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Public Comments Received 07/14/2020 Council MeetingPublic Comments Distributed to the Anaheim City Council July 14, 2020 Council Meeting Updated 4:00 P.M. —Wednesday, July 15, 2020 From: Rayan Soueidan Subject: [*** INSERT UNIQUE SUBJECT LINE Date: Saturday, July 4, 2020 2:17:27 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Rayan Soueidan and I am a resident of AUHSD. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Sent from my iPhone From: Anthonak K Subject: 1*** INSERT UNIQUE SUBJECT LINE Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:43:17 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Anthony Kyriakakis, and I am a resident of Glassell Park, District 1. 1 am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local. level.. Police violence in. Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Anthony Kyriakakis Los Angeles, CA From: To: Public Comment Subject: Anaheim Public Comment for July 14, 2020 Council Meeting Date: Thursday, July 9, 2020 11:55:04 PM Attachments: July 14, 2020 comments.pdf Attached Public Comment for the July 14, 2020 Council Muting. Anaheim Council Public Comments, July 14, 2020, Agenda Items # I & # 230 VIA ENTAIL TO: publiecomment2lanahei.m.net FROM: Home Owners Maintaining our Environment A f - The Anaheim Police Department should investigate City of Anaheim political council candidates (such as the present City Mayor or a Parks and Recreation Commission member) concern violations of Federal. Crimes. The APD should certify such alleged criminals over to the respective Federal Authorities. Impersonating a United States Military Officer is not a crime by itself, but to do so for Financial Gain, such as being elected to the Anaheim City Council, is a Federal Crime. At the Anaheim Hills Fourth of July Parade prior to the Last Anaheim Council Election, Anaheim present Mayor Sidhu illegally wore (for financial gain) the uniform of an UNITED STATES ARMY OFFICER and rode in an open military vehicle at the parade. The sponsors of the parade, the Disneyland Chamber of Commerce (AKA Anaheim), falsely made known that Sidhu was a helicopter pilot in the First Gulf War. It is estimated that hundreds of Anaheim Hills voters who falsely believed that Sidhu, who never served in the US military, had been a Military Officer, mistakenly voted for Sidhu as mayor. At the recent Fourth of July Celebration earlier this month, because of the COVID-19 situation, there were no parades in Anaheim. However, one candidate for the November Anaheim City Council election, District One, placed six thousands flays on West Anaheim residents front lawns with notices to vote for him as the Anaheim City Council, District One Council Member. If this individual, a present member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, is attempting the same disgraceful crime as the present Anaheim Mayor did to get elected, (by impersonating an US MILITARY OFFICER for financial gain), the Anaheim Police should investigate the matter immediately as a criminal act. From: Nicole Giambastiani Subject: A Step in the Right Direction Date: Friday, .duly 3, 2020 8:51:15 AM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Nicole Giambastiani, and I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Nicole Giambastiani From: kur uop To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil Subject: An urgent message to Anaheim. Date: Friday, July 3, 2020 5:17:23 PM To the Anaheim City Council: I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 4010 of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, A concerned citizen who's tired of seeing harmful violence being taken priority over our community. From: Jena angry Subject: Anti -Black Police Department Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 6:28:39 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Jena Angra, and I am a resident of Anaheim. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that Would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Jena Angra Anaheim, CA 92841 From: Jamie Reeves To: Jamie. Subject: Caring for Anaheim"s Black Residents through Budget Reallocation Date: Thursday, June 25, 2020 10:45:18 PM Hello, I am writing today to advocate for my neighbors and my community in saying: we must fund our community services at a greater rate to benefit and advance our oppressed communities. To find these funds for our opressed and specifically Black communities, we must defund the police. This money must be taken away from the police because policing as an institution is inherently violent towards Black people and other marginalized. groups. I do believe we must develop a model of safety that do not involve police, because police do not promote public safety. Please let me know what you are using your power to do specifically, to make sure our marginalized communities are advanced and cared for. Please let me know specifically, how you are reallocating funds within the city budget to benefit our Black residents. Sincerely, Jamie Reeves From: sam crane To: Public Comment Subject: Confronting Systemic Racism Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:35:25 PM Hello, This is a message to say I have not given up. I have called for tangible changes to end systemic racism. I am not along yet many of our calls are either ignored or not met with action. So, I will say it again, please do your part to defund the police. THe, REALLOCATE those funds to organizations that uplift voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color as well as the LGBTQ+ community. This includes but is not limited to health care, education, afterschool programs, food stability aid, small business aid, affordable housing, mental health services, creative opportunities, and additional aid. We need to reform the emergency response system to include not only police but also professionals trained in de-escalation, domestic abuse intervention,, community relations., mental health, and substance abuse intervention. Finally, we need to implement routine checks to root out systemic racism and inequality towards LGBTQ+ people wherever it can be found. Thank you, Sam Crane Voter in 92651 From: Jeannie Yang Subject: DEFUND THE POLICE - ADOPT PEOPLE'S BUDGET Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:05:49 AM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Jeannie and i am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Jeannie Sent from my iPhone From: The One To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil Subject: Defund the police now! Date: Saturday, June 27, 2020 4:26:27 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Melissa and I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Melissa Kane From: Salem Younes To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil Subject: DEFUND THE POLICE Date: Thursday, June 25, 2020 8:14:13 AM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Salem Younes, and I am a resident of Anaheim. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Salem Younes From: Maddy Sando To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor 0"Neil Subject: Divest in Police, Invest in Community Date: Saturday, June 27, 2020 12:27:43 PM Anaheim City Council, My name is Madelyn Sando, and I am a lifetime resident of Orange County. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5 that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Madelyn Sando From: Edgar Arellano To: Police Review Board; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Public Comment; Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno; Jordan Brandman; Trevor O"Neil; Lucille Krbg; Stephen Faessel Subject: Does PD uphold public safety? Define public safety Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:54:49 PM Again, your officer's inefficiencies continue to reflect Anaheim PD at large with their reckless violation of speed limit laws, it is still highly evident with the fact that there is an option available to report speeding police, but also since I am still using not even a full quarter since your officer's last were caught violating speed limit laws. This time I caught on tape the constant driving well past the 85% enforcement speed limit on Broadway going southbound, unit "05" on the roof, "8-805" on the bumper, Several times I set my cruise control to a few mph over the posted speed limit, only to witness squad car "05" travel well past the speed limit & again encouraging speeding down a very low speed corridor. It's set for 35 mph because it's squadalso a school zone, yet car "05" led the traffic to travel at upwards of 45mph. Do better! You are supposed to set the standards to better provide public safety. Your chief states that he likes to think of PD as Mind, Body, Heart. Mind - Your collective PD Mind seems to be rittled with inadequacies. Body - your collective PD Body is immensely inefficient as you wear out your equipment recklessly to tear through our communities. Heart - your collective Heart is full of fear & deception as your officers overreact to young people of color with brutality & undue violence, then fill our streets with deception as you try to covor for your fellow hang members in "blue" I'm embarrassed to witness your department as it seeks for validation. You don't deserve it. Do better From: To: Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Public Comment; Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno; Jordan Brandman; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil Subject: IN DEEP CONCERN Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:05:09 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Mary Sapigao, and I am a resident of the Santa Clara County. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Mary Sent from mylPhone From: Alejandra Gudino Subject: Look at this Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020 4:32:51 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Alejandra, and I am a resident of Anaheim, CA. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, [YOUR NAME] Alejandra Sent from my iPhone From: Gwen Dahncke To: Public Comment Subject: No on Resolution 5,19 & 30 Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020 12:47:34 AM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Gwendolyn Dahncke and I am a resident of Yorba Linda. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Francisco PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California, according to a 2017 study by the ACLU. WE DEMAND that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. We also DEMAND that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. We DEMAND that the city council not approve "Resolution 30" proclaiming the continuing existence of a local emergency regarding civil unrest, which will continue to crlminallze peaceful protestors. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. We are calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Sincerely, Gwendolyn Dahncke From: Emily Chao Subject: Please act now. Date: Thursday, June 25, 2020 8.01:©2 AM Please act now to confront and strategically disassemble modem systemic white supremacy and anti -black racism and their lingering historic effects. Please help to: Criminalize anti -black racism. Process all police corruption, brutality, and racism cases without bail, Get a reparations for Black slavery Act passed. Add blatant historic and systemic modem anti -black racism, white supremacy, and privilege into public school k-12 curriculum. Please include in historic education the Black massacres and Black lynching stories with the alleged accusations that sparked them. Please include the long term psychological and social impacts and their connection to internal bias. Please. Emily From: To: Subject: Date: Sean 0&#39;Connor Sean 0&#39;Connor Police Reform Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:04:36 AM We the people with the Movement for Black Lives demand the following reforms immediately: I - Suspend the use of paid admin. leave for cops under investigation: this reduces police funding, challenges the notion that the administrative costs of policing violence are essential to safety, & reduces the overall support for policing by removing the financial support. Z. Withhold pensions and don't rehire cops involved in excessive force: this decreases police funding, challenges the notion that police killings are exceptions rather than the rule, and reduces the ability of the police forces to re-engage with cops known for their use of violence. 3. Require cops to be liable for misconduct settlements: this saves community budgets a lot of money, rejects the notion that the costs of policing are essential to safety, and creates financial pressure for police to be accountable for their actions. 4. Cap overtime pay for military exercises and withdraw participation in police militarization programs: this saves our communities money, rejects the idea that we need cops trained for "counterterrorism", and stops police from increasing their capacity/reach over our daily lives. 5. Prioritize spending on community health, education and affordable housing: defunding police decreased their resources. This creates space for us to learn about resources that create well-being. Decreasing police funding means decreasing the size, scope and capacity of policing. All of theses steps work to reduce the size of the police force and minimize the role it plays in our society, which gives us more space and resources to invest in Black communities. Thank you, Sean O'Connor From: Jamie Reeves To: Jamie. Subject: Reallocate Police Funds Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:43:30 PM Officials, It is essential that you take budget money away from the police and reallocate that money into community services that in turn, will reduce crime, as everyone's needs will be cared for. Defund the police. Reallocate the funds into community services. Our police our grossly overfunded. Sincerely, Jamie Reeves From: Vivienne Zenteno (vizent) To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor O"Neil Subject: Reform in Anaheim!!! Date: Thursday, July 9, 2020 9:41:01 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Vivienne Zenteno, and I am a resident of California. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Vivienne Zenteno Sent from my iPhone From: Emily Vavrek To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; .Jose Moreno; Lucille Krina; Trevor Q"Neil Subject: Reform is not enough Date: Friday, .July 3, 2020 9:12:12 PM To the Anaheim city council: My name is Emily, and I am a resident of Buena Park. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Emily From: Margot Pierrong To: Public Comment Subject: Request referring to July4th Fireworks Date: Thursday, July 9, 2020 5:24:14 PM I would like to request that the Anaheim city council really mull over the decision to ban ALL fireworks — the selling AND the setting -off in Anaheim. This year was the worst for irresponsible behavior in setting off fireworks — even the legal ones....I am asking that if the people cannot act responsible, then the privilege should be taken away. I don't care if people feel pent up because of the virus - that is no excuse to exercise bad behavior - & this year was totally horrible ! Thank you. Margot Pierrong Anaheim — From: Esha Suri To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Krina; Tremor Q"Neil Subject: Request to Prioritize Community Wellbeing Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 8:51:40 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Esha Suri, and I am a resident of Irvine, California. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $163.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S.. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve 'Resolution 5" that will use $100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Esha Suri From: Jamie Reeves To: Jamie. Subject: Specialization and Domestic Violence Date: Sunday, June 28, 202© 1:16:09 AM Greetings, In a study of abused women, over 80% said they would not call the police again because they were scared that their abuser would only get a "slap on the wrist," and that they would come back and hurt them. Seeing that abused women do not feel safe calling the police to help them escape situations of domestic violence, should we cater to these women and create a new task force? The answer is yes. We need specialized teams to respond to issues of domestic violence, that are not police. Police simply do not have, and cannot receive the extensive, rigorous training that specialized experts on deescalating domestically violent situations and helping victims escape their abuser require. This takes years of training and education, it's one of many issues that police are simply not fit to handle, like they are expected to today. And I don't just want to see woman officers respond to these calls, because they are still police officers who are not fit to deal with these situations, in terms of the training and education they have. Defunding the police is about more than the safety of our Black neighbors, which is absolutely vital in itself. It is about making women more safe by ensuring their issues are cared for in a specialized way by trained professionals. Are you willing to help victims of domestic violence? Thanks, Jamie From: Michelle Schumacher To: Michelle Schumacher Subject: TCA Toll Roads - South Orange County is in trouble Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:18:00 PM Good evening, I hope you will take the time to watch these videos and look at the truth in accounting report. It is time the TCA toll road boondoggle ceases as hard working taxpayers deserve better. On March 12, 2020 the TCA Board passed a resolution to not extend the 241 toll road past Oso Parkway due to the devastating environmental, economic, cultural, and societal costs to South Orange County communities. Taxpayers deserve better, please see this video that shows the TCA should not be even contemplating building anything given 30 years of failure. Shawn Nelson, former Orange County Board Supervisor, who was also on the OCTA and TCA Board can be heard in this video that is very telling of the ineptitude of the TCA that he has witnessed. https://www.yout-u-b-t.com/--w-a-tch?v=I-Qhd-7-N-_ Wm gQ & featurcfyQuiul e&fbclid=iwAR3vQJmn �X�? fASHIyYnX c1l0(ibis ni ix 12Syi2SeWnnl iRimYce.lklLZFhNi TOW Truth in Accounting's Financial State of Orange County's Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) was just released last week. This report is a comprehensive analysis of Orange County's Transportation Corridor Agencies and their analysis showed for the fiscal year 2019 audited financial reports that the TCA has a combined debt of $4 billion. The TCA only has $828.3 million available to pay $4.8 billion worth of bills. The outcome is a $4 billion shortfall. Users of the tollways and property owners will be paying this debt and associated interest for years to come, which has only been exacerbated due to COVID- 19. Report can be found here httns://www.truthinaccounting. org/library/doclib/TCA-2019-2nager.�df Here is a video of the 241 toll road near Oso which essentially shows how underused this asset is and that it is criminal so much money has been wasted by the TCA, including the $706,000,000 of Development Fees they collect for new construction and many remodels in Orange County, the tolls and hefty penalties. ]fps: //www. facebook. com/NOTMYTOLLROAD/videos/262486125176625/ LA Times Article March 11, 2019 "While you sit in traffic, these toll way consultants charge the public $185 an hour for reading news" htt-,Ds://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-In-toll-road-consultants-2019031 I- story.html a, Orange County Grand Jury issues a Solvency warning regarding the TCA. httn://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher/Agenda03_22_2016_files/imag 0066 16-000294A.PDF "While some JPAs have relatively modest levels of debt, others have very significant debt. The Foothill Transportation Corridor Agency and the San Joaquin Transportation Corridor Agency have a joint debt level of over $4.5 billion, which is about 63% of the total debt reported by all the JPAs in Orange County. This level of public debt on the citizens of Orange County is very significant. These two transportation agencies only have an income level of $292 million per year. With this extreme debt burden, the Grand Jury questions their ability to pay off the principal and interest, based on their current revenue level." The Foothill Transportation Corridor Agency and the San Joaquin Transportation Corridor Agency have a joint debt level of over $4.5 billion. The Grand Jury has determined that this debt level is excessive based on their revenues, and it threatens to render them insolvent." Pacific Research Institute Report said the TCA's business model has been unsustainable from the start htt12s://www.nacificresearch.org/wD- content/ui2loads/2017/06/OrangcCountyTolls - F.Dd 4- - - & San Clemente has had La Pata and Del Rio and the 5 freeway widened in the past few years we have done a great job assisting with mobility in the County and are open to mobility solutions, what we are NOT open to is a toll road on top of 6 schools where it was NEVER intended to go or wiping out homes, business and our precious remaking open space. La Pata and Los Patrones provide a alternative to the interstate 5 freeway. We have OCTA and Caltrans we do not need this redundant wasteful government agency. Thank you Michelle From: Riley Mcmackin To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stel2hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor 0"Neil Subject: URGENT: ATTENTION REQUIRED Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:26:43 PM To the Anaheim City Council: My name is Riley McMackin, and I am a resident of Orange County. I am writing in deep concern for the health of the greater Anaheim community. It has become more than clear that a radical shift in our concept of policing and community health must take place at the local level. Police violence in Anaheim has disproportionately affected Black and Brown residents and that must come to an end. The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget, and some of the most well -funded and militarized police departments in the world. Anaheim is no different: the 2019-2020 budget allocated $153.8 million to law enforcement and only $1 million to community development. Anaheim is the 9th most violent police department in the U.S. From 2003-2016, Anaheim Police Department killed 33 people during the process of arrest, and nearly 40% of them were unarmed. Since 2014, the rate of arrest -related deaths caused by Anaheim PD exceeds that of LAPD, NYPD, and San Fran PD and is 74% higher than the average for police in California. I demand that the city council not approve "Resolution 19" that would spend $700,000 dollars of taxpayer money on surveillance technology of anti -police brutality protests and that any future projects related to surveillance be halted. I also demand that the council not approve "Resolution 5 that will use $ 100,000 to improve 10 police vehicles. Instead, invest that money in creating programs that benefit and enrich the community especially during a global pandemic. I am calling on our elected officials to stop criminalizing our community members. We as a concerned community refuse to remain silent on the use of technology to further terrorize our community. Thank you, Riley McMackin From: Edgar Arellano To: Police Review Board; Lucille Kr Trevor O"Neil; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Public Comment; Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes Subject: When will you define public safety? Date: Friday, July 3, 2020 5:50:51 PM Seriously, what is your protocol in returning to the precinct. This is the second time in one week that I catch a squad car speeding back to base. this continues to happen along corridors that are set for 35 million miles per hour. Today at 5:36 p.m. July 3rd going southbound on Ball road I witnessed squad car "9 - 855" speeding app probably 45 miles per hour through a 35 mile -per -hour school zone then to the continue going that speed leading the rest of traffic to also take that speed. Yall are doing nothing to uphold public safety and are encouraging regular folks to also break speed limit laws. PD Chief keep saying that they are efficient and efficient department but in reality you are reckless and you encourage others in our community to break laws and deteriorate trust in our own governance. How many times will I have to catch you breaking the law on video? Now more than ever, PDshould become more effective and a better standard for the community to entrust their safety in. Do better Edgar Arellano Resident & business owner District 2 From: Kelly Green To: Public comment Cc: Harry Sidhu (Mayor; Lucille KriD ; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Stephen Faessel; Trevor 0"Neil Subject: Proposed Needle Exchange Program: YES Date: Friday, July 10, 2020 11:43:25 AM Dear Representatives and legislators, I am a voter. I live at 92804. 1 am in favor of 'safe and sane' needle exchange programs. Please approve this bill. I canvassed other people who know about these programs and got these comments: Realistically anything that reduces the spread of AIDS, HEP -C, etc. is a benefit to society in reducing the cost of treatment for these diseases long term. Hardcore haters for these programs call it "enabling", which I and most addictions professionals know disagree with. if you NEED your fix you will find a way to get a needle. New, old, clean, dirty. These programs are important to help stop the spread of disease. Even a bad program is usually better than no program. Brian J. Hunt Assistant Director Addictions Counselor Certification Board of Oregon 1992-2016 Senior Certification Specialist Mental Health and Addictions Certification Board of Oregon 2016 -present As well as the more general comment: And: What you'd to avoid is first, basic money wasting, second that the program does not become the source of a nuisance in its own right, and third that the program have some kind of victory condition. Some way to say it is making things better and eventually coming to a close. Realistically there will always be drug addicts, but is the program doing "activities" that minimize the people getting hooked, staying hooked, having life problems while they are hooked.? And not doing it in pathological ways to cook the books, like sharing toxic needles that kill the clients. 111m in favor. will save me as a taxpayer money treating Hep and AIDS. Less reason for needles to be found in public parks and alleys. Nobody's gonna start shooting up because of free needles. I've seen some comments on NextDoor about 'dirty addicts' and 'dangerous homeless' and the other way around. Our duty as responsible humans and as government representatives is to help those people in need. Please approve this bill. Thank you, Jude -Marie Green From: Ailene Ortiz To: Public Comment Subject: Disneyland Opening Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 2:12:04 PM To Whom this May Concern: I am writing as a concern Anaheim resident over COVID— 19 and Disneyland's reopening. I believe the city of Anaheim needs to pause Disneyland's reopening because it puts many Anaheim residents and Disneyland cast members at risk of being infected with COVID- 19. The city of Anaheim needs to put the health of Anaheim residents before the city's finances. With Disneyland's reopening, it will be detrimental to the health of thousands of Anaheim residents and cast members. Please, I ask city council members to put a pause to Disneyland's reopening and prioritize Anaheim resident's health. From: Edgar Arellano To: Public Comment; Harr) Sidhu (Mayor); Lucille Kring; Jordan Brandman; lose Moreno; Denise Barnes; Stephen Faessel; Trevor 0"Neil Subject: No on Item#s 3 & 13 Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 1:36:37 PM Hello again. councilmembers, I write to you again with disdain for the agenda. Again you will be considering more than $200,000 to policing in our city. This is after you have already committed more than $1 million to policing since the police murdered George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, & continued to injure hundreds more some fatally. I've been writing to you for weeks as I capture dashcam evidence of Police speeding in our neighborhoods. Over the years, our community has noticed the reckless ways they use equipment to 'dominate' our streets, particularly their constant speeding in small neighborhood streets. I also am not fond of the constant low flyovers by both APD & OC Sheriffs in the West Anaheim district, they constantly endanger & disrupt the habitats & lives of our local falcon, sparrow, finch, & occasional eagle visitors; the need for maintenance of a Camera that can be used strategically for Search & Rescue is of value and gives just enough merits for your vote. I ask that you vote NO on Item 3 because it will further encourage the misuse of vehicles due to police recklessness. The staff report states that only a few Fire & Rescue vehicles would benefit from this Item. Item 3 is another incentive for policing in our city to remain as is. Our community has been vocal in our disdain for our bloated police department. Our police force may be the largest owner of vehicles both for work & personal use. They are destroying our climate with so much vehicle use & release of carbons into our neighborhoods. I demand that you vote NO on Item 13 because it diminishes community trust and transparency into the Police misconduct that happened in between 2009 - 4/30/2015. These have been some of the deadliest years in our city & sparked community actions that reached the national news. During those actions, APD escalated the situations to put our very own abuelas, mamas, & families in danger. APD is reckless & they are trying to erase that history in this records destruction item. Exhibit J shows 25 lines of records they'd want destroyed. Among these there are: Pursuit Critiques (201 G-2yrs), Monthly Statistics (201 6-2yrs), Suspension Notices (2017-2yrs), OSHA Inspections & Citations (-2014-5yrs), Internal Affairs Investigations / Disciplinary Files / Complaints / In -Custody Deaths, Major Incident Response Team (MITI ), and Officer Involved Shootings (2009-41301201.5-5yrs). What incentive would the Police Department request to destroy 5 years worth of records of our most violent period in our recent history`? While there are many other lines of records that may merit destruction due to storage issues, it is paramount that our city retain documents that will help steer our city towards a more educated & just community. Finally, I want to remind you that you are still violating our 4th & 5th amendment rights with your vote in favor of resolution 19 on the June 9, 2020 council meeting. The ACLU continues to condemn the abuse of for-profit contracts to overrule citizens privacy rights as afforded by the 4th and 5th amendment. There is no accountability nor transparency in the APD's use of this technology equipment, and they actively refuse inquiries due to non -disclosure agreements. The answers provided by Chief Cisneros are not satisfactory in the slightest, the doubt was loud in the ways which staff, the city manager, & police chief jave avoided the privacy violation questions. If I'D is reckless with their squad cars, then I have no confidence in their ability to have good judgement in using the "stingray" surveillance technology. Do Better, Edgar Arellano Resident & business owner District 2 From, Tamara Jimenez To: Public Comment Subject: Fw: Item #22 -Strong Support -BAN Date' Monday, July z3,zozo 11:56:09 AM Attachments: 3. Letter (Orange County Recovery Collaborative)26440.pd Forwarded Message From: Tamara Jimenez To: aaagert@anaheim.net<esoBort@anaheim.net> Sent: Monday, July 13.282O.11:47:23AMPDT Subject: Fw: Item #22 -Strong Support -BAN Forwarded Message From: Tamara Jimenez To: tbasm@anaheim.net<dzess@onaheim.not> Sent: Monday, July 13.2O2D.11:46:45AMPDT Subject: Item #22 -Strong Support -BAN Good afternoon, The Orange County Recovery Collaboration is in full support of a complete ban of syringe exchange programs at this time. The attached letter arose out of city staff coming to our meeting on November 5, 2019 to discuss the issue of needle exchange and which components would be absolutely unacceptable and absolutely necessary for success /F the city was forced to allow their operation. On November 6, 2019 we submitted our recommendations of these unanimously agreed upon components. That letter is attached for your reference. Let us reiterate, our professional opinion is that the best option for the city at this time is an absolute ban, however should that not pass then the only other option we will support is what staff has outline in their report as is. Thank you, IWF 11 Wx 11111, 7A 7AMmdL I VJ I R, � ".f4voz I A,01 M2 November 6, 2019 Re: Needle Exchange Programs To whom It May Concern: The Orange County Recovery Collaboration consists of substance use disorder, mental health, and homeless providers, along with members of the community, including elected representatives and law enforcement. The Collaboration's goals are to eliminate barriers and connect resources to those suffering from substance abuse. The Collaboration exists to unify providers to create significant changes in our communities. we have joined together, to serve countless people in all areas of addiction.. At the Collaboration's November 55 2019, meeting, the issue of needle exchange programs (NEP) was discussed. The goal was to identify components of a successful NEP and what components would not be acceptable. The Collaboration recognizes that a NEP cannot do all of these recommendations by itself, and in order to be successful the NEP would need to collaborate/link with existing service providers who are already providing services. The Collaboration reached consensus on the following recommendations: • Locations: Easy access to injection drug users (IDUs). Sites and locations would be scheduled on a regular basis. Ideal sites would be at locations where IDUs could receive additional treatment, such as outpatient clinics and other treatment or public health facilities. The NEP should not be located in or near parks or schools. • Narcan/Medical Care: Have staff trained in administering Narcan who can train participants and provide Narcan to reduce overdoses. Ideally a medical professional who is trained in first aid and wound care would be available for consultation. • Testing: On-site or linkage to test for HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and hepatitis B and C. with the testing services, education would be part of the testing process. • Needles: The NEP should only provide 1 needle for every 1 needle turned in. Needles would be single use, retractable needles to prevent needle sticks. Ideally, if needles provided by the NEP could have unique identifiers on them, such as bar codes or colors. * Disposal/Clean Up: The NEP must have a clear plan on hove they will ensure needles are not littered in areas in and around the distribution points. All participants shall receive an 'individual sharps container and additional sharps containers would be placed in areas known for frequent drug use. • Drug Treatment/Resources: Staff should be trained on County resources and to assist participants to linking to services. Resource list at a minimum should include, drug and mental health treatment, housing and food services. • Data Collection: At a minimum, the NEP should collect data on the number of needles distributed and returned. Additional data may include information on types of referrals made. • Lav Enforcement/City Support: City and law enforcement support is critical. Cities and law enforcement need to know what the NEP is doing in their city and to work together in addressing any issues/problems that arise. The above recommendations should address County, city and law enforcement concerns. With single use and Ito 1 needle distribution this would address the risk of needle sticks and the spreading of infectious diseases. Since participants only receive as many needles as they turn in, they may pick up additional needles that were on the ground. If needles are marred it will mare it easier to assess more accurately where the needles are coming from. The possibility of using bar codes not to just identify the NEP but what individual is not discarding appropriately was discussed. As the NEP is a service that IDUs value, it is possible to create a culture where participants self -police each other to discard needles appropriately. The Collaboration recognizes that it would be ideal to know certain outcomes such as; the number of participants who have found recovery, reduction of infectious disease, dollars saved in medical costs and overall impact on the community. This information would be very valuable but will require additional funds and should not be done by the NEP. Thank you for taping the time to read our recommendations. If you need any additional information please contact Tamara Jimenez at , or Mitch Cherness at From, Tamara Jimenez To: Public Comment Subject: FW: Item #22 -Strong support BAm zst option Date' Monday, July z3,zozo 11:58:19 AM Attachments: S13 689 Bindec.Qdf From: Tamara Jimenez Sent: Monday, July l3'ZOZO2O:49AM To:tbass@anaheim.net Subject: Item #22 -Strong Support BAN -1st option I have attached a binder that | personally put together tosupport abill that John Moor|achhad introduced SB 689 that is currently a 2 year bill. This binder is a compilation of local city and county responses, public comments/constituent letters- which begin onpage G4 business letters, pictures of needle debris, maps & the CDPH approval which was overturned in your recent lawsuit. I have carefully read through the staff report and Lighthouse is in full support of a BAN at this time. As a member of the Orange County Recovery Collaboration, we are also in agreement with their report in the event that the ban does not pass. But we would like to be very clear that at this time, especially without SB6B9onthe books, we strongly support afull BAN ofneedle exchange inany form and will only support a regulation should the ban not be passed. If the ban is not passed, the only item we vviUsupport at that time isthe regulation that staff has prepared intheir report exactly asis. Have great day, Tamara Jimenez Community/Government Relations Manager Anaheim Lighthouse CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is protected under the Federal regulations governing Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"), 45 C.F.R. Pts. 160 & 164 and cannot be disclosed without written consent unless otherwise provided for in the regulations. 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MOORLACH THIRTY-SEVENTH SENATE DISTRICT FACT SHEET Senate Bill 689 -- Local Control of Needle Exchange Programs BILL SUMMARY Senate Sill 689 will amend the California Health and Safety Code Section 121349 to allow local governments a greater say in the location of clean needle and syringe exchange programs. Specifically, this bill restricts the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) from authorizing or re -authorizing needle and syringe exchange programs unless a city or county has approved the request. REA!'oN FOR LEGISLATION According to the departments' office of AIDS, needle exchange programs were developed to prevent the spread of HIV and other blood- borne diseases.' However, through unintended Consequences these policies have created a threat to non- drug using residents. The city of Santa Ana encountered a serious public safety threat as a result of its needle exchange program. Discarded needles have pricked city residents, and 40--50 needles per month have been found on public library property. The problem was so rampant that, at one point, library employees found books with needles inside.2 Preventing the spread of blood-borne diseases for one group of citizens is a worthy cause, but creating a serious public safety crisis for everyone else is not the answer. City, county and state leaders should be focusing on a path to substance abuse recovery, not advancing illegal drug use. SB 689 does not prohibit clean needle and syringe exchange programs; it simply gives control to local governments over where they can be located. ISSUE BACKGROUND Current law defines two methods in which needle exchange programs may be authorized to operate: 1) action taken by the county board of supervisors or city council; 2) authorization granted by the CDPH. This current process sidesteps local control, and allows the state to decree they know where to best locate these programs. CONTACT Eric Dietz, Legislative Director Eric.Dietz@sereca.goy, (916) 651-4037 office of AIDS, CDPH syringe Exchange Certification Program - https:l/www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pil.otZnes-,,si Ln-�.Y +r n - Fact Sheet et-oc-needle-exchange-201 802o'.-story.html SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE ANALYSIS Senator Ed Hernandez, O.D., Chair BILL NO: AB 504 AUTHOR: Skinner AMENDED: April 5, 2 Q 11 HEARING DATE: June 22, 2011 CONSULTANT: Orr A B N I NTR.TF. f `T Needle exchange programs �T TMA4 A R V Allows the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to authorize entities meeting specified criteria to provide clean hypodermic needle and syringe exchange programs (SEPs) in any location where the department determines conditions exist for the rapid spread of deadly or disabling disease spread through the sharing of unclean hypodermic needles and syringes. CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW Existing law: Requires that no person shall possess a hypodermic needle or syringe except when acquired in accordance with specified provisions of law. Authorizes an SEP in any city, county, or city and county upon action by the county board of supervisors and the local health officer or health commission as applicable, or action of the city council, mayor and local health officer as applicable. The programs are to be authorized using recommendations from the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, subject to availability of funding, and are to be offered as part of a comprehensive network of services. Requires health officers of jurisdictions that participate in SEPs to annually report the status of those programs and at an open meeting of the board of supervisors or city council. Allows local governments, public health officials, and law enforcement agencies the opportunity to comment on SEPs on an annual basis to address potential adverse impacts to the public. Continued--- STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 2 Allows a pharmacist or physician to furnish hypodermic needles or syringes for human use without a prescription or permit if the person is known to the furnisher and the furnisher has been previously provided with a prescription or proof of legitimate medical need. Allows counties to authorize pharmacists to fun -fish or sell 10 or fewer hypodermic needles or syringes to persons 18 years of age or older, for the period commencing January 1, 2005 and ending December 31, 2018, if the pharmacy is registered for the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project (DPDP) and if the pharmacy complies with other specified provisions. Establishes the DPDP as a collaboration between pharmacies and local and state health officials, for the purpose of evaluating the long-term desirability of allowing licensed pharmacists to furnish or sell nonprescription hypodermic needles or syringes to. prevent the spread of blood-borne pathogens, including HIV and hepatitis C. As part of the DPDP, requires participating pharmacies to register with their local health department, and certify that they will provide written or verbal information on drug treatment, testing services, and safe sharps disposal practices at the point of sale. Describes requirements for the secure storage of needles and syringes in pharmacies, and requires pharmacies to make safe disposal options available to users. Requires CDPH to evaluate the DPDP and provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 15, 2 0 10 . Requires that no public entity, its agents, or employees be subject to criminal prosecution for the distribution of hypodermic needles or syringes to participants in clean needle and syringe exchange projects authorized by law. Finds and declares that needle exchange programs have been shown to serve as a bridge to treatment and recovery from drug abuse, curtail the spread of HIV infection through the IDU population, and do not increase drug use. This hill: Authorizes CDPH to allow entities meeting specified criteria to apply for authorization to provide hypodermic needles and syringe exchange services in any location where CDPH determines that conditions exist for the rapid spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infectious disease, spread through the sharing of unclean hypodermic needles and syringes. The entity must have sufficient staff, capacity and funding to provide these services, and must demonstrate the ability to do the following: 1) Provide specified services for drug treatment and disease testing, 2) Begin the SEP within 3 months of CDPH's authorization, and 3) Collect specified evaluative data to assess the program's impact. Requires CDPH to provide for a public comment period at least 45 days prior to the approval of an application by posting a notice on its website and notifying the health officer of the jurisdiction where the entity submitting the application is located. Requires CDPH to post addresses and contact information of all SEPs on its website. Requires CDPH to provide biennial reports to local health officers in jurisdictions where CDPH has authorized needle exchange services. STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 3 Provides that staff, volunteers and participants in an authorized exchange project will not be subject to criminal prosecution for violation of any law related to the possession, furnishing, or transfer of hypodermic needles in an exchange project. Changes the frequency with which local governments, public health officials, law enforcement agencies, and the public may comment on local SEPs from once per year to once every two years. Also changes the requirement for local health officials to report to the board of supervisors or city council on the status of such programs from once per year to once every two years. Replaces a reference to recommendations by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the US Public Health Service. FISCAL IMPACT The Assembly Appropriations Committee analysis estimates annual costs to the CDPH of $30,000 to $401,000 in 2011-12 through 2013-14 to establish regulations. CDPH indicates that the department could absorb the additional workload with no new funding by redirecting existing federal monies for HIV prevention. The analysis also estimates ongoing, likely absorbable costs for CDPH to continue oversight of needle exchange projects after 2014, and unknown but potentially significant savings to the extent this bill reduces medical costs associated with infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION The author believes SEPs are a highly cost-effective component of a comprehensive HIV and hepatitis control strategy, endorsed by every major national, state, and international health and medical association. The author asserts that local governments have had the authority to allow these programs since 1999, but some have failed to do so due to neglect, lack of knowledge, or lack of political will. The author claims that there are thousands of new hepatitis cases and hundreds of HIV cases occurring in the state every year, including the inland empire and the central valley where there are no authorized SEPs. The author contends that federal funding is now available to California to support SEPs and to prevent costly and deadly infections, but the lack of SEPs in some of these areas means that taxpayers statewide get stuck with paying the bill. 'lean needle and syringe exchange programs (SEPs) Clean needle exchange programs make sterile needles available to injection drug users (IDUs), in order to mitigate the transmission of bloodborne diseases such as HIV and HCV. SEPs provide a safe and accessible method for IDUs to exchange used syringes for sterile ones. often, SEPs also provide other public health services, such as HIV testing, risk -reduction education, and referrals for substance -abuse treatment. For some California residents, a SEP is the only accessible provider of medical or social services. SEPs have been shown to be effective in reducing the sharing of syringes and the transmission of blood-borne infections among drug users, without increasing drug use. SEPs can help lower the number of contaminated syringes circulating in communities by STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 4 decreasing syringe scarcity, and in the case of an accidental needlestick, can lower the likelihood of a needle being contaminated with a potentially deadly disease. Since the implementation of these programs in the late 1980s, new HIV infections among IDUs have declined overall by 80 percent. One study published in 2001 found that the mean HIV prevalence rate among IDUs in metropolitan areas that banned over-the-counter sales or purchases of needles and syringes was twice as high as the mean HIV prevalence rate in metro areas that allow over-the-counter sales (13.8 percent vs. 6.7 percent respectively). According to the Center for Health Improvement, there were 41 authorized SEPs in California as of March 2009. Cities and counties are enabled to authorize an SEP as part of a comprehensive network of services. Local government, local public health officials, law enforcement personnel, and the public are supposed to be given the opportunity to provide comments on local SEPs annually. The local health officers are required to annually report to the boards of supervisors or city councils, and to include a detailed report on the status of local SEPs including, but not limited to, relevant statistics on blood-borne infections associated with needle -sharing activities and the use of public funds for these programs. According to CDPH/OA, seventeen county boards of supervisors and four city councils have authorized SEPs, and several other counties and cities are currently considering them. Funding for syringe exchange According to CDPH Office of AIDS (CDPH/OA), CDPH considers syringe exchange to be "unquestionably Vital in the struggle to reduce the spread of HIV, HCV and other bloodborne infections among injection drug users, their partners, and their children." In the past, CDPH has distributed millions of dollars in state funding to authorized SEPs across the state to provide syringe exchange, HIV and HCV testing, counseling and referral to needed services. Recent cuts in state General Funds for HIV prevention have resulted in elimination of all state funding of SEPs; HIV prevention in the state is now solely funded by federal dollars, which had precluded the funding of SEPs. On December 16, 2009, President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, which began the process of lifting the 1989 ban on the use of federal funds for SEPs. This action allowed the CDC and its partners to more fully implement a comprehensive, evidence -based approach for reducing HIV infection among injecting drug users. The U.S. Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin, M.D. also announced on February 23, 2011 in the Federal Register that federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant funds could now be used to support syringe services programs. This determination permitted states and territories to use their Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant funds for needle exchange. Pharmacy sale of syringes Until the 2004 signing of SB 1159 (Vasconcellos), which started the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project, California was one of only five states that required a prescription in order to purchase a syringe. In the early 80s, insulin and allergy syringes could be bought in any drugstore without a prescription. In spite of the available supply, some drug users chose to reuse and share needles, and are believed to be partly responsible for the early spread of the AIDS epidemic. In the 90s, some states began requiring needles to be stored behind the pharmacy counter and began requiring a prescription, in hopes of STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 5 cutting down on illegal drug use by making syringes more scarce. Many states abandoned that policy once a correlation was noted between syringe scarcity and increased infectious disease rates in IDUs. To address and prevent the spread of blood-borne infectious diseases among IDUs in California, the DPDP was established to allow the sale of up to 10 hypodermic needles or syringes without a prescription at pharmacies. In order to participate in the DPDP, pharmacies must register with their local health department and provide a contact name and related information. They must also certify that they will provide written or verbal counseling at the time of furnishing or selling needles or syringes. Additionally, pharmacies must properly store needles and syringes so that they are only available to authorized personnel, provide on-site safe disposal of needles and syringes, or furnish or sell mail -back state or federal standard personal sharps disposal containers. In the absence of local authorization of a DPDP or a SEP, the sale and possession of syringes without a prescription remains illegal in California. CDPH evaluation of th e DPDP SB 1159 required CDPH to report to the Governor and to the Legislature by January 15, 2010 on the impact of allowing pharmacists to furnish or sell non-prescription hypodermic needles or syringes on rates of crime in the vicinity of pharmacies, rates of drug use, rates of needlestick injury to law enforcement officers and waste management employees, rates of safe or unsafe discard of syringes, syringe -sharing practice among IDUs, and rates of disease infection related to syringe sharing. CDPH was also required to convene an uncompensated evaluation panel. The report was released to the Legislature in July of 2010. It made several key findings: 1) Injection -mediated risks were lower among IDUs in local health jurisdictions (LHJ) that authorized DPDPs. 2) Reported needlestick injuries among law enforcement officers remained rare. 3) Drug-related crime remained stable in the LHJs that authorized DPDPs. 4) Levels of unsafe discard of used hypodermic needles or syringes around DPDPs were low. 5) Levels of injection of illegal drugs decreased among publicly funded HIV testing clients since implementation of SB 1159. The report found that between 40 and 45 percent of IDUs in DPDP--authorizing counties reported never sharing syringes during the past two years. In counties that did not authorize OTC sale, never -sharing rates were lower, ranging from 22 to 32 percent. The authors of the report claimed that more time would be needed to accurately assess SB 1159's effect on disease incidence rates due to limitations in available data. The report found substantial differences in authorization and implementation of local DPDPs across California LHJs and claims that "the two-step authorization process for legalizing [OTC] syringe sales (i.e., first on the county or city level and second on the pharmacy level) limited potential risk -reduction intentions of the legislation and deletion of this stipulation from a future bill could provide better access to this important prevention intervention." The report points out that universal authorization of OTC syringe sales could reduce costs to LHJs by eliminating the need for staff time and STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 6 resources to support that local authorization process and suggests broadening implementation among and within counties. Needlestick injuries Access to sterile syringes can affect the occupational health and safety of peace officers and waste management employees because they are at risk of accidental needlestick injuries from improperly disposed needles. A recent study found that 29.7 percent of San Diego Police Officers surveyed had suffered a needlestick injury on duty, usually during a pat -down or search incident to arrest. A study of police officers in Rhode Island found that nearly 30 percent had been stuck by a syringe at one point in their career, with over 27 percent experiencing 2 or more needle stick injuries. Research has shown that accidental needlesticks to police officers have decreased significantly following the implementation of SEPs. For instance, studies in Connecticut and Massachusetts found that needlestick injuries to officers were reduced 66 percent after syringe deregulation. Related bills SB 41 (Yee) would repeal the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project (DPDP) which authorizes local jurisdictions to allow pharmacies to distribute up to 10 needles or syringes without a prescription. Instead, would allow individuals to obtain up to 30 needles or syringes for personal use without a prescription from a pharmacy, and would authorize pharmacists and physicians to distribute up to 30 needles or syringes to an individual solely for personal use without a prescription. Pending in Assembly Rules Committee. Prior legislation SB _1029 (Yee) of 2010 would allow individuals to obtain, and pharmacists and physicians to distribute up to 30 syringes or needles for personal use without a prescription from a pharmacy until December 31, 2018. Repeals the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project (DPDP), thereby removing a requirement for local governments to first authorize participation in the DPDP prior to a pharmacy's registration in the program. Vetoed with the message: "SL 1029 would remove the ability of local officials to hest determine policies in their jurisdiction. Some counties have not sought to implement this pilot program, citing competing priorities, lacy of pharmacy interest and law enforcement opposition. " AB 1701 (Chesbro) Chapter 667, Statutes of 2010, extended the sunset date of the DPDP from December 311, 2010, to December 31, 2018. AB 1858 (Blumenfield) of 2010 is substantially similar to AB 604 but included a sunset date of January 1, 2016. Vetoed with the message: "I signed legislation in 2005 that reflected a careful balance between good public health policy and local decision-making authority. I remain comfortable with that original decision and do not believe it is appropriate to change this balance and instead give authority to the state Department of Public Health to overrule local decisions regarding syringe exchange programs. " AB IIO (Laird), Chapter 707, Statutes of 2007, permits a public entity that receives General Fund (GF) money for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and education from the Department of Public Health (DPH) to use that money to support clean needle and syringe exchange projects (MEPs), as specified. STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 7 AB 547 (Berg anal Richman), Chapter 692, Statutes of 2005, authorized clean SEPs in any city and county, county, or city upon the action of a county board of supervisors and the local health officer or health commission of that county; the city council, the mayor, and the local health officer of a city with a health department; or, the city council and the mayor of a city without a health department. SB 1.59 (Vasconcellos), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2004, authorizes the Disease Prevention Demonstration Project (DPDP) to evaluate the long-term desirability of allowing licensed pharmacies to sell or furnish nonprescription hypodermic needles or syringes to prevent the spread of blood-borne pathogens. Authorizes a licensed pharmacist, until December 31, 2010 and subject to authorization by a county or city, to sell or furnish 10 or fewer hypodermic needles or syringes to a person for human use without a prescription if the pharmacy is registered in the DPDP with a local health department. PRIOR ACTIONS Assembly Health: 13-6 Assembly Appropriations: 12-3 Assembly Floor: 52-26 Arguments in support AIDS Project Los Angeles asserts that expanding SEPs will reduce the fixture costs of HIV and hepatitis C to taxpayers. More than 600,000 Californians are living with hepatitis C, and their health care costs are expected to soar over the next decade. AB 604 will help to bring SEPs to communities that currently have no access to sterile syringes and thus are experiencing high rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections. The California Hepatitis Alliance asserts that sharing needles is the leading cause of hepatitis C infections in the state, and the second most common means of contracting HIV and hepatitis B. the estimated lifetime cost to treat hepatitis C exceeds $100,000 per person, and the lifetime cost to treat HIV exceeds $600,000. Failure to prevent these infections creates long-term burden on state General Fund -supported health insurance and drug programs. Arguments in opposition The League of California Cities opposes the bill because they believe the ultimate considerations for local health and safety impacts should be made by the city that will directly bear the consequences, for better or for worse. The League asserts that AB 604 overrides local authority and allows health services organizations to act outside of a city or county government's discretion. The International Faith -Based Coalition believes this bill will have a devastating impact on the neighborhoods that their pastors shepherd. The coalition believes that having local government bodies male these decisions is not only good public safety and quality of life policy, it is good public health policy. STAFF ANALYSIS OF ASSEMBLY BILL 604 (Skinner) Page 8 COMMENTS 1. Local authority. AB 604 allows CDPH to determine where to provide authorization for SEPs for the purpose of addressing a public health problem, and circumvents the existing local control over the authorization of such programs. Given the concerns about bypassing local authority, and that this change in policy would allow additional unknown entities to engage in needle and syringe exchanges, should this bill apply a sunset provision in order to offer an opportunity for the legislature to formally reevaluate its impact? POSITIONS Support: Drug Policy Alliance (sponsor) AIDS Project Los Angeles American Civil Liberties Union American Nurses Association California California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives, Inc. California Hepatitis Alliance California Nurses Association California Opioid Maintenance Providers California Society of Addiction Medicine California State Board of Pharmacy California Syringe Exchange Provider Network Center for Health Justice Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero Common Ground: The Westside HIV Community Center County Alcohol and Drug Program Administrators Association of California Harm Reduction Coalition L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center National Association of Social workers Redwood AIDS Information Network and Services Saint James Infirmary San Francisco AIDS Foundation San Francisco Hepatitis C Task Force Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Waste Management Oppose: California Narcotic Officers' Association California Police Chiefs Association International Faith Based Coalition League of California Cities Los Angeles Division, League of California Cities -- END -- SB 689-MOORLACH LOCAL CONTROL OF NEEDLE EXCHANGE • BILL TEXT • MAPS & CDPH APPROVAL • CITY & COUNTY RESPONSES.. o CONSTITUENT LETTERS o BUSINESS LETTERS ANAHEIM LIGHT• HOUSE RESIDEN TIA L DRUG/ALCOHOL REHA HIL I TA TION AND DET -OX SER VICES Tamara Jimenez Community Reiations Manager 1320 West Pearl St. Anaheim, CA 92801 Cell www.analieinilighthouse.com tiimenez@anafieimlighthOLise.com LIGHTHOUSE TREATMENT CENTER Tamara Jimenez Community Relations Manager tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com Phony www.lighthousetreatment.com 1310 West Pearl Street, Anaheim, California 92801 Laura Garcia/Joe Black The Lighthouse Community (AB 109 FACILITY) 3880 Rosecrans Street San Diego CA, 92110 (619)575-0243 SENATE BILL No. 689 Introduced by Senator Nloorlach February 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 121349 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 659, as introduced, Moorlach. Needle and syringe exchange programs. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to authorize certain entities to apply to the department to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services in any location where the department determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used 'hypodermic needles and syringes, and requires the department to provide for a period of public comment, as specified, at least 45 days before approval of the application. This bill would instead allow the department to authorize an entity pursuant to these provisions only if the city, county, or city and county in which the entity will be operating has adopted an ordinance or resolution approving that authorization or reauthorization. Vote: majority_ Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. - State -mandated local program: no. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 1 SECTION 1. Section 121349 of the Health and Safety Code 2 is amended to read: 99 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 121349. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that scientific data from needle exchange programs in the United States and in Europe have shown that the exchange of used hypodermic needles and syringes for clean hypodermic needles and syringes does not increase drug use in the population, can serve as an important bridge to treatment and recovery from drug abuse, and can curtail the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HSV) infection among the intravenous drug user population. (b) In order to reduce the spread of HIV infection and bloodborne hepatitis among the intravenous drug user population within California, the Legislature hereby authorizes a clean needle and syringe exchange project pursuant to this chapter in any city, county, or city and county upon the action of a county board of supervisors and the local health officer or health commission of that county, or upon the action of the city council, the mayor, and the local health officer of a city with a health department, or upon the action of the city council and the mayor of a city without a health department. (c) (7 ) In order to reduce the spread of HIV infection, viral hepatitis, and other potentially deadly bloodborne infections, the State Department of public Health may, notwithstanding any other law, authorize entities that provide services set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d), and that have sufficient staff and capacity to provide the services described in Section 121349. 1, as determined by the department, to apply for authorization under this chapter to provide hypodermic needle and syringe exchange services consistent with state standards in any location where the department determines that the conditions exist for the rapid spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, or any other potentially deadly or disabling infections that are spread through the sharing of used hypodermic needles and syringes. Authorization shall be made after consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership, and after a period of public comment, as described in subdivision (e). In mating the determination, the department shall balance the concerns of law enforcement with the public health benefits. The authorization skull not be for more than two years. Before the end of the two-year period, the department may reauthorize the program in consultation with the local health officer and local law enforcement leadership. 99 SB 689 1 (2) The depamnent shall authorize or reauthorize an entity 2 pursuant to this subdivision only if the city, county, or city and 3 county - in which the entity will be operating has adopted an 4 ordinance or resolution approving that authorization or 5 reauthorization. 6 (d) In order for an entity to be authorized to conduct a project 7 pursuant to this chapter, its application to the department shall 8 demonstrate that the entity complies with all of the following 9 minimum standards: 10 (1) The entity provides, directly or through referral, all of the 11 following services: 12 (A) Drug abuse treatment services. 13 (B) HIV or hepatitis screening. 14 (C) Hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccination. 15 (D) Screening for sexually transmitted infections. 16 (E) Housing services for the homeless, for victims of domestic 17 violence, or other similar housing services. 18 (F) Services related to provision of education and materials for 19 the reduction of sexual risk behaviors, including, but not limited 20 to, the distribution of condoms. 21 (2) The entity has the capacity to commence needle and syringe 22 exchange services within three months of authorization. 23 (3) The entity has adequate funding to do all of the following 24 at reasonably projected program participation levels: 25 (A) Provide needles and syringe exchange services for all of its 26 participants. 27 (B) Provide HN and viral hepatitis prevention education 28 services for all of its participants. 29 (C) Provide for the safe recovery and disposal of used syringes 30 and sharps waste from all of its participants. 31 (4) The entity has the capacity, and an established plan, to collect 32 evaluative data in order to assess program impact, including, but 1 33 not limited to, all of the following: 34 (A) The total number of persons served. 35 (B} The total number of syringes and needles distributed, 36 recovered, and disposed of. 37 (C) The total numbers and types of referrals to drug treatment 38 and other services. 39 (e) If the application is provisionally deemed appropriate by the 40 department, the department shall, at least 45 days prior to approval 99 SB 689 I of the application, provide for a period of public comment as 2 follows 3 (1) Post on the department's T �- t� T� .s-Lt=�-- i»ternet website 4 the name of the applicant, the nature of the services, and the 5 location where the applying entity will provide the services. 5 (2) Send a written and an email notice to the local health 7 officer of the affected jurisdiction. 8 (3) Send a written and an email notice to the chief of 9 police, the sheriff, or baths as appropriate, of the jurisdictions in 10 which the program will operate. 11 J) The department shall establish and maintain on its 12 )FI Trite inter net website the address and contact information of 13 programs providing hypodermic needle and syringe exchange 14 services pursuant to this chapter. 15 (g) The authorization provided under this section shall only be 16 for a clean needle and syringe exchange project as described in 17 Section 121349.1. 18 (h) If the department, in its discretion, determines that a state 19 authorized syringe exchange program continues to meet all 20 standards set forth in subdivision (d) and that a public health need 21 exists, it may administratively approve amendments to a program's 22 operations including, but not limited to, modifications to the time, 23 location, and type of services provided, including the designation 24 as a fixed site or a mobile site. The amendment approval shall not ,. 25 be subject to the noticing requirements of subdivision (e). 26 (i) The department shall have 30 business days to review and 27 respond to the applicant's request for amendment of the 28 authorization. If the department does not respond in writing within. 29 30 business days the request shall be deemed denied. 99 THE ORANGE COUNTY GISTER Local control.is key to making needle exchange programs work By John. M. W. Moorlach February 28, 2019 A sad development that has exploded across the country in recent years has become known as "the Opioid Epidemic," especially among young people. That's why I have introduced Senate Bill 689, which establishes guidelines and increases local control for needle and syringe exchange pro grams . Such programs do not condone drug abuse but recognize the reality that some people are going to inject themselves with harmful substances. Almost inevitably, these people are poor. They "only had a dollar to live on till next Monday," to quote the old Hoyt Axton anti --drug song, "Snowblind Friend." Experts will tell you people are tempted to use old needles that may be contaminated with HIV, hepatitis or other diseases, perpetuating the contagion. which is why needle -exchange pro grams hand them new, sterile needles. This idea, while well-intentioned, presents a whole new set of challenges. when addicts receive the needles, they also make contact with the public health system, possibly for the first time. Doing so gives them the opportunity to receive information on health, recovery and other programs that can help them break the addiction, or at least to live another day. Crucial to such programs is local control. That's because local city councils, police and health officials are the ones on the ground trying to help the addicts. Also important to consider is increased risk to public safety. The California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, has cautioned that some existing needle -exchange programs have not made matters better, but worse through threatening non- drug --using residents. These concerns are real. The Register reported last November when Orange County's only needle --exchange program was shut doNNm, Superior Court Judge Joel R. wohlfeil "agreed with concerns raised by orange County officials and the cities of Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Orange about the potential for used syringes to litter the community and stick people." The judge called the program a "noble goal'' and lauded volunteers' "selfish devotion." Then he cited "the estimated 250,000 syringes that were unaccounted for during Civic Center operations," according to the Register. "The seriousness of the harm outweighs the social utility," Wohlfeil ruled. Discarded needles have pricked city employees. Heather Folmar, operations manager at the nearby Santa Ana Public Library, said needles rarely were found in the library before the exchange _opened, but 40 to 50 a month afterward. "we found them on shelves, near planters, window sills, in books," she said. "A cleaning lady was pricked by one." Helping some people shouldn't hurt other people. SB689 specifically states its intent is to "reduce the spread of HN infection and bloodborne hepatitis among the intravenous drug user population within California." Therefore, "the Legislature hereby authorizes a clean needle and syringe exchange project." It allows the California Department of Public Health to authorize needle -exchange programs only if the city or county in which the exchange will be "operating has adopted an ordinance or resolution approving that authorization or reauthorization." The bill provides a crucial element to make needle exchanges work: local control. Please join me March 1 at 10 a.m. as I introduce SB 689 to the public. Address: City Hall, 300 E Chapman Ave, Orange, CA 92866. Jahn M W. 1M oorlach, -Costa( Mesa, represents the 3 7th District in the California Senate 117 064,5 f * '+•+4 Ile CLIP 49 Jw jot. ' •, _ e+•- ' -:.« �._Ir �s. f� -N ' . qty -a Y► LJ ��;■� f i -06 CD fl' -% c AsWUMM cu yi trO4- Wei f CL) Of cn OWN Im CE; - , - i 6• :�..� �. a � „� �r , . Vii, r� � AdO"t A-, r Y CD {J la # rt'• CL 40. L 111111114 SCR ai 8 Y 7++ l� +. � s,� +�^�•, i+r. i _ r 1'i ' 1 ,�'_ _ .. � a ...� +yt S _,�' � 'I� .s-_ .. - # � � � . r ;'' -f , d .��,., f = flip.1�� r . s� 4I Rca y t . r ; r.1 lot It - G r yy � xT'"` di IT t ju IIT cz ' i a• �+- . "'- •` All kL ' Pei VON C . A + I ! All ro - J -_♦ .iii �" ` - � "� �� � � � � ,6 �` " � � } � - f x � �`• , pAV Jam. �' +r i } '� ` sA7 - - r `+ `�, '' J• ` o ilk' 'T' CIO cell PCOP lip tir' '(!,�� �--Im- Ll Aj T ! 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W,a •- �r� "•w' s '6* �4 ♦ 14.3 L _ t•.too ~ 1 t 1 V it- � `fit � � - - ~ • Ito• `. - +/ �. - - .. • i '�*' ' `°# �- _ .. -` r- -_ - � - -. - - -^rye . ,..16- AT t4 f r• dp �-.-.rte• - = _ i NEW'UM 4W F August G, 2018 T �: chief Thomas lsela, city of Orange; Acting chief Julian Harvey, city of Anaheim; chief David Valentin, city of Santa Ana; and Acting Chief Bryan Glass, city of Costa Mesa Dr. Eric Handler, orange county Health officer �A T loN� THE ORANGE COUNTY NEIILE BUB IEcT: AUTHo ExCHf .NGE MOBILE PROGRAM APPLICATION hG c�:irr�ipi �i { ��t i ofdC fy:Itr(CDPH'), ti,•; r��:;� �:? �i �:��. Lei- �t{ion I� �� ! iPl t T + L / •"ti p t l P� r r .� r r L r. r r+ r F ..-r ✓^t r^� t'j ��j u L h r % fi ! ! J rJ� �' f t 't 3.�� `ice r. t ft i E i ,O o E .�ri�. �' �,� ��r l -our �rtf�� ��Y n �n � G c�� ,s►���a ion � F �. ...� .� �:� �o � �..�� �L , OA has authorized the orange county Needle Exchange P'rogr�am (OCNIEP) to provide syringe exchange mobile services in four locations in orange county, as proposed in OCNEP's application dated March 19, 2018. This authori?ation is ei re, August 6, r7 ar r { +Jr1 i �' i �� ^ [ �l �--; r. + r r. r r p- w �-. T,"- n ► r r r� r-+ ' Y� .+ r �•t y-� .- } ;- F"'t �l �t rIi:'.�Ji ! _�.!uUt3 L 1S ��..v.` 1�.�. ( CJ's 4LP I { ii_e�f 2-p��I��1 s�F� t I t.�1':"�_I :. v �:' i v �i 3,Y � � Pt.' �E �f 1� tL'1 �- Ems. S ! i F r, F- _ °^� ;� ' � j � r _ ►ti r' r j = - 4 ^ � � r i I .� � : , t ('r s- - � t j" f i� L r b L �} ,. y. : t rte_ t, s I r, ` E SS ., V. f i�r { f I t •..-i ,_-.. f rte: .� r r-1 y v! l . i i L -+.:r i v i '. I i ti. +r- 1 11 r. 1".4 , l it . ' -- 1 r ^. I^ - --, r••r r� �-~ ; -- '"'7- � t� i J%�_� M tih'�31�• v: . CDPH, OA has determined that CCNEP's application meets the requirennents outlined in Health and Safety code Section 121349 and that there- is a public health need for these sere/ices due to the significant risk for transmission of HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in orange County. In making this determination, CDPH has identified Orange County as among the California counties most vulnerable to rapid ` f `�� n N s � •dly { p.Ir d rip ^ Q C)f r1 r� n - i +•'} i } . t ,+-� h ..-+ z �! t—i 1 q E I +'' P-� +G e r' i e [ i'� f-' , i ,_ . r I t' , = 1— I � ��t ��! '_ �� is -�t ! 'mac! t; HIT �: ,.� t i`-,_• v i _ _ _. _ �. i+ 4 � 1 ..{ L :� Lr ' • L _ t 1 L e ! p L ,r s .r 4.• , s � chronic hepatus C increased by 201 %bet�f�jeen 1'1= 9 in rage Coul �iy, and -he rate of newly -d iagnosed H IV cases per 100,000 population increased by 24% between 2012 and 2016. There is currently no syringe exchange program in orange County, and very few orange county pharmacies provide non-prescription syringe sales. The services proposed by oCN EP will play a crucial public health role in the prevention of blood-borne -diseases, as well as off=ering support and linkage to critical medical care and social services. Amendment to OCNEP operations In order to address the concerns conveyed during CDPH, OA consultation with local law enforcement and received during the public comment period, oCNEP has conferred with CDPH and requested that, if its application is approved, CDPH, OA amend the Djrac.tois _0I=f ce.jUS Q5QQ • P.O. Box 997377 • Sacramento, CA 95899-7377 L�,r�11.°'. (916) 558-1700 (916) 558-1752 FA Internet Address: www.cd h.ca. ev :; 71 1 =e .,P, r � I l._-: Li 7• } [ i L..' L.+ ! Z I L.: 1 I i 1 1 l-.' lJ L' r L .� , . ,,,,.., .�: v " .�. I f' ] t1 ■" 5 California D P or. L m, e n t o f u b 1'r% ILI �.z I I .�- Mn M PH KkREN L. SNUTH.3 1.13 EDMUND' G. BROWHI JR. F}ire.tDr anJ Sta � Flubfi, Health 0? z;=,, G",1l'er?7ai August G, 2018 T �: chief Thomas lsela, city of Orange; Acting chief Julian Harvey, city of Anaheim; chief David Valentin, city of Santa Ana; and Acting Chief Bryan Glass, city of Costa Mesa Dr. Eric Handler, orange county Health officer �A T loN� THE ORANGE COUNTY NEIILE BUB IEcT: AUTHo ExCHf .NGE MOBILE PROGRAM APPLICATION hG c�:irr�ipi �i { ��t i ofdC fy:Itr(CDPH'), ti,•; r��:;� �:? �i �:��. Lei- �t{ion I� �� ! iPl t T + L / •"ti p t l P� r r .� r r L r. r r+ r F ..-r ✓^t r^� t'j ��j u L h r % fi ! ! J rJ� �' f t 't 3.�� `ice r. t ft i E i ,O o E .�ri�. �' �,� ��r l -our �rtf�� ��Y n �n � G c�� ,s►���a ion � F �. ...� .� �:� �o � �..�� �L , OA has authorized the orange county Needle Exchange P'rogr�am (OCNIEP) to provide syringe exchange mobile services in four locations in orange county, as proposed in OCNEP's application dated March 19, 2018. This authori?ation is ei re, August 6, r7 ar r { +Jr1 i �' i �� ^ [ �l �--; r. + r r. r r p- w �-. T,"- n ► r r r� r-+ ' Y� .+ r �•t y-� .- } ;- F"'t �l �t rIi:'.�Ji ! _�.!uUt3 L 1S ��..v.` 1�.�. ( CJ's 4LP I { ii_e�f 2-p��I��1 s�F� t I t.�1':"�_I :. v �:' i v �i 3,Y � � Pt.' �E �f 1� tL'1 �- Ems. S ! i F r, F- _ °^� ;� ' � j � r _ ►ti r' r j = - 4 ^ � � r i I .� � : , t ('r s- - � t j" f i� L r b L �} ,. y. : t rte_ t, s I r, ` E SS ., V. f i�r { f I t •..-i ,_-.. f rte: .� r r-1 y v! l . i i L -+.:r i v i '. I i ti. +r- 1 11 r. 1".4 , l it . ' -- 1 r ^. I^ - --, r••r r� �-~ ; -- '"'7- � t� i J%�_� M tih'�31�• v: . CDPH, OA has determined that CCNEP's application meets the requirennents outlined in Health and Safety code Section 121349 and that there- is a public health need for these sere/ices due to the significant risk for transmission of HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in orange County. In making this determination, CDPH has identified Orange County as among the California counties most vulnerable to rapid ` f `�� n N s � •dly { p.Ir d rip ^ Q C)f r1 r� n - i +•'} i } . t ,+-� h ..-+ z �! t—i 1 q E I +'' P-� +G e r' i e [ i'� f-' , i ,_ . r I t' , = 1— I � ��t ��! '_ �� is -�t ! 'mac! t; HIT �: ,.� t i`-,_• v i _ _ _. _ �. i+ 4 � 1 ..{ L :� Lr ' • L _ t 1 L e ! p L ,r s .r 4.• , s � chronic hepatus C increased by 201 %bet�f�jeen 1'1= 9 in rage Coul �iy, and -he rate of newly -d iagnosed H IV cases per 100,000 population increased by 24% between 2012 and 2016. There is currently no syringe exchange program in orange County, and very few orange county pharmacies provide non-prescription syringe sales. The services proposed by oCN EP will play a crucial public health role in the prevention of blood-borne -diseases, as well as off=ering support and linkage to critical medical care and social services. Amendment to OCNEP operations In order to address the concerns conveyed during CDPH, OA consultation with local law enforcement and received during the public comment period, oCNEP has conferred with CDPH and requested that, if its application is approved, CDPH, OA amend the Djrac.tois _0I=f ce.jUS Q5QQ • P.O. Box 997377 • Sacramento, CA 95899-7377 L�,r�11.°'. (916) 558-1700 (916) 558-1752 FA Internet Address: www.cd h.ca. ev :; 71 1 =e .,P, E e !' f ' rh Jr 1r : r I r} n - "'`fi'''x /. r T ��? ; -� C� �': r (n f-; -ti i r. r, ` �~. r �. f r I C S'R! :..+. V. i { r I ZZ 2 I - i �I o f v. v k F ti [ I r� C E tiJ' � i �. - d � L�"s+. I ti--' v } f :..•j � I � i✓ 1 V' 9 F l � sJ t.-' � i I ...f •,J 4 [ t 6 1 I .1 -ter Lam.. � 1 r � �� � �J � i 4 L � � ' 1 JJJ ..._ .��rte- •- r"- Cr, L 1 �..-^.. ; r-, (" ` r` -- $ G % E� i s r( ►`E= a r s rG i f f .e-, F p—t . 1 f` i ►-- t � 1 � / t r- til +J tial v i i b -•i '�..i �i t .�J ✓ s i ` �,,.r i �+ F �: ! 1P ,� [ ! �R ' ' ".�% .. r v rJ i L 4 i �: f t r e ... a ... `� 6 ' 4•+� '•,� V 3 wf 1} i+,.+ +.r +.-i 'r1 .,.' •,� ert a • '�•+ i [z s -s F c r [ r-� - 1 rL h C. L .� 1 ,+, >� .� rr4- .» _ i +�•+. r- • -'^ Y -K r r i i f t"° ; r r r N ►�} sem'( �f r '� f r a; t } r r r 4 1 so- }!� t t 1 rte} C Jq f r I � r i r'_ f "� {^ �! r I t 1 r-^} f w i s r �r'� wt t l 1 •1 1 L . .s , L L 9 ..-. �• L til a + w.. L L ` ►f 1 t +� i i P L. i i 4f i.� �� F�.c i W1 1w- � . [ -M;., • .y ...r. 4 S -ate ! j Gam_ N' i + ✓ } The geographical areas of sei-v!C;e are narrowed: OCNEP is authorized to operate in the ioilowing times and locations: 1. Anaheim Time: Mondays 2 p.m. to s p.M 1, and Thursdays 2 p.m, to s p.m. Location: Area hounded by the Riverside Freeway (California state route 91), North �naheirn Boulevard, East La Palma fl_; jenue, and North Olive Street. 2. Costa Mesa meL. Wel,dnesdays 10 a.rn. to -p.m., and Sundays 10 a.m. to 2 p.�m. ocaLior: 1 7th �treet iroiYj the outer herder of tIhe '':rrnctrong Petroleum Plant to v'I�� i� i4- r �\/en ue. ! �^..r i 1 � "'� '� : E � 1 l,�` �J 1"^• ,^. t^'�.' Y t^, ^_ � � - -. r•'•. �1 �•� �-Lr � r-� .-� !'"t"'. I d.Mr-_—r f L.�s. — J i� L -7.M. f i. L Lj,. � �. — I iii i ! slL�°��1 , ,tf ` 1,. . �.O Lj �ri � �. Location: Area bounded by VVest K(-::1teIIa Av&nueIVJest Struck I'_,%venue. tl":e Z)arfta Ana liver, Nest Orang6Mood Avenue, and Main street. .. it teJ -� . _ . . � E- 1-i L l f ;ro I .DjI L Stree', and Nora Grand Avenue. 2} As part of increased and collaborative.e7orts to address syringe litter, OCNEP agrees to provide the following: . Work vMth tl-,e Orange mol rl! Healtl"t '�a�`e agency to increase sharps disposal optioi ns, including purchase and placement of additio nai disposal I-sic=sly= far the areas served bV CSC[\,IFP; + r."I��t t 1 ! I f 1i f r't tI *moi r L �. `pvra� a j llJL11�IG L[ I1 � =L =� tltrrl�c,�iu�L.i discarded syringes, or other community concerns, and C conduct additional syringe recovery services in and around mobile service areas. These amendments shall be effective immediately and are made in accordance with a CDPH, OA determination that, with these amendments, OCNEP v�lill continue to meet all standards set forth in subdivision (d) of Health and safety code section 121349 and that. a public health need exists for such services within Orange county. CDPH/OA will continue to work with the orange county municipalities and OCNEP to address ongoing syringe litter collection issues. CDPH, OA is in the process of contracting with an independent evaluator to assess syringe litter in each locale, and will use the results of the survey to evaluate the potential impact of the program on syringe litter. Findings may be used to assist OCNEP in addressing community u c, u,6, 2 01 o Page J concerns, planning for syringe litter collection in `�i�inities served by 00NEP, and collaborating with the health depa ment in expanding sharps disposal options. Orange County faces Multiple and overlapping public health challenges, and county, city, Medical and social service partners have implemented a wide array of strategies to address these challenges. Providing syringe seRtices that include linkage to HIV/HCV screening and care, substance use disorder treatment, and overdose education and prevention will amplify existing public health efforts. CDPH'sformol announcement will be posted shortly and can be found at. htti)s. 1ytr,e,r 1v. cd ph. ca.00ul'Procrarns!CID/DOA,/Paoes�/OA aruV s::c a D.asQ: �t r S i n ce-re l�, = �,�f �: Daren L. Smith, MD, MPH DireC`Cor and State Public Health Officer cc; Gilberto F. Chaves., MD, MPH State Epidemiologist Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases California Department of Public Health, MS 0509 Sacramento, CPA 9589Q-7377 1% = j, PhD Interim Division chief, office of Al DS California Department of Public Health, MS 7 799 P.O. Box 997425 Sacramento, CA 95899-7420 Brian Lew, MA T Tl i Lei:-T Chiief HIV Pre�Wention Branch, O11 ice of �'.I DS California Department of Public Health, MS 7709 P.O. Box 997420 Sacramento, CA 95899-7425 Carol crump, MFT Hill Prevention Branch, office of AIDS California Department of Public Health, MS 7700 P.O. Box 997420 Sacramento, CA 95899-7425 Alessandra moss, MPH HIV Prevention Branch, office of AIDS California Department of Public Health, MS 7700 P.C. Box 997425 Sacramento, CA 95899--7425 To whom 1t may concern: Below is a Summary of Approx 40 minute call on Aug 2nd(2018) with Carol Crump at office of AIDS; OCNEP only has to have "a plan ', not proof that they can follow through, "they have to submit an annual report" so they don't have to turn im a report for 1 year "Our attitude" is that a "I: l exchange is not even recommended", we will give out as many as they want Do not require any testing for infectious disease, "only have to offer a referral", this means there is not actually not anyway to even find out if diseases are being prevented, NOT required to follow tluough, there is no way to accurately collect data on whether or not the program is even effective in decreasing the spread of infectious disease "Because these guys are homeless they aren't necessarily going to bring in one needle for every needle they get" because they get their stuff stolen, don't have a way to dispose of it, get arrested, etc. but OCNEP will still be giving up to 200 needles or more (no limit)/week or day they operate ` Expect the recipient to get `training" on partnering up and `ado a test shot" with each other, encouraging them to use with others When asked about preventing children from getting the needles they said there is no age requirement, ID not needed, will give them to any age, this includes children OCNEP is being funded by our tax dollars part "public health dollars" and "part revenues from other state services" When asked about the approval even though all 4 cities and the county opposed OCNEP they said "the law says" we can make the decision The state & OCREP will not cover any costs related to deaths related to the needles nor any costs related to anyone pricked by a needle or re-entering treatmentldetox, they don't even "track" the needles in any way Access to a van driving around with needles does "not cause a relapse" She continued to bring up homelessness, homeless and children who can't buy needles at stores are the target 1320 W Pearl street * Anaheim, CA 92801 * Phone: (714) 780--1174 * Fax: (714) 844-2068 (cont.) Doesn't matter if it's a drug dealer or a minor, they will dispense to "anyone" that asks, no ID required, when asked about whether supplying drug dealers with the needles that they can sell drugs with she said "it's not irresponsible" All 4 locations have schools within the area they will drive around and she says there is nothing wrong with that, admitted they are supposed to do syringe "sweeps" around the area before and after the exchange, meaning they believe the needles they will be discarded in the parks and school grounds and that basically this is appropriate and sees no problem with this She insists" the community wants this" and all they want is a clean up When asked what their responsibility or o CNEP' s is if a 12 or 13 year old child gets needles from them and either shares it with someone and contracts something or overdoses and dies, the response was, "13m not playing this game with you" in which I responded this isn't a game this is people's lives Stated they "will be working with the County"... "We aren't going away", yet this is not true because the County is filing a law suit to stop this Asked me what do I do with people who continue to relapse, I said I offer them recovery not paraphernalia, she said in `drug users yes you do" OCNEP is "not responsible for overdoses" When asked how a parent should explain to their children playing in the park and see the needles being handed out what is happening, it's the "parent's responsibility to talk to their kids about drug use", this is "not a parent education program" Repeated multiple times "needles don't kill people" and don't have anything to do with the opioid epidemic Communities have been divisive "for 30 years" about needle exchange programs and that is why it does not matter what the county, the cities, or the residents think Their goal is to get as many needles to as many people as possible Sincerely, i Tamara Jimenez Community Relations Manager 1320 W Pearl Street • Anaheim, CA 92801 • Phone: . Fax: (714) 844-2068 OFFICE OF THE 7 -7 - Lin', 2, t.� ,._�' is �T1 A -9- c � � � II �4y L\ 7) , L -i ��,V LI T�, ic, -1i �h- March 15, 2019 T ODD SPITZER The Honorable John Moorlach California state senate State capitol Building, Room 2048 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Senate Bill 589 SUPPORT Dear Senator Moorlach: I am writing in strong support of Senate Bill 889. This bill will establish guidelines and increase local control for needle and syringe exchange programs, The California Department of Public Health has identified Orange County as one of the most vulnerable in the state to the rapid spread of disease and infection through injection drug use. Local control of needle and syringe exchange programs will enable city and county officials to work in collaboration with law enforcement, service providers and residents to determine how to most effectively make needle and syringe exchanges work within their jurisdictions. As District Attorney, I am pleased to partner with you on this important initiative. By allowing local governments greater input on the location of clean needle and syringe exchange programs, SB 089 will reduce the spread of HIV infection and blood borne hepatitis among the intravenous drug user population while protecting the health and safety of community residents. Sincerel . / � 1 December 63 ?0 17 Nathan f irnb a-am,1,Ac amber OCNTEP S tcering Coi=nittce 1605 N. Sp argeo� �� St. S a rit An a., C A x 2701 I CITY OF SANA 20 CIVIO Carter PiaZa v •P.0. BOX 1 X88 Santa Ana, Calliomle 92702 ,moi vit. szn-IC-aria. Qm •�wflpa FR, 0�Efi;Lk1A r --j tt C-�tia D, lHuLar T'�T(,-tic , of Ter m'natl&n 4-b'r !\-Te m mLj 0 Und. 6L t" Dc, -ax Mfr, B?rnba-L : T r_L ��1L u�� r��,t�r!�LrE�:Li� -4�1l7 }�rij i.y.i' ly -#L' •l��l i�E,�i+��li�?�ri�l~I i}� ���i�4 ���ir,I�E�1i U i !ZA �' ' LI �+ t}.fyi [ r'o!� 1 ] �i�I �i 1 r' I I �' �' f�i 1' i f �.n [ I {'` I� �� r 1 [ r ^_ , rr� - F r n r. ' ,__ r ( j 5 :', 4. L ' G_ r� _ I i CL:.y.tL !Ei mer i -'V% 47^Url IL r���LEthJ I :7.i1{1, i!`�^+ii / }fL:Ft'y� ^--rry-L y �� r'�-��' �f ��ED •rL f,1i CS1�±tJ v1't �� 0 -Lr-�-L!.tH%+LeiLtf v J�I!r��1' ;�. o 10, Since LJ�T 2 o . 2 o 16, t� a e, OCNEP has o 1� -rated a s yringc ac ctss pro gra ? at f:hc Civic Center ;�� }_�� i fa; ��t�r�ta �o dr1C; E�C� 1�;�h�a1H To =.L�ii art `pDSe C } Q '.F ,p is to givc ? iliCfct O d?`u? E,� t Se --s Mil Tfic- Co --m;nS Liuity a pl acc saf-cly d tspose 0-1 Z ped s�; trges and aCcsS sle'�len� oi?Ctj.i pt-�ent to .� cdt? talc 5p'�d of I.Ll�t�t�s d scale f} _ T �J {4i.E_:: - v� S :- 7I '�r� t.! � U :4� v � �r p1 Pi'.r :.r .i�7�i v���i� ~mss � l j � CJ a program itself, jncluding -&c ��1a`r iicr in which it operates, has crca.ted u dntended conse ✓ucr?ces that Dave negativcly impacted the patrons that visit the Santa A.za P Liblic Lika•y, the Civic Center, and surrounding comunit3T, .fin the past year, the City of Salta. Ana has rcceived numerous written and verbal complaints (attached) about used and discarded hypodermic needles found in the Civic Center cmd the Santa. Ana .library. Cornplai-nts have been volccd by citizens comh3-9 to the area to cond-act business; f m ili es vi siting the Santa. Ana. Library, and tmployecs of the City of Santa Ana and the County of Orange. Used and discarded h)rpodcrrnic needles fo-Luad in the Civic Center including the Library, lave placed employees, Gontractors and patrons, includiiia children and unaccompw-led minors, at iisk of disease or injury (see attacl-ied). Used needles have been improperly discarded anal zottnd hidden in b oo L-cs at the Santa Ana Library, Civic Ccn ter go ver=ent fi-2iliti es, Santa .Ana City Hall restT ooms including toilet seat cover and toilet paper dispensers, trash receptacles, a-nd Civ' u Ccnter walkways and pedaways. SANTA ANIIA CITY COUNCIL Miguel A pulicto I (thele lifarfinez Vlcarft Sarmiento Jose Solor!❑ P_ fa vid Benavides ,luari ViReG s Mayor Ivia- yor Pro Tem, Ward 2 kNard 1 Ward 3 Ward 4 Ward S CT} i:lfld�fNSErII-�1Ei�_AI`� mar6nez, �:,n-n1--nr:a DCC} VSA+rR11B:1`_0 "`' '11fi-f�El�sjf Lain! D0.g�r�In-arta.a�p[({1r;i1�71��i•��:c�+nE,;3-._{ln 4r �+j[IrSnzr,E[���„,�F��r � Cf {3 SM T-jrtjqjbrD Ward 6 .rT 5 + _ ;•. `'{ hr's r��b � 0 � � �. ot_i c L)T ~ L 41 r'Fe, Lie mo op osal acid 'i s `uau,�t or std_ � �i '� ! a �� f �� K �„ C��I'? i11 G ��loyee nyLLnes, � 4 a it t � ¢ posz?r , cr}{ cipatea costs i F L p i. nf'-r g and dispos-� of usfd h3rp0d'e=`c needles, and nega_-6�7cly 7mpac d the qua�ty of 1LT " fir emp lc 5ree s and ori sitors in the Curic Center. In add i tion, accord ng to the Health and Safet i Code Section 1213493 (a), prescntations relating to the status of clean necdle and syringe eycge pro grams shall be, provided, The code states t ��thc ea th officer of thw p�ticiptg sdci� on shall present Manually at at n open mectizig of th a B oa.rd. of SupeMsors or City Council a report d e tarliag the status of cican needle and syringe e�Lcha _ gc pro grams, z.ncludin_g, but not I i inited to, rel c Vant statistics on h l oodborne infections F_,ss oci aced vritJa needle sharing activit5r and the use of pub? is , ` 7 ids for thLese programs .'` "' To date } these hia-iuival presentations ha\fc not oGcurrcd at an oper? nicetiiig ,as described above, Mo �7 �V ol, N,1-2 i 1 6-:1,. 6 slab; e4 'q ha. foLlo � 1ricr' rj f- : �f`1 r`� �n i �.,. x�., {�. Gti,.l, uL� �1��.�l G'T'fo L�r�� �� G.:fc� rcar i -Li i���i071 (3 0) 1a,�� ��►j ' 7� no - r e o l r r.e L-�i eI- F�,lu11.)- h S S uchth e P-La-fjo cy 1S1t .P'r 10 1CE 1) O CN7hPTaal IN -IOU t --,To. 12-016-02c) 1'tr fl b Lt �r 7 I 1 aYiL ;r1 na, a )u E, 5 5 f V [ � . If 3' ou h.ow any ciuestions regarding this natter, please contact Robert CorTtez, D eput)r City y ager or Jorge Caccia, Aning Assistant to ��he ire ' ►ager at 114 r 'I�-�?�� ��l Y_ r- 1 R. G od nc-'Z �. C i }f _ D* a h; ?=ts; �'- IOU No. 1210116-026 Vi7rifteja Complaints P n i 1 i ,�- � r-- , r-. r. ri ;- 4 1 f cc Kyle Barbour, o CTP Steerhig Coir-unittee Member Carol Crtunp, Californ3 a Department of Public Health Behavioral Health Specialist D.r. Eric Handle•, County of Orange Health Officcr -David Valentin, City of Santa Ana. Chief of Police Robert Cortez, Deputy City Mmagely Jorge (3�ucl a, Acting Assistant to the City Mmagr MAYOR Miguel A. Pulido MAYOR PRO TEM Michele Martinez COUNCILMEMBERS P. David Benavides Vicente Sarmiento Jose Solorio Sal Tinajero Juan Villages CITY OF SANTA ANA Police Department 60 Civic Center Plaza * P.O. Box 1988 Santa Ana. California 92702 714-245-8665 www.santa-ana.orci 01 FFRCE GIF THE CMEF OF 1POLUCE June 8, 11=00 11 8 Schenelle Mores, Chief Program tmplementation Sc ion, Office of AIDS State of California -Health and Human Services Agency Cafifoniia Departi-nent of Public Heafth MS 7700 P.O. Box 997426 Sacramento, CA 95899-7426 CITY MANAGER Raul Godinez 11 CITY ATTORNEY Sonia R. Carvalho CLERK OF THE COUNCIL Maria D. Huizar Re: Orange County Needle Exchange Pro carr, A,plication For Certificafton As a N/fobilg �y ',n e Exchan e Dear 6.21hief Flores-: For the reasons below,, on behalf of the Santa Ana Police Department, I hereby strongly oppose iffie Orange County Neledle Exchange Pirograrn's ("OCNEP") application for certification for mobile syringe needle exchainAge, services in the City of Santa Aina ("City"') at the following locations: z�rea bounded by (Ar) East 4 h Street, (E) Plorth Standard Ai)e,, (S) Soufth Graim'Aveniie, and (W) East Chestnut A tlepugel As you now, OCNEP operated a stationary needle exchange programs. in the Santa Ana Civic Center for more than one and one half years. luring that time, there were repeated concerns, and dl -ie City articulated as much in January .01 during meefings with OCNEP and conference cells w1th orfflcials ftoin the Department of Public 'health Office of AIDS, that the program negatively affected the operation of the Civic Center, to the Civic Center aLnid Santa Ana residents in 4 the surrounding area. The City ic-ontinues to maRmain that position. OCNEP's latest desire to operate a "'mobile needle exchange" only heightens the City's health and safety concerns for the Santa Ana coinniunity. The stationary needle exchange operation highlighted 0C EP's inability to Provide for effective recovery of used and discarded needles on City premises. The City continues to have little or no confidence that OCN EP can manage of 'i!e�c I t.ve recovery of used needles in the context of mobi'le operations conducted on a more frequel-t,1-nnobile basis at multiple Locations throughout the City. It goes without saying that improper disposal of .used needles endangers the health and safety of residents and Is of profound concern to the City. HOUrs of Opoi-atlow Dally between the h0ffs of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Page I o As you kno,�,,/, thtt, City previouslyfsub�nitted materials that dAustrated and artilCUlated the negative im.rjacts and dii-c' attiondant gave hei.-iAth and safety concen-is f0flowil.-Eg OCNEP % s overations in the civic ctn"11ter for nean"y ttvvto ye-allrs- We refer you to revie!those rnaterials. The City desires to contribute to solving the pubtHe hcafth concern to prevent the spread of infectious diseases', however, OCNEP has failed to provide a concre,-e plan to defimsib" hy Citi at the quality of life concerns. and the significant impact on public safety and public hemal th ltselfdue, to the arkverseh-rApaG". OCIEP 's past failurc even aiftter being notified of fl�e hazardous need lv, debris erodes the plan, i s intended Public eJeath benefit and 'nstead, posl.,,3 healthy and safety risksu to even rnore people, We rote the standards 'or reftisa'L to c-eriify an initiad SEP application include, "evidence of projected harm tc public safety, p-esenied by local lavv enfor4ement official(s)" that is "greater, 16 than evidence of projeciled beine-5ts to public laeatlt-h-" Title t, 7, CalUbmia Code of RegWations, section 7004(c). Theo, public -Mterest derr,,F-;,nds equal consideration of this -factor. Hez-e, the hanrn to public safety significantly ot-2tweighs ties bene Its. to pWic health confeirred by the 004EP, Sincereiy, TIN P91, VALENTIN Chief of Police cc: Raul Godinez H, (L'ity Manager Sonia Carvalho, City Attomtc.,.y Executive Manage neat Team, City of Santa Ana Carol Cmrnp, MFT, Behavioral Health Specialist Director Lind State PLb-FC, Health Officer SANTA ANA CITY COUNCIL Miguel A. PAdo Michele Martinez Vicente Sarmienle Jose Solono P paved Bana-jides Juan VOlegas say finajero Mayo- Mayor Pro Tern Ward 2 Ward I Ward 3 Ward Ward 5 Ward 6 mpuhdot�SaM-aila j[g vsarmL,-!n�oc@sarn a-ana or A -aria M -aria of i � Selo rIOAAA!jt�� dbanavidgs, santa jvfl1!�g.qsAsant_4 .9 sena jer0,,@santa-!3na or MAYOR Miguel A. Pulido mpul ido(a7santa-a na.org MAYOR PRO TEM Michele Martinez Allard 2 rnimarti nez(5),sa nta-ana.org COUNCILMEMBERS P. David Benavides Ward 4 dbenavides cr(%._santa-ana.org June 251, 2018 Vicente Sarmiento Carol Crump, MFT Ward 1 Program Implementation Section, O ffl c e of AIDS vsarmientosanta-ana.org state of California -Health and Human Services Agency Jose Solorio California Department of Public Health Ward 3 MS 770 Esolorio(c_D.santa-ana.org P.O Box 997426 Sacramento, CA 95899-7426 Sal Tinajero Ward 6 stinaierosanta-ana orq Ik e: orange County Needle Exchange Program Application for ,Certification as a y Mobile Stege Exchange Juan Villegas Ward 5 Dear Ms. Crun-ip: jvillegas(d)santa-ana.org The City of Santa Ana strongly opposes the proposed Orange County Needle Exchange Program ("OCNEP") application for certification of mobile syringe needle exchange services in the City of Santa Ana projected to be located within the areas bounded by (N) East 4"' Street, {E} North Standard Ave., (S) South Grand Avenue, and (w) East Chestnut Avenue. Operating a Mobile Needle Exchange program for each of the aforementioned locations will pose a detrimental public health and safety risk given the high-density population concentration as well as the large volume of community traffic inclusive of businesses, schools, residents and the Santa Ana community at large. It is believed, and has been proven through prior City experiences, that this constituency will expose the improper disposal of dirty and used needles, which will endanger the health and safety of the community. Specifically, these locations will negatively impact the Lacy Neighborhood, Walker School Community Center, Villa School, and therefore, pose dangerous situations for school -aged children walking to and from school, with the potential hazard of damaging interactions with dirty needles. OCNEP's earlier and documented operations in the Santa Ana Civic Center had significant adverse impacts, including but not limited to excessive needle litter at the Civic Center and associated public safety concerns, which ultimately resulted in the City's termination of its Memorandum of Understanding with OCNEP to operate a syringe access program at the Civic Center. In his tennination letter dated December 6, 2017, Santa Ana City Manager Raul Godinez I1 provided to Mr. . Nathan Birbaum of the OCNEP Steering Coma-iittee, a plethora of written and verbal complaints regarding the mismanagement of the OCNEP program and its deficiency in operation, illustrating serious health and safety concerns to the Santa Ana community. Following the termination of the MOU, and based on the salve concerns, the City denied OCNEP's CITY ATTORNEY CITY MANAGER CLERK OF THE COUNCIL Sonia R. Carvalho Rauf Godinez II Maria D. Huizar 20 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA -- P.O. BOX 1988, M31 - SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 92702 TELEPHONE (714) 647-0900 - FAX (714) 047-0954 - www,santa-ana.org LETTER TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUNE 25, 2018 PAGE 2 of 4 application for a permit to operate in the Civic Center, as required under the Santa Ana Municipal Code. Chief among the safety concerns were numerous complaints by citizens conducting business in the Civic Center, families visiting the Santa Ana Library, and employees of the City of Santa Ana, the County of Grange, the federal government and the State of California. In nearly all of these complaints, the parties described discovering discarded hypodermic needles/syringes hidden in books at the Santa Ana Library, Civic Center government facilities, in toilet seat covers and toilet paper dispensers within Santa Ana City Hall restrooms, trash receptacles and Civic Center walkways and pathways ( see Appendix A: Letter from City of Santa Ana to DCNEP dated December 6, 2017 and Appendix B: Photographs documenting the proliferation of dirty needles in the Civic Center, and Appendix C: Community complaints to the City of Santa Ana). Furthermore, the City of Santa Ana has received the following documented narratives of uncapped, dirty, hypodermic needles found by City staff and members of the business community: 1. City of Santa Ana Public works Agency - From January 2018 to June 2018, Public Works staff, Quality of Life Team members, Sanitation Inspectors, and Roadway Cleaning crews, encountered open, used, and uncapped needles during daily cleanup activities, with an estimate of 7,500 needles removed from public areas and an additional 50 needles found along the Santiago Creek. 2. City of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency — Reported that during an average month, the staff at the Santa Ana Senior Center picked up approximately 50 hypodermic needles at Birch Park, in their normal cleanup to prepare the center and park prior to opening hours for senior citizens. 3. Santa Ana Police Department --- Reported encountering dirty and used needles discarded throughout the City on a daily basis at an increased level following the enactment of the MOM between GCNEP and the City. 4. Santa Ana Public Library — Please see Appendix B 5. Santa Ana Community Neighborhoods -- The Santa Ana Healthy Neighborhood Alliance, West Floral Park Neighborhood Association, Artist Village, Civic Center Barrio Housing Corporation, Edna Park and Birch Park communities have provided detailed narratives of the harmful impacts discarded hypodermic needles have had on their communities and surrounding areas. 6. Santa Ana Business Sector — From September 2017 to June 2018 over 10 major businesses have expressed great distress over the negative financial impact their businesses have experienced as it pertains to harmful needle debris found in and around their business, as well as walking corridors leading to their establishments. In addition, in an effort to divert used and contaminated syringes from the residential waste stream, the City of Santa Ana has expended in excess of $67,000 over the past ten years with Welldyne/RX West. Further, the City of Santa Ana has engaged the services of G4S Secure Solutions to secure public areas (CourthouselLibrarylSuperblock Parking LETTER TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT of HEALTH JUNE 25, 2018 PAGE 3 of 4 Structures) from excessive needle litter and associated impacts of the prior needle exchange operation, including the removal of discarded needles and syringes, at a cost of $1,014,024.52 annually. Significantly, the City of Santa Ana is not alone in opposing the OCNEP proposed mobile program for documented health and safety reasons. On June 5, 2018, the Orange County Board of Supervisors adopted a strongly worded resolution opposing OCNEP's operation in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Newport Beach and orange (see Appendix F: orange County Resolution again OCNEP Mobile Needle Exchange). On June 21, 2018, the City of Costa Mesa submitted a response to the California Department of Public Health opposing the operation of the OCNEP Mobile Needle Exchange, referencing the City of Santa Ana's experience with OCNEP in the terminated Needle Exchange Program for the Civic Center and also indicating, "what the City of Santa Ana experienced within their Civic Center may have likely also been a contributing factor to the nearly 14,000 needles found in the Santa Ana River Trail during the early 2018 clean up effort." (see Appendix D: City of Costa Mesa Police Department Memorandum on OCNEP.) We also call your attention to the letter dated June 8, 2018 by the City of Santa Ana's Chief of Police opposing the operation of the OCNEP Mobile Needle Exchange, referencing the standards for refusal to certify an initial SEP application indicating, "Here, the harm to public safety significantly outweighs the benefits to public health conferred by the OCNEP" (see Appendix E; City of Santa Ana office of the Chief of Police Letter to California Department of Public Health.) Consultation with local law enforcement leadership is a required step in the California Department of Public Health assessment of SEP requests for authorization and the Chiefs letter further articulates why this program is injurious to our community and should not be approved. Finally, the OCNEP operational standards identify serious concerns. For example, the 20:1 ratio of needle exchange, standing alone, creates an inaccurate level of harm reduction practices to mitigate the overall opioid epidemic the County of Orange faces. Based on past experiences, OCNEP was clearly unable to safely control needle debris fi om a single non-mobile location. The current application provides no articulable facts and/or safeguards to ensure or even address how this entity would address needle debris from a mobile platform. It is our belief that a mobile implementation would not only create a disastrous experience for our community as a whole, but actually endanger more of our residents and visitors. According to the "2017 opioid Overdose & Death in orange County Report," the geographic location with the highest concentration of opioid related cases can be found in southern orange County cities, with a 59% increase in the number of cases. The rate of opioid related emergency department visits by zip code were noted to be over 72% in southern orange County, versus less than 30% in the City of Santa Ana. opioid related overdose deaths by city were disproportionately higher in southern orange County with an increase of 21%. The demographical characteristics of opioid related overdose deaths were disproportionate in non -Hispanic white communities (981 reported cases), a stark contrast to the Hispanic demographic population of Santa Ana (168 reported cases), all of which indicate the poorly planned program has targeted central Orange County, specifically the City of Santa Ana, while failing to address the true opioid problem in southern orange County cities (see Appendix G for 2017 opioid overdose and Death in Orange County Report.) These statistics provide insight into the City's ongoing assertion that a mobile needle exchange program, with the City of Santa Ana as a LETTER. To CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT of HEALTH JUNE 257 2018 PAGE 4 of 4 dispensing location, is ill-conceived and demonstrates the program author's desire to enact a program where it desires to exist and not where it will be most effective. Based on the significant and recent evidence provided above, the City of Santa Ana finds and asserts that the OCNEP Mobile Needle Exchange proposal will not only adversely impact the quality of life for Santa Ana residents, visitors, and businesses, but will also re-create a public health and safety crisis for the Santa Ana community at large which had been mitigated with the cancellation of the prior OCNEP MOU and permit denial. Sincerely, Miguel A. Polido Mayor Cc: Mayor and City Council Executive Management Team, City of Santa Ana Ken Gominsky, Deputy Chief Hafsa Kaka, Homeless Services Manager Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area April 25 2016 to January 31, 2017 10/27016 Thursday 3-27 to PM Jw,tvr. WMMRbund j 1-nnp in the sanitary pad dispe txs bag in %bt wowom, s titrv,-Danl. itepmned to lead juxrdll�� -n—A3_126-16— Thursday — —1-MOPM --I a r_Cjk Jankm0ft found syringo in pubic m1roorn taiietr In the rrrxt "I mnd rrForlaw to fad "re #BRIM, The syringo ivw barely showing under a wad of paprr. qm1pM Lisrd 1he p,,AW: pi oil rmw idrd by the shoxps kA tit rALe it tmL The n-eedle wras hifft " 3Arlitht The SY64C '01N Lard fetd-M&S ,.�Z P. ..ass w� Updated- 1/310017 Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area Apr11 25 2016 to Jarwry 31, 2017 H119=6 Tuesday I I acrdk � rq*rtrd LhIL "As I mne Out (if the Cleveof W the round (TOOT Colirawme PA:WS 51ruc:inv. I AcridenWly kicird on a $Yiingr outside the tirvAinr (aftaxT stomped on ii). The syringe w-11 rilig outside the cle v ruor door (4th Fluor). I didn't = if when I stepped outside Of Ox eleyawx so I se.-idtMt.111y kicked it Being I munflu pregmtnl. 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Needle reJated incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area Apr] 25 2016 to January 31, 2017 F v;.r,3 sriff tm z-im Ar-su Con',,, rzt F atm 10—(261 OT6 — - — —Wednc—ida-y - --s -1.: 'i-F.J1 — - - —1 mo" -k-- - - Jwti=4, � fhu-A syTVSn it &r Vuh Lot in The Nfzi's nwroo-- 4rid--itp rico Rcp::Tt+i tF'f -K:dC71 ID� Needle related incidents, at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to Hirrvember, 2017 ]ZL20DOAM I aged While onparol, Ots Cfffljccr� %?-% miwngOx &.01ding frim The north side, be noticed a wolitt-itiWitt by the. front dust of the cmmcnc�) nit. e3fftts told birn politcky that he wu)d not ttsitUng in fmr;i of tlx exiting door. Tninsienicomplied and Torted izp[her hit thiAp. A-1 he was Wgiag bit beAfmgmgrFAMMLnoCv=d 6& tyriqgt thit was nn IM p.ow n --xi to him. 1U afied flu transient ifdx z)Tiaxe be>-ngod to hkL fit rimpoodad WT'hc tmwit;2 left the prcmiteg- Needle &-tpamd of N. , W -N 051"17 NIGnday 1 1�2&= AM I W0111' 0 m= oft VAM=Ied IL tmrAC-- femic Fkk %5p a &,n bc from the grrrjnd in fru-gDfLire Iibrxry. iqrnaficd0fFmi-- � Lqdmmwl n dtSpu"d of wm'p P-PtHy 4 ter- M -"V 4-- FlEa 12 Cq 41 UpGatsd; 11MOrI417 Needle related Incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to Novernbef, 2017 05I3( 017 Uesday 3 -W.W p, A At qprnxma0- y 140 pm L�c day porter (� advised VOJMaboul n syriftp tuts td in rhe vs>,ssen tuuor�tr When S)01�prxeedc3topklcup The sy?Mr- She day purse (b, md another syringe wnd drug "brtudLL NtDok p1diom of thr. tyringe3 trZ dta drug rap 404145. Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to November, 20!7 0&1&7017 Friday AM 6 pauga while So � was rwdtxtw,3'bC mum.,ng pa ml, --he fburiA =der the buI4= near the K";mp parking spe= s bar with 5 "zg= (al) six look new) W17/2017 Sgturdjiy 33" pm wish VC) ahs mtktd XA saner ir= Of a SWRP 13Ct the WMUykd INW114 the taislwt. f ft) 2rr.rcachcd, t10 MftTVn-jj1:rd the Vula pw of the Syringe al few feet away "I 11111111!Mpirkrd up thc TA thtm tugethr. so itc'vlLd :it ir' the char? km rzML'w'.T, awl &L 12%s fmi 6t tynnp the a jjTjid &quariEd out of it. Ebf: took pictures and 63po ed of it P-pexlY. Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area Jamwy to November, 3013 W, I IIFW17 Thu" -by warntr'i =truarnashehad found styrineem the swqhuywip=cootth=. The rfrirg-- W the needle hem and 6cyzwu blood an the rip M/2212017 Monday 335. -WPM dMWaWwo&dwd 510� abeut 2 Wiw n=di= bw &- tfr- wumark. rwrwm SM Cwrmm dir"sed prMern in the appropriffic -ay. Or" 17 T11CS4ky jArj.W PM Offik-x dwofiNEW rjwnd it =dIt In the wurn--i's huhmwuxi de Azf it B&IGENUFARARABLE Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area janx.Nry 2017 057311,2 I7 Wednesday 3-25.DOPII I At ippTmitir"cly 3:25M, whik SICI� nos paged at owuldc or the pub I ic resuntims arimi, IWW (day porutr) rn 6 Fird tier of a syringe being imide the mS in the Mrs resum m, 49M wen ! inside with sAMMMM and lot the spi w wills glavei 4nd 6spascd of it pmWly Thesyrirrr. contain --d blood and the needleM, 06/0512017 Mooday 10 45-C4) AM i. %wdit 0 Ai qyMjc imitr I y 16.45 am while SIC) 10 t pctformcd an cxuTinr patrol, s!u: Wked a tang h id stick by the eniez-guncy door end v she &tt [foss I u it I not icrd is w9s a bio I ighter. uvd a syringe n ghl -it x i w it . The syringe had the ne:d It hooken- I lu rok a p ir. [Lrr and d ijpa-wd or t*ih the j yri, jr and Haloes I. UPC. iy L&A a a (WG&UP -Mesdwy At tpqraKk'-Attt} t' -k 5 VM WWk &iQ En L-3t=iDf P*IWl , SQWAIWed MWInts tit_ Mutlia by the ennr,trmy and nofimd a syringe tap on one of the vqm of "r She v-imh.-d the Perineus and (wad '1v- synngs ?htdirt luct UDd2zrd llreCIMIT Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to mvernIber, 2037 06/24aG17 Satorday T -:.W. NY I Meladle Around 2:5*pn SIO 11wi fad M 40 of finding a syringe outside by the soul -h puiG dLwrp3w Vet !!utak *U= of Clic n'tinge am the rytiftgc ----% disp zfVMpC-.AY 0492MO17 Swiday il'AMPM I zm&t At M?WOX1M11C-y 1149 p-Ift while S/0 WMAMWM "rtt -CKrafOr 94-t. TtX found tn—r- 41thE 91q behind the clUd=311 16--t 06/26IM17 Artani—w-y— MI -M FM S teftole W411t Soo Y was corka=pfna W- tea tsar. ex fMM44 1yourn be" ee ChadmN puiu vt kht, -.231 try Ca. Mil!f Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area is; nuary to November, 2017 M6/2017 Friday Jitt-ODPM 6 namd3a so (day punct) redo ed imeurity of ryrirtm found in tm.* bin inside the V610711 --n-1 re`Vax)om- MW w-0 dispUzhed to the SICIFIVOOM mid found 6 'YMV1 some cor,aLnLng dry bkmd Several S)Tiftg= wire rul�d -Ith bml needles ArEd OM with a b= mei2p- SyTi�s w P13-4 in OAVS tube p optrfy by SIO NOW $ad Were dialed In x4vi" container its lat�ga tpn , —'- " 7 rw .r.�1 W 1] '�+s — P211E 14 Of 41 Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area Jartuarf to November, 2017 OW0017 njesdAy 3 2,r M PM 3 nand L, Alapprtnrimalrly 3.26rm w -hilt pozed ia irLibaratian d-.sk, anal (day porter) notified &o�ew a sy=&evrwCbuM- Wh"- N?zWMp%tkm6up tfa: xyriogr, Mtock snolmrlook zi the bag and rKificed another xyrin&p--MWt14rmd th-- trash to erste ficorKndwr found a total arLhrte spitkem. (Kbt%iG& p-,cLwt oX V nte4kOnt of %ht S,Ytingt3 h3A rite nctd1r. qtr 06115f]Thurday Mtopm I CA0112 ,M 1-.Q7N-A, IM day porUi, notifi ed S)OGM of a z)*qe)ia found imide Ute female rf:strconi U11t.jr the trash can. StO jQM soak pric:tum of ire syringe_ I disposed of the t)Tlip pwW.y. Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to N ovtmb w, 2017 06/2712017 U"day V;h1to WIMMww pms3ed by ft Inrcrirjujun drnt.1"(diLy Fart W.;---Icd I'M 4b-mA I xynW Iw-" it, reSjr�Zj +J'l �� pirusts of _ T�X Synnge �M IM&I-MI M Th3! k3Er1di= Stell rMUk thZ �L% ax "ranat Gd disposed Ct h RPMIY 07"MU17 satunlay 925M AM A,MUOJ 9Mrn While VO4OW"D "nit 10 rarx iso Pt=l of '&Lr)r, 'hL I I "EM -Y wisdom (Goah 916u) LM the A L4C%*Vjk Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library a! --,.-i Surrounding Area January to NC%-_MkCF, 2017 07J0ML,7017 Friday 314 FM I rameAw Wad- 5wAr3 Suird of the rtitr-mm area- dW It. ra;xJ, I 3"'at I CFIT of Lhi trg.&:i cz.i bap -- Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library arij Surrounding Ar -2,3 January to Novernbot, 2017 ca17 — Sunday 1-2 1 leo _M4 --I saadsa _,_ 5ytiq?e fi>zid by S i 5r by VE c.Fildmn'% ps6u v1sA- Offil'a011 Tursday kye� M1 I 111101114fle wt,stt Corx1 tar. i a -st--wr i:V-A pinnal Uf *& VMh Wt--- � Dwictd a V_v- M­,tx�W d Qw Lm nannully uscd ty mcibcal prufeivariti5 to da. talbac Whm k zuched ffic a:ra rn rd-ni., sy.r-r. wilb 10 neer deg ruldLc Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area hinua ry to Nrv-t -riber, 2017 L E6 OVI Dwi.:$ PAIrElOma ""'TICt 311ULb- S17 Tt'eY the m-1112-1 -?LM @,-ptit.rt d to k bir-d J.-apWi ort the m: bac Needle related incidents ai the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area J antit ry to No umber. 2017 & Jyr7,,Jr C'n On --.11 -tvz fx7cfr IM -ficiir:j t.c r --r*17i his b;:-- -Dii-1750 —I?— —Frid—sr —1 G II DO AM Stu MM 1-Arnnd of 11 wrp the is ruund trT. I.�C fr�t hLors in Six agcy way tcxtticcn the Wg arizatart end te, I i bm-y IL -.0 slLzl P •t.. 1=7 pop A OF 4'. Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area ) anv4ry to H ovenrilw, 1017 03/2012017 Mcndsy I _L1 00 J_W1 Manuermace Pijnut K-Cifol tj SCCLGI.ry rtn?-r,g I Syrinizs in :he Mrn Rritro-im Tr"- Bin Uffixer �f.7-_J O[Fezr. �(OCL IML L4!% -C kZ11G1 Mid dar�d U u`m Fz L,= ly wit Eley:s "� eL:,- iiim_ r 03/23/2017 Thursday &2010 i;W. L y2itiv Sy, o -.Rd fL-X.J o. J:_ MMAittl�1 7Mff &W by CJU� �4vinllw Image not Avallable skinday I KV D.1 &I ippimimr.rly I rjSpm Nr It aoz.4 im ezt_cv pat -71 c-Aiitk art ex". x -ri-AN en'aanr_-. cm." � no t i trid a i)L(,-iV rap m%1 to the phaw brvtts Efic d= tm krd fvr ti7,t syro pr kizved bcbijm- 9-4 phme 1: — di-spn9d of P­PCrJY- ML % 41 , -0 __V Wf_ pbce 7 C1 41 Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to N Ovvettt, 2017 "0/2017 PL+,Ir%dxy 13 SIM M -While t'r.143 ca P03, it rual of tie rtm. 11911� n deli ��Onterl, MWWd hwdicap ,Wll in Lb! frMinin-t dj."gel IX)X 4J( G4113P.01'7 Thursday a w 11F FM infor,__J Sr�r.jy 1rj_trLL tat hC r-.4nd i 5yrinr. inli& t1•e *7wh tin b) th, CD maicn Cf-rA MCI) Up: -n Lmp=li� d'a VyTk4c =m&d it C;M- liquiti- 1_1k syringe tpptlr=J !U Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area FndAV- i IM PM -Y -VO 41MOb-W- 11+W I.My 1-1irt 0 roc buia -iyr--,r Wu i3iiC/20 I Wd, Wy3ro F IN -vdit .SYT i:•7 :fog Jby Sic iutj= de eke kids bfkck pivc.g 6L,•:. Fmk= Krd --flb bwa in II �A if IMP Y IdadErLp�­ Needle related Incidents at the Santa Ana PubkC Llbraf-y and Surrounding Area Jan Uzelf ka N'r4--mb", I0'x7 43/31,1017 FMjy 3:1M P14 AI appirux arrutely 3:1a rM whit. berg of PCM I-] IM -11 Of tax WUMUr-;,:n dj:ai. lwSa jar. W- i'l for-Lc4 me W W[101110M t' 'uL! rK ra'-M " I Yrill 6't 61 the *afTEWA rcz=al -2 h=_y-1 ni 1 a Ipu L±d i:*, the Fbrn i _-z 61 pcia! L",n I d_*,Sej 0f ahs syringo PVPZT)y as. A ­ Wednesday an Wcrxr patrut on the r nh lila nCthe li&W-Y. naval One 3jn-.per As i` c wUkrd t -o rot, x fzttKkr, 0r!t Bath %_�_grd bdjtz=t to he Uitsh in, 04113712 0 11 Thw-�day 12-1!Ai p%4 hard "'as Ptlr(" 11 WMW RX6 -: Ca.,Itj h, Ir _'L anti ]tap; xc3 rt profzrly. t d ;,, rrh Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area Mnulry to Nuv&rnbef, 2017 4.4/3212417 Thundav du VTwy and apt r1died Lh-mly p�_-C, Linage not Available 04,14aO17 Monday 2:1 Q -M PM - —lit .—.& 1MMMW",nF­W S-i* G—A tha he it synnim cqiuldc i -A crib of iVz pmrU--# r4iia= W244.2417 Thur--dAy 5 s5 7:6 FM Offictr Effi=itw! -%A r%(42 -ffk-zr WiZ,=L" ptm--% 'Sky' fj_rtz-4 dn4.s with asyr6jt isoU.&- sic It bru7. Sly -As tnerra NoInage m4ilable AM Wh41: ratmi, OfTuT 411111W (UW18 iwiltv by the rest bahts ctcle L) the Dilditn*jl r�-Ln Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area hituarl W %ovemtkei-, 2017 w 07/13/2017 Thursday 6JIUMN .3 11.1311dim Mound 00prn a Mle pAl= ocifirted W �Drllrufgn in 04 111419 I'MUMM in ft WISW MLL trait =W &01�1tmtcrtd Un rra;e rostrum. End tWN 11iialw= &%! 619:410 Cf the two FYtb*= W!PatY, Shortly Incl. 5/0 found a "TTW in iJle "Im can tlzw Ole staff later doof su doci P I -1'trtni as Kell d1w Lisp std or it D-PSHY Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Librap/ and Surrounding Area January to November, 7.017 7121/2017 Frid" 4 4c, Cr PM I na*dlo Ar=d 4:40p7u.4W 4ay, pcnw, ou'Lifild S+0411Wnd Md I ')T9t&z in On -I&A' Iems7:ide It trash urn Sqr� tcigi pnsurtz of the ry-inja and dUpeKd of itA qanp Sr*qcetj 7/2412037 Monday WIT 00 PM I niquLt While diumg in vidertz Ul patrol. VID � wilkedw-WiU Jrj-rutam by the cirr0x-on del. She [Wimed tW two -m a Warr and ad kxW o llitcr IM U Via had Mm=y M94C An 1 r4itIcni nerlml afrrw It= lo ;zc kmcw the Who nor I,*$! lyfir4m Mm thew whw ITT-' niodn (bIc jeiciidc�nl rqmzn J arvi six dij-tuw Of L'i 2: Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January do November, 7017 9111/7017 Friday 2.45 00 PM 2 nsedimi As CA) UM bpn tk lag pat?nij a pL—ri ripwignM thim a gayplcl mroking In the mica's ritimiam and &u a rCle guard WIWI gp in lhem C01ftod him know C?At thus iVw [wily retaide PWdl WdAY CfICnDd Chs M11tr4al- S?a MW heard A patron 1 p4h M 1�� hat Ir, rXit ltqc r"otlam VA real =10it to ii - lite lhjj ktVje then wane its: VUUFA gal h it M 3_11a to Ln the hbMq i1C P'UW "td -6 ani my ravil. As ale PAIMI CA] tj IN. MUMUM ft EU) pener. 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T!c v.m t:pu.4 VAt_,L, my (&vttg is &uxtjig rpm=d and lIn4m aLT-1 (IL Tax Or be"ertdr3m 01Y " Vft- :, -,Fw � '_' —.1 j;otjte4 10,V7017 Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to Novembef, 1017 07114P-017 Friday 11 Mlt PIA At J[NrC.fy 11'1 9 Doc, &0t) MOM Wn dtsjq lin r4jr-j'n, CM p" VA rajanghffway WL hg S PLO h 4z1x=e_ syr found it syringe W She Raw bn � the nuh CAn t rwJ Me FIM.- TIV, S)TWV "d im Owde utir td to it - 07115f"17 Saturday 9Z.01AM I Bali Duriq ft irg" marzi%g pilfmL W MIMf­ld 4 T)rh.N-' L'Al bid no rAe+k wit dwd in it by TkA 'o'Lh." s de of 1VX jibrWy ma the dtildniot'i window ares )NA 69 AVr rt VxU4 0 Lx A711912017 We&zday 9 Z 1Y) . N W,bjr. doing Lhe wrroar PxtlDf. W MWIFV-Ald A rynnic CQaidt by the CLM"Wil GFA* guzy KM ffid g. -au Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area )znuary to Navember, 2017 19.412011 T Manday 3:02.00 PM 2 pell44.8 M itppFax1nn1!.jV 3 . to pm %Nav 110 � -in postce III front of rilcul ltw dmi, pry fir. � mix Atd LIZI lie fir'a 3 1>flngt in ihff =,ronm. When tbc ftippW the LriabluX unte Id, c flour rherr um iLwec*nd iiTinar fmild r. t,`,c beg a3 well ilium zynrgci seem ra-Lad vft W�Od /4' 712501017 Tuesday 3.23.00 PIA i ntlew'a gkmqjMtdq pxm EM Insat-lit t s fi;-xtd i rfrInge itaidt- I-jr. womcn, I reittooto (ins i6a ft pad dispoW In ft hitinftsp "1) Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surroundin.g January to November, 2017 H/1512JD17 Tuesday 1'25 00 PM I rind.1a While condinting the uterlor ta& pairml. OG41101knotiucd a sr: mBe oil I);g ExTular &04 timillaiiiin lei "lijil mQuDd) Ae 2 8/152017 lbes&y 3 30:00 PM I n"jus =' al .Mit naradirig poll il the Wbinrmolun d"Anak. A(Ore �rkc:) f4ja-,d CU ®x:id Mal if her 811792017 Thursday E Oil ll jpda:rc I]I4111011 Needle related incidents at the Santa Ana Public Library and Surrounding Area January to November, 2012 07/19/2017 Wedi3esday 93SOANJ I flawle Ar_-'T'd 9S.5M while VOM nes POSTO It' ctmulz��fl desi, hed her to report %zgfrpj a L" MM 1W r im =�a Me %)"-w- Din .mr,6A V *4 pw" oratlull: tsouill silty Ste wdtw SIONT wo-h-Z nynnjw uIAS on the Vchnind eeng a feazc. 7/19/2017 Wednesday 3-45.00 PM i newdle WIdlo mKiUd rb%ad in I" M=1 I at ffi;or MIMM. Ln 4 ittlim min 712 r 10a017 Thursda) &-40,-00 AM A r;7 --W 9.40M whitr S10 IM wm duag an tLu7xv P19W Of Elm fibricry. 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The pauorifin0yWIL P"e do ;t 41 Up"t1d 1117=4037 LI/15IN17 Wednesday 4:U00I M 1 "Wdle 1� (day porter) WLIV-10 Offlem UM QW0 0 5riVe in Sne Men reWfV M- Offir-DrIM twk A pidute of the sy�lnae oral disposild C1 it Mperty -ate---MejV'? rr$-V-- 11 w P-4 p 41 Of 41 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Suite #733 Anaheim, CA 52865 Tel: (714) 765-5162 Fax: (714) 765-5164 www.anaheim.net CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT City of Anaheim CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE DATE: MARCH 19, 2019 FROM: OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION OF THE ANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL EXPRESSING SUPPORT OF SENATE BILL NO. 689 REGARDING NEEDLE AND SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS ATTACHMENT (Y/N): YES ITEM # 22 ACTION: That the City Council, by Resolution, express its support for Senate Bill No. 689 regarding Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs, and direct staff to submit a letter to the state legislature expressing support of Senate Bill 689. At the March 5, 2019 City Council meeting, Council Member Trevor O'Neil asked staff to return at the next council meeting with a Resolution and letter of support for Senate Bill No. 689 (SB 689) for council consideration. SB 689 amends the California Health and Safety Code Section 121 349 and preserves local governments' role in the location of clean needle and syringe exchange programs. Specifically, SB 689 restricts the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) from authorizing or re -authorizing needle and syringe exchange programs unless a city or county in which the program will be operating has approved the request. Under existing CDPH regulations, codified in the California Code of Regulations, a needle exchange program must comply with all applicable state laws, regulations and local ordinances. Currently, a needle exchange program is not an enumerated use under the Zoning Code, and the Anaheim Municipal Code does not specifically address or regulate needle exchange programs within the City of Anaheim. In July 2018, the CDPH authorized the Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) to provide mobile needle exchange services at four locations in Orange County beginning on August 6. In addition to locations in Santa Ana, Orange, and Costa Mesa, OCNEP requested that it be allowed to operate in Anaheim. Thereafter, CDPH advised Anaheim that OCNEP was allowed to operate twice a week at the Anaheim location, from 2pm to Spm. In response to this notification, the City Council adopted an urgency ordinance prohibiting the establishment of a needle exchange program (NEP) in Anaheim. At this time, Council directed staff to study needle and syringe exchange programs and analyze potential permissible locations, operational issues and permitting requirements for NEPs. Staff has since engaged stakeholders, worked with neighboring A Resolution Of The Anaheim City Council Expressing Support of Senate Bill 689 Regarding Needle And Syringe Exchange Programs March 19, 2019 Page 2 of 2 cities, and studied how other cities in California are addressing NEPs. City staff anticipates finalizing its recommendations on the regulation of NEPs and bringing an ordinance to Council in June or July of this year. Through the proposed ordinance, the City will seek to preserve local control to the greatest extent available by law. If Council approves the Resolution and letter of support for SB 689, staff will move forward with sending the letter to the state legislature. IMPACT ON BUDGET: There is no budgetary impact. Respectfully submitted, David Belmer Deputy City Manager Attachments: 1. Resolution 2. Draft letter of Support for SB 689 T__ F 1E.- ;A v CII R71 -ft. C OU 5'CI Jure 12, 2018 Ms. Carol Crump, NLTT California Department of Public Health P.O. Bow 997377, NIS 0500 Sacramento, CA 95899-7377 Dear lis, Crump, "{--�`�._ —: t: a 5...�...-.-..+ .•�._..�-.Y� Un behalf of the Anaheim City Council, the C1 of aheim is subn�i iwng t s letter to the Ca ifol T fla Depart- enr o? Pr_1b �c 1-- calLh Lo �.%� w�L, oppos' tri Irl app l aL o�1 by the orange County Needle _- xchange Pro gram (o C~�TP) to pro vide a s yi-i n ge exchange service in the City of Anaheim:° Based on the location indicated in their application-, it appears 0CNEP is intending to serve our doN�/ to\ n area near La Palma Park an area where the city has significantly reduced cneampinients and vim b e rclocating home; ess services, such as cin eck- gin of per onal bel ong-smogs . �` a �� lel, t F? s area s ad� 2 Ce � -L/_%► a d ig i al �, s tad? L? L`� everts Tod^ oL schools, soccer and baseball fields for our cEildr en, arad open space for families and the coMMUnity to gather. of equal significance, the city iearaed about _ CNE -Ts s application from residents; oCNEP has failed to contact the city, law enforcement and neighborhood associations, thereby not "respecting.. . local preference," as directed by Governor Bro,rn. FurLher, the City of -A-nahe' also has concerms related to the prior operations of oCI�TP. �!Ly IGVlGi ! Es pen -nn LLLL' ��lt�dI Icayl� �Slt/CPett,�eL)as recon! i ` hypodermic needles littering the area i n and around theil downtown and endangering the public who work and visit the area. Bringing this program into our La Palma Park area where we have a dog park, stadium events for our schools, fields for our children to play soccer and baseball and open space for families to gather would not be an appropriate place to introduce this type of program. In 2013, the city launched Coming Home Anaheim as a tool to address the needs of the homeless through collaboration with other cities, local service providers and faith -based communities. It was through tEs collaboration that today the city, through our contract with City Net, have successfully moved over 1,200 individuals out of homelessness into housing with a 92% retention rate. In addition, in January 2017, the city created Drug �L-\ i.rf,Fc'lrll, l ill Free Anahe nl iere amens sus ger-Lng from addiction can Sirr p �7 radcnto our police station and ask for ser*uices, such as detox, partial hospitalization, outpatient eou.nschng and/or support group rGfGrrals. To date; almost 300 individuals have part+cipated in the program Tvvnth over ? ? 0 individuals in treatment facilities. Drug r ee A-naheim is managed by professional experts in the ' eld of addiction and they have expressed great concerns with this particular syringe exchange program. by OCNEP, advising the pr ograin could potentially disrupt the successful services of recovery treatment in Anaheim. A.nah eiDa is a proven leader in providing comp -assion and outreach to not only our homeless population but also those dealing with drug addiction and it would not be prudent to offer a prograns that would potentially re -introduce a negative attraction into our community who is already making progress m our pathways to home, healing and work. Based on the above. concerns and _recent ex peri en ces with our neighbor-II.g city, the City Of Ar ahe rppvs�S the � EP appl a . on to c�tai 51s s rt�n6e ex �� erg e p -M -g am f Awnahe�� . Smnccreiy, Tose Moreno Mayor Pro Tem, on behalf of Mayor Tons Tait •` 15 tear Blvd. Anoheim, CA 92805 T: (714) 76-5-1903 F: (7'i 4) 765-1690 June I -Y"L. 2018 rQL d E Av--- N A .T Ms. Carol Crump, MFT Calif orrria Department of Public Health P.O. Box 997377, Ms 0500 Sacramento, CA 915-899-7377 Dear T1s. Crump: On behalf of the Anaheim Police Department (APD), It submit -this letter to the California DP -a rL rm e.. nt o f Public Halth in opposition to ars appfd ti by the ran County Natlul E -_change Programs (OCNIEP) to provide a sa-ri nge estchanoe s: rY ice in tl City of Anaheim, T he application s-1.ubmi ted by OCNEP includces a program model and 6Vgyral uomponenas which are concerning in terWis of public safety and quality of life in certain impacted areas. Since the application was submitted, 1 have spoken with law enforcement chleT eXeCUbVes bath locally and in other parts of the country where oCNEP and similar pr ogranis have been in operation. One consistent byproduct iron � tbese prograr ns. k&las g1eaned thmugl -hese r.--onvc-r anions: the, FJgni_"JCsnL increazze and pr,: iie[°ation of beth lus� d �-nd un.�: syringes in the areas surrounding th,; locations �,,&iure these prograrnS are OPeMtiol-gal. Even ��i hout a prograrn sir-nila.r to one being sought by the applies r1t, Anaheim recently e per i nUc;d a P1 UJUIerE iN i C�l sp GiTiC g60gap lie ar Ya kwherr-ein substantiai qunn ti -res of syringes began appearing in public places including bias stops, libraries and in parrs. It was determined the proliferation was due to a local retailer selling inexpensive syringes in gross quantities. APD worked with the retailer, whish changed its practices and the Problem has been resolved. The e w � � � � c e 1 s- c -ti n of f h - r s ^ t'•; „� 4 �"1 i 5 6 = ~: i �. ' Yi �s. ='-y i = �� � �,=` 1 r=!ss r � rL-ti� moi" �a - :� r: ,...�L ! ar ! r✓ r=!t; L :ma k E L k't, .::L.1 11 1��'+ I I tVIj-1� [' i �t i i 1 i €`� C!! troubiing in many regards. Th,-, iv�.atiurls o► �u �F'I�€ Cryan; Li15tE�ig challenges, and one which the City has made great progress in imps cuing in teras of homelessness, drug use and crime. OCNEP's proposed appfica-tion would create a draw for individuals who engage in intravenous drug use to this location, and likely a draw for drug sellers as well. Further, this area is adjacent to a dog park, event and sports stadium and one of the City's largest parks. Used by families and children, these public spaces would be significantly and negatively impacted by this program due to discarded syringes and illegal conduct which is completely inconsistent with the intended use of the -se limited public Fesources. Finally, APD and the -City in collaboration with neighboring police agencies and community-based organizations have made tremendous stades in addressing homelessness in Anaheim over the past five years. More than 1,200 individuals have been assisted out of homelessness into housing with a 92% retention rate. In addition, APD administers the City's Drug Free Anaheirn program in which persons suffering from addiction can simply walk into any police station or approach any officer and ask for help, As an alternative to arrest and prosecution, these individuals are assisted with managed )D� anaheimp d.arg- - - r - _ - --- - --- - -- O�.+tpols: [U f'n 3i '�'rI ::�tit�r L,.•r:�.3) :�'�' I�iui � E.w v Juwne 1. ) _; � - -18 Page 2 referrals. To date, almost 300 individuals have participated in the. program with over 2.90 individuals in treatment facilities, Experts in tie :ie1d o aaddictiorl, � third bac � � � ��:� r taoilitating Drug Free Anaheim his expressed grecat concerns with this proposed ��fringe exchange program by OCNEP, advising the program could pater Itiaiiy disrupt the recovefy and treatment successes we have made. In consideration of the recent local and out of state_ experiences highlighted above coupled with the likely degradation of our progress in addressing homelessness and drug addiction in aur community, f, the APD opposes the OCNEP application to establish a syringe exchange progfam in Anaheim. Sincerely= r JULIAN � jj''�`� _4�j Y f ,J � ACTING CHHEF C}F PCUCE af'11)2019 r�l1 - illil � 'n�� L ifCi 1ti i�L45�tf �! i�C-lii,CC�fi"I 3 i" f �. ! � �, i I-� �� � �. -._� -1 ,fir-^• 1 �. r�s rr r' -.r � i i ' �o l� � € i C1 1-c-ki-ismurray.cor-n> }o- E ❑McaFC, J I I II I.� r1 <tji i en'E►.�i�glf�l Lhou tr a�meni•�orn , ��� LlltiK i .1 10 1 e_- a R d' Protecting chilaren, i oldies ona nei hbol-hooas -- Representatives of the orange County Needle r r.- Exchange Program (OCNEP) notified the County of �. Y _ Orange and the Ci of Anaheim that the Entend to -�� g City Y -"' begin wi•despread operations of=h iL r program in - - - September. You can -view recent OC Regis4er� stories t here and her---, �, As a result, at the last City Council meeting on July 31, I called for Anaheim to pursue all legal action to protect our residents from the effects of the OCNER On August 14, I've asked for the City Council to consider joining the lawsuit authorized by the orange County Board of Supervisors and to take any additional legal options available to Anaheim as a Charter City. As a community, we must stand together to protect our children, families and neighborhoods from the effects of this program. You can share -your views with jimen: %G' Iir,h -hoLise`t, eE!It a-,-it.Co! t I r k �.. - r i r---- I w���• �+. '�'-Pr �* j fr'-`.r i � �1 _�� r- � � �-� � ; I've ' � n r- -r � --- i {y r4 �'` r k T"r r'- r . r the .-. 1 � 1 r'1 [ v e l81d viF-c) L4' 'i I rtl i.il E ii g� 'o �p Fe"ir`..�i It ti e O�.J �� Elm SFr + +'7) �+ ! Irt; I_ _ �1--���) 1' 'in . 0n J1,j nta i � 4he Ci y Council vo+ d i.-nanimously to oppcFse nate uhD`zothoCl�FP in �nahFf� end the County of orange. FoRowkiing that actioin the C" sent a letter of opRositlon 1.0 the Califon tia St= to Departrnent of Heal'Th and the city's state legislative delegation. Despite the city's request and opposition by the County of orange, in addition to other cities normally opposing this misguided program, the oCNEP has been authorised to begin operations e7ectiVe immediately. �\,s in the past, the oCNEP will operate with minimal oversight - putting our community at -risk as needles are discarded by the thousands at city parks and public spaces. oCNEP plans to operate from mobile vehicles and to set up distribution at La Palma Parr in District 3 - adjacent to a charter school, stadiurn events for public school:, soccer an bscbll 3�elo`s, one C} she cry` dog prl�s,s vele -� cf;�-n space for the public. S. --n'- ; .r-�a r-; -, L I ended a similar program due to the prr�llfer--'on vi unrrpp d, used n.s �dles 1 erin do"�'�{ntl"?irtiFn public �I��� �.v .� r �. ~. .1 . �::.r'}orA r H. c I..F�ren a' i r% JenLs. -,7 1=� __ � _ = = $ =- _ Eve, day, the City of Anaheim prc��i6zs '== -_- - �_-�- compassionate resources nor resioems suffering v,Fith addiction. Through Drug Free 1 I Ll 'L IG •r��i'�.--�^-.^.'z ...�-�..-------_..� r w' r I _.. _ 1 + �- �lr Is: i..! f i Y l� � .F - .. 1 _ - - Anah im IL-1, h thouup hovefell r t he c ount Cid Mate Departs creat of He-aith that 0IC. I,QEP provides r:eedleEs to addicts but does not proactively encourage or faclkLoLe treatment ser�fices Zuch as ,.,L )X., hospitali:fation, ccjunse[in�a, at c� rand supporro��P referrals. rl' s pr':J f f ? i l lu r?oL L'. Giirt`tj#feria Lo op �:i E b -lie U.C.-EIN [S! !h� �I#'i4=r?�s r,'i tCL,-,l communities. A cc_Ip)f of LL 1; ke staI� report fc'r the courIcil's June '12 EcLlon ar�d ��tker OT opposition is availabiE.��� _ lie .� : __� _ _ aS lr,`�ell as :�;- -- from also avGlabie. Please join the Board of Supervisors, Anaheim City Council, and other local officials ccun)fvx/ide, in opposing the orange County Needle Exchange Program. I will do everyrthing vdthin my authority as an at -large Member of the Anaheim City Council to prevent this program from operating in our city. }kindest regards, Kris hurray Anaheim City Council Member City of Costa Mes- a Police Department Memorandum DATE: May 1, 2018 To: California Department of Public Health FROM: captain Bryan Glass, Acting Chief of Police SUBJECT: Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) � .E177' OF Tom' rtR?3' Flop, a The costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) submits its initial response to OC Needle E�changa Prograim's (OCI�,\�EP) request to California Department of Public Health to operate a needle exchange program in the City of Costa Mesa in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 121840 .et. seq. Since California's Proposition 47 was passed on November 4, 2014, the Police Department has seen an increase in calls for serltice from residents, school officials, library employees and business owners regarding hypodermic needles being found in public pans, side iaiks, local neighborhoods, private businesses, and public bathrooms. This pis has caused concerns with residents and visitors within our Costa Mesa community. Recently, Police Department staff attempted to contact representatives from OCNEP to better understand the services they would provide our community. The provided OCNEP voicemail message indicated that as of January 2018, the City of Santa Ana has prevented OCNEP from operating. in their city and they encourage people to petition their local city councils. It was not until several days later that a representative from OCNEP returned our phone call and left a voicemail. Staff was able to finally reach a representative of CCE IEP this morning just prior to the submision of this memorandum. Since OCNEP had not responded to CMPD's call in a timely -manner, we were required to investigate other cities' experiences with OCNEP. Interestingly, the City of Santa Ana attempted a partnership with OCNEP and determined it did not reduce hypodermic needl6 waste or the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypodermic needle drug use, but actually appeared to increase the problem. For this reason the city of Santa Ana decided to discontinue the program. According to a February 1, 2018 article in the orange County Register, Santa Ana Deputy ..city Manager, Robert Cortez, stated, "Syringe litter became a rampant problem since the needle exchange's inception. A lot of unintended consequences came with the program." Further, "There was needle debris everywhere in the (civic) center, to the point where some of the books at the Santa Ana library had needles inside of them." CiVrIPD researched the sere-1ces 0Ck,1leP provides and determined the following patef==ial pros and cons: otenfial pros: Decrease spread of ill Voss [Re l�i[v. Sarita r .i is reported it has the highest rate of HIV infection in the county. statistics from the Grange County Health Care -Agency indicated there was a 201.2% increase in Hepatitis C rates in orange County from 2011 to 2015 since the last analysis from the California Department of Public Health. Reduces the risk of lave enforcement officers becoming infected by accidental needle sticks. OCNEP claims the needles are less likely to be contaminated with the use of their program. o CMPD has not seen any statistical data to support OCNEP's above claim. Further, there is no way to determine if a needle has been contaminated. Exposed officers will still be required to fulfill a six-month medical treatment process to address the potential health co1-1cern. FZe.duces the risk of contaminated � �eedley being shared. o Miany drug addicts continue to share noodles regardless of a needle e��change program. Needle sharing is a common habit based on recent conversations with drug users contacted in Costa Mesa. Potential cons: T him pl,{ ��;r01 1 coU� d .Fe. � nnog� yet Jot � Drug � �ser� �� � o - her cities irtll��er� a exchange program does not exist, thus drawing mor - drug users to Costa Mesa. A needle exchange program will completely undermine the successful recovery of the large number of former addicts living in Costa Mesa's sober living community. Costa Mesa currently has the largest concent -ration of residential sober living treatment facilities providing nonmedical treatment for individuals recovering from addiction than anywhere else in orange county, and the highest number of any city in the gate. V1, ith a totem l of f state lice a sed s der'€ (a C�`ru and a Gc�hG re r�? n facilites, the City has 27% of all such facilites in the counE In addition, there are an estimated 33 sober living homes, both permitted and unpermitted, operafing in Costa Mesa. The purpose of these programs is straightforward -- to provide an environment where individuals that are working to beat their addiction can live with similarly situated individuals- in a group setting while also living and working within the greater community. Bringing a needle exchange program to Costa Mesa completely undermines the efforts of both the sober living community and the City. As indicated above, ' with so few needle exchange programs operating in orange County, there would be an inevitable migration' of individuals suffering from addiction coming to Costa Mesa seeking free needles. An unintended consequence of this is that this increase in consumers exposed to a needle exchange program -could very likely undermine the succesfull recovery of those living within the sober living community. Increased number of needles disposed within Costa Mesa parks, streets, schools etc. creates a health risk to residents and visitors. According to Santa Ana's experience with OCNEP, the needle exchange program successfully distributed needles, however, failed to ensure that needles distributed were properly disposed. As a result, used needs vvlere endemic in Santa Ana's Civic Center and other public spaces posing a risk to the community. ocNEP has not provided costa Mesa with any information as to how it would ensure that the needles it distributes would be properly accounted fol and disposed. Based upon Santa Ana's experience with ocNEP, the needle exchange program poses a threat to the health of the Costa Mesa community with an increased number of needles improperly disposed. The program is run by volunteers only. An evident shortcoming of this may be a lack of timely communication between the city and representatives of oCNEP, making for a potentially challenging working relationship. Further, operation tunes for ocNEP would be four days a week, 1 oars to 5pnn, with no determined times for needle disposal services. C The location selected for distribution is the area bounded by W. 1 nth st., w 16th St, Monrovia Ave., and the outer border of the ILT strong Pete-crleurn Building. This. area is less than 0.4 miles from Whittier Elementary and corresponding neighborhoods. This concern for local schools and students was articulated in a recent correspondence from Vicki Snell, President of the Newport -Mesa unified school District Board of Education, dated April 25, 2018) to city Manager Torn Hatch in opposition of a needle exchange program in costa Mesa. 0 Due "Co the potential increase in needles being provided vrithin the community, Costa Mesa Police and Fire Departments will likely see an increase in call for service responses to found needles, inadvertent needle accidents and potential exposure to bystanders. This also includes potential increases in responses to drug overdoses and persons under the influence of drugs. Alter reviewing the above inforf-riation and discussing the public safety concerns with the �' C f�'1 1P Coordinator, ra 11 iP i � lr?� n, n #rout i t!' 'o e s reach T�Jnr n5 s well as Deputy City Att-orney Adrienne Mendoza, there is Can unanimous agreement regardi wg the potential public safety concerns posed by the oCNEP. Therefore, CMPD is opposed to imNementation of the ocNEP in costa Mesa at this time. The information provided in this memorandum is based upon CMPD's preliminary investigation and may be supplemented with further information prior to the deadline set to submit comments. P.O.OTTY OF COSTA MiRSA � --!on -cm— B0 1290, COS i A I\4ESA, CI LUFOR.NIA °?523-1200 FROK4, TIDE PI,)BLIC INFORh.4ATION OFFICE Any residents wishing to express concerns about this approval can call Dr. Karen Marks, Chief of the office of AIDS, at 916-558-1784. To see the city's initial opposition documentsV�' �l�;r i ., r`; �_ �I i� (; 4 = L � C,_ `_= r'.-; I i"; r ., << }_, oz :{ . For further questions please contact costa Mesa's Public Information officer Tony Dodero at 714-754.5288 or via email at C:1t i;�S.r.r��'1 77 FAIR DRIVE, COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA 92626 (714) 754--5999 e FAX: (714) 754-5330 ° TDD: (714) 754--5244 • www.costamesaca.gcv AT 1 OFU E YS TSI 3777 \ PjH H.�oR BO L EV.AI� D 6 TFULF ERTON, CALL OR �k 91283 5 (71 r.) 46-!i00 e ( 67) (97-17r6i e PAI -r ��1!1 .16-1 . Richard D_ J6ncs* !associates Partners Monica Choi Arredondo Martin J. Mayer (19-41-2017) Melissa M. Ballard Kimberly Hall Barlow Jamaar Boyd -Weatherby James R_ Touchstone Baron 1. Bettenhausen Thomas P. Duarte Paul R_ Coble Richard L. Adams II Keith F. Collins Christian L. Betteuhausen Dairid R. Demurjian Ryan R_ Jones Michael Q. Do Ta Professional Law Corporation SENT VIA J.S. AAL AND E-AI.AIL Carol Cn ; reaps 1\ T trima Dtpartif'1_Giit L ` rubI'r, I -TG,= 10 �-`0lr Bio 3777, h�S 0500 1 S cCran! 45 r Loy C A J nd J� "7 r 1 EmaR: SEPAppliGation@cdph.ca.gov Kathya 1%2 FirU- Harold W. Patr;ar of Counsel Russell A. Iftldebrand Tarquin P e-ziosi Michael R. Capizzi Crestal V_ Hodgson Carrie A- Raven Harold DeGraw J,xi MacNmin .Tee JeIffrey N_ Redd Deborah Pernice-Knefel Gary S_ 1;raaker Brittany E. Roberto Dean J. Pucci Bruce A. Lindsay Denise L_ Rocau►icb Steven N. Sroha- Adrienne Mendoza. Yolanda M. Sum-merbill Peter E. Tracy Gregory P. Palmer Ivy M. Ts ai Scott E. Porter Carmen Vasquez June 25, 2018 Consultant Mervin D. Feinstein 1� l i �� �{��' t'1��1=� r� l •�� r��-� �� iii ` {�1.� rte- l�er`-'�Y� !'� �Ctir Irk �' �1 �1-^ -^�� ~r=t r -�✓w G_ .+u r.s .��L� �_{ir f v iI-l� �� - ! �F�� f} 1 �_�!-��u �I�I� T L-% n 'Sj I i 7�l s' f T C :ITC~ r fO-rn-rn r' - [ `` v-= { ^ i f-! f-1 `�"i T'r' �'1 f-T�= { !-t ` e I -L T ��i " ?"1 t --i �T r- -^r r- �'i'; • r-7�r.'.!-1^. CZ r, r i.._ # r r "' _- LJ . _1..:l { ' J L� G� L rL LL' a �r C.`- _ rr .J ✓ V 0 c_ �J ii � to operate a needle c" hange in the City of Costa 1\17 (7, . Title 1r�r ► a Code, fl� P�egz�la.L�oris c�t�>- Iil�f �r��r{ife� r � e, de.L�ia1 of c�a pp I i L•wt r F to Gpc 'aL � nue(lle e rrc� r- U in t� i F � � c► t L L��! cL L: �wf iIEI0��f�r.t�50!SU:r�L�'� ��yLs�F�i�_���-.�r�_�i= (b) The applicant does not meet all ther equ� � e� ��er�t5 1 i sted i -Il Hca.ltf- and Safety Code Section 12134D (c) Evidence of projected harm to public safety, presented by local law enforcement official(s), is, In the department's Judgment, greater than evidence of projected benefits to public health, For the reasons set forth belay,17, the City respectfully requests the California Department of Public Health ("DPH") deny OCNEP's application in that (1) the information submitted in OCNEP's application is incorrect or incomplete; (2) OCNEP does not meet all of the requirements listed in Health and Safety Code Section 121349; and (3) the evidence of harm to public safety presented by the Costa Mesa Police Department and Santa Ana Police Department demonstrate fax greater harm than evidence of benefits to public healthy the details of Which are des crib ed -in greater detail b elow. i- 4 r� t L l i e 4� c rC. r r,. lot-for-1-a-12.i�fLl,Lei1c ^�_;-..Lit:_- C, CJ['� j{F{` j I �..� :3 rte: i..._ t,.. L. LJ 1 lei L �. �J A. Danys - � , H o� yrs ofr eratiem OCN- P's application is incorrect or eco iplete as it pertams to its hours o f operation. On the one hand, under SEP Locatio7is, Days a71d OW -S of Operation of OAP's application, the organization requests to operate in Costa Mesa "eve7)� first Frida)� in Costa mesa from 1-3 p771..." however, in another area, OCN P proposes a far greater time period of "daily between the hours of 10 .M and 5 PM." There is a vast different bet -ween a 2 hour per month operation proposed, on the one hand, and up to 210 hours per month proposed, on the other hand. This gross disparity between the fro time periods raises a number of questions. If there is a needfor a daily operation from 10-5 pm, why does the application not propose a brick and mortar stationary location as opposed to a mobilc dispensary that covers a 1/4 to 1/2 m e radius to operate? How would the applicant go about ensuing the safe recovery and disposal of used s3rdnges with the operation of a mobile dispensary operating daily in various locations on a daily basis? Lias the applicant demonstrated aia adequate need for a I0-5 daily operation in 4 separ ate L IE L�s L'� t7i ��J� �t Lid G.:I� L+ +Z r�T f ! i�Vy! L e�4�� si �F i C � eJl; V�Lr Jr_1S Lhe C.; J�EWa4Foin yC� incorLpleLe, and shLoui d be do ledl. B. iTeighborhood or Hom�eo�.er Azssociaon �rmQt~io� The o CNEP application states that there are "No HOA. or NA. ire the blocks we've selected. The elosest ones ar e Newport Crest (1,6 miles south) and Pacific Ave (2 _-riles north)" h�L �s e�le rl o I�,e casc s w -i J- by the a�cr)cP Ft '- `g og -Dub �: i FT cce� i�ecl once - i mhtF r p b ! t MM, a rare 0j- a pLcc-li an, -To to Cb =t 0 -Cr -,:,TE Dro—pouts c Vl� �I:YS� a �,rk.Jtri I l b ��ly ��7 � !{tib„+ =i t � 6 �� � � �' �' �L F I S4- _2 F vi ji �_� 5 �� .�_�:� e st tom : t�_dL_��_r_t cow -ni- es, Plav Port Mobile Vill ag-e. and Greenleaf Park, not to men -tion vkThittier Elementary School which sits Just outside the no Ahern boundary proposes and many of -Mb-Bch include homeowner's assocations and/or a parent teacher assocation. Yet, none of these entities are ident�ed in OCNEP's application and Tould not have been notified, but fora the outreach mat was conducted by the City of Costa -Mesa. A more thorough though process and investigation+ as pat of the apph cation process would've -v.�co vered these groups. instead, the appycation is f f ^�t n.�-,� �r�- --'z - K �r�- ��r mr� �r•�C ��� � �r3 s �tr�[� -tom C� r n i -P 7=tl I-1II, �• , �.u��Y eta —�:_ :���_Zs ��� � u : ;t�� cu �; u 1= .� �� ;, : , � r cI C �Ic;n rnaldng process. fl. The l carat Dees Not Meed U g the Bein- ements Listed in Health and Safety Code Section 121349 Health and Safety Code Section 121349 requires the applicant to demonstrate the ability to do a number of things, many of which are not supported by this applicant. Specifically, Section 1 2 1349(c)(3)(C) requires the applicant to "[p]rovide for the safe recovery and disposal of used syringes and sharps waste from all of its participants." As demonstrated in photographs, letters and other documentary evidence of oCNEP's operation within the Santa Ana Civic Center, it is clear that OCNEP is not able to provide for the safe recovery and disposal of used syringes and sharp waste from all of its participants" within awed location and that evidence in the State Public Health Service's possession should be a part of the record as IDPH makes its decision on oCNEP's current application.. Additlana.11)T, � spite of serious issues related to CCI Id's operation in the Santa Ana Civic Center, OCNEP's application is devoid of any evidence or information as -o ho -�'-NT it -will roe e i is op era t = o n s o that the threats to the p u� li c hea lth and safetT o f th v c a7 that occurred withe Santa Ana Civic Center do not also occur here. It is impoz Lant to point out that the OCNEP's application is on a far grander scale than their prior, Santa Ana Civic Center, operation which was discontinued. Just to name a few distinctions, the Santa Ana Civic Center was in a centralized fixed location which, m theory, would've allowed them to pick up used needles during and after their hours of operation. In this case, hov'iTever, the area proposed is far greater with an operation that is mobile and that covers an area of approateIy 1/4 t0 Vz mile maUag it far more difficult to recover and di spose of used syri�.ges. Another distinction is that OCNEP's current application is on a much grander scale -4 mobile dispensaries in multiple cities wLile their prior operation was m the City of Santa Ana alone. Given OCNEP's failure to meet -L s criteria in Santa Ana, and its failure to demonstrate how it wit a�Toid these deficiencies here, it is clear that OC EP does not meet the criteria in Health and Safety Code Section 121349. TTT 11 . �L an e C}' �' `t� G t L! L uCf Lf �. r G� L'e ' - e ' b Q'ca-1 la- E]Z.tarCE,-ruent Finally, all of the photographs, letters and other wri-ften correspondence provided by the City of Santa Ana and Santa Ana Police Department related to OCNEP's operation in. the Santa Ana Civic Center demonstrate that the harm to the public safety exceeds the public health benefit of !SP's opera tion of four �4� obile dis der sari es co-venin.g a far. greater eater ar ea than their prior operation w►Thich V,,Tas -erly • -11 ate . ciui e to � iurn-erous issues. lvi orea vc_r, as indicated above, OC TEP's application f ails to ey lal-rf what hnprovemcnts it would make its operation so as to ensure the s a � � � e programs do not occ-ox with this much exp ar i ded operation. Again, given she s e Uer-icien.cles, 11 is clear tnat the .narm to puDnc safety exceeds the punic L)en.eiit. For the foregoing reasons, the City Attorney's Office respectfully requests that DPH deny OCNEP's application in accordance with Title 17 (-al iE 3'y=fia Cede- oLf P'E—g- l21.tioris '11004 C scs � {'- Lyse of e�L;� �CY F L _ 1 - Yolanda M. Su1nerlull Costa Mesa- Cify Attorney's Office Cc: Thomas Hatch, City Manager - --3 _d t Y ��, ORA_NG FOR :U 000EDL A -TE REL E - SE cGntact: Paul Sitkoi August 6, 2018 (714) 288-2590 psitkoff@cityoforange.org Okange Citv CouncH Initiates Lawsuit Over ej Needle Exchange Program ORANGE Ca. — The Orange City Council Leics a special meet_ rn g t�h ii s morning to address i� i ipo ant h c th ani! safety Esse desarsi ng Lro mi c approval Uyh t St' -ate,- of Cay fo E ia. Depa- tm Ent of 1 ealth (CDPYL) of an application by thi c Omnge Coup ty Needle Ex ch a►age Program (OCNEP) to conduct operations m several Orange County cities, a.�cluding orange. In a unanimous 5-0 vote, the Orange City Council authorized the City Attorney to initiate l Ligation agamsL the MPH and OCT_�TEP to haft the needle e� change pro gIam's ac-iv'fies it the malty ofr ange. Because of s' 't cancer -s abcyut�ITE''s proposed operations, the Council took this ac-LIon to protect the health and safety of Orange :residents, busU''-)esses, and visitors. Despite OCNEP's previous inability to address significant threats to public health arising from t -h �iY er L� r1s r1 Santa Ana, vsT� 1 t:r1 s! Lia t I' td that c i Ly i c) o l/ -enCv1 L t? .i` J CITM L L�l�e � L iC Department of Public Health approved OCNEP's application to provide mobile needle exchange services to several other cities. CDPH approved the application despite the strong concerns of several focal lair enforcement officials, including orange Police Chief Tom Kisela . For more information, please call Paul Sitkoff, public affairs and information manager for the City of orange at (714) 288--2590. ANDREW DO E'SQIt -TV11C LLE STEE CHAJRi,AAJ4, F[R:7 DjISTRI'%__-T SUPERVISOR, .)ECO ISD DIST -EIC ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS O°r,NGE LOUKIT' N.=.i OF ADft INI(S[RAflON' 333 W, SANTrk nNA BLVD,, SANTA ANA, CA IFOP IA 9127DI All Jun-,1,?o18 TO Clerk of the Board FROM Cbalrman Andrew Do, First Dlstrlet apervisor eheLl e Stee!, Seeo�d Dist -et r s S UBR E, CT ResC'lutiCn Ci i Cy—POSJ_ti �'i� to�t��� ; �rG� ��;%1g Cif �`► as g'C- ('_/o-LInIL)r \Tedd c- Ex..ch nge' Program Please add the Pollowing item of bu=siness to the supplemental agenda of the June 5, 2418 Board Of Supervisors rateet�ag; ` Roy � I n D o and Supe ;`��r��` Meet r-do�� ! G�o��Tr�j�l F E� i��?posi Ll�J� to the ��rma�� `�OL��L� a in rogz � �_ �et _ :tee y r o_ � aid o � �L e s.�l t on o deed_ J e e�al� o the Board to the �ahforz�a Dtljarmeut of ublic Health before the June '.5, 2018 public commeu t dead.lme. Ce: Board or Supers sons 1 Leon Page, County Counsel Richard S anehez, Dlreetor., Hetalth Care Agency 0L. F GN OF THE GSL TGE ��r����Tt �' 3 A RD OF S APER .TfS0 .�� ��P�SE THE ORAI7 E CO U-' 7Y ELLE E --'-,-NT RO 111 the, obL anion o V ure she t�� � �., � � � f the ��r�ri �� �-�� �.� � o �r � o � � ���� errs �� �o G� saftd t `ullbeir�g is�:} an WEEREAS, the 0ra�g�: County Needle E change Program beta e first ever ne. d e- ex Ghang-e in Orange County when it was appro-ved for operation_ by the California Departmtnt of Public Health in 2016; and WHEN A,S, the z ty of S an to Ana decli ned to rer?c vF the pest for 01-ango County Needle Exchange aver allowing the program to operate in the Santa Ana Civic Center from February. 201 6 until Janua-v, 2018, and It -' `�,A-S the City of Santa Ana disco.nti�.zcd their rieC�1- -dic oxGh.ange pro�am due to the public health threet -Posed by a sharp = acr e a se is diseard.ed syringes in the 0ivic ('enter; and x1.1_7. the, w-aa Ana. Public L ibrarT an i -rc- case. of s -Tr-? ge ng La����r��"}g reports o f s- t �nge klcarr shoat vas, noa± planters� v��,Ldo i'7 si'lls� and e -vj5n -ka books; and -'1A'ffER-E kS aata Aria P ubh c Librar r�� r es tati ves have been reported to have said that "before the needle exGhaage o'ened, library staff rarely found syT:nges in the facility, but began � ud 4O to `l0 aa- a ontt� aftear i - ����Ndp3j � G r u at'A + Lnua q i s r - a t i l � i i"f"s v,r E � � ri g� ~` �T L i i i► r�!Y l � � f � � r � � � r=-' . L G _ Vii- - - �s _ L �_ _ _ i .�� -a _ 5 ,•_ 7 r __ _' __ rte_ _ _ y __ _ �-IsLa�cos of e�.7pio7 itGs UG1 �' ! ���Rr �_. -,r F �� j �i - J --' _� x.14- aj_ �_ ;� �,.� �_41� L WHEREAS the Orange C11- otanty Necdle ge P r og E rn pi alas to dist-ribuze syringes on a one-for-one plus 20 basis, dramatiGally in. -creasing the riumb er of syringes in Orange County; and �ZER ' A S, the Orange ourity T d I c Rlt'-1 -chaLge Program i; ,dicatcs that : rrnlP in O-perati on i t was disposing of approxxni- atel.y 20,000 needles per w ecky and U. ��-U_ as'1t� o��L�U0V needles per week would equate to 420,000 needles released into the com-munity per vveelq and W REAS during the H nviro mnental Remediation Prof act along the Santa. Ana River Trail earlier this year, approximately 14,000 needles were removed from a less th&-i four Mile stretch in a two week period; and WHEREAS, the Orange County Needle E�Gha:nge would endanger our corm-T?unities and sacrifi cc the safety of our public in exchange for pro iii ding safe drug use to program users; no W, therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Orange County Board of Supervisors does hereby oppose the establish -meat of the Oran-ge Co uaty Needle Exchange Program and the health and s afcty risks that it poses to the County of grange, and directs the Clerk of the Board to submit this resolution to the California Department of Public Health before the June 25f, 2018 deadline. 0-aln' County, California - News Details j�TeNvs Details -ig e -i-i -a, n tol' cLea NTe xchai i Ora-nr),ri-e Coun" 7- �To_,,I\TS to _i�iai P! r -�7-5n, P, d! e E n 7.1/. b Santa Ana, California -- After removing 14,000 dirty needles from the Santa Ana Riverbed, Orange County is fighting a proposal to give away more needles to addicts. On T uesday, a unanimous Board of supervisors adopted a resolution to oppose a pending application with the California Department of Public Health for a mobile needle giveaway program in Orange: County. "Orange county just cleared I 13 e% 950 needles from the Riverbed,'' said Supervisor Andrew Do, Chairman of the Orange county Board of supervisors. `'This program is a proven failure. Needles end up in parrs and on sidewalks and jeopardize the health and safety of Orange county.,' Ari t.er being denied' a local pern-iit by -the, City of Santa ALna, the Orange County Nieedle Exchange Program is-sesHi g to exploit a loophole in state law that would allow a mobile unit to evade local c€ty, restrictions. The program, which plans -10 operate in a different city each i day of the week, willJ k ■ F- r c-: ry r`� r•+ 'i r. t� r-7 � i � ::` : ! f`` i :�E f E`i £i � f � 1,rte' ��lfC Q1l1JQ�f �V 7� k it {L,G7 lul GVGI Y U11 L� t l�.L1t4E�. If the state grants the permit, Chairman Andrevii Do has asked the county's attorneys far a plan to T ight the needle giveaway in cau rt, LF�e d-[st � E�� F rf r in ..� F � ��_��` Eno -m m- ri"Z7 L f br�_rf'es rti t� !* X..r k @ %,4. t 6 4.0 : %_W v.c 6 %s ."v r c .� +.� L Supporters of free needle programs frequently cite academic studies that show a reduction in the L ransmission of HIV Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and other diseases among intravenous drug users. However, those studies have not been replicated locally, and also come at a serious cost to public health. From 2016 to 2018, the Orange county Needle Exchange Program handed out thousands of free syringes to a} iea:st `12,000 peop!ex ,in Santa Ana. Many of those needles ended up in homeless encampments at the Santa Ana Riverbed and civic center. Earlier this year, county employees 1,d ,'L 1 �Eedles —potentially contaminated with infectious diseases -- from just a four mile stretch of public land. Stam at Santa Ana libraries say that syringe littering has become a "huge" problem, Prior to the program, staff rarely found dirty needles. Now, they routinely find 40 to 50 per month. 3111 /2019 _ Orange ge Counity, California - News Deiail5 �� ;V �L,�e It t u irk "� i t i e l �_ s , [: i; I::F a [p f [ : E" , '�riF'.1 1 Q � ���T 1 5 � � 1: �: � G; ., �f � G :i"i C " s�, � [ � c r; G .S i !`�fl tt sss tt6 r � � f� � � {, 4 F [ { �` • r�1 Fi r .-r { f ` ; -� r. ` £. C- _ �__7 [ • _ _ _ _I � r b� ullbiLc- ' LI iraL 1y G [ pe-iJaL6cin �� f i [moi ..� i» . {��! E-ak�r � 1 � � � I- �r �- _ itv of sang Ana Opposed Citing the =uhlic health risl�s, rhe An- Ciof Santa Ana refused to renew the permit for the needle ie earii'er this year. "The original intent of the program was to provide public health and safety, which is a noble cause," Santa Ana Deputy City Manager Robert Cortes � t ~ 4�� r� � t I� Y � � r number of r� ; F f ; I < < � �. I - the issues that carne up and compounded for city staff, there was just too much evidence that goes against the purpose of this program." By operating a mobile unit, the needle giveaway program is adLempting subvert the city of Santa Ana's decision. "The city of Santa Ana's decision must be respected,,, said chairman Do. "Santa Ana residents have every right to be safe from dirty needles in their neighborhoods.,, rs t r r. .+� � fr'ti�� � � ....� � � �"� �'` c .-.F � "� � r{� � "� :� e r t �� � � � �k ...` ice.' �f;� �ko�" l ._ r't oC gals in Cos -La �� c iso l�r;�r � f 0.6on Ta � t;� mobile I.. rtr -., � �.�r the prcgr- E � � �rE!ill n-�a e the city's drug problem worse. "This program could be a magnet for drug users in other cities where a needle exchange program Bees not e ast= thus drawing more drug users to costa Mesa," Costa Mesa police Capt. Bryan Glass Threat -to Public Emplioyees Needle giveaways shiftthe public health risk from drug addicts to public employees. Every year, � � yore than 1.8 million fieedles are unaccounted for in San Francisco, which operates one of the = - = = - ti �- ;_ Transit riders in the Bay Area say that BART has became littered with needles. Earlier this year, a Caltrans employee i�tras:.L- s:�i� l�i��<<:l.c� with a hypodermic needle while cleaning up a homeless camp in San Diego. In March, a library employee in Seattle was [ i�`i,4;:��:� !! �� br j q Public Comment Deadline: June 25th The orange county Board of supervisors is urging residents to submit public comments to the California Department of Public Health, By law, the agency must accept public comments for a 90 -- day period, which ends June 25, 2018. You can send your comments to S=PA'pplica olr� cdph.ca.g•o�,�. David Rartash Anaheim, CA 92805 Re: 513 689--Moorlach To: whom it may concern I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The Office of AIDS, within the California Department of Health currently controls the permitting of needle exchange programs. The Office of AIDS does not have the benefit of intimately knowing each individual municipality needs, the affected area's demographics or the location of schools and after school programs. In the case of the needle exchange program that received approval to operate in Anaheim.. the Office of AIDS chose to ignore the fact that the needle exchange program's proposed operating area borders a park and has two elementary schools within a five-minute walking distance. The selected area also contains an economically impacted neighborhood and is directly across the street from another working-class neighborhood. The needle exchange area also includes a construction zone that will become a brand-new neighborhood designed for first time home -buying families in the next few months. In the years from 2008 through 2017, new Orange County HIV cases remained steady between 250 and 340 per year. Three hundred and three Orange County residents were discovered to be infected by HIV in 2017. Twenty- two of them were injectable drug users, that is only .0006% of the county's 3.19 million population. (htt : vv v► rw.ochealthinfo.comcivicax fi#ebank b#flbdload.as x?BIobID= 74179 j From 2000 through 2017, annual fatalities due to drug overdoses increased in Orange County by 82%. In 2017, there were about 700 drug involved deaths (htt : ww.ochealthinfo.corn about admin ubs od } Orange County is in the middle of an Opioid epidemic, not an HIV/AIDS epidemic. If Orange County were to allow a needle exchange program to operate, it would need to operate one that prioritizes connecting an addict with a recovery facility. It should not be a program that doles out 20 syringes at a time without requesting any in return or insists on the anonymity of its participants like the program approved by the state health department's Office of AIDS. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, avid Bartash-- March 23, 2019 Re: SB 689-Moorlach To: Whom it may concern: I am a resident of the city of Cypress. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in the surrounding community. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap --around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction, Thank you, • Yr Wendv Moonier La Palma, CA 90023 March 23, 2019 Re: SB 889-Moorlach To: Whom it may concern: I am a resident of the city of Cypress. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in the surrounding community. 1 am writing to express my support for SB 889 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. l believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap-around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Gilbert Jimenez Cypress, CA 9MM V March 23, 2019 Re: Sly 889-Moorlach To: whom it may concern: I am a resident of the city of La Palma. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in the surrounding community. I am writing to express my support for SS 889 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap-around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine horny they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Orl, xh_\� Amber Moonier La Palma, CA 90623 PuLiIfc Cornment emails on Needle E-),cf1Gr1ge From She! iey Z acoria met] Sent: Saturday, June , 18 101,36 AM T -o E .Y - Q D e r r, ; �-,�, n: n i�=, r GE SS, SANDRA RA Subject: Shelley Iocona - Katama Bay give, Costa Mesa, CA June 23, 2018 To the CalUorma Department of Public Health, I vvas recently made aware of the pending approval of the OC Needle Exchange Program's (OCN-EP) request to your organization to operate a needle e ---.-,,.change program in the City of Costa Mesa, accordance health and of e bode Sec tion _ _ i - ' et. eq,' m deeply disappointed that a professional orga=ation that e�sts to protect the public at large would appro re .b -,-is program which has proven to be in effec ive in other rnarlre is . beli eve this so iut on r s si-tip ly a aELd a -K- a. to � aiger s-Ts#e=c ` Usue, ano ore YO� r = g ra i r+; , {� aeG1 vi,Tlt the issue at is core. It is my bye l i e f that the tt s r -i eedl e e c an ge f�i is t❑ aC d�'cgs +1C Problem and increases the nsk of endan.gerung the public at large. Given my position on the issue, myself and my fellow community members will fight this as long as -V�Te need to, to ensure this program has � ff o hom, e withir, o-ur beloved Costa Mesa. he ` xS a g c�rii g i"e g t at o r g b I7 g �.cgJLP Lllrn L)F i. w€ F L,an�a Ana5 h� ��F`eacry i � I4-� � n -� r - • �1 !` � i � s �� r'a • .L � i • 1 s' 1 � � L� rl i p rz s � � � -� r"� ' --��,,, !' G'��E t,�f.% �,��`,�;i � ' i� 1�5���1E tE 1�eT�L EF "' Lt1�KE ,i�:T 3 f�y � i lam ? '.! _�� Lke tis L 1 Lit Fvj� L6� Tzji i E'1 �t+CYT' f•7 i iT Cii e lF�� ��C' �7"i��` L: f7�' ^� C:l f�li7"!lti �i;'�a i�^� t^.�C� Yid'/ :liT'^�Y''! T y'Ll4� L'�'�l1lti� !.Ar7hlr—t 11rk Yt t I L! UJ_! V.L.L.Y 'U LLJ L./.L( L -L0. LJ Ll. -1 LLL . e x @ LL "1-L7V Vel } iVr L.1 LSVL L LI -LL A, L -LLLJ -L V 5! C. A - R Ji ypiJi Lemli 1-L S1L.+ needle waste, or the trans � ssion of blood borne diseases associated �'th hypode J c needle drug use, but that the program did the inverse. :fence, the program needing to find a new home. We do not support that home bung hern Costa Mesa. Our corn suppo_rGs various sober living cow �- �- ties and does not want t0 because a 11i a. ;j! L ! �l Li�i? as rs L7' M. J V .� Gi l�iu UL J L�L��i�� !__ ��. u[ v�.tir `'t?-G� �-^.LJ p�{� ^,��•.+i iS CIJC,-'_ alone put our fades and children in harm's way. Additlonally, I am_ concerned that this program would be approved in proximity to the numerous schools located on. Monrovia. It's a esponsible of the California Department of Public Health to do anything but deny this pent. As a home owner, community member, and small business owner in Costa Mesa, I'm disturbed by the thought that a program like this could be approved with zero involvement or partnership from, our local officials and cora 3unity. we stand with the Mayor's office, Costa Mesa Police and Fire Departments, our City's Homeless outreach Team, and our District Attorney's Office with a firm `not here'. You'll be hearing from many of my neighbors that live directly within the targeted neighborhood if you haven't already. Please do the right tbing. Costa Mesa has a bright fu.-ture and it does not involve the OCNEP as a black eye among its initiatives for a better tomorrow. P, a d s. She.iey iocona CC: Sandy Denis, Major, City of Costa Afesa Thanks for the email. The City Council unanimously opposes this proposed needle exchange. l appreciate that you sent your feedback to the state officials. Thanks. Johl rr Stephens 0, n J LD,,, n Z 1� ., X01, aL 5r6 P K; Crsaa c rs L-= bus -y school cross' �,-4 CcsLo- FVes 19 Caii1:rornia,, De -pal 'C'meri" o' I Pm :q Innn f ryip- rp-5�zirin` Ehrr Pwc�c-, in ffid r rorif �sa-rf ares en -n Int M5 Nh fli�"`�}i E at Monrovia and I loth In costes Mesa. i 1 This location is the exact intersection young children walk toifrom school. T h a Y hI've had to endure stepping over vornt and somat lmss �rvlalp{ in 't by ista -e fror � � addiC-As shooting up and getting sick. I beg YOU not to do a needle e chanc:i a � � ri � de _ ' i 4 y - ccu �se they 0 -ss the used needles in tie -brass and ha y terot o ' of doing a 1 to `l exchange... Think of w hat it would be like if it weren't 1 to 1. oh, my. Handing out more than one is not going to get thea to return all of there. This approach will not work. It is like bringing handaids to an epidemic. Too late! Think about the children who don't know the dangers of playing with a freshly used needle. I don't want this behavior normalized either. We work hard to protect our future leaders to exposure to drug and achohol induced people. We are working as a community for "our West side" kids and we must protect thea from this very activity as it is just too much for their }young minds to comprehend. (Pl ease excuse th mis=typing as l am sending from my phone and am very passionate about protecting our future generation from any positive actions Lowad or negative aspect of d -rug and a icohol issues.) They simply should not have any exposure or subsequent ramifications from it..=even if it is well meaning. You just don't expose them to the horrific problem. Find a better solution to the epidemic and don't normalize it to our children PLEASE. You are working against our positive actions by doing the needle exchange in West side. Please stop now. Teresa Secrest Engaged long-time resident Fromm e Nicole Guido Sent-. SeundaY, 3unel , l IMP MF= Cee Carayin Tomassi; GENPIS, SANDRA SubiectQ Costa Me:a OCNEP - €Pe i i iiL To whom A'- may concern, It vvTas recently brought to nay husband and I's alt -tent? on that there was a permit application. pending In Costa 1' esa fora mobile necdle exchange programs. between 16th and lath streets Vn Costa A`? vLsa. Vh-de ��;Te Ci 1ieVe Ulat }lee tle e)Lchange ;:�iog-ra=n s are an i roportaiat part 01 Public headO �A_Te Viso -bP i P tTP tl-� a s IC` '! r�rt-r��-� �� � �� �� � 1�P jnr .-_Pr1 -fin fiP 4ZafP�� nlp- r�Pe PCNSO-��� P. � n a�rn7r� 11 �-�jj-�tP�r�Pr1 r..� �J✓�+. F� r- v �i w.u�-v +�-.,-. •..r -s. u- r.. ...+ _ .r .s r�.+ v u.x r..I v a- N .mow +.% ✓ r..r v t..t v. t-.T.----.���-., l�1JCti..'N 4s consequences. Locating the mobile needle exchange in the area between 16th, 18th and Monrovia would pose a greater public health risk to our most vulnerable citizens, oLu children. The proposed location for the needle exchange is one block .way f om an ele�mentai. y school, vii ala ler Elementary. My family and I also live within the proposed boundaries of the ' 1p!r ���0?rGCi%UD i )l�r +s -;?a;� �r!(r,, .fra deserve protection Lron the increased ri slc that these types of programs ultimately bring to a neighborhood. The young familiesin the area spend lots of time wal g, bi ming, and exploring the neighborhood. The thought of one of the kids in the area ! mding a needle or worse sticking themselves with one of those -needles is repulsive to us. we must protect our children! In addition there are many small businesses in the area that will suffer from the increased presence of drug activity. There is a thriving small busines' environment in westside Costa Mesa, mcl.uding many home offices, large apparel companies, other small businesses that will be threatened by an increase in the presence of drug activity. In addition, as you may know the residents of Costa Mesa already bear a disproportionate share of the burden in regards to sober living homes, drug rehabs, and other transient activity. This program would be overwhelming to our already burdened community. ����eStS� Cie Costa f`,�i FSa 5 � 1Tp ani o �g ne�gL �r hood and is a. really C t g 1a � to hi -7e, � N T ork and play. None of this Is -possible unless it i s safe fore \Teryone. S afcty- is first and forem.o St - and vVe feel s 4.1 oagly that this program would_ negatly e.Iy imp act the q t Q f the f1L+1 ghb `.' r t ood a.:'_-./ havca GL �L cc -t'. 1 LF �'a ct On �.�C qua i1 Ly 0 � i1:1 c l r' UT 6EIdl ` at! Please reconsider locating the needle exchange in an area where there are less children present and �Arhere business-Irould not be negatWely =Pa cted. Perhaps, near a hospital or other public health complex would be a more appropriate location for this type of activity. We have notified our neighbors of the application for the program and all o_f thea. _feel the way that we do. They do not -vTant it in our neighborhood! In addition, we have notilfied our HOA and gine are prepared to -seek any and all f irther legal remedies available to us. Thank you for your consider ation . Nicole and Carmin Tomassi. F9� no P 1� ;11ip G 1 co ' SErEr Sunday,, 3une 17, 2018:431 r @ GENTCr SANDRA RA Subject: LfiC Needle F--tci iGnge 1 li'V4�t SPd� Co -s a Hweal Hi Sandy, We recen t_y bio g- Ft. c. ne v hororre i � Costa �'���s= at tl c Light o ��s,' F TIC a c =t on sevorcal r r_bo.� s i �. i` r n� c t ' 1 1 Ci� � i r ii i f s_ax d L j1 1_ J ! L� i;cL EP 11ge. i an!e �� � ��eCCi3 g � g#� 0- mus �� i 4 ►re. A sizable group of us in our neighborhood are concerned. We are wondering if it's hest to each send a letter, and if so, if using a template letter is okay, for consistency, or if it's best to send one note and have a group of signatILLFCs NvIth it. Any thoughts or guidance vrould be helpzal. WT ,, want to help and mak-e a noticeable impact. T li, n ��4 Q in aQ i �ia-n `eand hone. -L0 Meet ;irpi Q+vn�r-. Ctir hon, Phil Grieco Costa Mesa Sent: Monday, June 18, ; o AM To: a E 1 r.L'Gticsti f_'(E")C I FI� j f� "'t :uFls V Ce: GENIS, SANDRA Subject; OCNEP To the CDPH, I ain uniting to comment on the orange County Needle Exchange- Program application for the city of Costa Mesa. We are long time residents in the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa neighborhoods Sent; -Vednesday, June w8 1 [\ l Subject! OCNEP Not- in Costa Mesa,.. June 20, 2028 To the California department of Public Health, # was recently made aware of the pending approval of the OC Needle Exchange Program's (OCNEP) request to your organization to operate a needle exchange program in the City of Costa Mesa, in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 121349 et. Seq. l`m disgusted and enraged that a professional organization that exists to protect the public at large would C this ineffective program as a `band aid' to a larger systemic -issue, vs. dealing with the issue at its core, while also endangering the public at' large. Regardless, myself and rnyIellokiuf co m rn u ni y rnemibeFS wi.11 fight 6hi4 as Icing a.s we need to, t o�s re th �iS, 1prOg h� - �am has r t h cJ rE i e ,ltiithin our beloved Costa There is a glaring red flag that our neighboring cornmUrlity, the City of Santa Ana, 1-1 cais already Prevent OCNEP EP f rom operating their r city l units, and rallied resides is to petition this with their city officials. Santa Ana also concluded that this program did not reduce hypodermic needle wast -e, or the Iran-smission of blood borne diseases aSS0Ciated vlith hypodermic needle d(^uQ _. fbut thats E w proarai'i'l E...,... the ir ..rS1r, . , :r e thie progyrc-__m r3 EV ir, Lo � find a i :e�(v, horrice Our Col nlL�rt� L�,r Cc 1ppr�i vario! �s sober" living commu[`���ies and does Cion. �s��arti. � o become a magnet for drug users -From other cities, or undermine successful rehab programs locally, let alone put our families and children in harm's vilay. it's irresponsible of the California Department of Public Health to do anything but deny this permit. � r r r _- .�. _ . Ct lt0lIIc vV I� i_1litlil:{tiLt� i:C;ti ` t, tt�,�Tr��iL?f [ i i,= �li��} --I i1iF�� ffiEL ii'tr� r� iii Miesa, I'm disgusted with the thought that a program like this could be approved with zero involvement or partnership from our local officials and comrnuni ty. We stand with the Mayor's Office, Costa Mesa Police and Fire Depa rtrne rets, our City's Homeless outreach Te'arn, and our District Attorney's office with a firm 'not here', You'll be hearing from many of my neighbors that live directly within the targeted neighborhood if you haven't already. Please do the right thing. Costa Mesa has a bright future and it does not involve the OCNEP as a black eye among its initiatives for a bettertomorrow. Thank you. Regards, Philip C. Grieco and �_� a ,Jt Svbn so � � e LF. � � f Ei--my L ,nd �i v �i � ! .7 � �l L° �'►' ��' ^ �i iVcst S� LLi� Co�7ta �� lesa � . � ni g� v'►' V b c! ' OCIN .P has merit. �? so me cc., f I mtle_.S.. V; � � L� .� r.� s -E V,. co � � ' n , { � ti b . 1 �,_r OC 1 n r- +-.- � T -. -Y � l r- EP 9 f �p uLg , ��e a �. .,L1on an ! d_---�� .} Cn 01 r � " ' � r �` C icts ls`1 ~L�� v " � a f Cost `if s =� I�;, fit .31 ` _Fl IjI7CQt 18th Strut, CEO Tu'l on . ovia Avenue, (S) West- 16th trect, (W) The e of z ter r order P etr oIe=. T nis ric gliborhood has been evolving over the past several ,Tars b=' ging rtew "homes" and businesses to the city of Costa Mesa resulting in increased revenues and positive growth. The OCNEP will end business development in this neighborhood and quite possibly dri-re c=ent businesses out of the AVest Side. There are also 2 clementaxy schooLs in this neighborhood that should be considered...-11-aese y o ng students -should not be exposed to the many potential dangers by the Mndividuals these programs attract. Jemma Alcaron made this statement in April, obviously not researching the area to see that there are families and schools the enact area they are proposing to parkthese needle exchange vans: 'The locations that we're hoping to work at are largely industrial zones, so we're definitely Lying to stay away from places where there are children around," A l a roa n czaid . parents fv th bab 1 es in s tr oilers and c = l ren hand arc to i s � e � r rr e i gr' b orho od. Alc r E r n din not do her homavvorid The CD HJOA at d the O CN h asik ``t =done cnou� to roti [ Yy the residents th? s E- ei g �borhood about this SIP Application. Every resident and business owner affected should be made "directly" aware of this application. what are you doing to get the mord out? urge, �Tou- to be responsibr e and cora-c she S��C�o�S; reSiidenEs an� b'dseSses �� LEis s n(, --i hb�`t'� flood. S%e�: their r �:�,i .I I�C;-Ls caL-) �v�i i ndon s so L[ -moi you, cs-,j_ c �� �.� s�u� �'rQ`�G� i� I.i� �� i � i'� gt : � neighborhoods. �� cep th R cse programs v,Tay E 0-11 � schools.,L _' dei its a d os�tU'�Tc si , tai � b��s���ess frowth areas. BP 1 en -y Resident and Business ovATncr in. the Lig -i -house Corn-n-Iuni ty I Oth. and Monrovia Costa Mesa, CA From: Tru c Mai I Sent: Wednesda"y.ne o, 1 ❑:��'.'►G[fCiCf cc: GENTS, SANDRA Subject: OCNEP mobile needle exchange -in costa Mesa I have recently learned about ocNEP's proposal to operate a mobile needle exchange in my neighborhood, I am against such a program for multiple reasons. The biggest reason being attracting drug users into the arca and possible increase in discarded needles. Please do not allow this to happen. �' u;1 rA CC: Sandy Denis, Nrfia ��or, C!ty Qf �s�a From: Adam Zalewski _ Sent: Thursday, June if 2018-8.,UJ AM To:�EPy �� � ��� �Ej:�► �cJ:�� ��`�.c�.cr�,�f� GENTS, SANDRA Subject: NO Needle Exchange in Costa Mesa June 20, 2018 To the California Department of Public Health, 1 was recently made aware of the pending approval of the OC Needle Exchange Program's (OCNEP) request to your organization to operate a needle exchange program in the City of Costa Mesa, in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section f .1 1 "',91 et. Seq. I'm disgusted and enraged that a professional organisation that exists io protect the public at large would approve this ineffective program as a `band aidto a larger systemic issue, vs. dealing with the issue at i<s core, while also endangering the public at large. Regardless, myself and my fellow contmun`ry members will tight this as lona as we need to, to ensure this program has no home within our beloved Costa Mesa. Thera., is a glaring red flag that our neighboring community, tine City of Santa ��na, has already prevent -ad OCNEP from operating within their city limy [=—, a vd residents to petition this vvith their ci r o"icials. Swnta t-1 a also concluded that this program did not reduce hypodermic needle waste, or the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypoder,„nic needle drug use, but that the program did the inverse. Hence, the program needing to find a new home. Not here in Costa Mesa. Our community suppars various sober living communities and does not want to become a magnet for drug users I oil ger ci[ies, or undem-line successful rehab programs locally, let alone put aur families an d children in harm's lftt y. T hsre are numerous schools iocated on I -x lonro}iia as vi Ell. !ti's irf-es�,onz ible of the Cafirornia Depa.r€alent of � 'ublic HLa:if, =C� do ar r4hi �g L L oen - LhIs p�!'3 I �r:. As a home owner, eorr i-nunity member, and small business owner in Costa !Mesa, I'm disgusted with the thought thaE a program like [his couid be approved with zero involvernent or partnership from our iotal o licials and community. we stand with the Mayor's Office, Costa Mesa Police and Fire Departments, our City's Homeless Outreach Team, and our District Attorney's Office with a firm `not here'. You'll be hearing from many of my neighbors that live directly within the targeted neighborhood if you haven't already. Please do the right thing, Costa Mesa has a bright future and it does not involve the OCNEP as a black etre among its initiatives for a better for norrow. T hank you. Lighthouse Community (Bridgewater Way) Costa Mesa CC: Sandy Genis, Mayor, City of Costa Mesa From: Rose Cameron Sent: Thursday, JryuJne Z I o. GENTS, SANDRA Subject: Fwd: NO Needle Exchange! Begin forwarded message: From: Rose Cameron > SL b Gct. N0 ��' cedte h, c_��. age t Date. junic 21, 2`018 Gt 8:00:28 A ,4 DT June 20, 201 -- - To the California Department of Public Health, - I was recently made aware of the pending approval of the oc Needle Exchange Program's (OCNEP) request to your organization to operate a nee -die exchange program in the city of costa Mesa= in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 2_"l : et. seq. l'rn disgusted and enraged that a professional organiza tion that exists to protect the public at large would approve this ineffective program as a `band aid' to a larger systrnic issue, vs. dealing with the issue at its care, while also endangering fhe public at large. Regardless, myself and my fellow cornmunity members will fight this as long as ����e ��eed to, to ensure this program has no home ,Fkr f the n our beloved costa K4esa. `there is a glaring red f lag that our rteighbc-r irPg com sur _i� vf, the Cit of Say eta Ana, has already prey{emIed C EP from! aper acing withir, their Cr- tJ iirr its, and rallied residents to petition this with their city of-icials. Santa Ana also concluded that this program did not reduce hypodermic needle waste, or the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypodermic needle drug use; but that Lhe program did the Hence., LI �� p� roc ?i :l 1 11eE-0- ,- . io LC i E�10 3:�. i i4- A l or i.red x i ti if k l'�dL a � E Dur co � � , iun''6 SUPP: lnL-s ���?.rir.;us so8r iving Cod �i n�� rn.E�ies a.n ��o�s � �o j� vi,ia� �� �cp .�.r � - l �.s r r e • t..c v �. � c� i� :ry �'4'7LAI i. J"s Yt':'i L !''� � � � � � {� �.)eC.:L.J�� G �e a � � OEIY! i � L 1�. 1 Ut U9 L aD�E Z) t I U E �rY LA UU0s U1 u 1 fu �f t E III IU our► U��l U1 I �l sc- ki programs locally, let alone put our families and children in harm's way. There are numerous schools located on Monrovia as well. It's irresponsible of the ailyo rn is Department of Public health to do an�FL'hing but deny this permit= s a l o�. ne o rner= comrnur�it�� E �e� her, and small business owner in Costa Mesa, I'm FF ,, r r --y � � { �T a t , 1U�JI+vfE�f �1 l �� �L.tg��L tV�� 4n-. �tnUl„E��� ��lv v4.�t!}�t.jl'C:� tl'rll ! ter+ involvement or partnership from our local officials and community. We stand with the Mayor's Office, costa Mesa Police and Fire Departments, our city's Homeless Outreach Team, and our District Attorney's office with a firm `not here'. You'll be rearing from many of my neighbors that live directly within the targeted neighborhood if you haven't already. Please do the right thing. costa Mesa has a bright future and it does not involve the OCNEP as a black eye among its initiatives for a better tomorrow. Thank you. Regards, Rose Cameron Lighthouse Community (Bridgewater Way) Costa Mesa CC: sandy Genic, N4ayor, City of Costa [OeSia F . Lut �� Nguyen Sent= T hursdayf .dune 2l, :� Too. GENIS, SANDRA Subject, RAid: oCNcP application to provide mobile needle exchange service in Costa Mesa Hello Sandy, - I'm forwarding you my email to he CA Dept. of Pubs�?c Health with ray comments re the OCNEP application. I appreciate your efforts to inform the community and hope that you voice the strongest objection possible to the CDPH oa this mater. Thank you. Zun g Nguyen ---------- F onvardcd message ---------- ro�-�� : Zai& N g aye- > Daae: Thu, Jun 21, ?oIS at 3:335 PM 1Lbj Pct: oC __F__ P appheatlon to provide mobile necdlc e�L cla; ar, ge service i� Gas%, Mesa H 11 Clio, 1 as as res E dem _= t o f (osta Mesa v-,� t --d t th u f ou ri dar�cs o- th :� uropascd appl- catio�1 .ror s�Y`;13 �;� �� �.�'`.]'chscd coe cis �� ��e; t 1 Loe w!'ea �Ti� f t th e 1 Osiy ^k` U�iat�G 'Fi L�r.} � prr+ a--�'sYrun� �j eca t -fa si t�rp.� �-� � ��111- {'P�-y�tcr�Jl E' � ! i �����nCZ���oo�. r-;,'5 Q .`� � �1�. T�, 07 � d - .i. L L1 V N 4:. {a_ l� L�5 4- �. L_ V_ v �.J 4.` - R�iJ_ ti.Lb�L���� ��� L� ✓_ �. F LJ w f.�.� L.i��Y esddentia! area with both ret' �eP eon � � � 4�cs and ?� Pw rest dPnti al do tTelop�ncn is �? tlz yo -LIP E anu ���r E th young chi' dren mov' g * . 1 can 5 teL i eve th a.t ani 01 gG=atLo would the this is an area that needs to have a needle exchange program. The only thing g this wiU do is att a.et the c -in ds o T ding users wLio use this type o' s endce, and viTho do not c=en tly 5 -eq en t this area as fay' as 1 can tell. We v►rill end up -with dreg tscrs and homeless people hang -in g ayo- nd o —Lr (criancently) s a " streets. P 1 eas e do not give approval to this app lic at~_► on by1 . T h you. From. belly oconnell- Sent: Friday, June 24. 20 To: SEP-arG,lication Q cd;.)h.ca,00\f; GENIS, SANDRA Subject: Felly oconne-ll- Katama Bay Drive Costa Mesa June 22, 2018 To the California Department of Public Health, I was recently made aware of the pending approval of the OC Needle Exchange Program's (OCNEP) request to your organization to operate a needle exchange program in the City of Costa Mesa, in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section Lel: `i " i 3 et. Seq. I'm deeply disappointed that a professional organization that exists to protect the public at large would approve i<h!s program ���rh! l� h s �r��!er e €!`]+= ieCt!1`e it i other rn rkets. I be[iksve it is- �:C' ' i( jc ;r r.� �- `b�and aid to a l21rger !-:z 'c el �IC issue, Enid I ir, ���lom 1/oL:)F org= 4Iz-LIon ix irt'itl�i -J1-Iissue r its Core. It is my bekef thcat this r`�eedle u oh =fie f,Iis °� ;d � s }`r f 'o e F cf)d in:- 'e c s h� r - 's k f P 1 {Y{, Iii ji { 1�y, r r. e �f 4r I- r F-+ r I c 1�: L v! v Given my position on the issue= myself amid My fellOW cornmunny members llirill fight this as long a:s we need to, to ensure this program has no home vtlithin our beloved Costa Mesa. There is a glaring red flag that our neighboring community, the City of Santa Ana, has already prevented OCNEP from operating within their city limits, and rallied residents to petition this with their city of} icials. manta Ana also concluded that this prograrn did not reduce hypodermic needle waste, or the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypodermic needle drug use, but that the program did the inverse. Hence, the program needing to find a neer horre. VVe do not support that home being here in Costa Mesa. Our community supports various sober living communities and does not want to become a magnet for drug users from other citieu, or to undermine successful rehab programs locally, let alone put ou!+ families and children in harm's wCay. ,additionally, E am concemtsd that this program would be approved in pro.,'J tity to the nurf!erou= schools located on Mionrovia. It's irresponsible of -Me California Depart mi i ent of Public Heealrth to do ai yching but dent this permit. t'°:s a he[ i �e mrkt"i i , ctc, tm � u ity member, and sf i all business C.iftmer in Co��� k4s- sa, I' t � dis urbed by the tl sought that a progra� � � lila this could be approi�ed fi.. }erb involve i reit or partnership from oLIr local officials and community. We stand with the Mayor's of5ce, Costa Mesa Police and Fire Departments, our City's Horneless. outreach T earn, and our District Attorney's office with a fire t `riot here'. ere'. You'll 'be 7#�heGring�from nanv -of my neighbors. that live directly vifithin .t he ftaavr�g�eted neighborhood t you Ns-. en' cairecd .-cc-hed right- Nnoo. Costa }La a bright tu�­a�- La « . �fr~;Fof the a� G. `--lack, rsvaa^G at� f -i a b:t-t er .1 € f Ytt y1ou. Regards, belly O'Connell CC: Sandy Genis, kfilayor, City of Costa Kliesa niv iPhona r �. `I i moi' yr ;, -;c ��` i e "r_ .- - •_..._ viz r `� s �_�Ili�..`.�C 1 �.J i I f E) i_._.S is r�LrU i G.� L it -L r3etS'� R ~. -4� • --' - -=� - -r- -� �-: fir' LG rJ ...-.L^ 4l�� I,. J ia•.i.. �L � LjjiS pro _rarein eonductec oar neighborhood. r that happens all bus ess aro po su. fer - customers would stop coming. Besides there is an Elementary seb-001 here, so it would he highly �uappropnate and even dangerous -o have addicts and possibly actual narcotics around. June 21, 2015 To whore it [Vay Concerns am the manager of Regal Estates. Mobile Horne Parr a t § jJINIM This is a 94 spaces senior mobile home park. There are other senior mobile home parrs as well on Monrovia. L� Vaktar yin, David SLybj! �c�n N�edle E;c1;c-nge it f ~ cabuse t � �+ � �--r1"'• �-.-_•.,'r-. r,. 1 i }+1 �-•� ;���5r�� !` � � � ,�.K.. y �•y ..•L. ^�-� �. � �•-� ' �r Z'�-•� � } i�l T opo �tma, 4�`. 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The consultations provide ?,n oppor-binity for discus."sion and input about the @uthorization r a r -� e w, 2-- i'Uri MCI I "e r iA't ID 0- r C. ;��i 'E-Ef�t P IS thor-Ze n S. D H 11 a i'a; I [o contact me if you have other questions or concerns, I horDe t1iis inform t -ion is helpful. Please -epi -crcee z From: Chris S Sent Tuesday, Oct-aber "41 2017 4:18 -PM 10; Cc: 5F, Subject., Re: OC Needle Exchange Program - Authorization Ending on Feb 11, 2018 �l f . � f �r � '._. _ t 1 i � .. "r 4r �-• < < •--- � � ; f v L f � t � f i � , f f_� �' l� � �. F .�- l ? � , � �.'' �� •:� M. � t .� ,� ..: r ,� 1, 4` r .— �sc _ .� �'�� r R r� r. r w .-- • F r•, ,..--. .� S s [ f �- r Yt --� n r e• v� r .� r^ f"; L �� r ..�•��. tL l' f ! �r` �' �: &� 7 �f r-i�� t t �r°L{ tia.* �. r 4= .h r l 6a[ i •..rs '-can -u '.m Z -1a, ?9 i3cytvhal is e-irLaclLy 'nua- s y� �+a t � - I r rrr r e� r t L +y [�? r1r,1� r"4 s'C he `' a} ` �"T� Y`= �r { y f''�-� .` r erl "r s i �'` rt .t j it r,. tt f'+c .��". L" o � r-1 � - - c -net .. � s�.. �,J k� 4 � � � �► � �.x ! F :-: i. I ! L tf [ +F -n : ` 4 � V '.:L ' � l L� 1 V 1 l iii l t � � ' L� f [ Lir+ - i1 i �..� L [ L lw� w 'f r SPP t I LIQ ScecrLon 7006(b) a }' Calfforma. Codb az ��fians (CCPD T �txe 17, Di 'sion 1, Chapter �, Subcbapier 15 and Health and S afleb Codt S e�,-ctioa 121349(a) rc�quire the departmeilt to constdf with uhcL local health officer and local 1 a w cuiror cement 1e ' ers*' -p ager reeoi w mg a request for rcme�7►r a.1, Kind regards, E. _2 f- r_- J. U. vo n 1. —Ilb 71 u;n, -tar it '5u � .� -+ .—.• E ... .r ,, �-a..t � .�+c .�: r � �.r e� w �.r.y, �j &C -C. Dea—rC-blief Valentin rz-11 Inc Sasha" A-n-if?,X(ticy-IL-O.-for-h"Ood Assomtioa Oso �-�a-ees vvifla the No on the Needle exchanlc-ph proga-m Thank you, I [���.'��}i,x--.a== �� � - - - "����__� ---�4 �cxssr�•w.as.... �� ...: - - �-c-�-��_:�r���� .���.t-�,_�r=--�'._� �- ==-_--max �-�-- -_- - --=--_��-. Eza L =-- - � E !1�1� {"��5 'cyr ' �;' ;1 e r r r0 f 7 8,:%m PIA T'o` EI.;2ni4n; D.Navid su" 'ect, Stop tFie We -a l'Y Dear Santa Aria Police Chief Valentin: For rnore than a year our comrr,unity ha s been d&eply impacted by the abuse and misuse of the Needle, Exchange Pr0gran1 operating under license from the California Dopa tment of Pubiic Health by UC 1 medical stud ents• This is a tailed expenmem that MUST stop immedia-tely. Hundreds D1 thousands of h�ipoderniic syringes have been distributed at no cost every Saturd@xy in front of Santa Ana City Hall uo that people, many homeless, can lnjec-t heroin and other illegal drugs and then oft -en carelessly leave these lying around in our parks, libraries, near schools, En Dur neighborhoods, shopping Centex -s, a,nd along tl re rigor trail, The 0C Needle Ex, chartge Program (1) fails to understand that tie population tl12t they are serving are not only sulastance addicts, but a great Fna,jorit-v o3 then- have serious mental probtelenns (2) 'ails so demonstrate that their program t'ica d�Ureased in KiV r--- _ � � -� ►-+' '"' ,--� � � �•� •-h r� .-t �� -` ; � n � -� � r r r ; � I',- r'+� r � �n rte; .ti r•5 r, ..� � r, . I r r ��a 1-i t L LT r cauntf �n {�� rr� �e n e poi tc� :a z�} up c,,rn rr.� u, sur�, i-/--h-.b��gra ,r����s. �a �� ins;�.ILa 1 rt % r� � � r � � � ..t n � l rt, n � ! s 1 Y r� F � � �-y � �• ter' f � ^ ^ f 4 r-1 1 '' } � j f f i� �+.-.. ��ra1port: s�}L� o! tine l��rc, �-�n oa � �� [lir if f r`r�_c� ��n� n� �,,� ,�� } tl �� 1��� �� r v- ��l.: G r� r'c r Lfi �., pry i�C. �t� : it by C on-r�sicen-s vL•fC Ll- no t�e� �r' �� ,`°�a or ��^f r E } a# C,f ll i-}� p "u � an s ;n �pa'ct irk �r lrari�� f i�ritL�I. This 'C�nSe is SU -1 to eXpir e on Februai v I (, 1-0 `l 8 end �i Jtare his been no u�� iii nLf�liL) aut��eaGl i �r�'i1_h 1-���[ �S to f n�tpG_C�S �t:r the community or the City's a"UeMpts to shut this program do\t�ln. it is tirne that this program s -&-think their 1neth000logy and face the fact that we have a dfferen't f�fpe of populat1'on V\rho may need a different approach to avoid re --using and disposing of syringes. f am hopeful that you Will suppoi L Us is S GL0110 �"Duj- Dlapasltion to thi; �.,t t .� { i R' [Brig E o � I iud � 1-11a -r f o hi '.est �� t ��{ l ii'���, iNa look, foe~trlf2 r� � � �►rLy'..�i^ ;"ez .�^ - ; Q t 1pnoj ` � � �. � f` �- � r G- r r � t � G � �� � �. G ..r. �., � � � � ti �� � V .- .� e r. �. � C �r, _ 7 [-Hp �`i� .�{y Ll fC �.0J -C�i1 �.-c2 I,= �+1'rd• �{; Ivy.?� r• Licensed Mcz ,e and Family. 1 herapist L e- to t. _ ye _ �P_:.��_4.-.r• -rtYr._-'i!-.is tly'.i' �+�n��� � __ _ _ - _ _ - � _ :Jy+- _ _ :.F. r�-_ Seri IL-.- T hursd.=-?�', November ber 9, 2DI 7 -9:52 PM Ta: Vale tin, David - Deedie ex -c tarige Dear Dacrid V ale tL"T , For more than a yeaT our commum'ty has been dceply impacted by the abuse and =' use of the Ncedlc E� change Program opzratina a un&i license from the California Departmeiit of Public Health by TJCI medical s- idents. This s s a famed experiment that ST T stop 1�.� d atel f. I work in oranore County and have a contract with the city of Garden Grove for on call maintenance, of emp tai bets. I havee er eked s first hand 1� c plo ccs. � e o uld g of co 1duct wecd zhatem crit on an ei-pty ! ?� i = h F i RSC Lo w t -vs t u" der o f L.� u CL Tim Ci�. 1-3 1-t ,K�Yr �l�+i U Li' Sr X43.€ Svc . T��' L� � 4 L 'DU,L MyM P} a 3T `____ in larger, Tj;iii i' �.� � s.t "n_s� � t [r1�£"{ Ec v5�rl�Gs h � i G ni`'t 't� 1� no �LJST � e'yy ���1 �G�� �r'1 i i ��ti� L�� Santa Y _ Ana City Hall so that people,, markt' homeless, ca -21 Mj ect heroin aad other lllcaal ��? gs and Ahern of t -n ca_rel cssty leave th cse used steges lying around n oL r parks; l bra-6cs, ricar schools, �J our neighborhoods, shopping cc --titers, and alo n1- rhe neer tral. ;L�,4I,'�; [ t�:f �s�� ;,"�.`F_1Y�,�,_LTL`{ S`«at i �i arF ski +fCi'� :I ff f 5Ji I,1� 1 �` L 4a r ^ f"^ r•'L r rr i.-. - ' r = -. r I ' ... .•-� ' n S. " ' i= ^ r fYti r� ry mss.. , ��r�t.�•�'}r�.� .`4r�{s ��z �i ?i i S rC '� S l sf �_}L.1rt �r i rF� t;' '�V a� L�.: r� � _ Li i�;:J_' !i! �!r T3,11 .r �i✓ �u�_sU'��SiL�n.LC U11'iT yrs 'grw �T I i` h 1 �� d l [ i� �riF f sig }/ ' ' j _: C�4 y� `r -M r t ; ��� , �: rj = s o L� Y � i`i - r 1 S dill dr e�a� PI : Q. o add - to � u��x9 ro o��e is o program, do net 1 Te ►ri Santa _1kna and 9' � ,- the let*�ers of suppo� for the program were sent by non-residents vn'th rio t?es to Santa A aa. or concern about t�?c vrog-rannIs Llpact in our comau-nity. his 1iccrtse s set to pyre -i _ �l�- -` a d thcrc has bee. no cotes �,� ;c�t�f 0U f-ea.ch � iih �.ea j s to MpaGts to the a ar he City s aftempts to shut � ►i s progral- Co , � . it i 5 t? me thhat t� i s pre,gr a �`� r e--; LiL IJ 1liie; fuIrl,jfTir i =` 'ti i_a Lr : t:�iT n ^ LfG'Cir� L'r �l� ;1! L�' ; `! r1i>n_~� 1r►'i'4 1 i!u }� `_iti~�L? ,moi�r_�[ approach to avoid rG-using and disposing of syri bcs, I am hopeful that you iAill support us is stating your opposition to this unwanted program that has caused so -much harm to this co=UrU'ty. We loop fom7ard -o your response and support to eliminate the oC �P f om S an to tea. Sincerely, Sent from my iPhone r a, mr-Le, el 'd aYrrn 54±'y n, r- v T TY E;—::,L. L P LEAS E SOP OP THE f � E rED LE E>/,CHrAvt-,,,[ G E 1 0 P,41, N'GE E C: 0 U OWN, �4- - =1 - - - �-3 �—� � - Lc; L -, - -. t e -m = � I , -1 - , -) r- c ( " — 11 , , _- r7 --r- I s 7101 P. Vaie nt —an f "� DC Exc a Ego Program O fff cer V al eatin, I am a msident of the Santa Ama co k ty- of Parlk Santiago. We ar e o n. e ofew "pretI �er" neicdibor] a13L Santa Via. h �fe seems first hand, the abuse and �isu.se of the �Tee�e Esc �-� ae Program. For more- than a. Year our co=u i�r has been �eepl� inpact�d by ��e abuse aad mis ase oI the Notiat Ex cha. ae ro r� . �'�n ens othousands e c� erg c s�rr es ha re ee s 1 to at o co ewe �-y Saturday in front of Sapp Ana City 11all so th t people, many homeless, cavi :;pct hCrGin and Dther illegal drabs and they. OrL-ezi carelessly tea ire dic&m, used yr noes I na aro- d Mn our PC rs libraries, ncp c� SC-hOOI S, In ar nc c+ � borho o" � s� ��� sa�? �T r o:ff_ � ire )7ear ' � F ��� arx� �u � t �" sit ate` bi:aDC� t�,iTv'pr! v o, trail i $����,ao Pank- b�catse, I� c ---,-ns azr dy v ���i'�� ���� t�5 ��"f � � 5"�C���X IT -U e"a �I. hc,mme ,S3 y le slc,on he PIay eCv�.T-lpmentI I � �' r �./�6C.iLL � � L] � ] �Q { I ��� TLZ� � r1� k`w. . � E i� L� �s �� Lit I Li L...-'. i v' -! L�.ti LL -? C. � n rs ri Z ` -. Y 'T -y f"TT ^rte T y RS z - . .. f_' ^- r Y`k a L�Lsu `� c -re c Gtr V_ �� e � ij , ;�Z `% L' �.+_� L:►- _1! l,a lies (2� f'J d%u proara-� F- ha-ve decru s�, i, ►� I �•��� �� a tds in ,fit c ��` _ ± .� tT.Iare, no C1:c �. � ��� _ re•��r 1s t area rehab pr c g� . To add i Els wi.I t to inj L ys propo-.era's a f the pro � � do not five m S aria Ana and 915% o F ` .t fx F� 1 r ' 1 k � -� s't'? 1 i 1 � rC✓ `�g� 3 � e1 n -r 1 s s 1T'] r � � `i.! 3 (s ti o � ; � ,.� +] I =. or iz � jl a f' �� ��� 7 �, ��e, ,� ! ��,�- ...F- � u-7pp o_ � ��� L � _ —r. L -- __L L+ L _ LJ _�r' i_i 4' rice. -i� 'w t� L �1� ��v'Y. _ Lam• r=O t, s, ti a ..+-_}' CIO 7 , !f f U irl ! ���{� s [ �• L i tib' 'L3 i� }1 '• ,c., ii F I-"� i �•,� - 't' i �' r~� i r:. '�! -{l - i I,' .� ���.e--r_� �4 i'ir~ _!^s --5_ - --'1. - • i U= S��j ��i ''-1'• �! f j 1 rfs. �-�5S i-rf C� �.tI CMc-c"iI1�L_'.�Vi ��+� jt?r4�1 v iiv"Z z,_L �i� 2'�' � �'•��?� i]i i :.i `I+. e f� t�+'�L.. ^{ } +�. �� ►- _�Y =oma t �,� ' .;r,� at ve . e; a _• .__�,r F" =�=�SL'r_G � y �, ,�,� ,�. �G � T '�` L h f- r {�- approach to avoid r e--LYsLIMa and disposTL�a of syr'i.aes ' [i G � � r T 1 t �' W1,111 S F� �" i. }r J' .; s A� j F 4 S. i t �Gtd � r - gray l t ffiat � � � � � 5 r 44 � �"�. � ^-:� 7 i s 4 ! s"1� J"�. r �, i �'""� r'-"` � [� ;�j ^-� � 1j' ���1 ��• � i Lr j1�I�EC I! f Q� S!. it� V;J�� _ ��'. Li L 1 J L+YL�L d>_l�4'S:Zs��+ s� Ir c r-ti1 :s,'l rr i i"P j1 I1C�I�, L4� tL L t�I S �� r --�Yi� -..-r z: 1:� : ��.ifs.�-w'��•L��.�,c°,��'���..r'!����..�wn`� 71� IC•iCLf I erg k4onday, i�` `�'tif� r. a� � e tri Ta:�� ri � � � �i ���l:. fl :; Vale. mi n, `} ,,LA *LJ f ! h.nj arc, S a d Subi Pler-ase End E_),-:clhanige Gaord morning Chief ` C-9.1eriti���, fir. �--��r����r, �r�� �a�������:�t���Yr � �����raI dor rnrore ffian a yca r our comm u-inity has been deepiv imp �c'Leri by t� e cbuse and E iisu(Se o the N( --wile Exch tinge Prog ram operating a under �i,ce-nsa from t le CrIiforn.ia Depaftnie,nt of Pubs iC, H eae th r UCi sedic� s r t � his f a io? e Lp r H t 6z �. l t s� F �, '� dL Y. HIwgdreds of thou -sands of hypodermic syring e� � fai��� been d. Lr IDuted at no cost every `Sa- wday in rnt of Santa AriaCH 1 that r.y rt, cnnt heroin d Gtrl di, � nd t � ll often en cara�essly t�eave these t tsed tz f(r` ���� ���r�� �r ��€ � �� 0. 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VVe iii ti foRrii2 ,' ` o ,}.. j e s��o f s -e' --- nd s�.���� of ' 'o eliii�f naie J 1 'L r s ._ _r "t ;� pi "L; t 'Y eupe ctfu �/, Rea: o�-�:nge C oi�i iL I'�� -t= EXCha ng- PI Cagra#Tc The Orange County Nleeolea Exchanges Prograo'm, hte:r�l,tise known 3Js OCNEP, is seel:€ng approval at the Stdate Department of Public Health to operate a moble unit in Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa have taken an official stance on opposing this, as well as myself personally. Santa Ana denied their permit because the costs outweigh the benefits. This program does not promote any type of recovery from addiction, if fact v�lhen I asl�ed thorn how many people they gave needles to, their response was staff ding. T I�IG�y claim that only 548 referrals were given out of the 12,000 people they gave needles to. That is unacceptable, the answer should be 12,000. They also say they don't maintain data on these refer€ -els. This is incredibly irresponsible (see their response below). In fact, the only 1, cities they dare targeting have 3 main things in common,: homelessness, undocumented people, and later income/poverty. They are not targeting the cities that have sl��rocl�eting o�+�E#-dose C� LI (s. I ��L'ras a L. Lh �f1�� `+ 0 �J�iL�L n�'ri Lh +o� i�.l L' sat nLi L i GC i�►�`�fCr if'►j� LIE LhC Pulry�lc CeTender's orrice. She vklcas e):plu€n#ng TO me 1-towunsa iC OCI'4EP # ��1L- # L fo�� people by Lf�e Civic Center stdat€ r`rg tl�dat used s�j€�€ €��; es v sere giver �v�'I`ic r� u p u r�E L f Sc; n to i--, a stopped then from doing business there. She said the difference is life night wnd day. T o allow oCNIEP to do business is giving Addicts the tools to bill themselves. WIL the rise of Tez etc -1 v'i f t lIS C#~iiy. 0 rn- tL r of Ls[i �e U# i! �`�� �,L L �C-C#1-1Q # 'ICs["tz L'�L:� h s. r �i�:��e 10 ��'�'�: f �r:���e#- i r i _` E Srk r ' i kL� r �� 1 i Sr. f- r r�� r S rVjf-IACLG�~I�i i �cL► Cj�,! �� Yk';�-' Y _ i f �._' { + Krr ivf ��t c"_ e � � :� # 1 c! LJ C� l�l # ' t�E, _ #~c ..: t_ �� G_ 4 l i �. , �. l _ s � 4 ar L. 4 L 4 _ _ F y _ fG i _ Y k t rt r+ + tti 4t � � s-- C ` S • t t r '•ti �i � , Imo• � "1 ^-�. I .Z •'' � � t. } i Ll-le� i��/1FC€^. It�cFre progr�t#Rn� LO l I.=:6p O#��^Ccrr`•t'�4#~ E� t�!r €�ti..v.���1E� C E€E.�.ti E x#�t LI OL ot-Lucilly I Ik=1P PCVPIC. I ! Iere f IC---) FJCC1 i 01 1 f[;c C:A-7C I I Ci i VE Ls UJ Ft Ui 1 Eu LC f �t4L.uv ei H ! Orange County and the 4 cities targe ted, which OCN EP has not contributed to. Allowing oCN EP to do business as a mobile unit would negatively affect these orf torIs. Their own flyer dCscri es excl Uy what they do, �rl�l ���� f is di�tr€bL# t#� fi, ���� ! e�:cl��a€ tgC. F have attaCh�d the T lyCr as 'Weil as a conva�saticn T personally had w`h Cher �-� on social n-)ecfia. Let me be clear, I ani not- against needle exchange as a whole, but OC ---NEP in particular. They have proven to be a detriment to the community. Pulling a Tran up to a residential area to distribute needles is a danger to our recovery communities, families, individuals, and more importantly the children who run the risl: of being exposed to these needles. Please do NOT approve this irresponsible program to go mobile. Thant; you, . Parent and resident Ta vv.ci rPJ lbvv.e wez V111 1=1 la -7-1-i 0 1 T 0 C T Cj L I C; L L11 1�,' L _L LO L 7 L-scu-fat--le -:N_;E?Thaaks for the quesdio-il Ta =ra! We are an aaon3rmous. T'Z r� �g, J'7. -r,—p D r�- Ct 7 jlt �n �n 0 C ac, -td -le, exchange, so TAIL don't maintain data on indi-,,ndual clients' Participation sen�ces outside of exchange. _,Xchanae. r, 4::) - 'n We do) h o vve ver, track the number ofreferrals ',�iTe give out per,�veek; in 2017, more than 648 referrals to outside services (Hicludina, treatment, detox, etc,) were provided to and accepted by exchange clients. Lill R - Pr Rf :T12.1 r a J im e a e z0range.County Needle, Exchange Program - OCNET so you only pro�71ded referrals to Only about 5% of 123000 13in,% - T 0 -7 C �2 h L's or ES1 L%D -1 -7j�; ly 1 b =T- -1 T i ET- -nts t L-1 th f T-, -1 's C 7 A pyov Cf'M r r- I a LC_'U I -I.-- LLL L Vi t_cq.:,:S OT 0 -he DuMD"r of =qur- 12,000 r'-prese--'s '-to f Ptranon. ancl is 1 I. -- and aC1C11',ePU-,d, al It. A-1VO, th�_' in 7tcrac-Lions -\7ve hi ad atthhC-21 1-I'MIC 01 the article's publication, not- iind'� -1 idlual clients, as Vve do aot Li act. rep -aft clients due to our coiD-iijit-mi ent to anoD T J-1 L L.� aL -a - P- '0 1N, L 1-1 7C) C C 2 f-71 C_ _P ID OU 11 L C, Ele, 7-1 Cz,17SO a, C 3 U, m-� I -v UF -t 11-n' -!'-n 74.') ��-urin Or �Invj qr�:t C.Cimi ir!g ±u LII C-. 'J' -11 c -1 -1 Sys' UgtS C_Vta 1! Lhicy have rione to cx,.chian&�,? This Is =FOM YOUT own Byer. 7 Iffh -n vire vvoperating, operw-�'V e ere Ope-1-1 TriT f 7; ij!j Q %!7-1 T F, r -n or q lf --'! 1� Y 0 -1 .1 C We modeled ou-r exchainge based on exp sting h -arm reduction best practiccs, recommendations from the Cali To 17D I a Department ofPublic Heal -di, and existing successful exLcbanges throughout the state. We are happy about your L:� Z:) interest in Our program and would love to ansvver -more questions for you. If you would life to couti_iaue� chis conversation m' person or over the phone, piecase message us! C� F=ror-n: Ralph Guzmar ubjec _ : Support for SB 63 Date: Mar 17, 2019 at 4:15:34 AM I - o: Tamara Jimenez tjiti,ipt,)ez@iig��.tl-iot.iseti-e .t[ iitacoi-n I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Raphael Guzman ANAHEIM CA 92801 r rorn: Judy morgan Subjeci: Needle exchange Date: Mar 16, 2019 at 640:12 PM To: Tamara Jimenez tirneri zcliahti-iOL,I�.�etrea" mei i't.coi--n14 We do not want the needle exchange program in the city of anaheim, we are fighting a high crime rate already, we can't take our familys to our parks we have to put cameras all over our homes, our cars are not safe in our own driveways, packages being delivered to our homes are more often than not stolen. The needle program will only make us more unsafe our children more unsafe our homes more unsafe. We need to be represented as tax payers and we say no to unsafe neighborhoods. Judy Morgan Anaheim Cal. 92805 From- Shane Jones Sr -abject: I support SB 689 Date: Mar 17, 2019 at 6:59:22 AM To. Tamara Jimenez -tji�T et-iezC@Ilg itf-i(,-) is treat eiit.coi-fi To whom it may concern, I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express any support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Shane Jones Anaheim, CA. 92805 Fro ii: Barbara Pfister Subject: Needle Program Lute.- Mar 16, 2919 at 19*52:43 PM To: Tamara Jimenez tj'ii-nc-n :Z(�li [I'Ll IOLlse-tr ea"ciTier)'t.coi� I completely support your stand in regard to needle distribution. I am personally very much against this idea particularly as it has been represented in the past. Making things more difficult for people to get drugs is what is going to help them not to make it simpler and more convenient. Barbara Pfister text -0 (2) (1.) Dear congressman Correa: we really need your immediate attention and help regarding the oc needle exchange. I am extremely close and there is a school GOALS academy extremely close, which puts many children in physical danger of getting infected by a needle or getting infected by a person under the influence and attacking the children, school staff, families or by simply stepping on i t . I currently live here and for the past Z months an increase of people have been walking via the alley behind lemon st under the influence of some kind of drug. They are physically taking of their clothes and also using this alley as an open public restroom. unfortunately my daughters have seen this and it has put us in danger. worst, these people are screaming and come close to you as i f they will hurt us. I have had to run in the house a few occasions and yel-1 at the girls to go inside and lick the doors for their safety. I have found needles in my back yard and on top of this I am finding novo bags of full of, for sure, human fecal matter. This is including the alley. It smells bad now. I did not -if the police but that was unsuccessful. The city is not doing routine checks to c can up, drugs, pills, and needles left behind. No one from the city i s picking up this health risk trash in my back yard. This is a great -discourage. i came back to 11 ve here i n my home town and gi rl s attend a great school , GOALS academy. my girls have benefited from this school and have grown so much but it is not safe for my girls and this is one of the reasons i need to leave again. This has gone to far. The other issue is the liquor store on corner of Lemon and North, I feel they are providing the drugs and the city the needles. Please call me and if I am unable to answer leave a message and I'll call back Thank you for listening and please help get rid of this problem. Belinda Iglesias Page 1 Mail - t}imenez@lighthousetreatment.cam Needle Exchange Program Nancy Holloway Thu 3/7/2019 4:45 PM ic-Tamara Jimenez<tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com >; Re: SB 6$9-Moorlach To- whom it may concern I and a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in nay community. I am writing to express lily Support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange proexan1s. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local mtmicipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside ftuzdincy for tTeatnient programs for addiction, mental health sei- vices, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately licnowin what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, '"There things are located, such as schools and after school programs where childr eel are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putti�la the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The hann to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service Providers and residents to determine hmv i li ey can best cake r1ced.le exchanges NSI orl( �'Nfithin their jurisdiction. Th-cink you, Nancy Holloway Anaheim .7 Ca.,92801 Nancy Holloway Regeneration Property Group Cell Cal BRE#0101 5400 - Virus -tree. w�vvv.avast.com h€tas:tloutlook.office. comlowal?realm=l ighthousetreatment.com&exsvurl=1&11-cc=1033&moduri= 14ath=1maillsearch {1 3/11-/2019 SB 689 Keith Olesen Fri 3/8/2019 9:08 AIS io:Tai-vara Jimenez<tjimenez@liglithousetreatment.com>; Mail - tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com Tamara --please accept this email in support of SB 689 and include it in your efforts to support this important bill. Thanks Keith Olesen 3/8/2019 ! am a 33 -year resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in nay community. As proposed this program would have had disastrous effects on my neighborhood and my community. Programs like these, as well intentioned as they may be, have an extremely harmful and long- lasting negative impact when implemented without local input and control. l am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. f believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. it will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The state Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with service providers and residents to determine hove they can Joest make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Please accept this email as my statement of support for SB 689 Thank you, Keith Olesen Anaheim, CA 92805 https:lloutlook.office.com/owa/?realm=1ighthou setreatment.com&exsvurl=I &1l-cc=1033&modurl=1 &path= lmaillsearch 1/1 3/11/2019 SB 6S9 Itorgerson Fri 3/8/2019 10:41 AM iaTamara Jimenez<tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.coi-n>; Hi Tamara, Mail - tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com First of all, thank you for your efforts in opposing needle exchange in Anaheim! I, too, am a resident of the city of Anaheim, and have been for over 40 years. As you know, a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established here in Anaheim. l am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. l believe this is vital to the efficacy of such prograi-ns. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, it is not worth putting the public safety of children at risk. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. 1 am opposed to any needle exchange program in Anaheim, and applaud John Moorlach's efforts to bring this issue back under !ocal control. Thank you, Dinah Torgerson https:lloutlook.otfrce.com/owa/?realm=lighthousetreatment.com&exswurl=1 &11-cc=1033&modurl=I &path=/maH/search 1l1 3/11/2019 SB 689-Moorlach Judith Olesen Fri 3J812019 3:34 PM Tc.Tamara Jimenez<tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com>; Mail - tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am NNTriting to exTress my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately lcnoiN ing what each indiNidual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the ser -Nice to the feiu. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration i�rith their service proiriders and residents to determine how they can best mal.:e needle exchanges work ivithin their jurisdiction. Thank you, Judith Olesen Anaheim CA 92805 httosJloutlook.office. comlowal? real m=l iahtho usetreatment.com&exsvurl=1 &11-cc=1933&modurl-1 &path=lmaillsearch 111 3/11/2019 SB 689 Marsha Cook r n 3/8/21019 3:14 PINI io,Tamara Jimenez<tjimenez@fighthousetreatment.Com; Mail - tjimenez@lighthousetreatment.com r:- a r 'Y rC pfC ^' r �}rti i ^ii 1 ' -rr i C C G ire. n_,: -Irr,i n:rl-, ice, �-esl�el� � , ti l i�.. Ci ' '.�f .4na�ceIl }. �.� �4 r•�itk}� n ^ e._,,a exch;,nge i-� � r�..,�-! ��,��is cr�e� .� le � _.. ��4 �t:� � :I , ���:ll ,: , I �-+� r 5 i I Il C ' .ii �! i U 6` J I{ n r'} C C L1 1 i 14 I"i :, { p Y j- GCe n-ly 4iII�l�V! 1 3 L-1 r �t�l. 11 �i i rl�� ij�l,i' C:.�� I�C !C '�i ! 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The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing, putting them at risk. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their local service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow lova 1 municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. Thank you, M. Cover, Anaheim 92801 https:lloutlook.office.cornIowa/?real m=[ighthousetreatm ent.com&exsvurl=l &ll--cc�'i 033&modurl=1 &path=/mail/search 1/1 Paul and Gisela Contreras Santa Ana, CA 92 7o S March 11, 2019 RE: Needle Exchange Programs in Orange County Cities and/or Santa Ana To whom it may concern, My name is Gisela Contreras and l am a 40 year resident of the city of Santa Ana. I am writing this letter to pray and strongly urge you to approve SB689 which will give our cities local control over the hazardous and lethal needle exchange programs. As a life-long resident of Santa Ana and a parent of three children, i am against the needle exchange program because of the hazardous needles that are left in our parks and public spaces. The individuals using the needles have no concern over our safety and it's not fair that the organizations passing out the needles are not responsible for picking up the hazardous waste left behind by the users. Since my childhood growing up in Santa Ana I have always been exposed to dirty needles at parks and now that 1 am a mother the problem has gotten worse due to the needle exchange programs passing out hundreds/thousands of needles in our cities. I Our children and us residents are left with the trash and the potential of being pricked by dirty needles and possibility to contract a deadly disease such as hepatitis, HIV or other blood born illnesses. We deserve a safe, clean and healthy space to enjoy. It has been a mess for years and finally Santa Ana did not provide a permit for the needle exchange programs to continue operations and the hazardous trash has improved. I worry if the exchange programs are allowed to continue the hazardous situation will be again a problem to deal with in our city. Our cities should have the right to allow and permit these programs and they should not be forced on us by the state. Please consider approving 5B689 for the safety of our children, which are our future and for a safe, healthy environment for all residents. Why should drug users have more rights than the tax paying residents who are contributing to society working hard each day to live a healthy life. We are hostage and not allowed to visit our city parks and public spaces due to fear of exposure to disgusting dirty needles. It's a horrible way to live. Thank you for listening. 74 6wz*a" March 21, 2019 Re: SB 689-Moorlach To: Whom it may concern: I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap-around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Judy Villegas Bob Johnson SB 689 Moorlach D �, e en Mar 21, 2019 at 4"58:10 PM fo: Tamara Jimenez Whom it may concern I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express my support for SB 889 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Bob Johnson Anaheim, CA 92808 v�: Bill and Christie Runion t,' b,ec-L Re: SB 689-Moorlach i~�� . e: Mar 21, 2019 at 5:1 ':05 PM y�� Tarnara Jimenez i1,.��c��_Kc:-7 ���� 9�-��_ �����u--cac�:re �� �������t- c -Ai To: Whom it may concern I am a resident of the city of Anaheim. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established in my community. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, Bill & Christie Runion Anaheim, CA 92806 3/11/2019 SB 689 Lugo, Milfy Mon 3/11/2019 2:54 PM ToJamara Jimenez<tjimenez@kighthousetreatment.com>; Re: SB 689 3/8/2019 Mail -- tjimenez@liglithousetreatment.com I ant a librarian at the Santa Ana Public Library in Santa Ana, CA. From 2016 to 2018 a Needle Exchange Program operated weekly in the Civic Center Plaza where the library is located. Recently a needle exchange program was scheduled to be established again in Santa Alia (where I work) and in Orange (where I live) . I have witnessed that, as proposed, this program had disastrous effects at the library and on the cormiru pity. Programs life these, as well intentioned as they may be, have an extremely harnZful and long-lasting negative impact when implemented without local input and control. I am writing to express my support for SB 689 which sinaply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. I believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continutu-n of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside funding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention., education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately Imowing what each individual municipality deeds, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to some, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. The harn-1 to the many far outweighs the service to the few. Local municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Please accept this email as my statement of support for SB 689 Thank you, Milly C. Lugo -Rios Sr. Librarian Santa Ana Public Library Tel: 714-647-5271 E-mail: ��a Qo��� sa or-2<rnarlto:�hnl L �,�f�f�r:santa-art . � -��> �. _ https://outlook.offce.com/owa/?realm=lighthousetreatment.com&exsvurl=I&ll--cc=1033&modurl=l&path=/mail/inbox 111 lbarra, Teresa Re: SB 689 Mar 14, 2019 at 9:26:57 AM Tamara Jimenez Re: SB 6-89 I am ag emplovee (it the Santy Aity Pitblic Library mid a residetit Of Sarty Ana. From 2016 to 2018 a Needle Exchati e roeram operated weekIv in the c'dl1ic en ter Plar� the nyhei-e library is loeated. Reegithy a needle exchaggg nroaram was scheduled to be established aeain ire Santa Ana where I work and ffile. I have ivitnessed that, cis proposed, this Program had disastrous ef fecls on n7 neighborhood cmd iny coinmunih� Programs like these, as well intentioned cis they may be, have an extreme1v hariyful and lois{(,r-la,--Yting- negative impact when implemented without local h7j)w and control. I am writing to expi-ess m ' y support.for SB 689 1'Vhich simpb7 cerins to give local control Qf needle exchange pl"o,07-aMs. I believe this is viral to the of ,ficacy oj'such programs. This bill will allow local municij?a1ities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum cif care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside.funding.lbr treatment programsfor addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and mani; other resources that are so clesperateh'! needed. The State Department curretilly controllinor needle exchaicqes sloes not have the benell't Q intimalely knowhW ivhat each individual Inunicipaliti) needs, whai the dem(�orra where .11 phics are, thingare located, such as schools and cif er school programs ivhere children are playinal Although neeclle exchange may be an asset to soine, putting the public safety ol'children at risk is not beneficial. The harm to the inanyftir ouhveighs the set -vice to thefiew. Local municipalities should he able to work in collaboration with service providers and residews to determine how they can best make needle exchanges ivork within their- jrarisdict Please accept this email cis ii-zy staleinenl qfsupportfoi-SB 689 Thankyou, Terri lbarra I Bibliographic Technician Santa Ana, CA 92703 -4k _9111k -.4, _44'. _44� April 25, 2018 Via electronic mail Newport -Mesa 10 Mr. Tam Hatch, city Manager City of costa Mesa 77 Fair Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626 tom . ha tch(Dat costa mesa ca . AoV BOARD OF EDUCATION Dana Black e Walt Davenport d Martha Fluor Judy Franco • Cha•rlene Metoyer Vicki Snett o Karen Yetsey Re: concern about Mobile Needle Exchange Program in Costa Mesa Dear Mr. Hatch, I first want to thank you for the great partnership that our school district has with the City of Costa Mesa, which is why I am comfortable and confident in bringing this safety concern to your attention. Through an Orange County Register news star-�� on April 25, our district became aware about the orange County Needle Exchange Program applying to the California Department of Public Health to run a mobile needle exchange in Costa Mesa. Accordi na to the news article the mobile needle exchange will be located near Monrovia Avenue and 18t' Street, and be open from 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Newport -Mesa Unified School District has an elementary school located just north of this area, on 18th Street and Whittier Avenue. We have extremely high concerns about the proximity of this operation near any of our schools, and especially during school hours. The news article states that "if the state approves the Orange County Needle Exchange Program's mobile service proposal, organizers would still have to get local permits and follow city business and zoning rules..." We strongly urge the city of costa Mesa to deny any permits that place the safety of our students' at risk. Should you have any questions, please contact me at 714-944-1253 or vsnell@nrnusd. us Sincerely, ! r T Vicki Snell President, NMUSD Board of Education cc: California Dept. of Public Health 1 SEPA hcation0cd h.ca. ov - Public Comments Submission Regarding orange County Needle Exchange Placement in costa Mesa Mr. Tony Dodero, Public Information Officer, city of Costa Mesa 2985 Bear Street op Costo Meso a Cali fornio 92626 * (714) 424-5040 GOALS ACADEMY T -6th Grade, Free, Public Charter School - 412 W. Carl Karcher way, Anaheim, CA 9289' (714) 563-2390 - A School Families Love! December 3, 2018 Dear Congressman Correa; I am the Founding Director of COALS Academy, a small, nonprofit charter school in the midst of Central Anaheim. We serve 240 scholars in Grades TK through 01". Our school is just north of La Palma Park, which has a long history as a gathering place for homeless people. While i have a heart for those who are struggling on the streets, I have observed that many of the homeless people in our area are addicted to drugs and/or emotionally unstable. They are definitely service resistant. And, as a school, we are besieged by the refuse that comes from those who are living on the streets, including urination and defecation, condoms, used needles, and other unsavory items. This is in addition to the erratic behaviors, thefts, and observable drug use of the homeless people who surround our school on all sides. Those who are homeless advocates seem to have false compassion. Whereas some believe that the homeless should have the choice to be homeless, I feel we are permitting them to commit a slow form of suicide. This is not how human beings should permit other human beings to exist. The latest form of false compassion involves a poorly conceived needle exchange program. I attended a meeting conducted by the orange county Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) at the Downtown Anaheim Community Center on Thursday, August 23, 2013. The attendance was strong, and the message was clear. There is a strong sentiment from the local citizens that this program is not the right model. It is beyond a "not in my backyard" mentality. This model does not belong in anyone's backyard or front yard. Exchanging 0 or 1 used needle for 20 new needles is a recipe for disaster. And, as you know, up to 200 needles may be given to an individual at one time. Regardless of what the vision or philosophy is, that means there will be more used needles in the areas around the school. And, we have already had one incident where a kindergartner picked up a used needle on the playground that was tossed over the fence. It has been my observation that those who are addicted to drugs do not necessarily place their used needles into the appropriate receptacles. There was also no clearly defined plan to ensure that the areas surrounding the OCNEP would be provided with additional support to keep the areas clean of debris. On the contrary, the program is more likely to draw even more homeless people addicted to drugs into the area, thus compounding the current abhorrent conditions. The cycle of the degradation of a degraded area will continue. The mobile OCNEP is slated to be located just west of our school, GOALS Academy. There is also the GOALS Program serving a large number of youths in after-school programming, My Day Counts (a program for developmentally challenged adults), and two other elementary schools in the vicinity. The conditions at La Palma Park will worsen, making an impoverished area in Anaheim even poorer. I am sure people are sharing similar observations about the designated areas in Santa Ana, orange, and Costa Mesa. Bottom line, there has to be a better program than providing the tools of self-destruction to an already beleaguered group of homeless people. Why not establish a model of wrap-around services with the exchange of needles? And, why provide a mobile program such as this that causes the children and families in a challenged area to face even more challenges? If you would like to meet with parents from GOALS Academy, I am sure they will be willing to express their viewpoints to you. The general message will be "enough is enough." We need your advocacy, Congressman Correa, to ensure Central Anaheim and La Palma Park are on the road to improvement rather than annihilation. But, from an unselfish perspective, a poorly conceived program should not be supported in any location. Sincerely, Debra J. Schroeder, Ed . D . Founding Director March 13, 2019 RE: SB 689-MOORLACH To: whom it may concern The intention of this letter is to inform you of our support for SB 689-Moorlach. It is vital to our communities that the control over needle exchange be at the local level. Only the cities and residents have intimate knowledge of the needs of their communities. The state has made it clear that they are not knowledgeable with Orange County communities as it has approved a mobile needle exchange to operate within the vicinity of elementary schools and during the hours children are walking home. Each municipality has law enforcement, homeless outreach workers, social workers, etc. that they deploy everyday to combat the daily issues in the communities. SB 689 aims to give local control over needle exchange programs, not to drive them out, but to better collaborate with providers in areas of prevention and education. This will allow the local municipalities to divert funding into resources needed surrounding needle exchanges. It will allow the needle exchanges to operate as safely as possible and in the most appropriate location. At a time in our country when over 70,000 people are dying per year due to drug overdoses and when the #1 cause of death in people under 50 is the same, this is something that should not be taken lightly. we have to remember that all the studies done on needle exchange were PRE - FENTANYL days. As a treatment center who has been around for a couple decades, we support this bill. we are losing close to 200 people a day to the opioid crisis. The answer is recovery resources. Complete abstinence is needed to live a productive life. The term "harm reduction" is widely misused. You cannot just use a little heroin here and there. Addiction is a CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE, and FATAL disease. The only way to arrest it is with complete abstinence. we understand the purpose of needle exchange is supposed to be to decrease the spread of disease. But when you don't have local control over these programs they can become a disaster and a serious threat to public health. Please support this bill so that the local municipalities can work directly to fund education, prevention, and resources in conjunction with the most safe and efficient way to operate the needle exchanges. Sincerely, 7aot� PW&My, Tamara Jimenez Community Relations Manager 1320 W Pearl Street Anaheim, CA. 92801 Phone: Fax: (714) 844-2068 ec.OUely Collaboration Re : SB 6 s 9 -Mo orlach To: whom it may concern The orange County Recovery Collaboration focuses on providing prevention, education, resources and services ill regards to addiction. we are writing to express our support for SB 689 which simply aims to give local control of needle exchange programs. we believe this is vital to the efficacy of such programs. This bill will allow local municipalities to build wrap around services and an entire continuum of care in conjunction with the needle exchanges. It will allow the municipalities to set aside Banding for treatment programs for addiction, mental health services, disease prevention, education and many other resources that are so desperately needed. The State Department currently controlling needle exchanges does not have the benefit of intimately knowing what each individual municipality needs, what the demographics are, where things are located, such as schools and after school programs where children are playing. Although needle exchange may be an asset to an area, putting the public safety of children at risk is not beneficial. Focal municipalities should be able to work in collaboration with their service providers and residents to determine how they can best make needle exchanges work within their jurisdiction. Thank you, The Members of the orange County Recovery Collaboration �v' v\v.oraii oum ? eco\'ervcoIIaborat*o �.co 11 -erc Inc. tMeEt,incastoneAddicuon CenL " 0 -:-RE - 13 10 v West Peary Street r.nah eim, CA g 2807 Phone: 714-780-1174 Fax: 714-780-1124 June 24) 2018 Re: orange County Needle Exchange Program(oCN-EP) As a long standing treatment center we agree completely �A7ith what the City of rt'l c i has stated,Cparapb-rased) "The orange County Ncedle Exchange prograim (0(-'--NTEP) is proposing a rnobil� p ogram �haG �,JH � our.L1ti i���E7 ..I p dM i zerent cltles �V-i thi orange C` o ul� ty throughout- the ���� eels to proiT c access to needles and the disposal o f uses sy=cages to aLl ress aubhc heattl h coineenn-ss nlcludlng infec - ous diseases. oCI�'P was distributing over 207000 used syringes per week, and most rPce I -ly lost theme pc1-1-nit in the Cid' o' San to Ana due to mic i pao-sof used syrAhrigcs dr-& iub- rc rope ty, iv i fa Lc o L ��� L s 1 � ��s L F�t�Fk` discarded throucyhouL Lhie ci���� ��-� yL�C��1.�0°�`� Lo �� l;��LencIco_ co nseq�pe��'ccs ncl ldi-g debfis Ln the library- The Cltv of Sant -a Aoc a. T d the ProgEparn dhd NOT reduce the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypo dente c needle drug use, rather, it appeared to increase the problem, In addition to increasing h)Tpo de='c n eedle. was. -Le. We have never received a r eferra.1, nor has any other ire- eui- ent f aclllt~y we have Se o ~= c� � 1���iLf�� �o U �t 10+ t1�Lu car Lr eafmi - L O ;�L! LsL'�. iC: a UuSt. !1��o1u hnpo Lantly to note, the locations proposed by oCIN � P are too close to treatment centers and sober livings that are promoting abstinence and recovery. We believe by allowing them to go mobile, it will put these patients and sober living residents at a much higher risk, We have p artner ed with the City of An.ah.eU*n through Drug Free Anaheim which provides resources for chug addiction and recognizes the importance of responsible drug rehabilitation. Drug Free Anaheim offers an alternative to criminal prosecution to those suffering from substance abuse and who demonstrate the desire to change their lives by connecting them with appropriate treatment options. W dstone Addiction Centers opposes the proposal for the orange County Needle Exchange Program to operate M the r� 1-7 on f -I 7 1, ty 0 e' MI, 0 r al]L nf L -L N -L L) t -r -r n nd I"osfa as fbi- d�st--fflb- LID 'C a n concerns and 'att�-Cact-s c al btha- vior at city ecdk,�s --ra- s P I C' oF t d 'L-rou I uit the Ciy. S c�ally the artas s-arrou-rad me s ano- i M-1 ov parks ic- 1"'C-; %Z C 1: 1 L LZ Q. - re provicicld are au-\ ac--edc- b�� = C P use i ncrc�.ase�d en"me., the d'scamla F.11 �g of both used and umused symmgcs acid r% /� overall degradation in quality of Iiie for residents, visit -ors and businesses. Closing we CN Clabsolutely oppose OEP's application to go mobile. Please -L L:�� note, we are not opposed to needle exchange as a whole, but JL--f)iS part? cular proaram has been L'rresponsible, M'effective and has caused more harm to thhe c , o --,- P—m u-nity- than cyood. C) Thank you, M - A storedd'di on Centers June 245 2018 Re: Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) As a long standing treatment center we agree completely with what the City of Anaheim has stated, (paraphrased) "The Orange County Needle Exchange Program (OCNEP) is proposing a mobile program that will operate in four different cities within orange County throughout the week to provide access to needles and the disposal of used syringes to address public health concerns, including infectious diseases. OCNEP was distributing over 20,000 used syringes per weer, and most recently lost their permit in the City of Santa Ana due to the impacts of used syringes on public property, with tens of thousands of needles that were discarded throughout the city, in addition to unintended consequences, including debris in the library. The City of Santa Ana found the Program did NOT reduce the transmission of blood borne diseases associated with hypodermic needle drug use, rather, it appeared to increase the problem, in addition to increasing hypodermic needle waste. We have never received a referral, nor has any other treatment facility vire have spoken with, from OCNEP for detox or treatment for substance abuse. More importantly to note, the locations proposed by OCNEP are too close to treatment centers and sober livings that are promoting abstinence and recovery. We believe by allowing them to go mobile, it will put these patients and sober living residents at a much higher risk. We have partnered with the City of Anaheim through Drug Free Anaheim which provides resources for drug addiction and recognizes the importance of responsible drug rehabilitation. Drug Free Anaheim offers an alternative to criminal prosecution to those suffering f om substance abuse and who demonstrate the desire to change their lives by connecting them with appropriate treatment options. Anaheim Lighthouse opposes the proposal for the Orange County Needle Exchange Program to operate in the City of Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa as the distribution of needles raises public health concerns and attracts criminal behavior at city parrs, facilities and throughout the City. Specifically, the areas surrounding the locations where syringes are provided are adversely impacted by increased drug use, increased crime, the discarding of both used and unused syringes and overall degradation in quality of life for residents, visitors and businesses. In closing, we absolutely oppose OCNEP's application to go mobile. Please note, we are not opposed to needle exchange as a whole, but this particular program which has been irresponsible, ineffective, and has caused more harm to the community than good. If you have any questions or concerns you may contact me directly at Thank You, 7a,waow, P�wcoq Community relations Manager 1320 W Peart Street e .Anaheim, CA 92801 Re: Orange County Needle Exchange Program To: WI-iom it may concern The Orange County Recovery Collaboration focuses on providing prevention, education, resources and services in regards to addiction. The Orange County Needle Exchange Proerram L_ A (oCN-EP) has made absolutely no attempt 10 j0111 US on any level. We cannot afford as a community- to have this program go mobile. The areas proposed are, in some cases, right in the heart of residential areas and extremely close to city parks. To go mobile in those locations puts the con-u-nunity at great public health risk. We are writing to express our opposition to OCNEP beicy given a permit to go mobile in the cities of Anaheim, Orange, Costa Mesa, and Santa Ana. OCN-EP has no data to support that they have contributed to any of the clafl'iis they make. What they have admitted to is that they do not keep data, do not keep track of repeat clients, and distribute up to 200 needles per week, per person, and do not have to have any needles to exchange. Mind you they were only open for a few hours I day per week. The city of Santa Ana rejected their most recent permit but offered criteria under which they could operate. OCN-EP refused to meet the criteria, and instead has L come to you at the State level to circumvent local municipaii ties. Their presence in the cities and sites proposed will only further act to put the public in danger of �n the results of their iryesponsibility. Let us make something clear, we are not against needle exchanges all together -it is this particular program which has proven to cause more risks and harm than help. We have spoken with most of the substance abuse providers in Orange County and have not come across any so far that received any referrals or patients from OCN­EP. We ask you to oppose their permit to go mobile. Thank you, The Members of the Orange County Recovery Collaboration F C 0 a L) o- at i-" n, c o i II "t -to S 0 F qIq Colli IC _0 -,v -c _ 1 1 1ra t i 01D. Y 0DF e S S. C 0il- From: To: Subject: Date: Benita Gagne From Benita Gagne - I do not want a Syringe Exchange Program in Anaheim Monday, July 13, 2020 6:20:51 PM As we have noticed with our homeless population, build a shelter and they will come. The same is highly likely to occur if we provide free public services to addicts. Also, I am a diabetic, currently obtaining my 3-4 syringes a day through my health insurance. Would I, and every other diabetic be allowed to exchange used syringes? Also, we are already in a budget crunch, with no end in sight. This will cost us no matter who pays for the program. Please vote against such an exchange program. Benita Gagne 30+ year resident From: Bob Johnson To: Public Comment Subject: Item 22 - To Ban Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:58:33 PM I urge our Councilpersons and Mayor to please pass an ordinance to ban any future Needle Exchange Program within our city. Bob Johnson From: KATHY CHANCE To: Public Comment; Loretta Day Subject: Item 22: 7/14/2020 Syringe Exchange Program in the city of Anaheim Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:10:54 PM Item 22: 7/14/2020 Anaheim City Council agenda PLEASE ENTER INTO THE RECORD: I am in FAVOR of PROHIBITING ANY type of a needle exchange program from operating in the city of Anaheim. I am AGAINST ANY type of program to regulate syringe -exchange in the city of Anaheim. Kathy Chance From: Janet Patter To: Public comment Subject: Prohibit Needle Exchange Programs! Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 7:04:28 PM Dear Mayor Sidhu and Anaheim City Council Members, Please consider prohibiting any needle exchange program from operating in the city of Anaheim! We have enough problems as it is. I do not want city resources spent on promoting illegal d rug use. Respectf u I ly, Janet Potte r Anaheim, CA 92804 From: Pat D To: Public Comment Cc: Denise Barnes; Jose Moreno Subject: Comments for July 14 meeting Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:18:01 PM To members of the City Council It is infuriating and probably illegal to not be given access to the meeting room with our voices or even have our words shared. The Governor's Executive Orders related to the Brown Act were not meant to cutoff public participation. You could set public access up so easily with the technology at hand. But that would also mean you would need to be visible/accessible to those of us watching/ attending. You continue to make decisions through the most narrow lens that comes from the current majority of this conservative Council. That will change! Unfortunately you are further damaging our City while we wait to vote most of you out! These are my comments for the following items: Agenda Item 20 While obligated by law to make this change in the Anaheim Municipal Code to reflect recent improvements to the State Density Bonus Law, I do hope you will apply it to truly facilitate the development of low and very low affordable housing development. In years past while members of the Council have been aware of need for low and very low income housing little has been done to do so. Our city does not take the RHNA numbers seriously. We do not need more moderate housing while doing nothing for the most needed categories. If ever going to reach our housing goals, every current and future building project approved in Anaheim must include these truly affordable units NOT a buyout that amounts to no units. A mere drop in the profit margin. Building units elsewhere is not acceptable. Your giveaways continue to harm our community. Item 22 - Needle Exchange — Science supports the need for a harm reduction program. Anaheim has reacted from a place of fear and judgement. Alliances have been odd to watch. It concerns me to see some objections come from those benefiting from no program. Build a program that works. Gives all safety and serves the community need which is primarily in those housed -not those on the street as you often play that narrative. Item 23 — COVID response Anaheim is once again behind and as a result people are dying or suffering resulting lifelong chronic health problems. The Coronavirus is out of control throughout Orange County with Anaheim in the lead, thanks to your ill-informed and dangerous lack of leadership. Watching the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning and seeing the Mayor take credit for doing anything right was nauseating. He did not move the testing set up forward in any timely way. Using the word "quicker" several times did not make that true. The mayor continues to use "my" to describe various departments and services. You do not have ownership though the way you have set up the decision making structure and agendizing items to show how you are trying to "own" our city. And you opened Downtown Disney and failed to enact a mask requirement. None of this is to protect the most vulnerable. Obvious pandering to your donors and minions. We finally see you in masks as the Governor graciously calls you out on the need to "comply" for the funds to continue to flow. County funds as well. Had you adopted a more science based approach to masks, distancing and closures, we would not be the standout community in this deadly pandemic. Not supporting Dr Moreno's proposals adds to your failure. People are sick, many with resulting long term health concerns, while more are dying. Whatever you do now will be key to the toll our citizens continue to experience. Surely you have people who tell you the truth in your role. If not — shame on you. If you do - please listen. Your life may depend on it — but wait you can get access to tests and top drawer healthcare. The rest of our city residents — NOT so lucky. Testing needs to be as available to all as we know asymptomatic folx do pass it on. Will be listening tonite for more examples of your narrow thinking by the majority members. Pat Davis District I Pat Davis Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos. From: William Camargo To: Public Comment Subject: Items: 3,4,12,13, 22 Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:58:52 PM To all City Council your on these times, we are watching you we will take these protest to your front yard, and that's when you will call the cops to come and save you because you will be scared of Black and brown people and call us criminals. Item 3,4: Again during a pandemic putting more money into APD the killer cops and pigs, while ignoring the communities of color you serve, we will vote you down in the upcoming election. If t'a'll give so much money to the cops and still can't get this meeting on zoom with public comment, because we know you are not reading our emails, because they are hurting your feelings while our people keep dying. Item 12, 22: Give better programs to houseless folks, and by limiting and excluding syringe programs in Anaheim is outright inhumane, ya'11 don't have shit to worry about when you are in your fancy -ass houses. While again our people bare the burden of the policies all of you push through city council. Item 13: This definitely shows what side you are, you haven't digitized the city records and we demand you make them public, including all the documents on police abuses the dumb APD has committed, again we will come to your houses and demand you to listen! Ya'll think this is a game? Mayor Siduh you incompetence is a slap in the face to everyone in this city and every single puppet you have with you in the council, especially the racist ass Trevor O'neill we see you and we will not forget everything you have done! You owe it to the families that have suffered through the abuses of APD!! Ya'11 can fuck off! !!! William Camargo Claudio Visual Artist/Educator/organizer/Arts Advocate Commissioner of Heritage and Culture, Anaheim Teaching Artist, ARMORY Center for the Arts Claremont Graduate University, MFA 120 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute '20 Sonneman Photography Prize, CGU Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery(upcorning), Los Angeles Origins & Displacements, (postponed), East Gallery, CGU Time & Space, (postponed 2021), C al State Fullerton From: Noah Juliano To: Public Comment Subject: Absolute No on Items 3, 4 and 13 Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:59:07 PM Dear Anaheim City Councilmembers, First and foremost, thank you for taking the time to actively listen to your community and to critically observe what our true needs are during this unprecedented time of uncertainty. Please do NOT spend $177,185 on public safety vehicle equipment advancement for the police in Item 3, or $59,276.25 on increasing police surveillance in Item 4 in order to further the continual fear reminiscent of Jeremy Bentham's barbaric 18th -century panopticon. That is tax payer money and should not be used to fund their own oppression. Instead of giving $175,155,129 dollars to the Anaheim Police Department, you need to re -allocate those funds to grassroots organizations and non -profits that know, love and truly weave this community together. I approve of the $360,000 allocation to Better Way Anaheim in Item 12. This is where you should be putting our tax paying dollars. I absolutely abhor the passage of Item 13. The destruction of City records older than two years old just for the sake of clerical efficiency is absolutely shameful. In -Custody Deaths, Officer Involved Shootings, Disciplinary Files, Complaints, Major Incident Response Team reports, and APD Internal Affairs Investigations older than two years should NOT be destroyed. Those are crucial figures and we need to hold the police officers liable to their violations of human and civil rights committed against US citizens and immigrants seeking refuge. Abolish ICE as well please and thank you. They are deplorable and you all know it. Anaheim and Santa Ana are the most densely populated cities and most severely affected by covid 19 in Orange County. Instead of giving millions of more dollars to the police department, you should reallocate your tax payer dolllars towards health care, education, distributing free masks, funding mental health care service providers and victim/survivor advocates, implementing non - armed officer disppachment for non-violent 911 calls, buying anti -racist books to place into our K-8 classes to plant positive seeds early on, aiding food banks and soup kitchens, getting nurses and social workers in schools and after school day care centers funded, buying foreclosed motels or condos in Anaheim to convert into housing for the homeless, or literally anything other than more rubber bullets, batons, riot shields and TEAR GAS used against tax paying Anaheim citizens during a global RESPIRATORY pandemic. Please reconsider fighting violence with more violence. Police reform is proven to not work and the prison industrial complex is rotten at its core. The officer who killed Rayshard brooks had just completed de-escalation training of April 24, 2020 and deadly force training on January 9, 2020 and still brutally killed Rayshard. Body cams are very expensive and only document their killings. Qualified immunity needs to end for real reform and you all know it. If defending the police departments is not enough, then remove yourself out of your own compartmentalized viewpoint and zoom out. What you should really be doing is reaching out to your OC buddies then to your LA colleagues to call Newsom, and urge the Pentagon to defund and reallocate their $740+ billion dollar military budget to help our citizens on the homeland. If the police pepper spray children and shove old men to the ground while the entire world is watching, what do you think our military does to impoverished POC communities abroad when no one is watching? We should be investing our tax -payer dollars to peace, education, health care and new clean energy job creation on the home front rather than more missiles, tanks, guns, bombers, nukes, and submarines abroad. There were 33 APD arrest -related deaths in 2003-2016. Your police officers killed 33 people in 13 years. That is absolutely way too many deaths at the hands of the ones sworn in to protect us. It's a blue shirt and badge, not a blue life. Brown bodies don't get to take their melanated skin off to safely drive home to their family after their shift is over. Who polices the police? They must be held accountable for their actions. Racist officers and "the good apples" alike have been encouraged to fetishize a "firearm" as an extension of their own bodies for far too long. Vincent Valenzuela, Christopher Eisinger and so many more did not deserve to have their lives taken. What happened to "innocent until proven guilty?" How have you normalized an instantaneous death penalty sentenced by the police with no repercussion? We should not live in a world where trained professionals with a gun on their hip get to panic and react on impulse while innocent civilians must remain calm and collected with a rifle pointed in their face. A high school degree and a few weeks of training is an abysmal requirement for such an array of important responsibilities that the police are woefully ill-equipped to handle. Norway, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Japan and so many other countries have EXTENSIVE training and requirements for their officers, and their low In -Custody Deaths prove their efficiency. However, you cannot add anything to a full, White Nationalist Supremacist glass of water. Follow Los Angeles and San Fransisco City Council's and push to replace armed police officers with non -armed responders for non-violent 911 calls. We need nurses, social workers and psychiatrists in schools, not armed cops arresting our teenagers through the school prison pipeline. Please zoom out and see the big picture. Black Brown Latinx Trans Disabled Queer Incarcerated Immigrant Impoverished Lives Matter. All Black and Brown Lives Matter. Choose love and defund the police. Please vote Yes on Item 12. Hard No on Items 3, 4 and 13. Thank you for your time today. Love and Light, Noah Juliano From: Brianna Meli To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Ste®hen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor o"Neil Subject: Book Recommendation Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:13:56 AM Dello council members, After tuning in to the last city council meeting, I wanted to recommend that you read the book white Fragility: why Itis So Hard for white People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAn. In your last meeting, I witnessed the overwhelming amount of white fragility, white silence, and white solidarity that took place in your discussion of voting to pass the city's resolution in response to Black Lives Matter (BLM). You failed to propose a meaningful response to the BLM movement, and instead, openly refused to acknowledge or reconcile with our city's fundamental and current history of racism and white supremacy. The mayor and council members' dialog on passing a city acknowledgment of BLM proved to be very disappointing. I recall one council member actually playing the "I'm Italian" and I have experienced prejudice card. Personally, 1 am a child of Sicilian immigrants (who also endured lots of prejudice), so it was infuriating to hear this kind of comment. The book that I recommend you all read specifically details why this kind of comment is problematic when talking about race. I interpret that this elected official is simply uneducated on how to talk about race, or that they used their comment as an excuse for their inability to hold themselves accountable (as they motioned to strike down proposed edits to the resolution that would move the city towards acknowledgment and reconciliation). This kind of comment also took the focus away from the Black residents and communities who really need your help and support. This wasn't a moment to make the situation about all of YOU and your own struggles with race. I thought the resolution was to respond to US, who have been in the streets and in your emails demanding that you all DO BETTER. There are more council member comments and actions that I can also refer to from the last meeting as moments of extreme disappointment, but you all know what you have said. Every council member (except the one who brought up the proposed edits to this resolution) displayed and participated in white fragility, white silence, and white solidarity. This proves that you do not have to be "white" to uphold racism and white supremacy. You do not need to be "white" to continue to educate yourself on anti - racism. we must all do this work. Your resolution to acknowledge Black Lives Matter does not contain any actionable items that our city can be held accountable to. You have chosen to uphold, rather than challenge, white supremacy in the City of Anaheim. The resolution that you passed is performative and disingenuous. our city will benefit from having elected officials who are able to have substantial conversations about race without becoming defensive and/or silent. At this moment in time, your inability to have mature and meaningful conversations on race is not benefitting your constituents. At the very least, please read the book mentioned above. Educate yourselves; I am demanding that you do better. Respectfully, Brianna Meli District 2 Resident (who also works in Anaheim) From: Phillip Wolfgramm To: Public Comment; City Clerk Subject: Policing in Anaheim Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 10:20:43 AM Gear City Council Members, My name is Phillip Wolfgramm. We have lived in West Anaheim for over 2 decades. We have raised, and continue to raise our children here. I am also a member of the Anaheim Police Review Board. With all of the voices demanding to "de -fund" the police, I raise my voice against this demand. As a voting citizen of the city, the number one service that the city can provide me and my family is our safety - this is why you should be in office, and where you should spend our tax dollars. Your next priority is to provide the city infrastructure (school facilities, electricity, water, roads, trash pickup) that best allows us to continue to live, and to raise our children in this city. These two priorities are timeless and foundational for city government. While I recognize the need to re-evaluate the city's policing policies, training, and goals, I ask you to resist the urge to enact ordinances and policies in response to agitators' short-sighted, unsafe, anti-american, and chimeric demands. From: Stephanie Wade To: Public Comment Subject: Public Comments for Tonight"s Council Meeting Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:17:31 PM Good Evening Mayor Siduh, Council Members, City Manager Garcia and Chief Cisneros, My name is Stephanie Wade, I live in Councilmember Moreno's 3rd District. Two weeks ago, I submitted comments in support of and was very gratified that the Resolution Against Racial Injustice and Declaration that Black Lives Matter passed at the city's last council meeting. I know that there were many, including me, who wanted the resolution to go further in addressing the city's own history of systemic racism. and the implicit bias in local government, a history that still permeates much of our city government including in policing. But I wanted to thank all seven members of the council including Council Member O'Neil who ultimately obtained, for their good faith efforts. While we all hope for less acrimony and more reconciliation as we continue to address these issues, I am proud to be from Anaheim and glad that the city's leadership is committed to these "difficult conversations." And it is in that vein that I would like to introduce myself to the city as a candidate for the city's Police Review Board. I have had a long standing civic interest in policing and submitted my application to the City Clerk on May 5th of this year. I realize that the "at large" seat on the board will be filled by lottery among applicants judged to be qualified for the position. But I wanted to say that as a former Marine infantry officer, longtime public school PE and social studies teacher in underserved, majority -minority schools, as a current staffer with the U.S. House of Representatives, as a transgender woman and most of all, as a proud, civically minded resident of the city, I hope I will be found to be qualified and lucky enough to win the lotteried appoinment. Like you, I want to serve this city by being an honest, fair and civil participant in one of the most sensitive areas of our government. Thank you and good evening. Stephanie M. Wade I She, Her, Hers "Progress is Not Future: It is Keeping Up with the Present -Patti Smith & Richard Hell, Poem #2, 1978 From: vanessa denny To: Public Comment Subject: Rape in Anaheim Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:23:56 PM Dear Anaheim City Council Members I would like to address you regarding my concerns about Sexual Assault Victims. On Mother's Day weekend my mother contacted Anaheim Police Department to request an officer to come to our home at Rockwood Apartments unit#221 to report me being raped by a neighbor by the name of Marcos Martinez. The officer who took my statement was inexperienced and asked me questions that were not relevant such as " were you sexually active prior to being sexually assaulted?" I'm a minor and at 14 years old I need my mother by my side however they would not let her. Detective Jason Carney was assigned to my sexual assault case. This detective did not make me feel safe nor showed me the slightest compassion, instead he revictimized me and used words such as "pussy" and "fucking" when referring to my private parts and the sexual abuse. I felt so afraid and ashamed in results of his inappropriate behavior. He then continued to pressure me to say the my rape was consensual. Anaheim Police did not arrest the perpetrator even though he was on drugs, probation and was on house arrest previously for probation violation. The District Attorney Geraldine did not file charges either. Both the DA and Anaheim PD we're blaming each other as to why this person wasn't incarcerated. Now my mother Elisabeth Rios is facing child abuse and neglect charges for protecting me. How could this happen? How is the perpetrator that raped me free and my mother has to appear before a judge in the OC Superior Court. To make matter even worse Anaheim House Authority has refused to honor the Choice Voucher they guaranteed my family would receive so we can relocate. My mother submitted a VAWA application to AHA along with a Reasonable Accommodation for my mental health disability and the physical, emotional and mental trauma I've experienced. Anaheim Housing Authority denied it! Victims of sexual assault deserve to be treated with dignity. Victims of sexual assault deserve to have their Mental Health disability be a priority. Victims of sexual assault deserve an Emergency Transfer Relocation to a safe place as far away from the perpetrator as possible. Please Anaheim City Council Members don't fail too at proving justice to me. #j usticeforvane s s adenny PS I am Protesting outside of City Hall peacefully. Sent from my iPhone From: Maria CeLa To: Public Comment Subject: Rockwood Apartments and the assault of 14 year old Vanessa Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 11:29:29 AM To the Mayor and City Council, I find it incomprehensible that you are doing nothing to assist the family of Vanessa and her mother Elisabeth Rios after the horror they've been through and continue to face. Vanessa was raped by her neighbor and the Anaheim Police Department victim blamed a CHILD and made derogatory comments of her body. They sought help for the city to hold the police accountable for their irresponsible approach to this situation which you have ignored and turned away from this family who is close to being unhoused. Why are they close to being unhoused? Because they no longer want to be the neighbor of the man who raped Vanessa. I ask that you find the appropriate and suitable home for this family or assist them with a hotel room until they find a safe place to live. I demand that you hold the police accountable for what they did to Vanessa and acknowledge how they further traumatized her. I ask that you respect the family's wants for what they deem is justice for them and what they've been through. Listen to the family and respect their wishes, they've been through enough! Do your job! Thank you, Maria CeJa From: Roussan Collins To: Public Comment Subject: SB 1152 Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:28:09 AM A homeless man recently died after being released from an Anaheim hospital with no apparent follow up to make sure he was put into shelter or some form of housing as required by SB 1 152. What will you be doing to make sure these hospitals are being kept accountable? spoke with Federal Judge David carter and he also is very concerned and is planning to get involved in this issue as I explain in this video. https:Ilyoutu . be/r4KOobsZchc From: Lorraine Salas To: Public Comment Subject: sexual assault in Anaheim Date: Tuesday, July 14, 202010:59:17 AM Please read the following public comment during time that is set aside for the public to be heard: I am writing in regards to a very alarming and disturbing incident that occurred a few weeks ago in the city of Anaheim. A few of my friends shared a statement that was written on a gofandme page that outlined specific details showing institutionalized victim blaming by the police and willful neglect by the Anaheim Housing Authority. Some of us get to sit back in the comfort of our own homes during this COVID pandemic crisis and there are methodical plans in place to ensure everyone's safety while out in public. Protocols and safety measures in businesses and institutions are being implemented. But what about victims of abuse and rape? Are they also not afforded the same safety and security when they go to the police to report and press charges? Is it typical protocol to have a victim of rape be placed on a 48 hour notice especially during this pandemic, when the chances are significantly higher to transmit COVID while sharing a living space? Is it typical protocol for the Anaheim Housing Authority to deny a victim's request to be relocated away from their assailant? The safety and security of rape victims is not ensured in the city of Anaheim at this moment in time and I hope each and every one of you take the time to understand that any neglect on your part with regards to Vanessa's case will have detrimental effects to the safety of the residents living in Anaheim. Every single council member, including the police chief, need to read and listen to Vanessa and her mother and the horrifying situation they have had to experience caused by agencies that are meant to keep them safe. Take the necessary steps to fix this problem immediately by relocating the victim and her family. I am also requesting that the police chief overview policies with police staff, officers, and detectives on how NOT to treat victims of rape, sexual assault, and harassment. Please look up the terms victim blaming and victim shaming and go from there. You are hurting the residents of Anaheim by not taking this seriously. Jennifer L. Half Item # Distributed to majority o qty Council within �72 howr+� of `1 t'� �� M 14 gting. . mpp� From: Loretta Day Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:27 PM To: Theresa Bass; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Lucille Kring; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Trevor O'Neil Cc: Jennifer L. Hall; Amanda Edinger; Annie Mezzacappa; Cynthia Ward; Daniel Fierro; Helen Myers; Justin Clover; Karen Romero Estrada; Maria Gonzalez; Marisol Ramirez; Nam Bartash; Samantha Saenz; Sarah Bartczak Subject: FW: Cannabis From: Reed Mattson Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 9:15 AM To: Council <council@anaheim.net> Subject: Cannabis We, Reed Mattson and Jeanine Mattson, would like to express our concern over this cannabis bill (5503) knowing that it would bring more problems into the city of Anaheim. We cannot see any good coming from this bill. We are strongly opposed to this bill and we would ask you, as a City Council, to vote it down. Thank you for listening to our concerns. Reed Mattson Jeanine Mattson Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Item # ,_ A�S , Distributed to majority of City Council within Jennifer L. Hall 72hours of'� ( ?rte From: Theresa Bass Sent: Tuesday, J u ly 14, 2020 2:11 PM To: Jennifer L. Hall Subject: FW: Proposed Destruction of Records of the Anaheim Police Department Attachments: C_Letter to City Of Anaheim on Behalf of Theresa Smith.pdf; FW: Request for records related to the 12/11/09, shooting of Cesar Ray Cruz; A_SB 1421 PRA (Anaheim PD).docx.pdf; B_Anaheim PD - response 01.31.2019.pdf; 7.14.20 -Letter to City of Anaheim -SB 1421 Records Destruction.pdf Importance: High From: Jennifer Rojas EJRojas@aclusocal.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 11:02 AM To: Kristin Pelletier <KPelletier@anaheim.net>; Theresa Bass ETBass@anaheim.net>; City Manager <Citym a na ge r@a na he i m. nets Cc: Harry Sidhu (Mayor) <HSidhu@anaheim.net>; Stephen Faessel <SFaessel@anaheim.net>; Denise Barnes <DBarnes@anaheim.net>; Jordan Brandman <JBrandman@anaheim.net>; Jose Moreno <JMoreno @anaheim.net>; Lucille Kring <LKring@anaheim.net>; Trevor O'Neil <TONeil @anaheim.net>; Melanie P. Ochoa < M Pochoa @ acl usoca l.o rg> Subject: Proposed Destruction of Records of the Anaheim Police Department Importance: High Ms. Pelletier, Ms. Bass, and Mr. Garcia: Attached please find correspondence from the ACLU of southern California regarding tonight's City Council meeting. Thank you, Jennifer Rojas, Policy Advocate and Organizer Pronouns: She/Her(s) ACLU of Southern California, Orange County Office (714)450-3965 aclusocal.org I I facebook I I twitter I I 11 app ACLU SoCal: STAND FOR JUSTICE >> Download our mobile app at rnobile'usticeca.orr: THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT OR THE EMPLOYEE OR AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING THE MESSAGE TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. lift i. -L C, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION Southern California July 14, 2020 Kristin A. Pelletier, City Attorney Theresa Bass, City Clerk Greg Garcia, Interim City Manager City of Anaheim 200 S Anaheim Boulevard Anaheim, CA 92805 Via email to k . elletier &anaheim.net; tbass &anaheim.net; Cit, Mana_ er &anaheim.net Re: Proposed Destruction of Records of the Anaheim Police Department Ms. Pelletier, Ms. Bass, and Mr. Garcia: On behalf of the ACLU of Southern California ("ACLU SoCal"), I write to express strong concerns about the proposed destruction of records currently in the possession of the Anaheim Police Department ("Department") and to urge you to withdraw any City Council item authorizing the destruction of police records related to use of force, that are responsive to ACLU SoCal's request for records made on January 1, 2019 and July 1, 2020. Such an item would authorize a blatant violation of the Public Records Act that would require ACLU SoC al to seek immediate court intervention to protect its rights, and would violate guidance given by the Attorney General. The July 14, 2020 City Council agenda includes an item, at the behest of the Office of the City Clerk, seeping the City Council's permission to destroy Department records from 2009 — 4130/2015 relating to Internal Affairs Investigations, Disciplinary Files, Complaints, In -Custody Deaths, Major Incident, Response Team (MIRT), and Officer Involved Shootings. We have legal and policy concerns regarding the proposed destruction of these records, including that their destruction would violate the California Public Records Act ("CPRA") Gov't Code Sec. 6250, et seq. we strongly request that the City rescind this agenda item. If the item authorizing destruction of these records proceeds on the agenda, ACLU SoCal may be required to file suit against the City to prevent any authorizing action by the City Council from taking effect. First, as you know, the California Legislature adopted S.B. 1421 (Skinner 2018), "The Right to Know Act," which mandates that government agencies disclose records relating to uses of deadly force, sexual assault, and acts of dishonesty with respect to the reporting, investigating, or prosecution of a crime in response to a request made pursuant to the CPRA. See Penal Code Sec. 832.7(b)(1)(A)-(C). This law eliminated an agency's ability to claim a basis for withholding documents in response to a CPRA request if those documents were deemed part of an officer's EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Hector 0.11 i I l agra CHAIR Shari Leinwand VICE CHAIR Sherry Frumkin CHAIRS EMERITI Danny Goldberg Allan K. Jonas* Burt Lancaster* Irving Lichtenstein, MD* Jarl Mohn Laurie Ostrow* Stanley K. Sheinbaum* Stephen Rohde *deceased 1313 USI Eighth Street, Suite 200 Los Angeles CA 90017 T 213.977.9500 F 213.977.5297 ACLUSOCAL.GRG Page 2 personnel file. The law went into effect January 1, 2019 and pertains to all records in an agency's possession at the time that it has an active CPRA request. ACLU SoCal filed a request on January 1, 2019 with the Department for certain documents made accessible under S.B. 1421, including, but not limited to: I • Any use of force resulting in death from January 1, 1999 to the present e Any use of force resulting in great bodily injury from January 1, 2009 to the present 0 Any sustained act of dishonesty relating to the reporting, investigation or prosecution of a crime from January 1, 1999 to the present • Any sustained act of sexual assault involving a member of the public from January 1, 2009 to the present Furthermore, ACLU SoCal re -filed a request on July 1, 2020 with the Department for records related to the December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz on behalf of Theresa Smith and the California Justice Teams Network. The records the Department seeks permission to destroy unquestionably include documents that are responsive to ACLU SoCal's requests.3 The Department cannot receive a public records request and then decide to destroy responsive documents rather than turn them over. Such destruction of those records would blatantly violate the CPRA's requirement that, in response to a request for public records, the Department produce all "disclosable public records in the possession of the agency." Gov't Code See., 6253(c); see also Penal Code 832.7(b)(1) (requiring that the specified records "maintained by any state or local agency ... shall be made available ... pursuant to the [CPRA]"). The CPRA further prohibits agencies from taking action to "delay or obstruct the inspection or copying of public records," Gov't Code Sec. 6253(d), and destruction of records in an agency's possession that are responsive to a requestor's CPRA request undeniably violates the CPRA. See, e.g., Community Youth Athletic Center v. National City, 220 Cal.App.4th 1385 ("CYAC'). The destruction of these records would also violate the instructions given by the California Attorney General. On January 3, 2019, the California Attorney General issued instructions to "All California Law Enforcement Agencies" to preserve such records: In order to ensure compliance with California law, the California Attorney General's Office is instructing you to preserve all records that may be subject to disclosure beginning January 1, 2019, pursuant to recent amendments to Penal Code Section 832.7 as a result of Senate Bill 1421 .... 1 A copy of ACLU SoCal's request is appended to this letter as Attachment A. The Department's response, received 1/31/2019 is appended as Attachment B. 2 A copy of ACLU SoCal's request is appended to this letter as Attachment C. The City's response, received 7/2/2024 acknowledging our request and stating "the City will respond" is appended as Attachment D. 3 This proposed destruction may also be in violation of the rights of other requestors under the CPRA if the Department has received other CPRA requests seeking information held within the files for which destruction is sought. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Page 3 You should preserve all applicable files currently stored in paper files either onsite or in a remote location. You should also preserve any and all electronically stored information, including databases, electronic data files, hard drives, on- and offline storage drives, backups, logs, archives, personal computers and portable devices, and other removable and non -removable media, and electronic mail and attachments to electronic mail, pertaining to both records and preservation of records, including but not limited to electronic mail regarding potential destruction of covered information. Information Bulletin No. 2019-DLE-01, California Department of Justice, Jan. 3, 2019 available at htt. s:11oa ca. ovlsiteslalll.,,ileslaawebl �dis� rtrblzcatiozzsl l 9-dle- 1 i-esei�e-i-ecs. 1,. . If the item remains on the City Council's agenda, ACLU SoCal will be forced to defend its rights under CPRA immediately by seeking a temporary restraining order to enjoin the Department from destroying the records as proposed. As you know, an agency may be held liable for attorneys' fees incurred to enforce a requestor's rights under the CPRA. Gov't Code Sec. 6259(4). Additionally, apart from violating rights specifically granted under CPRA and the instructions of the California Department of Justice, the City should be troubled by this attempt to destroy records regarding serious incidents of misconduct and deadly uses of force amid great public concern over the issue of police violence after the Minneapolis Police Department killed George Floyd. In particular, the request to destroy several years of records pertaining to officer -involved shootings and in -custody deaths indicates that purging these records is not a part of any regularly -scheduled destruction of records the Department now deems "obsolete." As California enters a new era of increased transparency around peace officer records -one resoundingly endorsed by the public we hope that Anaheim embraces this new opportunity and does not attempt to further impede it. If you have any further questions, you may reach us by email at nlelanie aclusocal.on2 and ro i as. & aelusocal . orQ, Regards, Melanie Ochoa Staff Attorney Jennifer Rojas Policy Advocate and Organizer AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA alni I. California January 1, 2019 Anaheim Police Department 425 S Harbor Blvd Anaheim, CA 92805 Re: Request for Public Records on Police Use of Force Investigations, Sustained Findings of Police Dishonesty and Sexual Assault To Whom It May Concern: I Write to respectfully request records related to the investigation and discipline of peace officers employed by the Anaheim Police Department (the "Department) under the California Public Records Act, Gov't Code §§ 6250 et seq., California Penal Code §§832.7-832.8, and Art. I, § 3(b) of the California Constitution, as set forth below. Last fall, the California legislature passed, and Governor Brown enacted, SB 1421 (Skinner), Which amends California Penal Code section 832.7 to provide the public a right of access to records related to investigations into investigations and discipline of peace officers for shootings and serious uses of force, as Well as sustained findings of dishonesty related to the investigation, reporting, and prosecution of a crime or police misconduct. We now respectfully request the records newly available under SB 1421. We make this request as the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, as requester, on behalf of the ACLU of California (including the ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of Southern California, and ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties) as well as a Wide array of civil rights, government transparency, and criminal defense groups, including the Youth Justice Coalition, Justice Teams Network, Anti Police - Terror Project, California Faculty Association, PolicyLink, STOP Coalition, California Public Defender Association, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. We have coordinated this request, and Will share all records obtained, With this group of organizations, and further commit to making those records available to the public by posting on the Internet and other means, to help facilitate access to the records you produce. I. Requests for Records We understand that this change in the law may result in a significant number of responsive documents, and that you may have received a number of requests for similar documents from other requestors. We have endeavored to tailor our request to a limited selection of the most important documents and most relevant timeframe for incidents. As set forth below, for purposes Requests 1 through 7, we do not seek all records relating to the underlying incident, but only a limited set of "Decisional Documents" relating to the Page 2 administrative investigation of the incident. For purposes of these requests, "Decisional Documents" means all documents1 reflecting or setting forth; • The Department's decision, prior to any administrative appeal, that an officer's conduct did (or did not) violate the law or agency policy, and any reasons for that decision; • The final investigative report (prior to any administrative appeal) of the Department, or any division of the Department, or any document setting out factual findings of, or recommended factual findings for, the person or body charged with deciding whether the officer's conduct was within policy and/or warranted discipline or other corrective action; • The punishment imposed or corrective action taken as the result of an administrative investigation, including letters of intent to impose discipline or other documents reflecting discipline imposed, changes in rank or assignment, training required, or changes to or examinations of Department policy, training or practice; • A decision on appeal from the Department's factual finding, or the discipline or corrective action imposed, including review by a superior or arbitration, including any statement of reasoning by an appeal body and any revised discipline or corrective action imposed, or any documents reflecting modifications of discipline due to the Shelly or grievance process, • Any agreement to resolve an administrative investigation, including any agreement (or lack of agreement) as to the facts of what happened in the incident, or discipline or corrective action to be imposed; • The final investigative report, factual findings, legal conclusions, or recommendations on discipline, policy, procedures or training, by the district attorney, independent civilian oversight body, or outside law enforcement agency brought on to conduct an investigation into an incident; • The final imposition of discipline or implementation of corrective action. For purposes of this request, records include, but are not limited to all investigative reports; photographic, audio, and video evidence; transcripts or recordings of interviews; autopsy reports; all materials compiled and presented for review to the district attorney or to any person or body charged with determining whether to file criminal charges against an officer in connection with an incident, or whether the officer's action was consistent with law and agency policy for purposes of discipline or administrative action, or what discipline to impose or corrective action to take; documents setting forth findings or recommended findings; and copies of disciplinary records relating to the incident, including any letters of intent to impose discipline, any documents reflecting modifications of discipline due to the Skelly or grievance process, and letters indicating final imposition of discipline or other documentation reflecting implementation of corrective action. Cal. Penal Code §532.7(b)(2). 1 The term "records" as used in this request is defined as "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics." Cal. Govt. Code § 6252, subsection (e). "Writing" is defined as "any handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored." Cal. Govt. Code § 6252 (g). AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CALIFORNIA Page 3 For purposes of these requests, "Decisional Documents" does not include underlying evidence, expert reports, witness statements, audio or video, unless incorporated by or included in the documents described above. We also recognize that at some departments, older records may be stored in different recordkeeping systems that may require more time an effort to retrieve. If this is the case with your agency, we are happy to discuss particular obstacles or concerns and a process for retrieving records as efficiently as possible. Records Request No. �: All DLCISIONAL DOCUMENTS rclatcd to the administrati rc investigation of any use of force by a peace officer employed by the Department2 that resulted in death, from January 1, 1999 to the present. See Penal Code § 832.7(b)(1)(A)(ii). Records Request No. 2: All DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS relating to any incident in which a peace officer employed by the Department was found to have committed an act of dishonesty directly relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime, or directly relating to the reporting of, or investigation of misconduct by, another peace officer or custodial officer, including, but not limited to, any sustained finding of perjury, false statements, filing false reports, destruction, falsifying, or concealing of evidence, at any time from Jan. 1. 1999, to the present. See Penal Code § 832.7(b)(1)(C). Such incidents may also include receipt or solicitation of bribes, loans, favors, or gifts in relation to an investigation; misappropriation of property in an investigation, obstructing an investigation, or influencing a witness. Records Request No. 3: For any officer about whom a sustained finding of dishonesty is disclosed in response to Records Request No. 2, above, all DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS relating to any sustained finding of dishonesty relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or misconduct by another peace officer, regardless of date. Records Request No. 4: All DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS related to any administrative investigation into the discharge of a firearm at a person by a peace officer employed by the Department, which did not result in death, from January 1, 2014 to the present. See Penal Code § 832.7(b)(1)(A)(i)• Records Request No. 5: All DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS related to any administrative investigation into a use of force by a peace officer employed by the Department against a person that resulted great bodily injury, from January 1, 2009 to the present. See Penal Code § 832.7(b)(1)(A)(ii). Records Request No. 6: For any officer who used force resulting in death at any time since January 1, 1999, all DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS related to any administrative investigation into the discharge of a firearm at a person by that officer that did not result in death, or a use of I A peace officer is "employed by the Department" for purposes of these requests if that officer has been employed by the Department at any time. The modifying phrase "employed by the Department" does not limit the requests only to officers currently employed by the Department, nor does it exclude documents within the position of the Department that concern the incidents that occurred while the peace officer was employed by another agency. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CALIFORNIA Page 4 force by that officer against a person that resulted great bodily injury but not death, regardless of date. Records Request No. 7: All DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS relating to any incident in which a sustained finding was made by any law enforcement agency or oversight agency that a peace officer or custodial officer employed by the Department engaged in sexual assault involving a member of the public, from January 1, 2009 to the present. See Penal Code § 832.7(b)(1 )(B). For purposes of this request, "sexual assault" refers to the commission or attempted initiation of a sexual act with a member of the public by means of force, threat coercion, extortion, offer of leniency or other official favor, or under the color of authority, including unwanted or gratuitous sexual contact such as touching or groping. See id. § 832.7(b)(1 )(B)(ii). Records Request No. g: For any officer about whom a sustained finding of sexual assault is disclosed in response to Records Request No. 7, above, all DECISIONAL DOCUMENTS relating to any sustained finding of sexual assault, regardless of date. II. Request for Preservation, or in the Alternative, Request for Documents While we have asked for a limited selection of documents that are newly available pursuant to S.B. 1421, review of those documents will very likely reveal some incidents in which requestors or other members of the public would like additional detail, such as records of investigation, audio, video, expert reports and other documents excluded from the present request. we therefore request that you provide assurances that you will preserve all such documents, at least for a reasonable time after complying with the present set of document requests, to allow targeted requests for additional information on specific cases. III. Prioritization of Requests We understand that this change in the law may result in a significant number of responsive documents, and that you may have received a number of requests for similar documents from other requestors. To help make sure your response serves the public interest in disclosure of these important records as efficiently as possible, we ask that you prioritize in the following order: First, please prioritize requests from other requestors who are family members of those killed by police seeking information on how their loved ones died. we recognize that the change in law in many instances may allow these family members access to this information for the first time, and for the first time provide answers about their losses, and urge you prioritize these disclosures. Second, for our requests, prioritize in the order of requests, 1 through 8. Third, if for any reason some categories of documents responsive to a request are more readily disclosable and others more difficult for example, if older records are in archival storage or stored in a different and harder -to -use systema or documents responsive to one request are not as easily categorized for disclosure and would require more time -intensive searching than another please contact us to discuss the obstacles to prompt disclosure so that we can work out a AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CALIFORNIA Page 5 timeline, process, or refined selection criteria for documents that are more difficult to find or produce. Please respond to this request in ten days, either by providing the requested information or providing a written response setting forth the specific legal authority on which you rely in failing to disclose each requested record, or by specifying a date in the near future to respond to the request. See Cal. Gov't Code § 6255. Pursuant to section 6253, please disclose all reasonably segregable non-exempt information from any portions of records you claim are exempt from disclosure. If any records requested above are available in electronic format, please provide them in an electronic format, as provided in Govt. Code § 6253.9. To assist with the prompt release of responsive material, we ask that you make records available to us as you locate them, rather than waiting until all responsive records have been collected and copied. If you would like to discuss these requests, please feel free to call Hermelinda Calderon or Casey K.asher at (213) 977-5265. Otherwise, please send any correspondence or documents in electronic format via email to prareguestkaclusocal.org, or correspondence or documents on CD-ROM or USB drive to: SB 1421 Records ATTN: Casey Kasher ACLU of Southern California 1313 W. 8th Street Los Angeles, CA 90017 Because this request is made on behalf of a number of nonprofit public interest organizations, with the intent to make this material easily accessible to the public as promptly as possible, we request that you waive any fees. North Cty. Parents Assn v. Dept of Ed., 23 Cal. App. 4th 144, 148 (1994); Cal. Gov. Code §6253(e). However, should you be unable to do so, ACLU SoCal will reimburse your agency for the "direct costs" of copying these records plus postage. If you anticipate these costs to exceed $50.00, please notify us prior to making the copies. Thank you in advance for providing the records we have requested. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding this letter. Best, Peter Bibring Director of Police Practices ACLU of Southern California AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CALIFORNIA 3D8 S. Anaklm Blvd., Suite W Anaheim, COMOMIa 928D5 ra (71 4) 785-5189 W (71 "4) 785-5123 Mwmanahelm.nel City of Anaheim OFFICE OF. THE CITY ATTORNEY January 31, 2019 Mr. Peter Eibring ACLU of Southorn California 1313 w. Eighth Street, Ste. Zoo Los Angeles, CA 90017 Re: Public Records Act Request (Gov. Code § 6250, et seq.) Request No. 01072019,I.PD Dear Mr. Sibring: The City of Anaheim ("City") is in receipt of your recent Public Records dict request. Therein you seek "'decisional documents"s which are "newly available under E 1421."' Specifically, you have requested the following; 1. "Decisional documents related to the administrative investigation of any use of force by a peace officer employed by the Department that resulted in death fimm January 1, 1999 to the present;" . "Decisional documents relating to MY incident in which a peace officer employed by the Department was found to have committed an act of dishonesty directly relating too the rePOrting, investigation or prosecution of a crime or directly relating to the reporting of or investigation of misconduct by another. peace officer or custodial officer including, but not limited to, any sustained Ending Of pedury, false statements, filing false reports, destruction, falsifying or concealing of evidence at any time from Jan. 1, 1999 to the pre�ent�" 3. "Tor any officer about whom a sustained f ndir of dishonesty is disclosed in response to...No. 2 above, all decisional documents relafng to any sustained findingof dishonesty relating to the repardng, investigation or prosecution of a gime or misconduct by another peace officer regardless of date;" 4. "Decisional documents related to 8ny administrative investigation into the discharge of a firearm at a person by a peace officer employed by the Department, which did not result in death, from January 1, 2014 to the present;" S. 'Tecisional documents related to any ' 'stm iive investigation .into a use of force by a peace officer employed by the Department against a person that resulted [in] great bodily injury from January 1, 2009 to the present;" 6. `For any officer who used force resulting fn death at any time since January 1, 1999, all decisiondl documents related to any administrative investigation into the discharge of a firearm at a person by that officer that did not result in death or a use of force by that officer a person that resulted in great bodily injury but not death, regardless of date;" 7. "Decisional documents relating to any incident in which a sustained fine was made by any law enforcement agency or oversight agency that a peace officer or Mr. Deter Bibring January 31, 2019 Page 2 custodial officer employed by the Department engaged in sexual, assault involving a member of the public from January 1, 2009 to the present;" and 8. `For any officer whom a sustained finding of sexual assault is disclosed in response to ... No. 7 above, all decisional documents relating to any sustained finding of sexual assault regardless of date." While it is net entirely char, your request appears to seep audio and video files. Such records require multiple layers of review and "extraction" to protect information exempt from disclosure pursuant to the Public records Act and prepare for production the otherwise disclosable recording. The City is allowed to recover costs for its expenditures to produce the recordings, including the cost of extracting exempt material from the recordings with the aid of software. See National Lai% vers Guild v. Citi,r, of Havward, 27 Cal.App.51'937, 952; Government Code section 6253.9(b)(2). Should you wish to receive the audio/video files, the City will require a deposit to proceed with the ex action and production of the relevant files. In this instance, the City has estimated that it will require approximately 1612 hours to prepare audio/video files at the cost of $80/hour. Please provide a deposit in the amount of $128,960.00 if you are interested in obtaining these records. Please also note that this amount is an estimate only. if actual extwfion costs are less that the estimate, the City will refund the appropriate portion of your deposit. If actual extraction costs exceed the estim e, the City will request a supplemental payment before the requested records are released. Please cote that the records containing the information you seek may be withheld at this time, redacted and/or have information extracted from there pursuant to the following exemptions to the Public Records Act: 9 Tae records contain personal contact inf -- on (Gov. Code, §§ 6254(#)(2) and 6255(a); Penal Code § 832.7(b)(5)(A)(B)) 9 /Medical regards are exempt from disclosure pursuant to government Code § 6254), which incorporates the prohibitions the disclosure of such information contained in the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act [Civil Code § 56 et sell.] and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HEPAA); i Financial information is oonfidentaid (Gov. Code §§ 6254(n), 7470, 7471 and 7473); i Juvenile information is confidential (wI Code § § 827 and 828); • The records consist of notes and/or drafts (Gov't. Code §§ 6254(a)); e The records may be subject to the public interest exemption provided by Gov. Code §6255 • The identity of person(s) who furnish infornxation coneeming violations of law to law enforc=ent personnel is exempt from disclosure. Roviaro v. United States. 352 U.S. 53 at p. 61 (1957); Chao v, Westside ; .all. Inc,. 254 F.R D. 6515 655-56 (2009); and Certain records are related to ongoing investigations by the Grange County District Attorney's office and/or pending cdminal prosecution and therefore are exempt from disclosure at this time pursuant to Penal Code § 832.7(b)(7)(A)(i). Fly, your request .specifically seeks records under SB 1421, but exceeds the scope of what is discoverable under that legislation. The City will comply with SB 1421 and wide personnel records that have been designated as public records under SB 1421. In addition, Mr. Fuer Bibring January 3 1, 2019 Page 3 numerous police associations have challenged the application of SB 1421 to incidents occurring prior to its effective date of January 1, 2019, and multiple orders have been issued by the courts preventing the disclosure of such record's pending a hearing on the matter, The City anticipates these challenges to be resolved in the near fixture and prior to the production of the records that you seek. Without waiving, and subject to, the foregoing exemptions, the City is compiling and re a large set of responsive records, which will be made available to you for fitspecdon,, payment and production. Please contact me to make the appropriate arrangements. If such an=gements are not made within 20 days from the date of the letter, you may be required to submit a new request. please note that due to the volu.iniaaus nature of your request and other similar requests received concurrently with yours, the City continues to diligently identify, compile and redact responsive records. As further records become available, you will be promptly notified so that you can obtain additional materials. Should you have any questions, please contact the undersigned. Sineerely, Robert Fabela, City rney 4 By. _ T . A. Pelletier Senior Assistant City Attorney cc: Lt AHmi RomM6 API} 191176 Nicole van TrahL APD California. MCI, I September 13, 2019 Kristin A. Pelletier Office of the City Attorney 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., Suitc 356 Anaheim, CA 92805 Tia U.S. Mail RE: Request for Public records on Police Use of Forcc Investigations, Sustained Findings of Police Dishonesty and Sexual Assault To whom It May Concern: Thank you for your letter dated January 17, 2019 which indicated that your agency was reviewing our request under the California public Records Act ("CPRA") for records relating to police use of farce investigations, sustained findings of police dishonesty and sexual assault. Although seven months elapsed since your letter, we have not yet received any disclosures or subsequent communications from your office. As you know, an agency has 10 days to respond to a CPRA request by "promptly notif[ing] the person malting the request of the determination [of whether it has disclosable public records] and the reasons therefor ... [and] shall state the estimated date and time when the records will be made available." Gov. Code Sec. 6253(c). This response period can be extended up to 14 days under "unusual circumstances," as proscribed by statute. More than 60 days have elapsed since we initially submitted our request, and Anaheim Police Department has far exceeded the statutory period in which it is obligated to provide the documents or a date when they will be produced. Please respond within seven (7) days of your receipt of this letter to inform us whether your agency has disclosable records in response to our request and provide an anticipated timeline for malting those records available. If you have documents responsive to our request but have determined they are exempt from disclosure, you must notify us of the reasons for your determination that documents are exempt Government Code 6253(c). Under the CPRA, you must disclose any public record unless a specific statutory exemption applies. See, e.g., ACLUof Northern Calc, 202 Cal.App. 4th 55, ff (2011) (internal citations omitted) ("'[a]ll public records are subject to disclosure unless the Public Records Act expressly provides otherwise."'); ar)lander v. Super. Court, 81 Cal.App. 4th 111% 1125 (2000) (`'unless exempted, all public records may be examined by any member of the public"). The enactment of Senate Bill 1421 (2018) and the consequent amendments to Penal Code Sec. 832.7 displaced all exemptions under the CPRA or any other provision of laver and limited any possible bases for withholding to those specified in Penal Code See. 832.7(b)(7). See Penal Cade Sec. 832.7(b)(1) ("Notwithstanding subdivision (a), subdivision (f) of Section Page 2 6254 of the Government Code, or any other law, the following peace officer or custodial officer personnel records and records maintained by any state or local agency shall not be confidential and small be made uvallable for public inspection pursuant to the California Public Records Act" (emphasis added)). 'hank you for your attention to this request. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions regarding this letter at rare; uestr)actusocal.or-, _ Best, Casey Dasher ACLU of Southern California AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CALIFORNIA July 1, 2020 Kristin A. Pelletier Office of the City Attorney, City of Anaheim 200 S Anaheim Boulevard, 3rd Floor Anaheim, CA 92805 kpelletier@anaheim.net Via Email RE: Public Record Act Request dated Jan. 1, 2019 for Dec. 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz (Request No. 01022019 APD2) To whom It May Concern: I previously submitted the above-described request for records in your office's possession, pursuant to the California Public Records Act, Gov't Code §§ 6250 et seq., California Penal Code §§832.7-832.8, and Art. I, § 3(b) of the California Constitution. Attached is a copy of my initial request. Your agency previously identified body camera or other video, audio, photographic or other electronic records responsive to my request, but requested that I pay the cost of redacting those items. The California Public Records Act only permits agencies to require requestors pay "the direct cost of producing a copy of a record in an electronic format," Gov. Code Sec. 6253.9(a)(2), unless certain criteria which do not apply here are met. The California Supreme Court recently addressed this precise issue in National Lawyers Guild v. City of Hayward, Case No. 5252445, 28 (May 28, 2020),' in holding that section 6253.9(b)(2) did not allow the City of Hayward to charge requestors of police body camera footage for the staff time required to locate that footage and edit it to redact audio & video that revealed private information. See id. (holding that"section 6253.9(b)(2), as presently written, does not provide a basis for charging requesters for the costs of redacting government records kept in an electronic format, including digital video footage"). There is therefore no legal basis for your agency's attempt to charge me for the redaction costs associated with those records. I renew my original request for the electronic records not previously produced in response to my prior PRA request. Please respond to this request in ten days providing the requested information or by specifying a date in the near future to respond to the request. See Cal. Gov't Code § 6255. If you are claiming any basis for withholding these electronic records or assert any other grounds for requesting payment, please provide a written response by that date setting forth the specific legal authority on which you rely. Please send anv documents in electronic format to Theresa Smith at Otherwise, please mail your response to: Theresa Smith I The full text of this opinion is available at htti)s://www.courts.ca.-, ovlo )inions/documents/S252445.PDF. Law Enforcement Accountability Network (LEAN) Fullerton CA, 92831 Thank you in advance for providing the records we have requested. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions regarding this letter. Sincerely, Theresa Smith Executive Director Lave Enforcement Accountability Network Jennifer Rojas Policy Advocate and Organizer ACLU of Southern California Jennifer L. Hall From: Jennifer L. Hall Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 2:58 PM To: Jennifer Rojas; mommietheresa Cc: Theresa Bass; Kristin Pelletier; Annie Banks; Peter Bibring; Adrienna Wong Subject: FW: Request for records related to the 12/11/09, shooting of Cesar Ray Cruz Attachments: FW: California Public Records Act Request: December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz; Letter from Anaheim PD 1.31.2019.pdf; Letter to City Of Anaheim on Behalf of Theresa Smith.pdf Ms. Rojas and Ms. Smith, The City is in receipt of your attached letter/records request. The City will respond to your request within 10 -days in accordance with Government Code §6253(c). Please contact me if you have any questions or need additional assistance. Sincerely, Jennifer l.HalC cNc Assistant Cit T Clerk Office of the City Clerk City of Anaheim 714-765-5166 From: Jennifer Rojas <JRojas:)aclusocal.or)> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:17 PM To: Kristin Pelletier <KPelletier anaheim.net>; Theresa Bass <TBass b'1anaheim.net> Cc: Theresa Smith _ Annie Banks <annie2justiceteams.orE-.>; Peter Bibring <PBibrin,-aclusocal.or >; Adrienna Wong <AWon aclusocal.or > Subject: Request for records related to the 12/11/09, shooting of Cesar Ray Cruz Dear Ms. Pelletier and Ms. Bass, Please find the attached letter from Theresa Smith and I attached to this email. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Thank you, Jennifer Rojas, Policy Advocate and Organizer Pronouns: She/Her(s) ACLU of Southern California, Orange County Office (714) 450-3965 aclusocal.org facebook I I twitter app ACLU SoCal: STAND FOR JUSTICE >> Download our mobile app at mobileiusticeca.oro THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IF THE READER OF THIS MESSAGE IS NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT OR THE EMPLOYEE OR AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERING THE MESSAGE TO THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Jennifer L. Hall From: Jennifer Rojas <JRojas@aclusocal.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 6:04 PM To: Jennifer Rojas Subject: FW: California Public Records Act Request: December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz Attachments: Anaheim PD website screenshot PRAJpg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Annie Banks <annie -5) i usticeteams.or > Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:23 AM Subject: California Public Records Act Request: December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz To: <DBest(Sjanaheim.net>, <KSantillan�.L�_'lanaheim.net,, <ARedd(c-Panaheim.net>, <PWillis(�.;anaheim.net>, <H M CP_heeP a na hei m. net> January 1, 2019 Anaheim Police Department 425 South Harbor Boulevard Anaheim, CA 92805 RE: Request for Public Records Regarding December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz To Whom It May Concern: request the release of records under the California Public Records Act, Gov't Code §§ 6250 et seq., California Penal Code §§832.7-832.8, and Art. I, § 3(b) of the California Constitution. I seek copies of all records in your office's possession, regardless of who created them. Please provide all records from the date of the above-mentioned incident until the date that this request was received. I seek a copy of all records relating to the report, investigation, findings and administrative discipline related to the December 11, 2009 shooting of Caesar Ray Cruz. Records include all investigative reports; photographic, audio, and video evidence; transcripts or recordings of interviews; autopsy reports; all materials compiled and presented for review to the district attorney or to any person or body charged with determining whether to file criminal charges against an officer in connection with an incident, or whether the officer's action was consistent with law and agency policy for purposes of discipline or administrative action, or what discipline to impose or corrective action to take; documents setting forth findings or recommended findings; and copies of disciplinary records relating to the incident, including any letters of intent to impose discipline, any documents reflecting modifications of discipline due to the Skelly or grievance process, and letters indicating final imposition of discipline or other documentation reflecting implementation of corrective action. Please respond to this request in ten days, either by providing the requested information or providing a written response setting forth the specific legal authority on which you rely in failing to disclose each requested record, or by specifying a date in the near future to respond to the request. See Cal. Gov't Code § 6255. Pursuant to section 6253, please disclose all reasonably segregable non-exempt information from any portions of records you claim are exempt from disclosure. If any records requested above are available in electronic format, please provide them in an electronic format, as provided in Govt. Code § 6253.9. To assist with the prompt release of responsive material, we ask that you make records available to us as you locate them, rather than waiting until all responsive records have been collected and copied. Please send any documents in electronic format to annie i usticeteams.or;. otherwise, please mail your response to: Annie Banks Justice Teams Network 1201 Martin Luther Ding Jr. Way, Suite 200, Oakland CA 94608 Because I represent a non-profit, public interest organization that intends to freely distribute this information, I request that you waive any fees. North oty. Parents Assn v. Dept of Ed., 23 Cal. App. 4th 144, 148 (1994); Cal. Gov. Code §6253(e). However, should you be unable to do so, Justice Teams Network will reimburse your agency for the "{direct costs" of copying these records plus postage. If you anticipate these costs to exceed $25.00, please notify me prior to making the copies. Thank you in advance for providing the records we have requested. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions regarding this letter. Sincerely, Annie Banks 1. The term "`records" as used in this request is defined as "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics." Cal. Govt. Code § 6252, subsection (e). "Writing" is defined as "any handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored." Cal. Govt. Code § 6252 (g). Annie Banks Administrative coordinator Justice Teams Network annie� 4�usticeteams.or cell) Pronouns: She/They/Her I '6k A a 42 L-A 4--o'o 60 Ca Ln all c 0 E 10 c$ cp co AL a 6 0 4 rr cn di 0 C2 • Tsr co) 06 VMw 6a Cm 0 Public Comment 0, Item # �� .Distributed to majority of City Council within 72 hours of `1 �'�-��� meeting. From: Public Comment Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:27 PM To: Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Stephen Faessel; Denise Barnes; Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Lucille Kring; Trevor O'Neil Cc: Amanda Edinger; Annie Mezzacappa; Arianna Barrios (arianna@communicationslab.com); Cynthia Ward; Daniel Fierro (daniel@presidiosc.com); David Belmer; Gregory Garcia; Helen Myers; Justin Clover; Karen Romero Estrada; Kristin Pelletier; Lisa Hughes; Marisol Ramirez; Nam Bartash; Robert Fabela; Samantha Saenz; Sarah Bartczak; Theresa Bass Subject: FW: Yes for an admission $1.00 tax From: Kelly Ibarra <ke1ly.ibarra62@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:26 PM To: Public Comment <publiccomment@anaheim.net> Subject: Yes for an admission $1.00 tax I'm fourth generation to Anaheim and haven't been able to wrap my head around the fact on why the city of Anaheim. would EVER be tight on money because of all that we have in the city to profit on. Yes, even adding a $1.00 city tax on every Disneyland ticket sold would be an ideal benefit for the community. Thank you, Kelly Ib arra I Public Comment item # Distributed to majority of City Council within 72 hours o::LLZ,��meeting. From: Edgar Arellano { edgararellanoea@gmail.com 3 Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:34 PM To: Public Comment; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Jordan Brandman; Jose Moreno; Trevor O'Neil; Lucille Kring; Denise Barnes Subject: Is the mayor well He's had a dry cough all night during council meeting From: To: Public Comment Subject: Public Hearings Comments Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM Attachments: Public Hearings Comments.gdf Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting. Anaheim Council Public Hearing Comments for July 14, 2020, For Each Public Hearing, Agenda Items # 24 & # 26 VIA EMAIL TO: publiecommentkanaheim.net FROM: Home Owners Maintaining our Environment It is outrageous to have Public Hearings without first allowing public speakers the rights to be present at the hearing and listen to the opening hearing presentations, prior to the public comments session. Without the public allowed to speak by phone or in person, the Public Hearings would not be public or -legal. Having the Public Hearing Comments made in writing prior to the Anaheim council meeting is ridicules. At the start of a legitimate Public Hearing, the moving party gives their arguments before the Public Comments. Based on those opening arguments, if given or not, indications for comments are made if the matter is to benefit the City of Anaheim, or only to benefit the moving parties and the financial wealth* of the council members. At the beginning of a legitimate Public Hearing, each voting council member must disclosed by law to the public if they had prior contact and discussions with the moving party concerning the matter of the Public Hearing. This state law was made to alert the public of the possibilities of secret future bribes, kickbacks, or other deals being made to entice a favorable vote from a council member. When all the council members are able to state they did not meet with any of the moving parties, the public can be assured that the hearing matter should be taken as a whole to benefit the City of Anaheim. That would make taking the time to speak at a Public Hearing almost unnecessary. Therefore, Comments must be made during the Hearing, --not prior in writing. Another indication of corruption is why there were three Public Hearings scheduled all at once for a council meeting where the public are not allowed to be present. These three Public Hearings should be rescheduled to a future council meeting that may be open to the public. *Past Anaheim councilmembers had questionable increases in their personal wealth from serving on the Anaheim City Council. Examples are Tom Tait with his promoting the 1998 $500 million rebate of our tax money to Disneyland for California Adventure, and the current mayor in the 2012 hotel rebate deal of about $156 million for his fellow countryman, a Mr. Patel. From: To: Public Comment Subject: Public Hearings Comments Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM Attachments: Public Hearings Comments.gdf Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting. Anaheim Council Public Hearing Comments for July 14, 2020, For Each Public Hearing, Agenda Items # 24 & # 26 VIA EMAIL TO: publiecommentkanaheim.net FROM: Home Owners Maintaining our Environment It is outrageous to have Public Hearings without first allowing public speakers the rights to be present at the hearing and listen to the opening hearing presentations, prior to the public comments session. Without the public allowed to speak by phone or in person, the Public Hearings would not be public or -legal. Having the Public Hearing Comments made in writing prior to the Anaheim council meeting is ridicules. At the start of a legitimate Public Hearing, the moving party gives their arguments before the Public Comments. Based on those opening arguments, if given or not, indications for comments are made if the matter is to benefit the City of Anaheim, or only to benefit the moving parties and the financial wealth* of the council members. At the beginning of a legitimate Public Hearing, each voting council member must disclosed by law to the public if they had prior contact and discussions with the moving party concerning the matter of the Public Hearing. This state law was made to alert the public of the possibilities of secret future bribes, kickbacks, or other deals being made to entice a favorable vote from a council member. When all the council members are able to state they did not meet with any of the moving parties, the public can be assured that the hearing matter should be taken as a whole to benefit the City of Anaheim. That would make taking the time to speak at a Public Hearing almost unnecessary. Therefore, Comments must be made during the Hearing, --not prior in writing. Another indication of corruption is why there were three Public Hearings scheduled all at once for a council meeting where the public are not allowed to be present. These three Public Hearings should be rescheduled to a future council meeting that may be open to the public. *Past Anaheim councilmembers had questionable increases in their personal wealth from serving on the Anaheim City Council. Examples are Tom Tait with his promoting the 1998 $500 million rebate of our tax money to Disneyland for California Adventure, and the current mayor in the 2012 hotel rebate deal of about $156 million for his fellow countryman, a Mr. Patel. From: To: Public Comment Subject: Public Hearings Comments Date: Monday, July 13, 2020 8:31:32 PM Attachments: Public Hearings Comments.gdf Attached Public Hearings (2) Comments for the July 14, 2020 council meeting. Anaheim Council Public Hearing Comments for July 14, 2020, For Each Public Hearing, Agenda Items # 24 & # 26 VIA EMAIL TO: publiecommentkanaheim.net FROM: Home Owners Maintaining our Environment It is outrageous to have Public Hearings without first allowing public speakers the rights to be present at the hearing and listen to the opening hearing presentations, prior to the public comments session. Without the public allowed to speak by phone or in person, the Public Hearings would not be public or -legal. Having the Public Hearing Comments made in writing prior to the Anaheim council meeting is ridicules. At the start of a legitimate Public Hearing, the moving party gives their arguments before the Public Comments. Based on those opening arguments, if given or not, indications for comments are made if the matter is to benefit the City of Anaheim, or only to benefit the moving parties and the financial wealth* of the council members. At the beginning of a legitimate Public Hearing, each voting council member must disclosed by law to the public if they had prior contact and discussions with the moving party concerning the matter of the Public Hearing. This state law was made to alert the public of the possibilities of secret future bribes, kickbacks, or other deals being made to entice a favorable vote from a council member. When all the council members are able to state they did not meet with any of the moving parties, the public can be assured that the hearing matter should be taken as a whole to benefit the City of Anaheim. That would make taking the time to speak at a Public Hearing almost unnecessary. Therefore, Comments must be made during the Hearing, --not prior in writing. Another indication of corruption is why there were three Public Hearings scheduled all at once for a council meeting where the public are not allowed to be present. These three Public Hearings should be rescheduled to a future council meeting that may be open to the public. *Past Anaheim councilmembers had questionable increases in their personal wealth from serving on the Anaheim City Council. Examples are Tom Tait with his promoting the 1998 $500 million rebate of our tax money to Disneyland for California Adventure, and the current mayor in the 2012 hotel rebate deal of about $156 million for his fellow countryman, a Mr. Patel.