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The Austin City Council formed the Winter Storm Review Task Force to hear from the community and organizational representatives about your experiences during and in the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri. Join us on Thursday, April 29 at 6pm to share your experiences and suggestions so that the City can make improvements in preparation for future storms. To sign-up to speak on April 29th, email Patricia.Bourenane@austintexas.gov or call (512) 974-6339 by April 28th, noon.
If you are not able to join us next week, Thursday, April 29th…
Here are a few other ways to share your feedback:
Please send us your unique stories in writing, through video footage, or by sending pictures. All submittals must be received by June 30, 2021.
The Task Force will gather all feedback and submit a report to Council at the end of July summarizing the stories captured along with their recommendations. Additionally, the collage of stories received will be archived at the Austin History Center.
Office of Police Oversight seeking community input on Austin Police Department's use-of-force policies!
Beginning this week, the Office of Police Oversight (OPO) will gather community input on the Austin Police Department’s (APD) use-of-force policies. These draft policy recommendations cover various instances of use of force used by APD officers. All Austin community members can take part in this process. Interpretation services and accessibility accommodations are available, please indicate your needs on the RSVP form.
OPO will host virtual presentations at 6:00 p.m. on the following dates. RSVP to each event here. If you have already RSVP’d for the upcoming events, thank you so much.
April 28 - https://zoom.us/j/97383715805?pwd=N2NUVFE2WHA1RU8zb3ByZ3d6a2tWQT09
May 12 - https://zoom.us/j/97202040672?pwd=cEgrdCt0VUJxMVdCNS9GazFnc000dz09
May 19 - https://zoom.us/j/98652367552?pwd=T3l6bGdsV2RObHBNNXVzeDFZVzlTZz09
May 26 - https://zoom.us/j/93283377805?pwd=cjFDelZDdERJOWpNKzlwZ2RML0daQT09
Each presentation will include:
- Overview of six APD use-of-force policies
- Restrict shooting at moving vehicles
- Exhaust all alternatives before using deadly force
- De-escalation
- Duty to intervene in cases of improper or excessive use of force
- Comprehensive reporting of uses of force
- Ban chokeholds and strangleholds
- OPO recommended changes
- You can read more about OPO’s recommended changes to APD policy on use-of-force here.
- Space for community feedback.
Other ways you can get involved:
- Share Feedback through Survey
- Access English and Spanish survey here.
- Invite us to your community meeting
- Are you a part of a community group that hosts regular meetings? OPO has bilingual community engagement staff available to present at your next gathering. Presentations are available in English and Spanish, with other languages available by request.
- Use the social media toolkit (attached) to help us spread the word about our upcoming events and survey, an essential tool we’ll use to reflect your thoughts in the final policy recommendations
- Stay informed on our upcoming events
Austin Transportation seeking stories for Vision Zero!
The Vision Zero team has been working to connect with families and friends who have direct experiences with car crashes. We are asking your help to spread our call for stories from people impacted by crashes through your organization’s various social media or email channels and/or any of your personal connections in the community. In particular, we want to emphasize the need for stories from those in our community who are overrepresented or a growing share of traffic crash victims (Black / African American and Hispanic /Latinx communities) to ensure they have an opportunity to share their experiences.
