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Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force Joint Powers Agreement (LA-Impact JPA), thus authorizing the City's membership in the LA Impact Authority; and authorize City Manager to execute the JPA Agreement. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Inaugurated on July 1, 1991, the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (LA IMPACT) is a compilation of numerous Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles County whose primary focus is to investigate major crimes, with an emphasis on dismantling mid-to major-level drug trafficking organizations. The Los Angeles County Police Chiefs’ Association founded the task force and currently acts as the Board of Directors. The Long Beach Police Department has actively participated in the LA IMPACT program since it was first approved by the City Council on February 4, 1997.
In 2005, as a result of a lawsuit regarding Brown Act requirements, the California Court of Appeal issued a decision stating that LA IMPACT, though not intended by member agencies to be a separate public entity, was, in fact, a local public agency whose Board of Directors meetings are subject to the open meeting requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Following the Court of Appeal’s 2005 decision, the Board of Directors determined that operating under the informal arrangement of a Memorandum Of Understanding is no longer prudent, and that it would be in LA IMPACT’s and its members’ best interests to formally organize itself as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) governed by an Agreement that explicitly addresses these and other issues of legal concern. The attached Resolution recognizes the establishment of the LA-Impact JPA and authorizes the City Manager to execute the JPA Agreement.
This item was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Gary Anderson on April 27, 2011 and Budget Officer Victoria Bell on June 8, 2011.
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