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Recommendation to request City Attorney to work with City Manager and Long Beach Office of Equity to draft a resolution that articulates the City's commitment to adopting the "Framework for Reconciliation in Long Beach,” recognizing the need to engage in a public reconciliation process, internal policy review, and local action plan committing to the following four steps:
Request City Manager to issue a public statement condemning the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, acknowledging the existence and longstanding impacts of systemic racism in our America and in Long Beach;
Request City Manager to conduct a formal listening process to hear accounts and experiences of racial injustice, inequity, or harm of community members;
Request City Manager to convene stakeholders to evaluate the feedback from the listening process and shape policy, budgetary, charter, and programmatic reform ideas; and
Request City Manager catalyze action, presenting immediate, short-term, medium-term, and long-term present recommendations for the City Council to consider.
DISCUSSION
Request City Manager catalyze action, presenting immediate, short-term, medium-term, and long-term present recommendations for the City Council to consider, including, but not limited to:
• A potential ballot measure for the November 2020 General Election,
• Reforms to modernize the Citizen Police Complaint Commission to strengthen independence, transparency, and oversight,
• A review of implementation status of existing reforms and plans that expand racial equity and community safety, including the SAFE Long Beach Violence Prevention Plan, Everyone In Economic Inclusion implementation Plan, Economic Empowerment Zone Program, Long Beach Office of Equity Toolkit, My Brother’s Keeper Local Action Plan, Language Access Plan
• Reforms to use of force policies, including mandatory use of de-escalation tactics, and a zero-tolerance policy on uses of excessive force,
• Establish and moderni...
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