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right good evening ladies and gentlemen

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this is the north Miami citizens
investigative board sitting here in

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council chambers on Monday February the
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2024 time is now 6:12
p.m. call to order please stand for the

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Pledge of

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Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and

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to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with

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liberty and justice for all thank you
and please be

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seated Rose let's have the roll call
please with pleasure Vice chair my name

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is Rose Michelle grandpierre Secretary
of the board and we will start with uh

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the chair who is excused Randy Grace
Vice chair Kevin C

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present RBI Joey Lang present attorney
Andre

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Pierre did we hear from

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Andre and Miss Mar
m we do have to proceed very good thank

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you very
much chair will call for a motion to

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approve the minutes of our CIB meeting
from January

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22nd at 6: pm. second all right we have
a motion made by Rabbi

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Lang I second it second by Rose all in
favor I second myself there you go all

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right we've approved the minutes reports
our chairperson is absent so I do not

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have a report on from Randy but Marcia
does have a report that she and and

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Randy attended uh a meeting and I'd like
Marcia to please give us that

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report well we met with speak out of the
mic we met with

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two individuals from the federal
government in reference to um a request

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by the chief to come in and ascertain
how we're doing at the police department

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and
um they told us basically what they were

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going to be doing how they were going to
be proceeding and um we were allowed to

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ask a few questions I had none because
they were very succinct in their

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descriptions as to what was going to be
do um they did give us a date as to when

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the report will be completed but I
wasn't prepared I don't remember the

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date that they said but um they just
asked us basically how did we feel

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personally about our interactions with
the police in the city of North Miami I

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had nothing but positive things to say
as I usually do um it was quick painless

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and I think productive for them in the
sense that they got a good sense that

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our department department is well run
and most of the citizens citizenry are

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happy with our
police Bally thank you very much it's a

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wonderful report all right we have a
report from our legal

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councel there are no open referrals and
there have been no new referrals so

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everything is
C all right thank you Dr Harris a report

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from you please yes so good evening
everyone I just want to give you just a

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update related to House Bill 601 and
Senate Bill

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576 um as many of you know this these
two counterpart bills were filed back in

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November uh we've been having some fast
momentum and movement with that and uh

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what I want to let you be aware of is
last week Wednesday in the Senate um

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5676 was passed through a third
committee and it was passed by 11 to5

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vote um um and they're looking at
placing it on this Wednesday's calendar

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for a special order calendar with the
Senate and then from the house it

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actually passed the front the floor um
pass majority um from the house this

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past Thursday so what does that mean it
means that um civilian oversight

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agencies as of July 1st that are
existing that are that are actively

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moving just like us um will be have to
uh pretty much dismantle our operations

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and that's across 21 jurisdictions
across the city and counties across the

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State of Florida and that concludes my
report all right Dr Harris to follow up

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on that have we drafted proposed city
ordinance that would broaden the

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functions of our CIB we had had some
discussion about that I actually have a

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meeting tomorrow with the city manager
so probably next next board meeting next

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month I can give you all more of an
update on where we stand on that all

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right thank you very much you're welcome
what forget that

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they whatever they're planning or trying
to accomplish makes no sense um if they

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pass
this why can't the

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city vote to maintain
this the reason why as a city we could

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not is because it will become a state
law in which the state law and the

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governor will have the authority to
actually sanction our city if we did as

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a local municipality to continue to move
forward with civilian oversight that's

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why we could not do it and what is the
prevailing

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justification for this decision so again
the reason and irrational behind this is

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that they feel that across meaning the
House of Representatives and the Senate

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um all feel as a majority that there are
21 different agencies that are doing 21

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different things um they don't feel like
there's a unified system that's in place

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they feel it should be handled at a a
higher level which could be done by by

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either the state attorney or FDLE will
be the individuals handling um as well

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as our internal police departments
police officers have internal um

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internal investigations that are in
place um and they feel that that should

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be um handled under those opes in their
portfolio have the majority of the

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police departments um agreed with that
we haven't received a a joint um

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Collective uh conversation about that
what we did is we we tried to have a

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coalition of other civilian oversight
and tried to bring together um a

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convening of police Chiefs but we just
were not able as a coalition to be able

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to move fast enough as fast as that
they're moving um to kind of bring a

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convening of bodies together to discuss
um that to kind of see their actual

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position on it and who initiated it was
actually filed um by Senator out of um

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Jacksonville um and then a House of
Representative out of spring Hill

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Florida um I believe the representative
from Spring Hill was representative

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dougen was the representative out of um
Hernando County can't recall the name of

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the senator that was out of Jacksonville
though but it was the senator out of

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Jacksonville are there any further
questions for Dr Harris at this time

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how's your wife doing pretty good it's
doing doing better doing better but it's

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we have our good days and we have our
bad days but we did take it you know I

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just keep it on the Lord's hands that
you know we'll you know we'll Prevail

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that's all I can say at this point God
will thank you all right no further

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questions thank you all right at this
time we move to the North Miami Police

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Department indiv year
report uh who will be presenting will it

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be major cindyana Paul or the chief good
evening board Shere SCA chief of police

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I am just going to introduce major Paul
who will be uh providing the end of year

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report to you um just wanted to
introduce her she joined the Miami

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Police Department's executive staff in
January of 2024 came from the city of

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Miami Police Department with an
extensive background in various facets

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of law enforcement so she will be
overseeing the office of professional

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compliance which encompasses Internal
Affairs uh policy development and

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officer accountability so with that I
introduce you to Major

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Paul
thank good evening everyone good evening

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good
evening uh see the attachments for the

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report I will say um I'm very proud to
be part of this agency and under the

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wing of Chief boss uh great opportunity
um some of the highlights for the annual

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report we go straight to
hold on the first section so we have the

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supervisory control of persons inventory
as you can see there were negative

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changes so the incidents reported total
officers involved the physical all of

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those numbers have gone down from 2022
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2023 the next section we have is the
traffic crashes even though the increase

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shows to be higher than the year before
um the comparison was attributed to

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necessarily that the officers not not
necessarily that the officers were doing

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something wrong but the anomaly for
2022 versus 2023 but in total the

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crashes were not significant enough or
there were no patterns or anything that

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were attributed to the accidents in
general so there was nothing major for

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the staff to follow up
with bias based policing there were

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several presentations that were done
throughout the schools um by the cops

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officers within the department
the dates in all the schools that um are

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listed on pages 6 through

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7 happy to report officer involved
shootings they still remain at zero um

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deescalation and also additional
training that the officers received was

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explained as well throughout the year to
have a positive impact on

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that the internal affairs complaints as
well from five

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I'm sorry from a total of eight from the
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three and if I'm correct the three
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internal so it was not necessarily
something that came from complaints from

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citizens to my understanding from what
the sergeant explained as well for the

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year and then we have our action review
system is when the officers uh certain

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actions or policy and discrepancies fall
within the category for the year for

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2022 we had one and for 2023 we have no
officers that fell within that

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category thank you very much any
questions I'm confused I don't know what

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that means the action review system the
action review system uh okay so there is

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certain policies so under on page 10
right um there are categories that

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we that we take a look at so supervisory
control contr of person reports vehicle

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Chase packages crash reports and also if
I'm correct there is another uh use of

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force preventable crash and also
Internal Affairs investigation so if

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there is categories where the officer
violates a policy or is found to have

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violated a policy and they fall within
those categories within the year time

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span they get automatically attributed
to the action review system so then

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they're provided additional training or
additional uh you can say overseeing by

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the supervisor to make sure that there
are preventative measures that are

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taking place so they don't repeat the
same behaviors so we kind of help them

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to additional training monitoring uh
coaching from their supervisor to have

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them not infract or not have policy
violations within that time span so they

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kind of fall off while they continue to
improve in their performance everyone

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should be very proud of this

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report he said everyone everyone should
be proud of this report yeah

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yes job we have any other questions if I
may add something which is a comment yes

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it is to congratulate not only the chief
but the entire cor for the great job

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that they are doing within the community
I've been following the chief and not

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Miami not Miami Police as well on social
media I can testify what you are doing

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please keep doing it we feel definitely
safer around here absolutely thank you

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thank
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you I will follow that up and say that
although I don't have consistent contact

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with police officers in the city the
contact that I have is always positive

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they're always very professional I I
think the city seems to have very high

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standards for training
officers and a good sense of AE of core

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and I look forward to hearing good
things to be at next year's officer of

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the Year Awards as I was this
year uh Chief question please how many

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vacancies do we now
have well as of last week we now have

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one vacancy we did have a police officer
to leave the department uh in order to

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go to another local agency which happens
and you were speaking about police

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officers I'm I just assumed police
officers yes so we do have one vacancy

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at this time
and we have five individuals in the

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police academy right now so we're
looking forward to them graduating

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successfully so that they can join the
department and hopefully they won't be

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grabbed off by somebody else yeah but it
happens you know and so um just like

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most agencies Across the Nation
retention and recruitment are an issue

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so um it's not just exclusive to us but
you know departments Across the Nation

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are experiencing the same effect are
those officers we've

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sponsored or are they paying for their
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Academy we are sponsoring them yeah we
are sponsoring them so we'll go and get

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them if they leave don't worry so that's
an interesting question if we sponsor

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them through the academy is there an
automatic contractual obligation to so

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there is a contractual obligation and
that obligation is for you to remain

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with the department for two years in the
event that you don't and we had a recent

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case um we do
recoup try our best to recoup um the

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cost of the academy which is a little
over

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$6,000 uh so we just recently had an
experience like that I actually got some

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guidance from another police chief that
was experiencing the same thing and what

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he explained was that when they attach
to another agency is when we can

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actually you know demand send a demand
letter for the tuition fees um so when

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that individual maybe a couple of months
after he resigned went to join a local

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Department I did so and we are now in um
we are in negotiations and have made a

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contract and he will be paying some of
the money that we've already received so

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far so I don't want to understand why
the department that he went to wouldn't

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be paying I mean that's the only proper
respectful thing well he is not an

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employee of the department yet he is
seeking employment with that department

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so I made contact with that police chief
and you know informed him and send over

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the documents and so um as long as we
are going to recoup the tuition I'm I'm

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good with that who
pays yeah because in in most cases you

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know you lose the employee and you lose
the ability to recoup the funds and it's

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good for us because then we can send
someone else to the academy well that

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officer made a
mistake yes yes this is a good place to

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be
absolutely well thank you very much for

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that you thank you may I please you may
Rose I am taking this opportunity to uh

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invite all the residents to the great
training on artificial intelligence yes

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that the office I me the the the police
officers are offering I went I saw and I

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can testify as well that it is a good
training if every single one listening

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to this uh meeting uh can go and see for
themselves what is it about it will be

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recommended sure so um and I can just
elaborate a little bit is there is a

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program called clear view um that helps
and AIDS us with investigations through

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artificial intelligence and facial
recognition and so before we procure the

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the software fully we want to make sure
that the community understands what it

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is we're doing um understands the policy
that we're going to have that's going to

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be associated with and understand that
there will be rules and regulations as

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far as how we utilize that technology so
we just want to be open and transparent

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about what it is that we're going to do
and yes thank you for attending the

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meeting uh we are able to demonstrate
how it has been beneficial in some

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investigative cases that we've had well
before the state rules us out of

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business perhaps we could have the
department schedule an agenda item to

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make those explanations form before the
CIB could we can do that could that be

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done we can all right let's go ahead and
put that in play since we're obviously

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carried on the local cable tap Network
this would be a good opportunity to put

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this out to a broader range of citizenry
that happen to watch these programs sure

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uh and Dr Harris if you could arrange
with the chief to schedule an

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appropriate time before we are uh
rendered passay by our illustrious in

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ever
seeeing big brother up in Tallahassee

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and I shall refrain
from further commentary on that but uh I

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think uh getting the presentations made
on the record here would be a positive

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thing we can definitely arrange it
that's very good thank you Chief we

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appreciate your courtesy thank you major
it's very nice to have you with us wish

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you every success in this department and
hope you'll be with us for many many

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many many many many
years thank you thank you for coming

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here my fan mail is going to dry up if
we cease to

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exist all right uh do we have any
unfinished business no all right do we

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have any public comment and I I don't
see any public is is there any uh

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Communications from the public to we
right into the record none no all right

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good of the order do we have any
pertinent issues any members sick or in

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distress none very none in which case
the chair will call for motion to

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adjourn motion to ajour all right motion
made by Rose seconded

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by Rabbi Lang thank you all in favor all
we are Reed that's a