORED SECURELY FOR THAT RETENTION PERIOD OF 365 DAYS. 
          NEXT. AND SO HERE IS WHAT THE FLOCK SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE FOR US WITHIN DPD. 
          THE VEHICLE DRIVES IN FRONT OF THE FIELD OF VIEW. THE FLOCK CAMERA IDENTIFIES THE VEHICLE,
TAKES A PHOTOGRAPH, TAKES A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LICENSE PLATE, AND THEN HAS THE METADATA OF DATE, TIME, LOCATION,
CAMERA NAME AND THEN THE VEHICLE MAKE, MODEL TYPE AND COLOR. NEXT. SO, THE CITY OF DALLAS OWNS THE DATA WITHIN THAT IS CAPTURED BY OUR FLOCK CAMERAS THAT ARE PAID FOR BY THE CITY. 
          THEY'RE AUTOMATICALLY PURGED AFTER THE 365-DAY RETENTION. 
          CURRENTLY, THERE'S ABOUT 1,900 OFFICERS WITHIN DPD THAT HAVE ACCESS TO THE FLOCK SYSTEM. 
          SEARCHES REQUIRE AN OFFENSE TYPE REASON AND A CASE NUMBER TO BE ASSOCIATED BACK AND
THROUGH FOR THE AUDITING PROCESS. 
          AND THEN ALL USERS ACTIONS ARE LOGGED FOR COMPLIANCE. 
          SO, EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO WITHIN THE SYSTEM,
EVERY SEARCH THEY DO WHAT VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER THEY PUT IN. 
          IF THEY DO IT BY DESCRIPTION, THE MAKE MODEL,
ALL THAT IS CAPTURED EVERY TIME THEY DO A SEARCH. 
          AND THAT IS PART OF THOSE WEEKLY AUDITS. NEXT. 
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DPD NEVER SELLS OR SHARES THE DATA WITH A PRIVATE ENTITY WITHIN THE SYSTEM. 
          ONLY SHARING THAT IS DONE FROM DPD IS TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. 
          THERE ARE PRIVATE ENTITIES THAT SHARE THEIR FLOCK CAMERAS WITH US WITHIN OUR AGENCY FOR US
TO SEARCH, BUT WE DO NOT SHARE BACK WITH THOSE PRIVATE ENTITIES. 
          AND LIKE I SAID BEFORE, AUTHORIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS WITHIN THE PLATFORM ARE
ALLOWED ACCESS TO OUR FLOCK CAMERAS. 
          THEY'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO SEARCH VIA LICENSE PLATE. 
          SO, THEY DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE ALERTS FROM OUR CAMERAS OR HOTLIST OR ANALYTICS
OR VMS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE CCTV THROUGH FLOCK. 
          SO, THEY CAN ONLY PUT IN A LICENSE PLATE SEARCH AND TO SEARCH OUR CAMERAS TO SEE IF THAT
LICENSE PLATE PASSED ONE OF OUR CAMERAS. 
          NEXT. SO, I DO WANT TO MAKE A POINT ON THIS SLIDE. 
          THE NETWORK SHARING HAS CHANGED. WEEKS AGO, WE BEGAN GOING THROUGH THE HOW WE SHARE WITH
OUR PARTNER AGENCIES, SINCE I HAD TO SUBMIT THIS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO,
WE DIDN'T GET TO UPDATE IT, BUT CURRENTLY THAT NUMBER OF AGENCIES SHARED WITH DPD. 
          AS IN WE ALLOW THEM ACCESS TO SEARCH OUR FLOCK CAMERAS IS 202. 
          THOSE ARE AGENCIES WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE CITY OF DALLAS AND OTHER LARGER ENTITIES WITHIN
THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          THERE CURRENTLY ARE NO SHARING OUTSIDE THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          THE AGENCIES THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO HAS ALSO CHANGED. 
          GOT THE NUMBER THIS MORNING. IT IS 1,028 IS WHO WE,
01,028 AGENCIES THAT HAVE FLOCK CAMERAS WE HAVE ACCESS TO SEARCH. 
          THAT HAS CHANGED. AND ALSO, WE DON'T SHARE WITH ANY FEDERAL AGENCIES AT THE MOMENT WHILE
WE GET BETTER MOU FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN THE PLATFORM TO ENSURE THAT ANY AGENCY THAT WE DO SHARE WITH SHARES THE SAME RULES AND POLICIES THAT WE HAVE. 
          NEXT. SO CURRENTLY WE CONDUCT WEEKLY AUDITS. THAT IS US PULLING OUT EVERY SEARCH THAT WAS
CONDUCTED ON THE PLATFORM WITHIN THE LAST WEEK. WE THEN MAKE SURE THAT THE CASE NUMBER MATCHES THE CASE NUMBER THAT
IS WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. 
          ANYTHING THAT IS OUT OF THE ORDINARY OR DOESN'T MATCH UP AFTER THAT BRIEF REVIEW IS THEN
SENT TO THE IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR FOR FURTHER REVIEW TO VALIDATE THE SEARCH WAS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSE. NEXT. AND THEN HERE'S JUST SOME METRICS ON,
YOU KNOW, STATS THAT I KNOW YOU ALL HEARD LAST WEEK. THESE ARE CASES THAT HAVE THEIR PRIMARY SOLVING
FACTOR WERE FLOCK ALPR CAMERAS. 
          IN THERE WE ALSO DON'T HAVE THE ROBBERIES THAT WAS GATHERED ABOUT A WEEK AGO,
SO IT WAS. 
          CHIEF, DO YOU REMEMBER WHICH? IT WAS 50 ROBBERIES AT ABOUT 13% OF THE ROBBERIES SOLVED. 
          PRIMARY SOLVING FACTOR WERE FLOCK CAMERAS. CAN I JUST ADD SOMETHING? ALSO, YOU GOT THOSE ARE JUST THE TWO VIOLENT CRIMES. 
          BUT WE ALSO USE THE FLOCK AND ALRP SYSTEM FOR STOLEN AUTO THEFTS TO. 
          AND IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE HAVE SOLVED MAJOR AUTO THEFT RINGS AS USING THE FLOCK
CAMERA SYSTEM. 
          AND AT ONE POINT WE'VE, WE COVERED OVER $7 MILLION WORTH OF STOLEN VEHICLES THROUGH THAT
FLOCK SYSTEM AND ALPR. 
          AND SO THAT, THAT'S JUST PART OF IT. YOU KNOW,
WE DO USE THE FLOCK SYSTEM AND ALPR FOR MISSING AND ENDANGERED CHILDREN AND ADULTS AS WELL AS PART OF THAT. RIGHT NOW, OUR HOMICIDE CLEARANCE RATE IS 82.61%,
WHICH IS EXTREMELY HIGH. 
          SO, WE'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. YOU KNOW, 18% OF OUR MURDERS SO FAR THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN
SOLVED BY USING AS A PRIMARY FACTOR OF FLOCK. 
          THE SLIDE ONLY SHOWS 12, BUT WE DID HAVE AN ADDITIONAL ONE LAST SUNDAY ON BRUTON ROAD THAT
WAS CLEARED BY THAT AS WELL. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT OUR. AND WE ARE CURRENTLY WE HAVE ABOUT 2,300 AG ASSAULTS SO FAR
THIS YEAR, AND WE ARE GOING THROUGH ALL THOSE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE SOLVING FACTOR IS REGARDING THE
FLOCK AS WELL. 
          SO WE SHOULD HAVE THOSE NUMBERS TO YOU AS WELL SOON. 
          NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF A CRITICAL MISSING RIGHT AWAY FROM ALL THE
ARRESTS AND SUSPECTS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO CATCH WITH THE FLOCK PLATFORM. THIS IS ONE THAT OCCURRED IN JUNE OF 2026. 
          THERE IS A CRITICAL MISSING OUT OF CROWLEY. IT WAS A FEMALE WITH DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S
WHO HAD LEFT IN A VEHICLE FROM HER HOME IN CROWLEY, AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FIND HER. THEY HAD CALLED DPD TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THE VEHICLE
MIGHT BE UP IN THE DALLAS AREA. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO SEARCH THE FLOCK CAMERAS BY THAT VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE AND IDENTIFY AN
AREA THAT SHE HAD, SHE WAS IN VERY RECENTLY FROM THAT CALL, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO SWARM THE AREA AND LOCATE
THE THE DRIVER AND THE MISSING PERSON IN HER VEHICLE, 
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WHICH WAS TURNED OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF JUNE, AND SHE WAS SITTING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT.
THIS PICTURE IS THE PICTURE FROM THE FLOCK CAMERA THAT WAS TAKEN THAT DAY. 
          THAT LED TO THE OFFICERS FINDING HER IN THAT AREA. 
          NEXT. ALL RIGHT, IN THE COMING MONTHS, WE ARE GOING TO ENHANCE OUR AUDITING PROCESS. THIS PROCESS WILL ALLOW US TO CORRELATE THE LICENSE PLATE THAT IS
SEARCHED INTO OUR DATABASES TO VERIFY THAT THE LICENSE PLATE ACTUALLY SHOWS UP IN OUR DATABASES AND IS PART OF OUR CAD CALL OR PART OF AN MISSED CALL. 
          SO, WE GET TO VERIFY VIA OFFICIAL POLICE RECORDS THAT IT IS A VEHICLE THAT SHOULD BE
SEARCHED, AND TO THEN CORRELATE IT WITH THE APPROPRIATE CAD NUMBER OR CASE NUMBER TO MAKE SURE THAT
THAT IS ALSO ACCURATE IN EACH SEARCH THAT'S DONE IN FLOCK. 
          AND LIKE CHIEF GRIFFITH WAS SAYING IS WE'RE GOING TO EXPAND THE TRACKING OF THE PRIMARY
SOLVENT FACTOR INTO OTHER CAPERS UNITS AS AG ASSAULTS, SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND OTHER UNITS TO THEN IDENTIFY ALSO THE PRIMARY SOLVENT FACTOR WHERE
FLOCK WOULD BE THE PRIMARY SOLVENT FACTOR IN THOSE CASES. 
          OBVIOUSLY. YOU WANT TO TOUCH ON. YEAH, AND SO,
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW FLOCK HAS BEEN THE SOLVING FACTOR IN VIOLENT CRIME IN GENERAL, AUTO THEFT, CRIME AS WELL,
WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE APPREHENSION PORTION OF THIS AS WELL. 
          SO, WE MAY TRADITIONALLY DISCOVER THE INDIVIDUALS LIKE THE FUGITIVE UNIT OR THE DIVISIONAL
DEPLOYMENT UNITS OR CRIME RESPONSE TEAMS DEVELOP SUSPECT VEHICLE THAT HAS A WARRANT OUT, RIGHT? AND SO,
WE COULD USE THE ALPR AND THE FLOCK SYSTEM TO FIND OUT WHERE THAT VEHICLE WAS AT. 
          WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO RUN A WARRANT ON AN INDIVIDUAL WHO MAY BE MOBILE,
RIGHT? ALSO, WITH REGARDS TO LET'S SAY THAT A CALL COMES OUT OF A BANK ROBBERY OR AN ASSAULT OR A
SHOOTING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          AND WE DO HAVE SUSPECT VEHICLE INFORMATION. INSTEAD OF OFFICERS GOING TO THE SCENE AND
LOOKING FOR, LET'S SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, A BLACK JEEP CHEROKEE. 
          THEY CAN GO INTO THE FLOCK SYSTEM AND LOOK FOR THAT VEHICLE THAT WAS IN THAT AREA AND GET
A LICENSE PLATE, AND THEN THEY CAN START INTENSIFYING THE SEARCH BY THE LICENSE PLATE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO
STOP SEVERAL VEHICLES POSSIBLY THAT MATCH THE DESCRIPTION. 
          WELL, IF WE GO INTO FLOCK AND ALPR, WE CAN LOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THAT VEHICLE IS AND HAVE
THE EXACT LICENSE PLATE WITHIN MINUTES OF THE OF THE INCIDENT OCCURRING. 
          SO, THIS APPREHENSION PORTION AS WELL, JUST NOT CLEARING THE CASE OR SOLVING THE CASES AS
WELL. 
          AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDING ENHANCEMENTS TO THE PUBLIC PORTAL AND ADDING MORE
INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHENEVER THEY WOULD LIKE. 
          ALL RIGHT, WELL. IS THAT? ARE YOU? YEAH. I'M JUST GOING TO SAY WE CAN TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS
WHENEVER YOU LIKE. 
          ALL RIGHT, WELL, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE TREVOR CHANDLER TO COME DOWN FROM FLOCK,
BECAUSE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS I HEARD LAST WEEK, I KNOW SOME OF MY QUESTIONS ARE LIKELY TO BE RESOLVED WITH SOME ACTION THAT FLOCK IS
TAKING. 
          AND SO BEFORE WE ALL GET IN AND ASK YOU ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS,
I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. 
          WHAT IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF CHANGES WE CAN EXPECT WITH REGARD TO ACCOUNTABILITY,
TRANSPARENCY, ETC., IN THE NEAR TERM. ABSOLUTELY. WILL YOU PULL THAT CLOSER? YES. CHAIR AND COUNCIL HAPPY TO BE HERE AND ANSWER QUESTIONS. 
          TREVOR CHANDLER SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT FLOCK SAFETY. 
          SO, A COUPLE OF THE CHANGES THAT WE HAVE ROLLED OUT,
AND WE'LL BE MAKING MANDATORY FOR EVERY AGENCY THAT USES FLOCK BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE IS OUR PROACTIVE AUDITING FEATURE. 
          SO, OUR AUDIT ASSISTANCE, WE ARE THE ONLY LAW ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER THAT
PROVIDES PROACTIVE AUDITING. 
          WHAT THIS DOES IS THIS WILL FLAG FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT AND EVERY DEPARTMENT THAT USES FLOCK. 
          IT WILL FLAG ATYPICAL SEARCH PATTERNS. IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT ANYTHING BY IN AND OF ITSELF
IS WRONG, BUT WHAT IT DOES IS IT PROVIDES YOUR DEPARTMENT AND YOUR ADMINISTRATORS THE ABILITY TO SEE
ATYPICAL SEARCHES THAT THEY SHOULD LOOK AT FIRST WHEN THEY'RE AUDITING THEIR SYSTEM. 
          IT DOESN'T REPLACE THE NEED FOR THE AUDITS THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT DOES. 
          BUT IT SAYS AS YOU START YOUR AUDITS, HERE'S WHERE YOU SHOULD BEGIN. 
          THIS CAN BE THINGS SUCH AS RUNNING THE SAME PLATE MULTIPLE TIMES. 
          COULD BE A VALID REASON FOR THAT. COULD BE A MISSING PERSON SEARCH WHERE THEY'RE SEARCHING
THE SAME CAR, OR IT COULD BE A MISUSE OF THE SYSTEM. AND SO THAT IS GOING TO BE EXCUSE ME,
THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED FOR EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER ACROSS THE COUNTRY MOVING FORWARD. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE OUR AUDITING FEATURE WHERE ALL YOUR AUDIT
LOGS AND RECORDS ARE RECORDED FOR NEW CUSTOMERS. 
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WE'RE ADJUSTING THE RETENTION PERIOD SO THAT IT CAN BE ADJUSTED BY THEM FOR THEIR
COMMUNITY'S NEEDS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE BIGGEST CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE TO THE SYSTEM MOVING FORWARD. 
          AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO INNOVATE AND ADD ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR TRANSPARENCY AND
COMPLIANCE. 
          AND COMMITTEE WE'LL HEAR FROM YOU. BUT ONE CONCERN IS THAT DALLAS HAS HAD VARIOUS TOOLS IN
PLACE. 
          AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, WE UNDERSTAND GUIDELINES AND MAYBE HAVE SOME MORE STRINGENT
REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE THAN SOME OTHER SMALLER MARKETS. 
          BUT WHAT THE CONCERN, ONE CONCERN IS THE BASELINE OF OTHERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME KIND
OF GUIDELINES THAT DALLAS HAS. 
          SO, WHAT IS THE NEW ROLLOUT GOING TO DO, OR HELP ASSUAGE SOME CONCERNS AROUND OTHERS WHO
MAY HAVE A LITTLE MORE LOOSE PRACTICE THAN DALLAS? ABSOLUTELY. SO, IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IN ADDITION TO BEING ABLE TO REGULARLY
AUDIT HOW YOUR DEPARTMENT USES THE FLOCK LICENSE PLATE READER SYSTEM, YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THE AUDIT LOGS OF WHOEVER IS IN YOUR NETWORK. 
          SO THE AGENCY AUDIT AUDIT WILL SHOW HOW YOUR AGENCY IS USING THE SYSTEM. 
          THE NETWORK AUDIT SHOWS, AND YOU CURRENTLY HAVE ACCESS TO THIS,
HOW THOSE YOU'RE SHARING WITH ARE UTILIZING YOUR SYSTEM AS WELL. 
          SO YOU ALWAYS HAVE ACCESS TO BOTH OF THOSE. SO WHAT OUR NEW ROLLOUT IS GOING TO DO,
ESPECIALLY WITH THE AUDIT ASSISTANCE TOOL, IS FOR EVERY AGENCY YOU SHARE WITH. NOW, IT'S NOT JUST GOING TO BE DALLAS THAT HAS THESE
PROTECTIONS. 
          EVERY SINGLE AGENCY THAT YOU SHARE WITH ARE ALSO GOING TO HAVE THOSE PROTECTIONS. 
          AND IF YOU NOTICE IN YOUR NETWORK AUDIT LOGS,
YOU SEE A NEIGHBORING JURISDICTION THAT IS DOING OR AN INDIVIDUAL AT A NEIGHBORING JURISDICTION THAT IS DOING MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE SEARCHES,
YOUR AGENCY CAN REACH OUT AND INQUIRE ABOUT THAT AND SAY, IF YOU DO NOT, IF YOU CAN'T PROVIDE US AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY THIS INDIVIDUAL IS MAKING
THESE SEARCHES, WE WILL REVOKE SHARING. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS RETAINS FULL
AUTHORITY TO TO GRANT OR REVOKE SHARING TO ANY AGENCY THAT YOU'RE PARTNERING WITH. ALL RIGHT. I'LL GO TO THE COMMITTEE. MR. ROTH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'D LIKE TO COME BACK. 
          I'M STILL. IF YOU'LL COME BACK TO ME, PLEASE. 
          ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER CADENA. MY QUESTION IS, I KNOW WE KEEP THE DATA FOR 365 DAYS. IS THAT STANDARD FOR AGENCIES,
OR IS THERE OTHER TIMELINES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED OR THAT OTHER AGENCIES ARE RETAINING THE DATA? SO, MAJORS, WE SEE IN MAJOR CITIES, THERE TENDS TO BE A LONGER DATA RETENTION. 
          THIS VARIES FROM CITY TO CITY. SO, THERE IS NO LEGAL STANDARD FOR WHAT WORKS BEST. 
          AND SO, THE FACT THAT DPD HAS MADE IT 365, YOU KNOW,
MAJOR CITIES DEAL WITH MANY MORE MURDERS, MANY MORE SERIOUS CRIMES THAT MAY NOT GET REPORTED FOR A LONG PERIOD. 
          AND SO, BUT I'LL REFER TO YOUR, YOUR OFFICERS AS TO THE SPECIFICS BEHIND THE DATA
RETENTION. 
          YES, THAT'S EXACTLY TRUE. SO, WE HAVE A LOT OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES THAT DO OCCUR. 
          AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO DEVELOP A SUSPECT VEHICLE INFORMATION ON A VIOLENT
CRIME. 
          AND WE NEED TO KEEP THAT 365 DAYS OPEN. WE MAY DEVELOP A CRIME TREND OR A CREW HANDLING
COMMITTING BUSINESS ROBBERIES OR INDIVIDUAL ROBBERIES, AND WE MAY NOT FIND THIS OUT UNTIL LATER. 
          OR SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO NOT REPORT SEXUAL ASSAULTS RIGHT AWAY. 
          AND THEN AFTER WE START INVESTIGATING, WE ABLE TO DEVELOP A SUSPECT VEHICLE,
BUT IT MIGHT BE AFTER THAT 30 DAYS. 
          AND SO, WE NEED TO KEEP THAT 365 DAYS FOR INVESTIGATIVE PURPOSES. 
          BEING A LARGE CITY, SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO DEVELOP A VEHICLE
INFORMATION ON THAT, SO WE JUST NEED THAT TIME SO WE CAN DEVELOP THAT INFORMATION. 
          AND THEN I KNOW YOU SAID THAT WE DETERMINE WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE PLACED ON DATA AND OTHER
THINGS, BUT IS DO WE USE CRIME DATA SPECIFICALLY? WHAT,
HOW DO WE DETERMINE WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE PLACED? YEAH, SO THE PLACEMENTS ARE BASED OFF OF CRIME STATS AT THE TIME. 
          SO, OVER FOUR YEARS THERE WAS INSTALLATIONS AT DIFFERENT TIMES THAT,
YOU KNOW, THE CRIME STATS AT THAT TIME, THAT'S WHERE THEY WERE PLACED BASED OFF OF THOSE,
WHICH OBVIOUSLY CHANGED YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          AND THEN DO CITIES LIMIT HOW MANY CAMERAS MAYBE THEY HAVE? HOW DO WE DETERMINE WHAT'S A GOOD NUMBER FOR DALLAS OR WHAT'S TOO MANY? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION AND IT IS VERY INDIVIDUAL TO EVERY CITY. 
          SOME OF IT IS BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS. SOME WOULD PREFER TO HAVE MORE,
BUT THEY SIMPLY DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET FOR THEM. 
          SOME PURPOSELY CHOOSE TO NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER JUST AT POINTS OF INGRESS OR
EGRESS. 
          IT'S A VERY INDIVIDUAL DECISION BASED ON BOTH THE BUDGET AND THE NEEDS OF THAT CITY. 
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AND THEN WHAT IS OUR POLICIES IF A VEHICLE'S INCORRECTLY IDENTIFIED,
SAY, ANOTHER AGENCY ENTERS THE INFORMATION INCORRECTLY AND WE STOP THE VEHICLE? ARE THERE PROCEDURES IN PLACE FOR THAT TYPE OF INTERACTION? YEAH, SO THE ONLY THE ONLY THING THAT OUR OFFICERS WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY VIA FLOCK IS
THE CUSTOM OR IS THE HOT LIST FROM NCIC/TCIC, THE NATIONAL AND STATE ONE WHICH IS ENTERED IN BY THE AGENCY THAT THE OFFENSE ORIGINATED
IN. 
          SO THAT IS THE SAME DATABASE THAT, YOU KNOW,
THE FBI MANAGES AND DPS MANAGES. 
          SO UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE MISTAKES HAPPEN WHEN THE ENTRY IS PUT IN ON THAT OTHER AGENCY. 
          BUT THAT'S ALL DONE WITHIN THAT NCIC/TCIC ASPECT,
NOT WITHIN FLOCK. 
          AND OUR GENERAL AND OUR GENERAL ORDERS ALSO NOTATE THAT THOSE OFFICERS WILL ALWAYS
VALIDATE THE, YOU KNOW, THE ACCURACY OF THE READ BEFORE THEY MAKE ANY ENFORCEMENT ACTION. 
          AND IF THE INFORMATION IS INCORRECTLY, DO THEY REACH OUT TO THAT AGENCY? IF THEY'VE VERIFIED THAT IT'S INCORRECT, WHAT HAPPENS? YEAH. SO THAT'S A SO IT WOULD BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROCESS OUTSIDE OF FLOCK. 
          SO, IF I ENTER IN A LICENSE PLATE INTO NCIC/TCIC AND IT COMES BACK AS STOLEN,
AND I TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION BASED OFF OF THAT, THAT IS THEN CORRECTED ON THE AGENCY SIDE THAT ENTERED IN THAT WRONG INFORMATION,
IF IT WASN'T, YOU KNOW, IF THEY ENTERED IN THE WRONG LICENSE PLATE. THE ENFORCEMENT ACTION WITHIN FLOCK
ISN'T BASED OFF OF ANYTHING AND IN FLOCK. 
          TO VERIFY LIKE, LET'S SAY A STOLEN VEHICLE DRIVES PAST AN LPR CAR. 
          WE STILL HAVE TO RUN AN NCIC/TCIC TO VALIDATE THAT THAT LICENSE PLATE IS STOLEN. 
          SO, THERE IS A HUMAN CHECK TO VALIDATE THAT THAT HIT OF A STOLEN VEHICLE IS ACTUALLY A
STOLEN VEHICLE. 
          AND IS THE INFORMATION STORED ON SERVERS THAT WE HAVE OR IS IT ON FLOCK? WHERE IS THE INFORMATION STORED THAT WE, THAT Y'ALL COLLECT? YES, THE FLOCK USES AMAZON WEB SERVICES ENCRYPTED CLOUD SERVICES FOR WHERE WE STORE THE
DATA. 
          OKAY. THAT'S IT FOR RIGHT NOW. STEWART. OKAY,
LET ME SAY FIRST AND FOREMOST, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT ANY OF THE POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE OF THIS TOOL OUTWEIGHS THE VALUE OF
THE TOOL. 
          AND IT, AND YET THE MISUSE HAS GOT TO BE OUR FOCUS RIGHT NOW. 
          RIGHT. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC AND REINSTATE TRUST THAT THIS TOOL CAN BE
USED. 
          I'VE SEEN IT USED AND BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN MY DISTRICT. 
          I THINK IT IS A GOOD PIECE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH OUR VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION PLAN. 
          I THINK JUST BEING ABLE TO ARREST THE SUSPECT,
YOU STOP THAT PERSON FROM COMMITTING ANOTHER CRIME, FROM CONTINUING ON THEIR PATH OF CRIME. AND I THINK IT ALSO ACTS AS A DETERRENT TO THE
PEOPLE AROUND THAT SUSPECT THAT WE CAN ACT SO EFFICIENTLY AND QUICKLY AND IDENTIFY A SUSPECT. 
          SO, IT'S GOT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S, IT IS A VALUABLE TOOL. 
          AND I THINK WE, BUT WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MISUSE IS 0 TO 0. 
          I MEAN, IT JUST NEEDS TO BE ZERO. THAT INVASION OF PRIVACY IS VERY FRIGHTENING TO THE
PUBLIC AND VERY UNDERSTANDABLE. 
          SO BACK ON THAT, THE 365 DAYS, I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT QUESTION,
BUT I THINK YOU ALL HAVE GIVEN A GOOD EXPLANATION THAT THERE ARE CRIMES, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WHERE IT TAKES A WHILE TO IDENTIFY THE SUSPECT. 
          AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE THAT ARE REPORTED, YOU KNOW,
WEEKS, IF NOT MONTHS PAST THE TIME OF OCCURRENCE. 
          SO, BUT ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO SHAVE THAT DOWN,
IF YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN SAW THAT THE AVERAGE, THAT IT LOOKED LIKE WE COULD DO 265 VERSUS 365 DAYS,
IT'S A LONG TIME. 
          IT IS A LONG TIME, BUT BASED ON SPEAKING WITH THE DETECTIVES AND,
AND BEING AROUND INVESTIGATIONS, IT DOES TAKE A LONG TIME SOMETIMES TO IDENTIFY A SUSPECT VEHICLES AND CRIMES. 
          YES. AND I JUST THINK RIGHT NOW TO KEEP EVERYBODY SAFE,
TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE BAD INDIVIDUALS OFF THE STREET, THAT WE REALLY NEED TO KEEP IT AT 365 DAYS. I DON'T WANT TO LOSE A CRITICAL PIECE OF
EVIDENCE. 
          THERE'S, THERE'S NO, NO QUESTION. WE'RE FINDING THE SUSPECT. 
          SO ON SLIDE 13, WE WENT FROM 1,063 AGENCIES WHO SHARE WITH DPD,
CORRECT. 
          AND WE WENT DOWN TO 202. YES, MA'AM. THAT'S A HUGE CHANGE. 
          YES. SO, WE WERE GOING. YEAH, SORRY. WE WERE GOING BACK AND STARTING TO REVIEW THE
AGENCIES THAT WERE SHARED BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A PLATFORM THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE 2000, YOU KNOW, 2022. SO, WE WERE GOING BACK AND STARTING TO REVIEW AND GO THROUGH IT ALL. 
          AND UNTIL FLOCK GET SOME, I BELIEVE THEY HAVE SOME THINGS COMING DOWN THE ROADMAP TO ALLOW
FOR MOUS TO BE 
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COMPLETED AND SIGNED FOR WITHIN THE PLATFORM. 
          SO, WE WENT AHEAD AND REMOVED ACCESS TO AGENCIES ONLY WITHIN THE STATE UNTIL THEY GET THAT
IN THERE. 
          AND THEN WE CAN HAVE THAT MOU AND THAT REQUIREMENT THAT SOME,
YOU KNOW, THE MOU TO ACCESS OUR DATA REFLECTS THE POLICIES THAT WE WOULD LIKE THOSE AGENCIES TO IMPLEMENT. SO, SAY NEIGHBORING STATES,
RIGHT? ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, LOUISIANA AND NEW MEXICO. 
          YOU WOULD, WE DON'T HAVE AGREEMENTS WITH THEM CURRENTLY,
IS THAT RIGHT? SO THAT'S THE MOU YOU'RE WORKING ON. AND THOSE WOULD HAVE REQUIREMENTS IN THEM THAT MATCH
WHAT OUR REQUIREMENTS ARE. 
          SO WE CAN TRY TO PREVENT ANY I MEAN, WE JUST DON'T,
WE DON'T WANT THERE TO BE MISUSE BY THE PRODUCT OUTSIDE OF OUR BORDERS OF OUR STATE. 
          YES, MA'AM. AND I ASSUME THAT'S WHERE WE'RE HEADED. YES,
IT WOULD ALLOW US TO SAY TO ACCESS OR SHARE OUR CAMERAS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THESE POLICIES OR FOLLOW THESE RULES THAT WE DETERMINE. 
          OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL MY QUESTION. THE PROACTIVE AUDIT. 
          I THINK THAT IS GREAT. AND JUST LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY RUNNING THE SAME PLATE OVER AND OVER. 
          LIKE YOU SAID, THERE COULD BE A LOGICAL REASON FOR THAT,
BUT THAT COULD BE THAT IS A RED FLAG. 
          SO, I THINK AGAIN, WE JUST NEED TO GET THAT INFORMATION CHAIR OUT INTO THE PUBLIC,
BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE FEAR COMES IN THAT THIS INFORMATION WILL BE MISUSED. AND IT VERY LIKELY HAS BEEN IN CASES. 
          SO, WE'VE GOT TO PROTECT AND PREVENT THAT SO THAT WE HAVE THIS VALUABLE TOOL,
RIGHT? WE'RE NOT TRYING TO THE POWER STRUGGLE HERE IS NOT WE'RE RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG. 
          IT'S LIKE, LET US HAVE THIS VERY POWERFUL, VERY VALUABLE TOOL TO FIND THE BAD GUY. 
          SO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          I'LL PICK UP THERE AND JUST KNOW THAT I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND WHERE FLOCK LPR WORK. 
          YOU GUYS HAVE DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB OF SHOWING US THE DATA AND SHOWING US THAT THIS IS A
GREAT TOOL NOW IS IT, HAS IT BEEN MISUSED? PROBABLY. OUTSIDE OF DALLAS? PROBABLY MORE SO, RIGHT. AND SO, I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND SPEND TIME TODAY ABOUT
WHAT WE CAN DO TO PUT BETTER POLICIES IN PLACE TO PUT IN SAFEGUARDS, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THIS IS A GREAT TOOL AND WE NEED A HABIT,
WE NEED TO KEEP IT. 
          BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE. 
          OUR RESIDENTS, RIGHTFULLY SO, HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS,
A LOT OF CONCERNS WHEN IT COMES TO PRIVACY. 
          SO, LET'S START THERE. LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT LPR ARE AND WHAT THEY'RE NOT. 
          AND SO, THESE ARE MY UNDERSTANDING. THESE ARE STILL PICTURES THAT ARE TAKEN. 
          IT'S NOT A CONTINUOUS RECORDING OF A LIVE FEED. 
          IS THAT FAIR TO SAY. YES, THEY ARE POINT IN TIME IMAGES TYPICALLY GEARED TO GET THE BEST
IMAGE OF THE REAR OF A VEHICLE. AND YES, THAT IS WHAT IT IS. OKAY. AND SO WITH THAT,
ARE WE ABLE TO IDENTIFY CLEAR PICTURES OF THE INDIVIDUALS INSIDE A VEHICLE WHEN A PICTURE IS TAKEN? IN MOST CASES NO. 
          IN THE EVENT THAT THAT WAS TO HAPPEN. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THESE CAMERAS DO NOT HAVE
FACIAL RECOGNITION, AND THEY CANNOT BE SEARCHED FOR INDIVIDUALS. OKAY,
SO IT COULD CAPTURE A FACE OF A PICTURE, BUT WE BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO RECOGNIZE WHO THAT INDIVIDUAL IS. 
          CORRECT, AND THE SYSTEM ITSELF CANNOT BE SEARCHED FOR HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS. 
          OKAY. AND SO, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE RETENTION,
WE, I UNDERSTAND THAT 365 DAYS OF CRIMES THAT MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE BIT LONGER. 
          BUT CAN YOU PROVIDE TO US DATA ON, CURRENTLY TODAY,
ARE WE USING THESE IMAGES WITHIN A MONTH, WITHIN SIX MONTHS? WHEN IS THE BIG THRESHOLD THAT CRIMES ARE SOLVED USING THE FLOCK? I DON'T HAVE THE CURRENT DATA ON ME RIGHT NOW,
BUT WE'LL LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT IF WE CAN DEVELOP AN AVERAGE TIME THAT IT BEGINS TO DEVELOP FLOCK AND ALPR. I DO KNOW THAT WHEN THE AUTO THEFT TASK FORCE
WAS LOOKING AT A CAR THEFT RING, IT WAS MONTHS AND WEEKS OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT RECOVERED THOSE. 
          SO, IT WAS OVER A LENGTHY TIME PERIOD. I DO KNOW ON AUTO THEFTS BUT LET ME GIVE ME SOME
TIME AND I'LL GET THAT AND TRY TO GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU ON THE AVERAGE TIME. WE'RE STARTING TO KEEP TRACK OF THAT DATA,
SO WE'LL KNOW ONCE OFFICER, DETECTIVE ENTERS THAT STUFF INTO THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY IDENTIFIED FLOCK. A LOT OF THE VIOLENT CRIME RIGHT NOW OCCURS,
YOU KNOW, REALLY IMMEDIATELY SOMETIMES WITH JUST LIKE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS WITH THE HOMICIDES
WE HAVE. 
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SO, IT MAY TAKE SOME TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BURGLARY SUSPECTS AS WELL. 
          AND SOMETIMES THERE'S A BURGLAR GOING TO SEPARATE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS OR B&BS THAT OCCUR
AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. 
          BUT LET ME LOOK AT THE DATA AND SEE IF I CAN GIVE THAT TO YOU. 
          AND THEN DO THESE DEVICES TRACK THE SAME VEHICLE FROM ONE DESTINATION TO THE ORIGIN? HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT COURTS HAVE UNANIMOUSLY HELD ACROSS THE
COUNTRY THAT LICENSE PLATE, STATIONARY LICENSE PLATE READERS, LIKE FLOCKS,
DO NOT CONSTITUTE A PATTERN OF LIFE THAT WOULD VIOLATE THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. 
          AND SO IF YOU HAVE A, IF YOU HAVE LICENSE PLATE READERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY,
YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY SEE, OKAY, IT'S HIT, IT HIT THIS, THIS CAMERA AT THIS TIME,
THIS CAMERA AT THAT TIME. 
          AND SO YOU CAN SEE IN GENERALITIES, SUCH AS WITH THE DEMENTIA CASE,
YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WAS A, THE CAR THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WAS HEADING IN THIS DIRECTION AT THIS TIME IN THIS
LOCATION, BUT IT CANNOT CREATE A PATTERN OF LIFE THAT WOULD GO UP AGAINST THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. 
          OKAY. AND CAN ALSO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THIS IS JUST A TOOL TO DEVELOP A LEAD. 
          IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT ESTABLISHES PROBABLE CAUSES RIGHT AWAY. 
          IT'S JUST A GOOD INVESTIGATIVE LEAD THAT THE DETECTIVE CAN MOVE FORWARD ON THE CASE,
ESPECIALLY BEING MORE EFFICIENT. 
          AND I HAVE TO KNOCK ON LOTS OF DOORS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO, IT'S JUST AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD. IT'S NOT ESTABLISHMENT OR PROBABLE CAUSE. 
          WE'VE STILL GOT A LOT. THERE'S NOTHING THAT REPLACES A DETECTIVE DOING GOOD,
HARD INVESTIGATIVE WORK TO HAVE THIS COME TO A CONCLUSION. 
          THANK YOU. SO, WE ALSO HERE IN DALLAS REQUIRE A CASE NUMBER IN ORDER TO GO INTO THE
SYSTEM. 
          I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE STRONGEST AND BEST TOOLS THAT WE HAVE HERE LOCALLY,
BUT THAT'S NOT REQUIRED NECESSARILY FOR OTHER AGENCIES TO GATHER OUR DATA, BUT THROUGH AN MOU WE COULD REQUIRE THAT IS THAT. 
          WELL, IN FLOCK WILL ALSO BE MAKING THAT MANDATORY FOR EVERY USER BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          SO THAT WILL BE A MANDATORY FEATURE FOR ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          OKAY, CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT ANY OTHER TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THAT ARE ON THE HORIZON? ONE OF THE OTHER ONES, IN ADDITION TO THE PROACTIVE AUDIT ASSISTANCE,
IN ADDITION TO THE REQUIRING OF A CASE NUMBER IS WE ARE GOING TO CUSTOMIZE FOR AGENCIES OR ALLOW AGENCIES TO CUSTOMIZE WHAT THEIR CAMERAS ARE USED FOR. 
          SOME AGENCIES ONLY WANT THEIR CAMERAS TO BE SEARCHED FOR FELONIES,
NO MISDEMEANORS. 
          EVERY AGENCY IS NOW GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO INTO THEIR SYSTEM AND DESELECT WHAT THE FOLKS
THEY'RE SHARING WITH CAN USE IT FOR. 
          SO, IF YOU ONLY WANT THE AGENCIES THAT ARE IN YOUR NETWORK,
YOU ONLY WANT THEM TO BE SEARCHING, BE ABLE TO SEARCH FOR FELONIES, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          OR DOWN TO A SPECIFIC CASE IF YOU KNOW, I KNOW OF A CITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT DOES
NOT WANT THEIR CAMERAS USED FOR ENFORCING LAWS AGAINST SEX WORKERS. THEY'LL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DESELECT SOLICITING SO THAT IF THERE IS ANY
INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING SOLICITING, THEIR CAMERAS AREN'T GOING TO BE USED FOR IT. YOUR CAMERAS WILL BE THE SAME WAY WHERE IF
YOU ONLY WANT YOUR THE NETWORK AGENCIES IN YOUR NETWORK USING THEM FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE OR NOT USING THEM FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE, YOU AS AN AGENCY AND A COMMUNITY WILL BE ABLE TO
DECIDE ON THAT. 
          YEAH. AND I'LL JUST GO BACK TO THE RETENTION QUESTIONS THAT I HAD IS,
YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND IF WE HAVE A LEAD OR IF WE HAVE A PROBABLE CAUSE TO KEEP THAT FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. 
          BUT WHERE I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS, ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS IS FOR VEHICLES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
IDENTIFIED FOR ANY CRIME. 
          LASTLY FLOCK OBVIOUSLY IS IN A NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO, THEY'RE STILL IN OUR SURROUNDING CITIES. 
          OUR DALLAS RESIDENTS WOULD STILL BE DRIVING IN AREAS OUTSIDE OF DALLAS. 
          WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE BUSINESSES? AND SO, HELP ME UNDERSTAND,
THERE'S PROBABLY LITTLE TO NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE FLOCKS. PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING TO BE PROBABLY CAPTURED GOING THROUGH A GROCERY STORE
OR GOING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. IS THAT,
IS THAT RIGHT? YES, FLOCK HAS SEVERAL HOA CUSTOMERS IN THE STATE IN ADDITION TO RETAIL PARTNERS WHO USE
IT FOR ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME, ORGANIZED RETAIL THEFT. AND SO THEY, AS THE DEPARTMENT SAID,
THEY CAN CHOOSE TO SHARE THEIR CAMERAS WITH YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, BUT THEY WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION. 
          SO WE KNOW A LOT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING HAPPENS IN PARKING LOTS OF LARGE RETAILERS OR MALLS. 
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SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE CAMERAS ARE USED FOR ON THE PRIVATE SIDE,
BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO TO YOUR GOVERNMENT DATA. 
          THANK YOU. AND JUST TO TOUCH ON WHAT HE HAD BROUGHT UP ABOUT THAT TOOL THEY'RE ROLLING OUT
TO FOR THE AGENCY TO LIMIT WHAT AGENCIES CAN SEARCH OUR CASES OR OUR CAMERAS FOR. WE HAVE THAT TURNED ON AS BETA TESTING WITHIN OUR PLATFORM. 
          WE HAVE THAT TURNED ON LAST WEEK. AND SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH TO IDENTIFY WHAT WE WILL
ACCEPT OTHER AGENCIES TO SEARCH FOR WITHIN OUR CAMERAS. 
          ALL RIGHT, MAYOR PRO TEM. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I THINK IT'S BEEN VERY INFORMATIVE. 
          AND I ALSO WANT TO KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGE IT SEEMS LIKE Y'ALL ARE THE DEPARTMENT IS AWARE OF
SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN EXPRESSING. 
          AND PARTICULARLY WITH THE ABILITY FOR OUTSIDE AGENCIES TO USE OUR DATA. 
          AND SO I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, YOU KNOW,
I'VE HEARD FROM CRIME VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO SUPPORT THE CAMERAS. 
          AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO TAKE THEIR VOICES SERIOUSLY. 
          SO I DON'T WANT TO MINIMIZE THE PUBLIC SAFETY VALUE OF THESE CAMERAS OR DISMISS THE
EXPERIENCES OF VICTIMS WHO BELIEVE IN THEM. 
          ALSO, I DON'T THINK ACKNOWLEDGING THAT VALUE REQUIRES US TO IGNORE LEGITIMATE CONCERNS
ABOUT PRIVACY, CIVIL LIBERTIES, DATA RETENTION, INFORMATION SHARING,
OR THE POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE. 
          IN FACT, BECAUSE THIS TECHNOLOGY IS SO POWERFUL,
I THINK WE HAVE AN EVEN GREATER RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE APPROPRIATE GUARDRAILS ARE IN PLACE. I'M ASSUMING THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS AWARE OF THE SIGNIFICANT PRIVACY AND CIVIL
LIBERTY CONCERNS THAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE RAISED REGARDING FLOCK CAMERAS, RIGHT? I BELIEVE OUR DEPARTMENT DOES. 
          AND LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR DEPARTMENT. 
          AND WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AHEAD OF ISSUES THAT HAVE COME UP NOW AND SPEAKING WITH SERGEANT
REINHARDT AND MYSELF OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS DISCUSSING THE FLOCK SYSTEM, WE'RE AWARE OF THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF. 
          AND WE'RE ALWAYS THINKING OF WAYS TO MAKE IT BETTER AND MAKE IT,
YOU KNOW, HAVE MORE GUARDRAILS WITH REGARDS TO THAT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING DISCUSSIONS REGARDING AUDITS AND KEEPING TRACK OF INDIVIDUALS WHO DO
THE SEARCHES, ALL THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THESE WEEKS BEFORE. 
          AND SO, I KNOW IT'S COMING OUT NOW, BUT WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS INTERNALLY WITHIN THE
DEPARTMENT. 
          AND I THINK IT'S JUST WITH ALSO WITH THE DETECTIVES THEMSELVES,
VERY PROFESSIONAL INDIVIDUALS, THEY WANT TO GET THE BAD PERSON OFF THE STREET TO GIVE CLOSURE TO THE VICTIMS AND THEIR
FAMILIES, RIGHT. AND SO I, THEY, THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TOOL AND WHAT IT'S USED FOR. 
          AND THEY TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. AND SO ALL THAT TOGETHER. 
          I THINK THAT'S WHY DALLAS PD IS ALWAYS AHEAD WITH REGARDS TO TECHNOLOGY AND THINGS OF THAT
NATURE AS WELL. 
          OKAY, SO THEN HAVE HAS THE AWARENESS OF THOSE CONCERNS RESULTED IN ANY CHANGES TO THESE
POLICIES OR PRACTICES? AND IF SO, WHAT SPECIFICALLY HAS CHANGED? YEAH,
AND SO THAT WAS PART OF THAT REVIEW. 
          THESE DISCUSSIONS STARTED IN MAY OF THIS YEAR AND HAVE CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER OF
IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, THE SHARING ASPECT OF IT WITH OTHER AGENCIES AND OUTSIDE OF THE STATE. 
          AND THEN ALSO WHAT SAFEGUARDS CAN FLOCK IMPLEMENT TO HELP US YOU KNOW,
PUT UP THOSE GUARDRAILS OR PUT UP THAT INFORMATION WITHOUT AFFECTING PUBLIC SAFETY TOO MUCH. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT THE PLATFORM IS BEING
ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHERE SOMETHING IS THAT WE DON'T KNOW EXISTS, RIGHT? KNOWING THAT VEHICLE IS IN THIS OTHER STATE OR THIS OTHER CITY THAT IS CONNECTED TO
THE OFFENSE THAT WE'RE INVESTIGATING IS IMPORTANT. 
          AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING AND TALKING TO FLOCK ABOUT IS GIVE US THAT ABILITY TO KNOW THAT
IT'S OVER THERE WITHOUT GIVING US JUST CARTE BLANCHE ACCESS TO THOSE CAMERAS, RIGHT? SAY, HEY, THIS LICENSE PLATE THAT YOU SEARCHED SHOWED UP IN THIS CITY,
CONTACT THIS PHONE NUMBER OR THIS EMAIL ADDRESS TO THEN FOLLOW UP, RIGHT? IT ADDS THAT EXTRA LAYER OF VALIDATION OR VERIFICATION BEFORE THAT AGENCY GETS MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THAT VEHICLE AND THE OFFENSE THAT THEY'RE INVESTIGATING. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL GUARDRAILS THAT DPD BELIEVES
WOULD BE REASONABLE? THAT'S ONE OF THEM. THEY DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE ASKING WITHIN THEIR PLATFORM IS TO GIVE US THAT ABILITY TO SEE
WHERE THAT LICENSE PLATE IS THAT WE SEARCHED BUT NOT GIVE US THE PICTURE THAT THE CAMERA NAME, THE LOCATION, DATE AND TIME, BUT GIVE US SOMEWHERE,
GIVE US THAT NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK TO THEN FOLLOW UP WITH THAT AGENCY TO THEN GET MORE INFORMATION FOR THAT OFFENSE. AND THAT'S A HUGE THAT WOULD BE A HUGE GUARDRAIL,
YOU KNOW, A HUGE GUARDRAIL TO LIMIT THAT MISUSE. AND MAYOR PRO TEM JUST TO GO OFF OF WHAT HE JUST
SAID. 
          I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THE LEADERSHIP NATIONALLY THAT DPD HAS IN THIS
REGARD. 
          AGAIN, THERE'S A REASON THAT THEY ARE ONE OF OUR BETA TESTERS FOR ONE OF OUR NEWEST
FEATURES IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN A TRUE PARTNER IN PROVIDING FLOCK FEEDBACK ON WHERE WE 
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CAN BE BETTER. AND WE TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DPD EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY,
LIKE THE ONES THAT WERE JUST MENTIONED. 
          I ALSO THINK THAT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, DEALING WITH HUNDREDS,
IF NOT THOUSANDS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT IS BEING LED BY ALLISON AND THE DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE IS
REALLY ADMIRABLE. 
          AND REALLY FIRST IN CLASS AS IT RELATES TO NOT ONLY PUTTING THESE GUARDRAILS IN PLACE,
NOT ONLY TALKING TO THE COMMUNITY, BUT TAKING THOSE COMMUNITY CONCERNS BACK TO US BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WE CAN'T REST ON OUR
LAURELS AS IT RELATES TO PUTTING THESE, THESE PRACTICES, THESE BEST PRACTICES INTO PLACE. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE TO, YOU KNOW,
CHIME IN AND ANSWER QUESTIONS AS WELL. 
          I DID HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A DALLAS RESIDENT WHO TELLS
US I HAVEN'T COMMITTED A CRIME, SO WHY SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT MAINTAIN A SEARCHABLE RECORD FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR,
SHOWING WHEN AND WHERE MY VEHICLE TRAVELED PAST THESE CAMERAS? IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT JUST BECAUSE AN IMAGE IS CAPTURED DOESN'T MEAN IT'S USED. 
          THAT'S THE REAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS SYSTEM. WHENEVER WE WALK ANYWHERE IN SOCIETY NOWADAYS,
THERE'S ANY NUMBER OF CAMERAS THAT WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER HOW THAT DATA IS USED,
WHETHER IT'S WALKING DOWN THE STREET, IN FRONT OF SOMEONE'S HOUSE WHERE THEY MIGHT HAVE A VIDEO DOORBELL. 
          IN THIS CASE, THIS IS A TOOL THAT IS USED ONLY FOR INVESTIGATORY PURPOSES. 
          SO IF YOU ARE NOT THE THE PURPOSE OF AN INVESTIGATION IT WILL NOT BE USED. 
          WE CAN'T SAY THAT FOR ALL THE OTHER CAMERAS THAT ARE AROUND US IN THE WORLD TODAY. 
          NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THAT LEVEL OF PRIVACY,
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THIS THIS AUDITING FEATURE. 
          THAT'S WHY EVERY CLICK IN THIS SYSTEM, ALMOST EVERY CLICK IN THIS SYSTEM IS TRACKED AND
CAN BE AUDITED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS THE CASE, TO MAKE SURE THAT PRIVACY IS NOT VIOLATED. AND SO THAT'S,
WE UNDERSTAND AT FLOCK THAT PUBLIC SAFETY TECHNOLOGY HAS TO MEET A HIGHER BAR THAN A REGULAR CAMERA THAT'S ON A PRIVATE HOME. 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE PUT IN PLACE THESE SIGNIFICANT GUARDRAILS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLKS
THAT AREN'T DOING ANYTHING THAT ARE NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION CAN FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THEIR INFORMATION WILL NOT BE USED INAPPROPRIATELY. 
          AND SO WITH REGARD TO THE AUDITS, AUDITING THAT HELPS IDENTIFY MISUSE AFTER IT OCCURS,
RIGHT? YES, SO WHAT AND THIS AGAIN, IS PART OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM OUR
LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS. 
          WE'VE ALWAYS HAD AUDIT LOGS. WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST IN THE BUSINESS TO PROVIDE THESE
IMMUTABLE AUDIT LOGS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, SOME AGENCIES DID IT AUDIT QUARTERLY,
SOME DID IT YEARLY. 
          AND WHAT THEY TOLD US IS WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OUR ANNUAL AUDIT TO FIND OUT
IF THIS TOOL WAS MISUSED. 
          WE WANT TO FIND OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. AND THAT'S WHERE OUR PROACTIVE AUDITING,
THE AUDITING ASSISTANCE CAME IN. 
          SO, THIS WAY, THE MINUTE IT HAPPENS, IT'S FLAGGED AS ATYPICAL,
AND YOUR ADMINISTRATOR CAN LOOK AT IT, INQUIRE ABOUT WHETHER IT WAS APPROPRIATE OR NOT AND TAKE ACTION. 
          AND SO THAT WAS DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF THE FEEDBACK WE GOT FROM OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS. 
          AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO INNOVATE ON AND FIND MORE WAYS TO MAKE SURE
THAT ANY BAD ACTOR IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 
          IS THERE ANYTHING THAT A FLOCK CAN DO TECHNOLOGICALLY TO PREVENT AN IMPROPER SEARCH FROM
OCCURRING IN THE FIRST PLACE? SO WE HAVE, YOU, WE HAVE FILTERS, SEARCH FILTERS THAT CAN BE PUT IN PLACE. 
          SO IF A PROHIBITED TERM IS USED, THAT SEARCH WILL NOT GO THROUGH. 
          AND SO TO, WE'RE CONTINUING TO FIGURE OUT AND INNOVATE HOW WE CAN MAKE THOSE FILTERS EVEN
BROADER AND MORE AVAILABLE TO EVERY DEPARTMENT, WHETHER IT'S USED FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE THAT GOES AGAINST YOUR COMPANY'S POLICIES OR YOUR
AGENCY'S POLICIES. 
          AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO WAYS TO INNOVATE TO MAKE THOSE THOSE GUARDRAILS MORE EFFECTIVE
AND BROADER. 
          OKAY, I HAVE ONE OTHER ONE FOR YOU. SO, WHEN YOUR SYSTEM IDENTIFIES POTENTIALLY IMPROPER
ACTIVITY, WHO GETS NOTIFIED? SO YOUR ADMINISTRATOR HAS ACCESS TO ALL OF THE FLAGS OR HOWEVER MANY
ADMINISTRATORS YOU HAVE TO, THERE'S A SPECIFIC PAGE IN THE SYSTEM THAT HAS ALL OF THE SEARCHES THAT IN USERS THAT HAVE
BEEN FLAGGED UNDER OUR AUDIT ASSISTANCE TOOL. 
          AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE ACCESS TO THAT. 
          OKAY. I HAVE A COUPLE OTHER FOR DPD, AND THEN I'LL GO AHEAD AND PASS THE MIC,
SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          WHY DO NEARLY 2,000 DPD OFFICERS NEED ACCESS? WILL BETWEEN PATROL AND INVESTIGATIVE. WE'RE AT ABOUT 2,000 OFFICERS ON TOP OF CRIME
ANALYSIS AND FUSION CENTER, REAL TIME CRIME CENTER. THAT'S ABOUT 2,000. WELL,
HAS DPD CONSIDERED LIMITING ACCESS TO A SMALLER GROUP BASED ON INVESTIGATIVE NEED? 
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I MEAN, WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN TO REVIEW AND LOOK AT DIFFERENT CHANGES THAT WOULD THAT WOULD BE
BETTER, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE'RE NOT STUCK IN OUR WAYS BY ANY MEANS. 
          SO, IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT AND THAT WE. THEN WE WILL. 
          AND BEYOND THE AUDITS, WHAT POLICIES, TRAINING OR REVIEWS ARE IN PLACE FOR THE NEARLY
02,000 OFFICERS THAT HAVE ACCESS TO FLOCK? SO, THEY DO HAVE TO WATCH SOME VIDEOS, TRAINING VIDEOS ON HOW TO OPERATE THE SYSTEM AND
THEN TAKE A SHORT TEST JUST TO ENSURE THAT THEY PAID ATTENTION AND DID THE TRAINING VIDEOS BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO THEN GET ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM. 
          AND ALSO TO ADD ON THAT FLOCK PROVIDES FREE OF CHARGE WHAT WE CALL FLOCK ACADEMY,
WHICH PROVIDES TRAINING FOR EVERY ASPECT OF THE SYSTEM. 
          AND SO WE PROVIDE THAT FREE OF CHARGE. AWESOME. 
          LAST QUESTION I HAVE FOR DPD IS WOULD DPD BE OPEN TO WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL AND MEMBERS
OF THE PUBLIC ON ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS INVOLVING RETENTION PERIODS, OUTSIDE AGENCY ACCESS, TRANSPARENCY AND PERMISSIBLE USES OF THE SYSTEM? I'D SAY YES, BUT THAT WOULD BE UP TO THE STAFF AND THE CHIEF. 
          ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. CAN I JUST ADD SOMETHING REAL QUICK? ALSO WE'RE GOING
TO BE PUTTING OUT A REMINDER TO ALL DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL ON THE USE OF THE FLOCK ALPR SYSTEM AS WELL. AND WHAT IT'S INTENDED PURPOSES IS AND HOW IT WILL BE USED JUST AS A
REMINDER FOR EVERYBODY AS WELL WITH. 
          I JUST WANT TO ADD SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUDIT SYSTEM. SO I'M IN MY INVESTIGATIVE TEAM,
I'M MOVING UP. 
          SO, THE, THEY GET A WEEKLY AUDIT. IF THEY SEE SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT AND SENT
TO THE SUPERVISOR. 
          WELL, NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE DIVISION COMMANDER. 
          SO, THE DIVISION COMMANDER WILL KNOW WHAT THE RESPONSE IS. 
          SPEAKING WITH THE SUPERVISORS THIS PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS THE AUDITS THAT WE DID GET BACK
WERE THE THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE DON'T LOOK LIKE IS, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A CASE THAT'S ASSIGNED TO AN OFFENSE. 
          A LOT OF THE TIMES THE DETECTIVES ARE NOT PUTTING THE CORRECT NUMBER OF ZEROS IN THE
SERVICE NUMBER OR THE LITTLE HYPHEN, THE LITTLE DASH THAT GOES BETWEEN THE CASE NUMBER AND THE YEAR. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING SO FAR. BUT THE DIVISION COMMANDER OF THE INVESTIGATED UNITS
WILL BE LOOKING REVIEWING THE AUDITS AS WELL TO MAKE SURE, THEY'RE IN ALL THE WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE IN COMPLIANCE. 
          ALL RIGHT. REAL QUICK, SO IS THERE A PLAN OR A PATHWAY FOR PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE AND EVEN
TERMINATION IF THERE'S ABUSE? I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE DEPARTMENT WILL TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY IF THERE'S ANY FOUND ANY
EMPLOYEES FOUND TO HAVE BEEN MISUSING THE SYSTEM, IT WILL BE VERY STRINGENT DISCIPLINE REGARDING THAT. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST A COACHING SESSION. 
          HEY, DON'T FORGET TO PUT THE HYPHEN SO WE DON'T GET THESE AUDITS. THAT CLEARLY IS NOT WHAT
WE'RE. 
          RIGHT, YEAH. SO, THE HYPHEN. SO, WE'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED THAT ISSUES WITH COACHING. 
          HEY JUST A REMINDER, MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE HYPHEN OUT. 
          YOU KNOW HYPHEN OR THE EXTRA ZERO. MAKE SURE THAT THE CASE NUMBER IS EXACTLY THE WHAT THE
SYSTEM SHOWS. 
          ALL RIGHT. DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM. THANK YOU, CHAIR. 
          I MADE A LOT OF COMMENTS THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS,
I BELIEVE LAST WEEK AT THE BRIEFING. 
          AND SO, I WANT TO THANK MAYOR PRO TEM FOR HIS QUESTION,
ESPECIALLY THE LATTER PART, THE LATTER PART OF THE QUESTION THAT HE ASKED. 
          IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD A SON OR A LOVED ONE GET KILLED AND HAVE SOMEONE,
GO MISSING, THEN YOU WOULD KIND OF HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION IF YOU DID WHEN YOU COME TO
RESOURCES THAT CAN HELP BRING THOSE FAMILIES CLOSURE. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAD THIS RESOURCE WHEN MY SON WAS
MURDERED IN 2019. 
          BUT I KNOW SOME FAMILIES THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS. 
          AND SO, I SUPPORT IT, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT CLOSURE FEELS LIKE. 
          I KNOW THE QUESTIONS THAT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND ASKING,
WHAT CAN YOU DO? CALLING THE DETECTIVES AND THEM NOT HAVING AN ANSWER RIGHT AWAY BUT WORKING HARD TO BRING
RESOLVE TO A MATTER. 
          THIS RESOURCE BRINGS CLOSURE. IT HELPS SOLVES CRIME. 
          IT HELPS BRING FAMILIES TOGETHER THAT ARE STRUGGLING,
THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED THAT LEVEL OF PAIN AND HURT. 
          AND SO, I SUPPORT IT, BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WANT THAT KIND OF RESOURCE TO HELP
FIX WHATEVER PROBLEM THEY NEED TO BE FIXED AND FIND THE CRIMINAL WHO BROUGHT HURT NOT ONLY TO MY FAMILY,
BUT TO OTHER FAMILIES THAT MAY BE OUT THERE. 
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AND I KNOW THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT I SERVE WANT CLOSURE. 
          THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SAFE. IF SOMEONE IS BREAKING IN YOUR CAR,
SOMEONE IS BREAKING IN BUSINESSES. 
          YOU WANT RESOURCES THAT HELP SOLVE THIS MATTER. 
          SO, WHETHER I WHERE I DON'T HAVE A ACTUAL QUESTION,
I'M ONE THAT HAS EXPERIENCED TRAGEDY, WHAT WE CALL VIOLENT CRIME, GUN VIOLENCE. AND SO I SUPPORT IT,
CHIEF. 
          I SUPPORT IT. YOU ALL ARE HERE. YOU HAVE DONE THIS WORK,
AND I WANT THOSE FAMILIES THAT HAVE CALLED. 
          CAN YOU HELP ME FIND WHO DID THIS? THIS IS A RESOURCE THAT WE CAN USE THAT WILL HELP FIND
THAT. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT WITH US DEPUTY MAYOR. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER WEST. HEY, CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN. GREAT. GREAT. THANK YOU,
CHAIR, FOR LETTING ME JOIN TODAY. 
          AS A NON-COMMITTEE MEMBER. AS I SHARED DURING THE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS LAST WEEK,
JUST LIKE AI CAMERAS ON SANITATION TRUCKS, I BELIEVE THAT THIS FLOCK CAMERA DISCUSSION DESERVES A THOROUGH COMMITTEE REVIEW. 
          AND I'M REALLY GLAD THAT YOU GUYS HAVE HAD IT TODAY IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          I DEFINITELY CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE SOME BENEFITS TO THE PROGRAM IN CRIME PREVENTION AND
CRIME SOLVING AND I'VE, I BELIEVE THE DATA YOU'VE SHOWN US TODAY. I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS,
THOUGH, THAT REALLY REFLECT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT CAME FROM MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          SO A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED. HOW MANY TIMES ON A GIVEN WEEK OR GIVEN MONTH
IS THE AVERAGE DALLAS SITE FILMED BY A FLOCK CAMERA? DO WE DO WE KNOW THAT? CAN IT GIVE US THAT INFORMATION? I DON'T I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I CAN GO BACK AND LOOK
IN AND SEE IF THAT INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU. 
          YEAH, I'D BE CURIOUS JUST TO KNOW YOUR AVERAGE PERSON DRIVING TO AND FROM WORK OR THE GYM
OR DROPPING KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL. 
          LIKE HOW MANY TIMES IS THEIR LICENSE BEING PICKED UP BY THE LPR? SO YEAH, PLEASE FOLLOW UP ON THAT. I HEARD THE QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CADENA ABOUT
THE DATA RETENTION AND THE TIME PERIOD, AND I HEARD DPDS ANSWERS TO THAT ON WHY, YOU KNOW,
IT'S BENEFICIAL FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO KEEP THE DATA FOR A YEAR. 
          I LOOKED INTO THIS A LITTLE BIT, AND I SEE THAT MOST CITIES WITH FLOCK,
IT'S 30 DAYS OR LESS, I BELIEVE YOU GUYS EVEN STATED THAT. AND THEN FLOCK OWN WEBSITE RECOMMENDS SEVEN DAY
RETENTION. 
          HOW DO WE MEASURE THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE DATA FOR 365 DAYS? I HEARD, YOU KNOW, THE RESPONSE FROM DPD THAT IT'S HELPFUL FOR,
YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE LONGER TERM CRIMES AND LIKE CAR THEFT SPREES AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          DO YOU HAVE A WAY TO LITERALLY TRACK THAT, THAT IF WE,
IF WE SHORTENED IT TO, SAY, 30 DAYS, WE WOULDN'T HAVE SOLVED 5% OF THE CRIMES OR WHAT HAVE YOU. 
          I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION, BUT I CAN, BASED ON LOOKING AT DETECTIVES AND SPEAKING WITH
THEM, REDUCING IT TO 30 DAYS, I THINK WOULD HAVE A DRASTIC CHANGE ON THEIR CLEARANCE RATES ON
SOME CRIMES AS WELL. 
          BUT WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT THE TIME FRAME IT TAKES TO IDENTIFY A VEHICLE AND LOOKING
AT THAT AS WELL DURING THIS PROCESS TO SEE IF THE 365 IS APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME,
BUT BASED ON WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR, I THINK IT IS. 
          A LOT OF CRIME TRENDS OCCUR OVER A LONG, LENGTHY TIME PERIOD. 
          AND I, I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED THAT 365 DAYS,
BUT WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT IT. 
          I HAD ALREADY STARTED THAT PROCESS AS WELL BEFORE WE CAME HERE,
BECAUSE I KNOW THE 365 DAYS IS BEING ASKED A LOT OF YOU IN THE COMMUNITY. SO, WE'RE LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. NO, I UNDERSTAND YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT. 
          AND IF I WERE IN DPDS POSITION, I WOULD WANT TO KEEP IT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE TOO. 
          IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOU ASK A CITY DEPARTMENT,
LIKE HOUSING OR, OR WHOEVER. 
          DO YOU NEED REAL ESTATE? WELL, EVERYONE'S GOING TO SAY,
WE WANT TO HOLD ON TO THE REAL ESTATE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, BUT WE AS A CITY HAVE A DUTY TO BE EXPEDITIOUS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAXIMIZING OUR RESOURCES. 
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SO I THINK THAT THAT'S A DISCUSSION WE NEED TO KEEP HAVING. 
          LET'S SEE, SLIDE 11, 1,917 DPD OFFICERS HAVE ACCESS TO THE TECHNOLOGY. 
          AND THEN MAYOR PRO TEM QUESTION ELICITED THAT THE TRAINING THAT THE OFFICERS GO THROUGH IS
A VIDEO AND A SHORT TEST. 
          IS THAT, AND THIS IS FOR FLOCK. IS THAT PRETTY STANDARD FOR OTHER CITIES? IS IT, THE FLOCK TRAINING THAT'S PROVIDED, OR DO YOU SEE OTHER CITIES PROVIDING ADDITIONAL
TRAINING? I WOULDN'T SAY THERE IS A NATIONWIDE STANDARD AS OF YET. 
          WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER BEST PRACTICE? WE'VE SEEN ANY NUMBER OF THINGS. WHAT WE'VE SEEN BASIC SIGN OFF THAT YOU AGREED TO MAKE
SURE THAT THE SYSTEM IS NOT MISUSED. WE HAVE FOLKS THAT REQUIRE THE FLOCK ACADEMY TRAINING COURSES,
OR THEY HAVE THEIR OWN COURSES THAT ALIGN WITH THEIR DEPARTMENT'S POLICIES. 
          OKAY, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FLOCK TRAINING ACADEMY CONSISTS OF. 
          IF YOU COULD SEND THAT TO ME. YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          IT IN BRIEF, IT GOES OVER EVERY ASPECT OF THE TOOL OF HOW TO RUN A SEARCH HOW TO PULL AN
AUDIT LOG, HOW TO DO AUDIT ASSISTANCE. AND SO, I'M HAPPY TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. 
          AWESOME. THANK YOU. SO, I BELIEVE THIS WAS ASKED PREVIOUSLY,
BUT JUST I'LL ASK DPD TO CLARIFY THAT THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY REPORTED CASES OF DPD OFFICERS MISUSING THE TECHNOLOGY. IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT SIR. THAT'S GREAT. AND IF THERE WAS A REPORTED CASE OF MISUSE,
WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCE? IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE EMPLOYEE,
ALL THAT. 
          AFTER THE INVESTIGATION, YOU KNOW, THE CHAIN OF COMMAND WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION OF THE
PROPER DISCIPLINE. 
          BUT I CAN TELL YOU, BASED ON HAVING DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHER COMMAND STAFF MEMBERS IN THAT
IT WOULD BE VERY HARSH PUNISHMENT, BECAUSE WE TAKE THAT USE OF TECHNOLOGY VERY SERIOUSLY. 
          AND WHEN YOU VIOLATE THAT IT'S A SERIOUS THING. 
          OKAY. CAN WE PULL UP SLIDE 12 FOR A MINUTE? AND THIS TALKS ABOUT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNER NETWORK. 
          WHAT I GOT CONFUSED ON ONE OF THE EARLIER ANSWERS. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHO ASKED THE QUESTION, BUT THERE WERE 1,508 AGENCIES THAT HAD SHAREABLE
ACCESS TO OUR DATA. AND THEN I HEARD A RESPONSE THAT NOW THERE'S ONLY 202 AGENCIES,
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S JUST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES OR NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          YEAH, SO THOSE THE NUMBERS ON THAT SLIDE, THE TOP NUMBER IS THE AGENCIES THAT HAVE ACCESS
TO OUR CAMERAS. 
          AND THE BOTTOM NUMBER IS THE AGENCIES THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR CAMERAS. 
          THAT TOP NUMBER IS THAT'S THE ONE THAT CHANGED TO 202. 
          AND THAT BOTTOM NUMBER CHANGED TO 1,028. WELL OKAY,
SO, IT'S SLIDE 13 ACTUALLY. 
          YEAH, SO, WHEN THIS WHEN THIS PRESENTATION WAS PUBLISHED,
THERE WERE 1,063 AGENCIES THAT OR THERE WERE 1,508 AGENCIES THAT DPD SHARED WITH. 
          AND HOW MANY ARE THERE NOW? 202. 202. AND THAT CHANGED IN THE LAST WEEK SINCE? IT'S CHANGED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, NOT JUST LAST WEEK. 
          SO, IT WAS PART OF THE REVIEW THAT WE WERE DOING ON THE AGENCY SHARING ASPECT OF IT
WHETHER IT BE IN STATE OR OUT OF STATE. 
          OKAY. IT'S A, THAT'S A PRETTY BIG CHANGE TO,
TO, TO HAVE JUST HAPPENED SINCE THESE SLIDES WERE, WERE PRODUCED. BUT THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE? OVER TIME. AS FOR AN AGENCY TO, OR TO REQUEST ACCESS IT,
THEY HAVE TO ACCESS OR REQUEST THAT ACCESS THROUGH THE PLATFORM. 
          SO THE SO WE CAN GET REQUESTS MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          SO, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A GRADUAL INCREASE,
NOT A YOU KNOW, IT ALL WAS SHARED ON THE FIRST DAY WE HAD ACCESS. 
          ALL RIGHT, AND I THOUGHT YOU ALSO MENTIONED,
SERGEANT, THAT WE HAVE STOPPED SHARING WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES. 
          YES. SO WE'RE NO LONGER SHARING WITH ANY OF THOSE AGENCIES ON THAT SLIDE. 
          THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. AND THAT'S ALSO CHANGED WITHIN THE LAST SINCE THESE SLIDES WERE
PUBLISHED? YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO INTO THE I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE AUDITS. 
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THAT THE CHAIR AND ALSO MAYOR PRO TEM ASKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT. 
          SO, IF, I THINK THE RESPONSE WAS IF THERE'S A MISUSE OR THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE OR LIKE
OUT OF ORDINARY WITH ONE OF THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IT WILL BE FLAGGED. 
          WHO'S FLAGGING THE AUDIT? AND LIKE YOU CAN JUST SAY X TOWN THAT HAS ACCESS TO OUR DATA. 
          WHO'S FLAGGING THAT? IS THAT QUESTION FOR THE FLOCK REPRESENTATIVE HERE? ANYBODY WHO KNOWS THE ANSWER. SO, THE, THE THERE'S TWO,
THE AUDIT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WOULD BE THE NETWORK AUDIT. 
          AND SO THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOUR AGENCY WOULD NEED TO REVIEW TO LOOK AT HOW THE
AGENCIES YOU'RE SHARING WITH WITHIN YOUR NETWORK ARE UTILIZING YOUR SYSTEM TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING WORTH FLAGGING WITH THAT PARTICULAR AGENCY,
IN WHICH CASE THEY COULD REACH OUT AND ASK ABOUT IT. 
          IF THEY DON'T GET AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE, THEY COULD RESCIND SHARING. BUT THAT THAT WOULD
BE THE CASE. 
          I'M LESS WORRIED ABOUT DPD. DPD, I FEEL LIKE HAS GOT THEIR OFFICERS PRETTY UNDER CONTROL
HERE AND SEEMS TO BE PREVENTING MISUSE AS OPPOSED TO THESE OTHER AGENCIES. AND I JUST DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THE AUDIT SYSTEM THAT'S BEEN SET UP THROUGH FLOCK AND THE CHECKS AND BALANCES ON THE AUDIT FOR THESE
OUTSIDE AGENCIES ARE GOING TO TRANSLATE DOWN TO SOME OFFICER WHO'S ALREADY BUSY AND OVERWORKED IN DPD BEING ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE FLAG AND THEN SAY,
THIS IS AN ISSUE, AND THEN IT GOING TO THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE. 
          ALL OF THIS SEEMS A LITTLE SQUISHY TO ME. WHAT CAN YOU SAY TO MAKE ME FEEL MORE
COMFORTABLE WITH THIS AUDIT PROCESS? WELL, ONE ASPECT IS THAT BY THE END OF THE YEAR,
EVERY AGENCY THAT UTILIZES FLOCK IS GOING TO HAVE AUDIT ASSISTANCE MANDATED. 
          SO THE BEST PRACTICES THAT DPD IS ALREADY DOING IS GOING TO BE MANDATED FOR EVERY USER IN
THE SYSTEM THAT DPD IS ALSO SHARING WITH. 
          ADDITIONALLY, AS YOU HEARD EARLIER, THERE'S GOING TO BE A ADDITIONAL IN SYSTEM MOU THAT AS
DPD CHOOSES TO MAKE SHARING RELATIONSHIPS WITH CITIES THAT MAY BE FURTHER AWAY,
THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GET A LEGAL ATTESTATION WITHIN THE SYSTEM THAT ENSURES THAT ANYONE THEY SHARE WITH IS USING IT ACCORDING IT,
TO THEIR VALUES AND POLICIES. 
          WHO MAKES THE DECISION ON WHAT OTHER AGENCIES WERE IN PARTNERSHIPS WITH? IS THAT SOMEONE IN DPD? YES, IT IS. OKAY, SO THAT'S. 
          IS THAT YOU, SERGEANT? YEAH, WELL, WHILE I'M IN THIS POSITION,
BUT THERE IS OTHER SERGEANTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS SINCE WE'VE HAD LPR CAMERAS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THAT APPROVAL PROCESS. OKAY. YEAH,
I MEAN, LIKE MAYOR PRO TEM, I'VE GOT SOME RESIDENTS THAT, THAT DEFINITELY BELIEVE IN THIS. 
          I'VE GOT OTHERS THAT HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS ON JUST,
YOU KNOW, THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE ISSUES. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE I'M STRUGGLING ON THIS. YOU KNOW,
IT REALLY CONCERNS ME THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE BEING TRACKED BY THIS TECHNOLOGY ARE SIMPLY JUST DRIVING AROUND THE CITY OF DALLAS AND THAT RESIDENTS,
YOU KNOW, ARE FEELING LIKE THEY'RE BEING SURVEILLED AND TRACKED WHEN THEY'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, GOING TO CHURCH OR GOING TO TAKE THEIR KIDS SOMEWHERE. 
          SO THAT'S THE PIECE I'M STRUGGLING WITH TO TRY TO BALANCE THAT WITH,
WITH THE BENEFIT OF CRIME PREVENTION. 
          SO, THANK YOU. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. AND I'M GOING TO ASK A FEW QUESTIONS AND I'LL GO TO
CHAIR RIDLEY. 
          SO TO THE POINT THAT WAS JUST RAISED SINCE 2023,
FLOCK HAS BEEN THE PRIMARY SOLVING FACTOR. 
          THIS ON SLIDE 16. IN 49 HOMICIDES. DO WE ALSO HAVE A STATISTIC IN WHERE FLOCK HAS BEEN A
FACTOR? MAY BE SECONDARY OR, YOU KNOW, PLAYED A DIFFERENT ROLE. 
          I CAN TELL YOU THAT FLAG IS USED EVERY DAY BY DETECTIVES ONCE THEY HAVE VEHICLE
INFORMATION WITH REGARDS TO A CRIME THAT'S BEING COMMITTED. 
          SO WE HAVE JUST REALLY STARTED DRILLING DOWN INTO EACH SPECIFIC VIOLENT CRIME. 
          SO WE JUST STARTED TO LOOK. WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF RESEARCHING AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS RIGHT
NOW. 
          ROBBERIES THIS YEAR IN 2026 IS THE PRIMARY SOLVING FACTOR IS FLOCK ON 50 BUSINESS
ROBBERIES. 
          SO THAT'S ABOUT 13% OF OUR BUSINESS ROBBERIES. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, A YEAR OR A HALF OR TWO YEARS AGO,
BUSINESS ROBBERIES WERE IN THE POSITIVE, RIGHT? WE USED, WE BELIEVE THAT FLOCK AND ALPR WAS A FACTOR OF THAT. 
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WITH REGARDS TO AUTO THEFTS, 3 OR 4 YEARS AGO,
AUTO THEFTS WERE REALLY IN THE PLUS SIDE, WE WERE HAVING ISSUES WITH A LOT OF VEHICLES BEING STOLEN, BUT THE USE OF THE ALPR AND THE FLOCK SYSTEM AND BEING ABLE TO USE THAT TO
GET THESE AUTO THEFT CREWS OFF THE STREETS AND RECOVER A LOT OF VEHICLES IS NOW WHY WE'RE ON AROUND 25,
26% DOWN FROM AUTO THEFTS. 
          SO, ON AUTO THEFT RINGS, IS THAT JUST ABOUT CARS? THAT'S JUST IT'S ABOUT CARS. BUT ALSO. WHAT ELSE GOES WITH AUTO THEFT RINGS? PARDON ME. I MEAN, WHAT ELSE DOES THAT HELP US FIND? I DIDN'T HEAR, I'M SORRY. I MEAN, ARE THERE ARE PEOPLE CONNECTED TO FIREARMS OR TO DRUGS? I MEAN, IS AN AUTO THEFT RING TIED TO OTHER TYPES OF. 
          OH, ABSOLUTELY. IT'S THE, THEY'RE TIED TO VIOLENT CRIME AS WELL. 
          VIOLENT OFFENDERS STEAL CARS TO COMMIT ROBBERIES AND ASSAULTS AND MURDERS AS WELL. 
          NO. OKAY. I WILL ADD THAT THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE AND OTHER
STATISTICS HAVE SHOWN THE VAST MAJORITY OF STOLEN WEAPONS AND ILLEGAL WEAPONS ARE FOUND IN STOLEN VEHICLES AS WELL. SO, CHANCES ARE IF YOU'RE STEALING A VEHICLE,
YOU'RE NOT STEALING IT TO SELL IT, YOU'RE STEALING IT TO USE IT IN ANOTHER CRIME,
ACCORDING TO STATISTICALLY. 
          OKAY, BECAUSE WE'RE FOCUSING ON HOMICIDES AND AG ASSAULTS AND THAT SORT OF THING. AND SO
THAT I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT TO MAKE. 
          AND THEN ON THE TIME PERIOD WE'VE DISCUSSED,
I MEAN, A HOMICIDE OR ROBBERY OR AN ASSAULT IS OFTEN SOMETHING WE SEE. 
          IT'S VISIBLE, IT HAS MARKERS, BUT FOR SEX, ASSAULT,
TRAFFICKING, ETC., THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE NOT AS FORTHCOMING AND THAT MAY TAKE SOMEONE A WHILE TO COME FORWARD WITH. 
          AND SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR TIMING, AND I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON THAT EARLIER,
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT, AND WE WILL BE DOING THIS IN THE FUTURE. WHAT ABOUT,
ONE THING WITH ALL OF THE HEIGHTENED AWARENESS AROUND FLOCK CAMERAS, WE'RE HEARING ABOUT CASES OF VANDALISM, WHICH,
YOU KNOW, IS PUZZLING SINCE THERE'S A LICENSE PLATE READER AND WHY YOU WOULD VANDALIZE SOMETHING THAT COULD READ YOUR LICENSE PLATE. HOWEVER,
IS THERE ANYTHING DPD CAN DO THAT CAN HELP DETER THAT AROUND THEM, BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST NOT THAT BIG? I MEAN, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN HELP US PROTECT
THEM? YEAH, SO WE'RE WORKING WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CITY STREETS DEPARTMENT TO IDENTIFY STREET
LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS THAT WE COULD UTILIZE INSTEAD OF INSTALLING THE POLE IN THE GROUND NEXT TO A TRAFFIC LIGHT. OKAY, CHAIR RIDLEY,
DO YOU HAVE COMMENTS? OH. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. I THINK A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ASKED,
SO I'LL TRY NOT TO REPEAT THEM. 
          WITH REGARD TO THE 917 OFFICERS THAT HAVE ACCESS TO FLOCK,
ARE THEY OF A PARTICULAR CLASSIFICATION IN TERMS OF JOB DUTIES. 
          IS, OR CAN ANYONE IN THE POLICE FORCE TAKE THE TRAINING AND GET ACCESS? NOT EVERYBODY CAN TAKE THE TRAIN AND GET ACCESS. IT'S BASED OFF A JOB FUNCTION AND THAT
THE ACCESS TO THE FLOCK SYSTEM IS PART OF THEIR JOB FUNCTIONS OR JOB DUTIES. 
          SO WHAT JOB DUTIES JUSTIFY HAVING ACCESS TO FLOCK? CERTAINLY YOU DON'T HAVE ALMOST 2,000 DETECTIVES,
DO YOU? NO, BUT THAT INCLUDES, IT INCLUDES PATROL AND DEPLOYMENT AND CRT AND INVESTIGATIONS,
BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OTHER INVESTIGATIVE UNITS THAT PEOPLE DON'T THINK OF NARCOTICS,
VICE. 
          SO THERE ARE A LOT OF PATROL AND INVESTIGATIVE UNITS THAT MAKE UP THAT NUMBER ON TOP OF
THE CRIME ANALYSIS OF FUSION CENTER, REAL TIME CRIME CENTER. HAVE YOU DONE ANY ANALYSIS OF HOW FREQUENTLY DIFFERENT
CLASSIFICATIONS OF DPD OFFICERS, LIKE YOU'VE MENTIONED, UTILIZE FLOCK SO THAT THOSE WHO DON'T USE IT VERY OFTEN,
PERHAPS THEY COULD BE RESTRICTED FROM ACCESS AND REDUCE THIS LARGE POPULATION OF PEOPLE WHO CAN UTILIZE IT. 
          WE CAN. IT WOULD IT WOULD TAKE SOME RECONFIGURATION WITHIN THE FLOCK SYSTEM ON PERMISSIONS
AND ROLES TO BE ABLE TO TRACK THAT KIND OF INFORMATION, BUT IT CAN IT COULD BE DONE. OKAY. WELL, I THINK YOU OUGHT TO CONSIDER THAT SO THAT WE
HAVE A SMALLER UNIVERSE OF PEOPLE WHO CAN ACCESS IT, PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED TO HAVE ACCESS TO IT,
FINE. 
          BUT IF PEOPLE ARE DOING IT WHO DON'T REALLY NEED TO HAVE ACCESS. 
          I JUST THINK THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE COULD SHOW THAT THERE ARE LIMITS ON WHO CAN
UTILIZE THIS TECHNOLOGY, AND IT'S KIND OF ON A NEED TO KNOW BASIS. THEY NEED TO HAVE ACCESS TO DO THEIR JOBS. 
          CAN I ADD SOMETHING ALSO? IS THIS IT DEPENDS ON THE ROLE THAT YOU HAVE AND WHAT
INVESTIGATIVE UNIT YOU'RE ASSIGNED TO. 
          LIKE FOR HOMICIDE, YOU KNOW, A DETECTIVE MAY NOT GET A MURDER EVERY SO OFTEN,
RIGHT? SO THEY MAY JUST USE IT ONE TIME, BUT THE NEXT MURDER THAT THEY HAVE FLOCKED OR THE ALPR
SYSTEM MAY NOT BE PART OF THE MURDER. 
          SO WE WE'D HAVE TO TAKE A REAL DEEP DIVE INTO LOOKING AT EACH ROLE EACH PERSON HAS AND
THEN DECIDE IF THERE, 
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IF THERE'S A NEED FOR THEM TO CONTINUE TO HAVE IT. 
          WELL, I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD SIMPLIFY YOUR MONITORING PROCESS FOR ABUSES,
TOO. 
          IF YOU HAVE A SMALLER POPULATION TO MONITOR. A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT TRAINING. 
          YOU MENTIONED THAT THE TRAINING THAT'S REQUIRED IS SIMPLY ABOUT HOW TO OPERATE FLOCK. 
          WELL, WHAT ABOUT CONSIDERING TRAINING THEM ABOUT HOW NOT TO USE FLOCK? ABOUT HOW IT CAN BE MISUSED, THE CONSEQUENCES FOR MISUSING IT,
BOTH FOR THE PEOPLE WHOSE PRIVACY MAY BE INVADED, BUT ALSO FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH DEPARTMENTAL RULES. 
          ISN'T, SHOULDN'T THAT BE A PART OF THE TRAINING? YES, AND WE REACHED OUT TO OTHER AGENCIES THAT HAVE FLOCK AND HAVE PERSONALIZED TRAINING
TO GET MORE INFORMATION FROM THEM, TO DEVELOP OUR OWN, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A TARGETED VIDEO AND TRAINING MATERIALS FOR
OUR OWN DEPARTMENT. 
          SO YOU'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT NOW? YES,
SIR. 
          AND WILL YOU REQUIRE THAT ALL OF THOSE 1,917 OFFICERS WHO HAVE ACCESS UNDERGO THAT
TRAINING ONCE YOU DEVELOP IT? YES, SIR. AS KIND OF CONTINUING EDUCATION. YES,
AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING IT TO A YEARLY TRAINING SCHEDULE AS WELL. 
          EVERY YEAR CERTAIN TRAINING HAS TO BE REPEATED AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING THAT AS WELL,
ALONG WITH BODY CAMERA AND STUFF LIKE THAT. OKAY. 
          WHAT ARE DPDS ACTUAL FALSE POSITIVE RATES ON AUTOMATED PLATE ALERTS? CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT? WELL, DO YOU GET FALSE POSITIVES? IN OTHER WORDS, THE MACHINE OR THE OBSERVER MISREADS THE PLATE NUMBER. 
          THAT WOULD BE METRICS IN THE FLOCK SYSTEM. ON IF SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE TO SIT THERE AND LOOK
AT THE CAMERA AND EVERY READ THAT COMES IN TO THEN IDENTIFY IT AS BEING A FALSE READ. 
          AND WE DON'T, WE DON'T, I, MONITOR THE SYSTEM IN THAT IN THAT MANNER. 
          WELL, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A SITUATION WHERE YOU GET A REPORT ON FLOCK OF A STOLEN VEHICLE
WITH A PARTICULAR LICENSE PLATE, AN OFFICER GOES OUT AND STOPS THE PERSON, BUT IT'S THE WRONG CAR. 
          YEAH, SO IN THAT INSTANCE, IF FLOCK SAYS THIS IS A STOLEN PLATE OR STOLEN VEHICLE,
WE STILL HAVE TO RUN IT IN NCIC/TCIC, WHICH IS THE NATIONAL AND STATE DATABASE, TO VERIFY THAT THAT LICENSE PLATE IS STOLEN OR
THAT VEHICLE IS STOLEN. 
          SO, THERE IS A VERIFICATION PROCESS. IT'S NOT TAKING FLOCKS WORD FOR IT,
OR IT'S NOT TAKING THE PLATFORM'S WORD THAT THIS IS A STOLEN VEHICLE. 
          WE STILL HAVE TO TAKE THAT VEHICLE AND PUT IT INTO THE NATIONAL DATABASE AND RUN IT TO
ENSURE THAT IT IS STOLEN. 
          WELL, I GUESS I NEED TO UNDERSTAND BETTER HOW THE FLOCK DATA IS RECEIVED AND UTILIZED. 
          SO THE CAMERAS RECORD AN IMAGE LIKE WE SAW IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE VEHICLE,
THE COLOR AND THE LICENSE PLATE. 
          AN OFFICER IS SEARCHING FOR A PARTICULAR VEHICLE THAT'S BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH A ROBBERY OR
SOME OTHER CRIME. 
          HOW DOES HE SEARCH? FLOCK DOES. IS THERE SOME AUTOMATED SEARCH MECHANISM? SO THERE'S. HOW IS THERE THE POSSIBILITY OF ERROR AFTER ENTERING INTO THAT PROCESS? SO THERE'S TWO TYPES. THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THE SYSTEM DOES. IT PROVIDES LIVE
ALERTS BASED OFF OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL DATABASES FOR WARRANTS ONE IN PERSONS STOLEN VEHICLES THAT IS TIED INTO THE SYSTEM DIRECTLY. 
          SO THE SYSTEM THEN SAID AS A LICENSE PLATE PASSES THE VEHICLE OR THE VEHICLE PASSES THE
CAMERA, IT THEN SAYS, HEY, NCIC/TCIC IS THIS PLATE ON ANY OF THE STATE HOT LISTS? IF NOTHING COMES BACK, NO ALERTS HAPPEN. EVERYTHING. 
          EVERYBODY JUST MOVES ON WITH THEIR DAY. IF ALERT DOES COME OUT AND SAYS,
HEY, THIS VEHICLE IS STOLEN AND THEN GIVES OFFICERS A GENERAL AREA WHERE IT'S AT, THE OFFICER WILL GO TRY TO LOCATE THAT VEHICLE,
BUT THEY WILL ALSO RUN THAT VEHICLE IN NCIC/TCIC TO VERIFY THAT THAT LICENSE PLATE NUMBER IS THE ONE THAT IS ACTUALLY LINKED TO THAT STOLEN VEHICLE OR WHATEVER HOTLIST THAT IT'S
ASSOCIATED WITH WITHIN THE FLOCK SYSTEM. 
          THERE'S NO INFORMATION OUTSIDE WITHIN THE FLOCK SYSTEM THAT IDENTIFIES THAT VEHICLE. 
          BESIDES THAT, LICENSE PLATE IS LINKED TO A STATE OR NATIONAL HOT LIST THAT SHOWS IT AS
BEING STOLEN. 
          SO, CAN AN OFFICER JUST ON A WHIM, ENTER A PARTICULAR LICENSE NUMBER TO TRY TO FIND OUT
WHERE THE CAR IS WITHOUT IT HAVING BEEN TRIGGERED BY THE NATIONAL DATABASE FOR STOLEN VEHICLES OR SOME
OTHER LEGITIMATE REASON? YES, SIR. THAT'S THE SECOND PART, IS THE ABILITY TO SEARCH THE LICENSE PLATE BY LICENSE
PLATE NUMBER TO FIND A VEHICLE. 
          OKAY. AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS CAN THEY DO THAT? FOR THE INVESTIGATIVE REASONS THAT WE HAVE THAT THEY MUST SELECT WITHIN THE FLOCK SYSTEM. 
          SO THEY HAVE TO SELECT THE INVESTIGATIVE REASON LIKE THAT. 
          THE GENERAL CATEGORY OF THE INVESTIGATIVE REASON,
AND THEN THAT CASE NUMBER OF WHY THEY NEED TO SEARCH IT. 
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AND THEN HOW IS THAT INFORMATION UTILIZED? DO THEY TRANSMIT IT TO ALL PATROL OFFICERS TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE CAR IN A PARTICULAR AREA OR I'M JUST LOOKING FOR ANY
OTHER SAFEGUARDS FOR THE USE OF THIS INFORMATION. IT CAN BE TRANSMITTED TO OFFICERS AS THEY LOOK OUT FOR THIS
VEHICLE, KIND OF LIKE AN OLD SCHOOL BOLO. HEY, HERE'S THIS VEHICLE. 
          BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS. I GUESS BETTER TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION OF THE
SAFEGUARD. 
          THAT'S PART OF THE SEARCH PROCESS OF IT. JUST WELL,
I'M JUST TRYING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THIS INFORMATION GETS USED AND TO ENSURE THAT IT IS USED FOR A LEGITIMATE LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSE,
AND THAT WE ELIMINATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ANY POSSIBILITY OF MISUSE OF THE DATA. 
          YEAH, SO THEY HAVE TO HAVE A VEHICLE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER TO EVEN SEARCH IT. 
          THEY CAN'T GO IN AND JUST SAY, I WANT TO SEE EVERY VEHICLE,
YOU KNOW, JUST A LIST AS IT COMES IN. 
          THE ONLY THING THAT'S REALLY ALERTED AND PRESENTED IN THE PLATFORM ARE VEHICLES THAT ARE
ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE HOT LISTS FROM THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL. 
          BUT I ASSUME THEY CAN ALSO SEARCH NOT BY LICENSE NUMBER,
BUT BY COLOR AND MAKE A VEHICLE YEAR, PERHAPS. YES, SIR. I DON'T THINK YEAR, BUT TYPE AND VEHICLE COLOR. 
          OKAY. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, MR. ROTH. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. AND REALLY AND FOR ALL MY COLLEAGUES ASKING
THE, A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD IN MY MIND,
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN AUTOMATIC, AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READER SYSTEM AND FLOCK IS WHAT? IS IT THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY,
THE SPECIAL SERVICES, THE SPECIAL THINGS THAT YOU HAVE. 
          WHAT'S WHAT DIFFERENTIATES YOU FROM OTHER, YOU KNOW,
TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS THAT DO THE SAME THING. 
          SO THE NAME FLOCK HAS BECOME THE KLEENEX OF LICENSE PLATE READERS WHERE IF PEOPLE ARE
REFERRING TO ANY LICENSE PLATE READERS, THEY JUST CALL THEM FLOCK REGARDLESS WHETHER THEY ARE ONE OF OURS OR NOT. 
          AND SO THERE'S BEEN A BIT OF CONFUSION THERE. BASICALLY,
ONE OF THE LICENSE PLATE READERS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES. 
          THIS IS NOT NEW TECHNOLOGY AS FAR AS LICENSE PLATE READERS ARE CONCERNED. 
          WHAT DIFFERENTIATES FLOCK IS OUR ONE ACCURACY WHERE OUR CAMERAS ARE CONTINUALLY IMPROVING
TO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING THE MOST ACCURATE READS OF THE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLATES AND MODELS THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND SECOND,
THE REASON FLOCK HAS BECOME THE GO TO IS FOR THIS SHARING CAPABILITY THAT IT HAS FOR AGENCIES AND COMMUNITIES TO SHARE THEIR CAMERAS TO DEAL WITH REGIONAL
CRIME DYNAMICS. 
          AND THAT'S THE REASON FLOCK HAS BECOME THE GO TO LICENSE PLATE READER TECHNOLOGY THAT'S
OUT THERE. 
          WE'RE DEFINITELY WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE, BUT THAT'S HOW WE BECOME THE PREDOMINANT ONE. AND
HAS DPD USED OTHER AUTOMATED LICENSE TECHNOLOGY READERS? YES, SIR. BEFORE MY TIME. BUT BACK IN 2013, I BELIEVE IT WAS VIGILANT OR NVLS,
THE ALPR CAMERAS. 
          AND DO WE STILL UTILIZE THAT TECHNOLOGY OR THAT'S. 
          NO, SIR. WE DON'T HAVE ANY TECHNOLOGY OTHER THAN THE FLOCK CAMERAS NOW? WE HAVE AXON. WHAT? AXON. SO, AXON WITH THAT SUPPLIES OUR BODY CAMERAS IN FLEET THREE DASH
CAMERAS. 
          WE DO HAVE LPR WITHIN THE DASH CAMERAS. AND SO NOW WE'RE GOING DOWN FROM 600 TO 300. 
          WHAT IS THE ANTICIPATED. ARE WE ANTICIPATING INCREASING THAT NUMBER? IS THERE, ARE WE JUST GOING TO SORT OF STAY AT 300 FOR THE TIME BEING? WHAT SORT OF THE PLAN? YEAH, I THINK IT'S STAY AT THE 300 BECAUSE IT'S ALL BASED OFF OF
FUNDING. 
          SO, THIS IS FOR RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WE'RE JUST GOING TO KEEP WHAT'S THERE. 
          WE DON'T HAVE ANY PLANS TO INCREASE IT BEYOND THE 300 AT THIS POINT. 
          I'D HAVE TO DEFER TO THE COMMAND STAFF ON THE PLANS. 
          A LOT OF IT COMES DOWN TO FUNDING ALSO. THAT'S GOING TO BE A BIG PART OF IT AS FAR AS THE
NUMBER OF CAMERAS THAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          RIGHT. AND RIGHT NOW THAT NUMBER IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FUNDING THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM
THE STATE. 
          SO THOSE THOSE ONES ARE BEING TAKEN OFF. BUT IT'S MY BELIEF THAT FLOCK KEEPS US SAFE. 
          AND IF WE HAD THE NECESSARY FUNDING. I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE CAMERAS. 
          OKAY. AND WHAT'S THE RANGE OF THESE CAMERAS? I MEAN,
WHEN YOU GOT IT, WHEN THEY'RE TAKING A PICTURE, HOW BIG OF A CIRCULAR AREA ARE YOU ALL TAKING A PICTURE ON? 
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I SHOULD HAVE THAT NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I DON'T AND I CAN GET IT TO YOU.
ROUGHLY. I MEAN, WHAT IS IT? IS IT A BLOCK? 40FT. 
          IT'S 40, 40, 50FT. YES, APPROXIMATELY. SO EVERY CAMERA IS SORT OF TAKING A PICTURE WITHIN
50FT, GIVE OR TAKE OF WHERE. I MEAN, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT I NEED TO GET THE SPECIFIC. 
          YEAH. YEAH. IT'S NOT GOING IT'S NOT SHOOTING A MILE AWAY. 
          IT'S NOT. OKAY. THE, IF, ON THE SHARED ACCESS,
ONE OF THE, THE, AND I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT, THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO CREATE AN MOU THAT'S RESTRICTING AND CREATING GUARDRAILS ON WHAT
OTHER PEOPLE WILL DO AND WHO WE WILL ASSOCIATE WITH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED WAS THAT YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO BE
SHARING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, NOT WITH PRIVATE AGENCIES, IS THAT CORRECT? SO,
WITH ANY PRIVATE ENTITY, THE SHARING IS ONE WAY THEY CAN, YOU'RE, THAT PRIVATE ENTITY CAN CHOOSE TO SHARE WITH YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT,
BUT THEY WILL NOT HAVE ANY ACCESS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT DATA. 
          SO, A RETAILER FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, MAY USE FLOCK BECAUSE THEY HAVE ORGANIZED RETAIL CRIME
ISSUES. 
          SO, THEY'RE USING IT FOR A COMPLETELY SEPARATE PURPOSE,
BUT THEY CAN ALLOW DPD TO GET ALERTS. 
          SO, IF THERE IS A VEHICLE THAT IS ON A HOT LIST THAT IS SPOTTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF ONE
OF THESE RETAILERS, DPD CAN GET AN ALERT THAT THAT WAS SPOTTED THERE,
BUT THAT PRIVATE CUSTOMER WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SHARING FROM DPD TO THAT, THAT ENTITY. OKAY, DPD CAN LOOK INTO THEIR STUFF. 
          THEY CAN'T LOOK INTO DPD STUFF. OKAY. AND SO,
AND LET'S SAY THAT YOU'RE. 
          BUT YOU CAN DPD CAN GO TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. 
          IF A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY HAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH A PRIVATE GROUP,
IS THERE GOING TO BE SOME GUARDRAILS IN YOUR MOU THAT WILL PREVENT THEM FROM SHARING OUR DATA WITH THEIR PRIVATE CUSTOMERS? YES. SO THERE'S NO DAISY CHAIN EFFECT. SO IF A PRIVATE ENTITY CHOOSES TO SHARE WITH DPD,
THE AGENCIES THAT SHARE WITH DPD DON'T GET ACCESS TO THOSE CAMERAS. IT'S A 1 TO 1 SHARING RELATIONSHIP. AND THEN IF A RESIDENT OR A NEIGHBORHOOD IN
PARTICULAR SAYS WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO RECONSIDER OR CONSIDER RELOCATING A CAMERA FROM,
FROM THE PROXIMITY TO A PRIVATE, FROM THE PROXIMITY OF A PRIVATE RESIDENCE OR THEY FEEL LIKE IT'S
IMPROPERLY PLACED BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY I FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT AN APPROPRIATE CONFIGURATION FOR THEM. 
          IS THERE A MECHANISM FOR YOU ALL AS DPD TO REVIEW THOSE REQUESTS AND DETERMINE IF THERE
MAY BE PLACED IN A WRONG PLACE OR THAT THEY'RE TURNED THE WRONG WAY OR THAT IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW,
IN OTHER WORDS, SOMEBODY SAYS, I DON'T WANT YOU. 
          THIS IS ONLY POINTED AT MY HOUSE. HOW DO WE EVALUATE REQUESTS LIKE THAT? THE ONLY REQUEST WE GOT WAS BECAUSE ONE OF THE FLOCK CAMERAS GOT HIT BY A VEHICLE,
AND IT ACTUALLY TURNED THE CAMERA THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. 
          AND SO, WE WENT OUT THERE AND HAD FLOCK GO AND REINSTALL THE POLE AND INSTALL A NEW
CAMERA. 
          THAT'S THE ONLY ISSUES WE'VE HAD. I'M GETTING REQUESTS FOR PEOPLE TO ASK ME,
PLEASE HAVE IT REMOVED, HAVE IT MOVED ACROSS THE STREET, HAVE IT MOVED AROUND BECAUSE THERE'S A PERCEPTION BY AN
INDIVIDUAL OR A OR A BUSINESS OR SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE NERVOUS ABOUT IT. 
          AND SO I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND IF THERE'S SOME KIND OF A EVALUATION PROCESS THAT YOU ALL
WOULD INVESTIGATE IT, YOU WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE COULD REPOSITION IT TO ASSUAGE ANY CONCERNS SOMEBODY
CONCERNS. 
          YEAH, ANY CONCERNS THAT YOU'LL RECEIVE, YOU CAN PASS ON TO US,
AND WE CAN THEN TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND IDENTIFY IF THERE IS A BETTER PLACE OR ANOTHER LOCATION THAT WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, COMPROMISE THE OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF WHERE IT WAS
PLACED TO BEGIN WITH. 
          I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S SOME KIND OF A MANDATE THAT IF THERE IS ANY
KIND OF A CHANGE IN POLICY IN WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THAT THAT HAS TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO THIS BODY FOR US
TO REVIEW IT. 
          AND I'M TALKING ABOUT MATERIAL CHANGES IN POLICY. 
          WHEN YOU START TALKING TO OTHER STATES, IF YOU START CHANGING THE PRIVATE ENTITY POLICY,
IF YOU, IF THE GUARDRAILS ARE ARE SOMEWHAT CHANGED AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT MATERIAL MEANS,
BUT IT'S, I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE,
OF THE MACHINE, BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT THAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING, WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF IT. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THAT BE AS PART OF YOUR,
YOUR MANDATE. 
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IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ALL ARE TRYING TO IDENTIFY HIGH CRIME AREAS. 
          THAT'S WHERE THE 300 CAMERAS ARE RIGHT NOW. I THINK THAT'S SMART. 
          I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. PUT THEM IN THOSE HIGH CRIME AREAS. 
          BUT I AM REAL SENSITIVE TO THE, THE CONCERNS OF,
OF, OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD, MY DISTRICT WHO ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY INVASION. I ABSOLUTELY AM UNDERSTAND THE EFFICIENCY,
THE EFFECTIVENESS IF THEY'RE HANDLED PROPERLY AND IF WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE STRONG GUARDRAILS AND MONITORING OF OUR USE AND THE INFORMATION GATHERING AND WHERE THAT INFORMATION IS GOING. 
          AND IF THAT GETS COMPROMISED, I AM NOT PERSONALLY GOING TO BE AN ADVOCATE FOR THIS,
FOR THIS TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY. 
          I AM AN ADVOCATE FOR THE TECHNOLOGY TO SAVE OUR CITIZENS,
TO BE SAFE, TO HELP FIGHT CRIME. 
          THAT'S ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT. AND TO THE EXTENT THAT THIS IS A VALUABLE TECHNOLOGY TO OUR
POLICE FORCE, I WANT THEM TO HAVE IT HOWEVER IT GOES. THIS IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE IF IT IS NOT HANDLED
PROPERLY. 
          AND I THINK WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE WATCHING VERY,
VERY CLOSELY HOW THIS ROLLS OUT. 
          AND I WANT TO BE INFORMED GENERALLY CHAIR OF WHAT'S GOING ON,
AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL UPDATES ON EFFECTIVENESS AND ON AND ON PROGRESS WITH THESE AREAS AND OTHER THINGS FOR THIS BODY TO
MAINTAIN. 
          THIS IS A TOUGH ONE, FOLKS. WE'RE THE, WE'RE GETTING REGULAR PEOPLE. 
          AND THIS ISN'T JUST THE LOUDEST PEOPLE SCREAMING OUT THERE. 
          A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS THING. 
          AND I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL HAVE THE TOOLS,
BUT THAT WE'RE USING THOSE TOOLS PROPERLY, SAFELY, AND WITH THE, WITH OUR CITIZENS IN MIND AS THE MAIN FOCUS. 
          THEY'RE PAYING FOR IT. THEY'RE GIVING US THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THESE KIND OF DECISIONS. 
          AND WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS DUTY TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY AND TO PROTECT THEIR CONFIDENCE
THAT THEY'RE PUTTING INTO US. 
          SO PLEASE HELP US DO THAT. COUNCIL MEMBER CADENA. 
          YES. THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS. 
          SO I KNOW ONE OF THE BIG CONCERNS IN THE NEWS HAS BEEN BEING TRACKED BY AN EX. 
          SO IS THERE A PROCESS IN PLACE IF SOMEONE SUSPECTS THAT THE FLOCK IS BEING MISUSED? WHAT'S THE COMPLAINT PROCESS FOR A REGULAR RESIDENT? YES. IF THEY FEEL THAT IF IT'S BEING MISUSED BY OUR DEPARTMENT OR AN INDIVIDUAL ON THE
DEPARTMENT, THEY CAN ALWAYS CONTACT INTERNAL AFFAIRS. EXCUSE ME. 
          INTERNAL AFFAIRS CAN LOOK AT THAT AS WELL, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT INVESTIGATE MISUSE OR
VIOLATIONS OF POLICY, DEPARTMENT OF POLICY. OKAY. AND THEN HOW MANY ADMINISTRATORS DO WE HAVE AND WHAT KIND OF
TRAINING ARE I GUESS, EXTRA TRAINING WOULD THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH? WE HAVE SIX ADMINISTRATORS ON THE
DEPARTMENT. 
          THAT'S MYSELF AND MY TEAM THAT ADMINISTER THE PLATFORM. 
          AND THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH, LIKE HE HAD MENTIONED EARLIER,
THE FLOCK ACADEMY, ADMINISTRATIVE TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS, THERE'S ABOUT 3 TO 4 VIDEOS THAT ARE THAT ARE ABOUT TEN MINUTES LONG,
THAT THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH AND THEN TAKEN, YOU KNOW, A SHORT EXAM AFTERWARDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE YOU KNOW,
PAID ATTENTION TO THE VIDEO. 
          OKAY. AND THEN MY LAST COMMENT IS, YOU KNOW,
I WORKED AT A HOSPITAL AND SO I KNEW WHAT CONSEQUENCES THERE WERE FOR ACCESSING HEALTH INFORMATION INCORRECTLY. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR EMPLOYEES. 
          I MEAN, I HEARD THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, I HEARD Y'ALL SAY THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES,
BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR EMPLOYEES TO KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE AND ALSO FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW IF INFORMATION IS MISHANDLED OR ACCESSING CORRECTLY. 
          I KNEW AT THE HOSPITAL AND WAS TESTED EVERY YEAR IF I ACCESSED PATIENT INFORMATION WHAT
THAT LOOKED LIKE AND THEN WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT FACTOR AS YOU ALL CONSIDER SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE
HAPPENING. 
          YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. CHAIR STEWART. I JUST WANT TO SET A LITTLE BIT OF PERSPECTIVE HERE
ON THE PUBLIC'S SENSITIVITY TO BEING ON CAMERAS. WE LIVE IN A WORLD RIGHT NOW WHERE WE,
AS YOU ALL HAVE SAID, BECAUSE OF RING DOORBELLS OR SECURITY CAMERAS ON STORES AND APARTMENT COMPLEXES,
I KNOW HOAS, WHO HAVE. IN FACT, I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT FLOCK BECAUSE THE MERRIMAN PARK HOMEOWNERS
ASSOCIATION IN DISTRICT 10 WAS USING THEM AND HOW EFFECTIVE IT WAS FOR 
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FINDING CARS AND ALLEYS AND OTHER PLACES THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE. 
          SO, IF I, AND WHEN I MEAN, IF I GO ON A TOLL ROAD,
MY CAR IS, IS ON CAMERA, RIGHT? I MEAN, THERE ARE CAMERAS ALL ALONG WHEN I GO TO GET MY HAIR CUT ON BELTLINE,
I GET ON THE TOLL ROAD. 
          WHEN I GO TO AUSTIN ON THURSDAY TO BE WITH MY MOM FOR HER THIRD CHEMO,
I WILL BE ON CAMERA. 
          I MEAN, IT IS JUST PART OF OUR EVERYDAY LIFE. 
          NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE PREVENTING ANY MISUSE? WE SHOULD ABSOLUTELY LOCK THAT DOWN. AND I THINK EVERYBODY HERE HAS HAD SOME VERY GOOD
SUGGESTIONS. 
          BUT IF WE CAN GENTLY REMIND THE PUBLIC THAT YOU ARE ON CAMERA ALL THE TIME AND DON'T
NECESSARILY KNOW THAT, OR YOU JUST HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT THINK ABOUT IT. 
          YOUR CAR IS BEING YOU KNOW, IT IS BEING FILMED OR NOT FILMED,
THE PICTURES ARE BEING TAKEN WHEN YOU DRIVE UNDER, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ON THE TOLLWAY AND IT'S READING YOUR TOLL TAG. 
          IT HAS A PICTURE OF YOUR CAR, NOT JUST THE TOLL TAG. 
          NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF IT CAN SEE YOUR FACE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE FACIAL
RECOGNITION. 
          I KNOW NONE OF THAT. BUT WE HAVEN'T STOPPED DRIVING ON TOLL ROADS BECAUSE WE'RE WORRIED
ABOUT OUR VEHICLE BEING RECORDED. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO JUST LET'S JUST TAKE A BREATH HERE. 
          IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT TOOL. YES, THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR MISUSE,
BUT LET'S GET, LET'S LOCK THAT PART DOWN AND UNDERSTAND THIS IS JUST THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IF I MAY. THANK YOU. 
          AND BASED OFF OF THAT AND SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT THAT HAS BEEN MADE,
I BOUGHT MAJOR CANDELARIA DOWN. 
          SO, HE CAN KIND OF GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE PAST PENALTIES THAT HAVE ALREADY
BEEN GIVEN TO DPD OFFICERS FOR MISUSE OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY. SO YOU CAN KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE WE AT AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THIS AREA
BEFORE. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. GABRIEL CANDELARIA,
A MAJOR IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS. AS PART OF THIS, WE LOOK BACK AT 2013. 2013 THE REASON WE DID THAT WAS BECAUSE THAT'S THE YEAR THAT DPD
STARTED USING LICENSE PLATE READERS, RIGHT? SO, WE WENT BACK AND WE LOOKED AT THE ALLEGATIONS OF MISUSE OF EQUIPMENT. 
          THERE'S THREE SIMILAR ALLEGATIONS FOR THAT. SO,
WE RAN ALL OF THOSE AND RAN THAT UP TO AUGUST 31ST, 2026. OUT OF THOSE WE DID, WE CONDUCTED 104 INVESTIGATIONS IN THAT TIME FRAME,
AND 77 OF THOSE WERE SUSTAINED ALLEGATIONS FOR MISUSE OF CITY EQUIPMENT OF SOME FORM OR FASHION. 
          AND THEN AS A RESULT OF THAT, THE DISCIPLINE THAT WAS ISSUED RANGED ALL THE WAY FROM
SUMMARY DISCIPLINE TO UP TO TERMINATION, THE HIGHEST BEING SUSPENSION. SO. ANYTHING FURTHER ON THAT? NO. I MEAN, IF, UNLESS YOU GUYS HAVE QUESTIONS ON THIS. 
          WELL, I MEAN, I HAD A QUESTION BECAUSE CHIEF ARTIS AND I VISITED ABOUT THIS EARLIER. 
          AND THAT IS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT VIDEOS AND TRAINING AND FLOCKS LIBRARY AND THAT SORT OF
THING. 
          BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS SOME MATTER OF IMPARTING THAT,
YOU KNOW, WHAT'S WRONG, WHAT THE POTENTIAL PENALTIES ARE. I MEAN, WILL YOU SPEAK TO THAT? YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT MAYBE NOT ON A VIDEO OR WHATEVER. 
          HOW ARE YOU CONVEYING TO THOSE BEING TRAINED THAT,
YOU KNOW, THIS MISUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED? SO JUST ALONE ON, ON BODY CAMERA TECHNOLOGY,
WE KNOW THAT THERE'S STATE LAW THAT PROHIBITS LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM RELEASING THAT KIND OF INFORMATION OUT WITHOUT THE AGENCY'S APPROVAL. 
          THAT CAN LEAD TO AN ARREST. RIGHT. AND THEN THE OTHER SIDE IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES
THAT WE HAVE, WHETHER IT'S NOT JUST FLOCK PLATFORM, BUT ANY TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM OR ANY CITY
EQUIPMENT, SUCH AS A VEHICLE, A PHONE, A SEARCH ON ANOTHER PLATFORM THAT IS NOT USED CORRECTLY CAN
RESULT UP TO TERMINATION AND HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE. 
          SO, WE'RE NOT SEEING THIS. I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE INCIDENT I HEARD ABOUT WAS MORE
ABOUT TRANSPOSING NUMBERS. 
          IT WAS NOT SOMETHING EGREGIOUS OR, YOU KNOW,
THERE WAS NO MALICE. 
          SO, CHIEF, DO YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S BEING IMPARTED DURING THE COURSE OF THIS TRAINING THAT
YOU KNOW WHAT MISUSE IS AND THAT THERE WILL BE PENALTIES? LOOK, I THINK OFFICERS, FIRST OF ALL, OFFICERS ARE HUMAN. 
          SOMEONE COULD MAKE A MISTAKE, AND SOMEONE COULD DO SOMETHING VERY WRONG. 
          BUT WE HAVE GUIDELINES IN PLACE. IF THEY DO SOMETHING WRONG,
THEY'RE GOING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR IT. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO PAY THE PENALTY. AND THAT'S WHY WE WENT BACK AND WE LOOKED AT THIS. 
          WE HAVE OFFICERS THAT HAVE BEEN TERMINATED FOR BODY CAMS,
AND EVERYBODY WANTS BODY CAMS, BUT THERE'S STILL VIOLATIONS ON BODY CAMS. AND WE'VE TERMINATED OFFICERS FOR USING BODY CAMS WRONG. 
          IF THEY MISUSE THE FLOCK SYSTEM, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME SEE ME. 
          AND THEN I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THE PAST HISTORY AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON AND GIVE THEM THE
PROPER PUNISHMENT. 
          ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT,
WE HAVE SO MANY GUIDELINES AND RULES IN PLACE, UNLIKE SOME OF THESE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES,
THAT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT. 
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THESE ARE ALREADY IN PLACE IN DALLAS, AND I THINK THE OFFICERS KNOW THAT ALREADY. 
          AND WE HAVE A HIGHER-LEVEL OFFICER THAN, QUITE FRANKLY,
SOME OF THESE OTHER CITIES, THAT WHERE YOU SEE SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. 
          NOW, I WILL STILL GIVE AN ASTERISK. OFFICERS ARE HUMAN AND THERE MIGHT BE SOMEBODY THAT
COMES DOWN THE ROAD AND DOES SOMETHING STUPID, BUT THEY'LL HAVE TO COME IN FRONT OF ME IF THEY DO,
AND IT WON'T BE LENIENT. 
          SO, ONE QUESTION I HAD WAS ON SOMETHING THAT DALLAS HAS THAT NOT EVERY POLICE DEPARTMENT
HAS, AND THAT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL LAW UNIT. AND SO,
I WANTED YOU TO TOUCH ON WHAT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW UNIT AND THE USE OF SOMETHING LIKE FLOCK CAMERAS, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE THING WE'RE HEARING ABOUT IS
PRIVACY, ETC.. WELL, WE HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE, BUT JUST QUICKLY GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF HOW, HOW THAT MIGHT INFLUENCE HOW WE PUT THESE INTO PRACTICE. 
          SO, SO WE DO HAVE A, WHAT WE CALL A CONSTITUTIONALITY POLICING UNIT,
WHICH BASICALLY THEY REVIEW ALL OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND TRAINING AND HOW WE USE THE USE OUR, OUR RULES. RIGHT. AND SO, THEY AUDIT,
THEY AUDIT US, RIGHT. 
          AND I THINK IT'S THIS PART OF THIS FLOCK CAN BE PART OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POLICING,
WHERE THEY AUDIT OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, BEST PRACTICES AND MAKING SURE WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. 
          I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER THING IS, AND JUST TO FOR ME PERSONALLY,
I'VE BEEN ON THIS DEPARTMENT FOR 38 YEARS, AND THIS IS THE MOST PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENT THAT I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY. 
          AND THIS IS THE MOST PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN. 
          AND WE HAVE GONE THROUGH TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS BASED ON THINGS THAT OCCUR IN OTHER
CITIES. 
          AND BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY AHEAD OF THE GAME BECAUSE OF THE PROFESSIONAL,
WE ALWAYS THINK AHEAD WHEN WE COME UP WITH POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND PUT THINGS IN PLACE. AND I THINK THAT'S WHY MAKES THE USE OF THE FLOCK,
WE HAVEN'T SEEN MISUSE YET. 
          AND I THINK WE'RE JUST SO PROFESSIONAL. BUT I THINK THE CONSTITUTIONAL POLICING UNIT WOULD
BE GREAT. 
          THEY CAN GO IN AND EVALUATE ALL THE THINGS THAT FLOCK DOES AND GIVE SUGGESTIONS. 
          WE GET THOSE THINGS FROM THEM ALL THE TIME ON HOW WE CAN BE BETTER AND USE BEST PRACTICES
AND CHANGE OUR POLICIES. 
          WELL, BASED ON THE CONVERSATION HERE TODAY, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS HAVE FLOCK THAT IS
MAKING SOME SELF-IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS AND AUDIT TOOLS AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'VE HEARD NOT JUST IN DALLAS,
BUT AROUND THE COUNTRY AND YOU'RE ANSWERING THE CALL AND MAKING SOME CHANGES. 
          THAT ANSWER SOME OF THE ISSUES WE'VE HAD HERE TODAY. 
          AND THEN WITH OUR CONSTITUTIONAL POLICING UNIT,
HOW WE CAN TAKE WHAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING VERY SOON, ANY OTHER POTENTIAL WEAK SPOTS BASED ON WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY? AND COME BACK TO US WITH SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW WE MIGHT FURTHER STRENGTHEN IT. 
          I MEAN, THE UPDATE ON, I HAVE A FEELING YOU JUST TOUCHED ON A FEW THINGS TODAY,
BUT WHAT THOSE, THOSE NEW POINTS OF STRENGTH ARE AND THEN ANY OTHER STEPS THAT DPD SHOULD TAKE TO TIGHTEN
THIS FURTHER. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ON THESE MEMOS. WE'RE JUST GOING TO IF YOU'VE GOT A QUESTION,
YOU CAN FLAG ME ON THIS. 
          [BRIEFING MEMOS]
ON ITEM E, THE PUBLIC SAFETY DASHBOARD COMES OUT A DAY OR TWO AFTER THIS PARTICULAR
MEETING, SO THEY COME OUT ON LIKE THE NINTH OR THE 10TH. 
          AND SO, WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE TODAY, BUT THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO. 
          WHAT ABOUT FIRE RESCUE FACILITY CONSTRUCTION. 
          GOT THE MONTHLY UPDATE. OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? FLEET MAINTENANCE, MONTHLY UPDATE. OKAY. I THINK IT'S LOOKING REALLY GOOD. 
          AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF SOME NEW PARTS OF THE FLEET. 
          FIRE STATION ALERTING SYSTEM. NOW, I WILL SAY ON THIS,
THERE'S SOME WHEN THIS ROLLS OUT AND IS MORE COMPLETE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO HEAR AN UPDATE ON WHEN THAT'S ALL UP AND RUNNING,
I THINK IN FEBRUARY. 
          IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. AND THEN THE MARSHALS HOMELESS ACTION RESPONSE TEAM REPORT. 
          OKAY. I THINK SOME NUMBERS WERE DOWN JUST A BIT,
BUT I THINK THAT'S BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE GO INTO SHELTER AND THAT SORT OF THING, SO MAYBE THERE'S NOT AS MUCH ACTIVITY THERE. AND THEN FINALLY ON THIS IS JUST AN AGENDA
ITEM FOR TOMORROW ABOUT AN AGREEMENT WITH FREEIT 
          [UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS]
DATA SOLUTIONS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THAT TOO IS ALSO PRETTY EXCITING WITH HOW DALLAS IS LEADING IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA,
BUT I THINK IT'S NOT QUITE COMPLETE RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING. I'LL PUT ON A FORECAST. 
          AND SPEAKING OF FORECAST WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE GOING FORWARD. 
          SO, I'LL BE VISITING WITH COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ON SOME ITEMS
THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO SEE FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS. 
          [02:10:03]
BUT WITH THAT, IT IS 3:16 AND THE MEETING OF PUBLIC SAFETY IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.