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HomeMy WebLinkAbouteComments ReportCity Council Meeting Meeting Time: 03-23-21 17:00 eComments Report Meetings Meeting Time Agenda Items Comments Support Oppose Neutral City Council Meeting 03-23-21 17:00 28 67 5 58 2 Sentiments for All Meetings The following graphs display sentiments for comments that have location data. Only locations of users who have commented will be shown. Overall Sentiment City Council Meeting 03-23-21 17:00 Agenda Name Comments Support Oppose Neutral 1. 21-0086 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.56 (PURCHASING SYSTEM) TO AUTHORIZE THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OR CITY ENGINEER TO ACQUIRE INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY IN FURTHERANCE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS (SECOND READING AND ADOPTION) 1 0 1 0 4. 21-0080 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING CHAPTER 15 - FIRE FEES OF THE CITY'S MASTER FEE SCHEDULE TO INCLUDE ANCILLARY AMBULANCE FEES 3 0 3 0 6. 21-0081 UPDATE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA'S ENROLLMENT OF ITS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS WITH SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY POWER 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTION 5 4 0 0 7. 21-0060 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA SUPPORTING THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SANDAG) BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO RENAME THE SAN DIEGO BAYSHORE BIKEWAY TO THE GREG COX SAN DIEGO BAYSHORE BIKEWAY 3 0 3 0 8. 21-0072 STAFF REPORT REGARDING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S OPERATION OF AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (ALPR OR LPR) SYSTEMS AND DATA SHARING AGREEMENT THROUGH VIGILANT/ MOTOROLA 55 1 51 2 Sentiments for All Agenda Items The following graphs display sentiments for comments that have location data. Only locations of users who have commented will be shown. Overall Sentiment Agenda Item: eComments for 1. 21-0086 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.56 (PURCHASING SYSTEM) TO AUTHORIZE THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OR CITY ENGINEER TO ACQUIRE INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY IN FURTHERANCE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS (SECOND READING AND ADOPTION) Overall Sentiment Dee Cisneros Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 1:30pm 03-23-21 Provide housing for the houseless people who have been inhumanely targeted by CVPD. Stop investment in capital gain. REINVEST IN PANDEMIC RIDDEN COMMUNITY Agenda Item: eComments for 4. 21-0080 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING CHAPTER 15 - FIRE FEES OF THE CITY'S MASTER FEE SCHEDULE TO INCLUDE ANCILLARY AMBULANCE FEES Overall Sentiment Jo Anne Springer Location: Submitted At: 1:08pm 03-22-21 Due to the very rigid length constraints of this means of commentary (far more constrained than the time allotted to in-person commentary at meetings), I request that the comments that I have emailed to the mayor, members of the council, Maria Kachadoorian, and Glen Coogins be entered as my comments both here and at the Council Meeting on Marcy 23, 2021. The proposed implementation to take over the ambulance services in this City will burden its residents with costs that exceed those throughout the county, and put some residents in the inexcusable and entirely unnecessary position of having to gamble the safety of their very lives due to exorbitant costs they cannot bear. For shame. Pablo Quilantan Location: Submitted At: 4:34pm 03-21-21 The City continues its effort towards implementing this unnecessary takeover of the ambulance transport services that will serve a significant portion of south bay citizens. The City has yet to prove that this change will benefit citizens in terms of improved response times or better overall service. Unfortunately, it is certain that citizens served by the new ambulance transport system will pay an exorbitant transport rate that is much higher than the County average as a result of the City’s failure to bid this service out. This is apparent as a comparison of the City’s proposed base transport rate with other jurisdictions has been left out of the staff report thus hiding this fact. This item should not be on the consent calendar. Any change or amendment to the City’s ambulance transport program should appear as an action item on the Council agenda so that the City Council can fully inform and justify to the public any changes to this program. The City Council should not hide behind consent votes when it comes to managing a life and death service such as emergency medical transport. Theresa Acerro Location: Submitted At: 7:50pm 03-19-21 There should be discussion not automatic approval of these issues: how much dependence is on supplemental IGT which is uncertain apparently, trouble hiring personnel at non public employee rate of pay, having only 10 ambulances when in past AMR has had to bring in more from elsewhere, many AMR employees are CV residents, a public meeting where all applicants could be heard by the public making their case to be chosen was not held Agenda Item: eComments for 6. 21-0081 UPDATE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA'S ENROLLMENT OF ITS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS WITH SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY POWER 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTION Overall Sentiment Carolyn Scofield Location: 91910-6213, Chula Vista Submitted At: 4:24pm 03-23-21 Good Evening Mayor Salas, City Council Members, and City Staff, As a resident of District 2 and a member of the San Diego Community Power (SDCP) Community Advisory Committee, I am very happy to see that our City is choosing the option to purchase 100% renewable electricity for all its municipal accounts. On March 1, 2021, San Diego Community Power became the official electricity service provider, starting with municipal accounts, for Chula Vista and four other cities in our region. SDCP offers two options for electricity purchase: 50% renewable electricity (base rate) or 100% renewable. This choice to power our municipal accounts now with 100% renewable electricity moves our City forward faster toward significant greenhouse gas reductions and a healthier, safer, and more sustainable future for all members of our community. Thank you for leading the way! Gina Woodard Location: Submitted At: 4:21pm 03-23-21 Good Evening Mayor Salas and City Council Members, My name is Gina Woodard, and I am a teacher at Hilltop High school and a resident of District 3. I wanted to extend my gratitude to you for your leadership over the past two years in promoting Chula Vista as a more sustainable city and for paving the way for a clean energy future that will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help us to meet our Climate Action Plan goals. I am encouraging you to build on your momentum and to receive the enrollment update for Chula Vista’s Municipal Accounts with San Diego Community Power’s 100% Renewable Energy Option. Thank you for supporting city residents and our environment! Karinna Gonzalez Location: 91902, Bonita Submitted At: 2:46pm 03-23-21 Good evening Mayor Salas and City Council members, My name is Karinna Gonzalez, I am with Hammond Climate Solutions and I am also a resident of district 1. I am excited to see that Chula Vista has opted into the 100% renewable energy option through San Diego Community Power. This is an important first step in making sure we reach our clean energy goals. Now that we are on the right path and addressing the second highest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, I urge the Mayor and City Council to explore ways to make our city more walkable and bike-able, to begin to address the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions: transportation. Thank you for your leadership. Sandra Lobato Location: 91941, La Mesa Submitted At: 1:29pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. San Diego Border Dreamers stand with our community and We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Rita Clement Location: 91914, CHULA VISTA Submitted At: 9:43pm 03-22-21 Dear Mayor Salas and City Councilmembers and City Staff, Thank you for leading the way to a clean energy future that will help us to meet our Climate Action Plan goals. This enrollment of Chula Vista's municipal accounts with San Diego Community Power is a first step on the path to providing cleaner air, clean water and a clean environment. Thank you for your leadership. Best regards, Rita Clement Agenda Item: eComments for 7. 21-0060 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA SUPPORTING THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SANDAG) BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO RENAME THE SAN DIEGO BAYSHORE BIKEWAY TO THE GREG COX SAN DIEGO BAYSHORE BIKEWAY Overall Sentiment Katie Zeitz Location: 92109, San diego Submitted At: 2:10pm 03-23-21 The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. I'm furious that the city council has ignored the demands of the community. Public safety is not surveillance. Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Oren Robinson Location: 92103, San Diego Submitted At: 2:05pm 03-23-21 While I am a San Diego resident, I have been dismayed to watch news report after news report about how Chula Vista PD has erased resident's rights to privacy! I join the hundreds or thousands in saying STOP CVPD Surveillance NOW! One agency violating these rights is too much, let alone sharing private data with hundreds of OTHER agencies! END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Rosario Ortiz Location: 91910, Chula Vista Submitted At: 11:32am 03-23-21 Who in our community has asked for this kind of increased surveillance ? It speaks to a disconnect between the community’s needs and the priorities of the city. While the bulk of our city’s budget is already spent on the police force, why would we waste more money on a program that’s going to be sharing pictures of innocent people’s vehicles and plates with hundreds of agencies that they can’t directly monitor or control ? We’d be storing thousands of hours of video of mostly innocent people, which aside from being weird and excessive, just sounds inefficient. In the middle of a pandemic, why do we still want to beef up a police force that’s already being overused ? Those tax dollars would be better used elsewhere. Agenda Item: eComments for 8. 21-0072 STAFF REPORT REGARDING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S OPERATION OF AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION (ALPR OR LPR) SYSTEMS AND DATA SHARING AGREEMENT THROUGH VIGILANT/ MOTOROLA Overall Sentiment Sarah Farouq Location: Submitted At: 6:29pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! As a person of color, I feel angry and frustrated due to the failure of City Council to address our demands about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Adina Johnson Location: Submitted At: 6:21pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista needs to stop the ALPR surveillance program and end its contract with Vigilant Solutions. The city council needs to listen to residents and protect their privacy. Chula Vista needs a process that takes into account meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of surveillance technologies. Margaret Baker Location: Submitted At: 6:12pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista has taken great pride on being the first certified "Welcoming City" in CA. Unfortunately, it has not lived up to protect civil rights of all and its promise to welcome community member's concerns. I personally feel double-crossed and alarmed by the City's insistence on operating this surveillance program with Vigilant Solutions. Among many concerns is that CVPD cannot control what happens to OUR data once they are shared. Chula Vista deserves accountability from our elected officials, NOT to have our voices muted and our concerns discounted. The CVPD (13.5 page) report is a huge disappointment, and leaves us with more questions and concerns and demonstrates the need for independent community-led oversight of surveillance technology. We call for termination of the ALPR, usage & privacy ordinances to address all surveillance tech use, and establishment independent, community-led oversight board & reporting requirements. M Ramirez Location: Submitted At: 5:07pm 03-23-21 I am suspicious due to the failure of City Council to address the community’s concerns about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Naomi Leon Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 4:58pm 03-23-21 I feel [frustrated, angry, shut out, muted, dismissed, furious, discouraged, unwelcome, afraid, suspicious, worried, concerned, ….] due to the failure of City Council to address [my eComments, our demands, the community’s concerns, …] about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies Patricia aguilar Location: Submitted At: 4:58pm 03-23-21 Having an ALPR is not unique to Chula Vista. The following local agencies all have them, and most have many more than Chula Vista: • Carlsbad Eighty-six fixed ALPR systems, six patrol car mounted systems and one parking enforcement system. • Chula Vista Four patrol car mounted systems. • Coronado Eight patrol car mounted systems, two parking enforcement mobile systems. • El Cajon Three patrol car mounted systems. • Escondido Three fixed systems, one patrol car mounted system, and 2 mobile parking enforcement systems. • Harbor Police Three fixed systems and six patrol car mounted systems. • La Mesa Four patrol car mounted systems. • National City None. • Oceanside Five patrol car mounted systems. • Etc The program has been active for 14 years here without problem and has proven itself a useful tool in solving many crimes. The data does not contain any personal identifiable information and is therefore consistent with SB 54. In December the Chief suspended sharing data with ICE and USBP. BTW Thanks to the chief and CVPD for listening to the community and taking action as soon as it was pointed out that CVPD ALRR data was being shared with immigration enforcement agencies. CVPD is already severely underfunded. They need tools like ALPR systems, which can be responsibly operated and intelligently implemented to balance individual privacy with technology to help keep our community safe. Especially important today when crime is on the upswing nationwide. Anaiz Alegria Location: 92154, San Diego Submitted At: 4:56pm 03-23-21 As a community member of Chula Vista, I am concerned by the use of the ALPR Program. According to the Staff Report published today by Chula Vista’s Police Department, there are “too many success stories associated with the Department’s ALPR system to list.” However, the report does not contain the efficacy rate of said program. Instead, the report lists 7 success stories. Likewise, the report mentions the rise in juvenile sex trafficking and fentanyl-related deaths but lacks to mention the success rate tied to the Department’s ALPR. Where exactly is the data to support the use of the ALPR Program? I would like to point out that "two agencies could not be further identified due to a lack of contact information”. This poses an issue with verification. Are agencies and task forces only considered identifiable by having a “clearly identified agency contact listed in the system”? I oppose the city’s contract with Vigilant Solutions/Motorola. I ask that real data be provided to support their claims. I ask that an independent, community-led advisory board be created to oversee the acquisition and use of surveillance technology. Mejgan Afshan Location: Submitted At: 4:56pm 03-23-21 Good evening Mayor Salas and respected City Council members. As co found of Borderlands for Equity, a pro bono civil rights nonprofit, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our community members throughout San Diego County. The continued use of ALPR’s and surveillance must be stopped immediately and CVPD must have oversight by the citizens of Chula Vista. As a “Welcoming City” Chula Vista must do better and stop the abuse of power by the CVPD. The monies used to facilitate the ALPR program can be put to much better use. Please stop the use of ALPR’s and know that you are infringing on the civil liberties of so many of our most marginalized siblings, especially Black and Brown residents of Chula Vista. The lack of transparency and accountability for all this program is deeply disturbing and unacceptable. Thank you for hearing us out and we look forward to you representing our communities voices within the chambers of City Hall. Kelly Callejo Location: Submitted At: 4:54pm 03-23-21 As a San Diego resident, it is frustrating to know that the Council has failed to address and heed the concerns and needs of our community, and the opposition to the ALPR program. I demand a process that ensures holistic and community input and leads to community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Josemar Gonzalez Location: 92173, San Ysidro Submitted At: 4:14pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. I feel dismissed, unwelcome, suspicious, concerned, due to the failure of City Council to address the community’s concerns about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Edgar Hopida Location: 91910, Chula Vista Submitted At: 4:13pm 03-23-21 The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! Ismahan Abdullahi Location: 92115, San Diego Submitted At: 4:07pm 03-23-21 am deeply concerned with the lack of transparency and accountability regarding CVPD surveillance and sharing information with agencies across the country. City Council should address the concerns of the community and ensure community input that can lead to an independent community-led oversight of any surveillance technology. CVPD cannot control what happens to data once that data is outsourced. In order to build a more welcoming city, we join our coalition partners in demanding the Chula Vista end its contract with Vigilant Solutions and stop sharing our data. We also need to establish an independent community-led advisory board to oversee acquisition and use of surveillance technology. Luz Lopez Location: 91915, Chula Vista Submitted At: 3:58pm 03-23-21 It is very frustrating that the Chula Vista City Council has not been paying attention to the demands of its community regarding stopping CVPD surveillance program. It is concerning to me that the City Council has done nothing to address the lack of transparency regarding the ALPR program and the whitewashing of the ALPR report from CVPD. Our Chula Vista community deserves a process that allows community input on this matter. This program is harmful. It does not reflect the type of community this City Council says it is proud about when promoting Chula Vista as a "Welcoming City." Wendy Gelernter Location: 92109, San Diego Submitted At: 3:46pm 03-23-21 It is a violation of our privacy and our civil liberties to have the police surveil us through ALPR, and to share the data with other agencies. Not only is this wrong, but it will cost the city financially to deal with all of the lawsuits that will result if this practice continues. There are much better ways to insure public safety that do not infringe on our privacy and civil liberties. Maggie McCann Location: 92116, San Diego Submitted At: 3:12pm 03-23-21 STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. We are not criminals but you are treating us as such. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! Chula Vista’s promises of a Welcoming City were a lie. In an age of over-policing, they did nothing to stop the City’s mass surveillance DRAGNET. For 3 years the City has captured and shared our whereabouts with over 800 agencies, including ICE, CBP and HSI. Welcome to the Surveillance City! Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust. Its ALPR surveillance program is un-American. I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Amin Nyakoui Location: 92127, San Diego Submitted At: 3:06pm 03-23-21 This is an egregious violation as our rights as Americans. Despicable. Pedro Rios Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 2:53pm 03-23-21 Dear Chula Vista city officials, I write as a 17 year resident of Chula Vista, and as director of the American Friends Service Committee's US-Mexico Border Program. Our focus is protecting and defending the human rights of border communities. We are concerned and disheartened with Chula Vista's continued use of the ALPR program, which places all of our civil liberties at risk. There currently aren't any explicit oversight mechanisms to prevent the misuse of information shared with over 800 police and private associations across the country. Chula Vista city officials can put and end to this by committing to stopping the ALPR program once and for all. Equally worrisome has been the City's dismissive response to community concerns, suggesting this issue should be dealt with when the pandemic is over. This lack of transparency undermines community trust that city officials have the community's best interest in mind. City officials must: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, and 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Thank you, Pedro Rios American Friends Service Committee Christy Lopez Location: 92173, San Ysidro Submitted At: 2:52pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust, they are supposed to listen to their community! Its ALPR surveillance program is wrong and must be discontinued. I stand by with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Norma Cazares Location: Submitted At: 2:51pm 03-23-21 As a 50+ year community activist, I certainly can relate to the red flags that pop up when the topic of police surveillance comes up, especially in communities of color and immigrants who have historically had reason to distrust law enforcement. As a 42 year resident of CV, which includes many years of volunteer civic involvement, I have witnessed the many challenges of a growing city and it's efforts to address them. I am particularly pleased with the efforts of the CV Police Dept over the last few years, which have proven to me personally by my involvement with them, that they have come a long way towards gaining my and many Chula Vistans' trust. Although, I am well aware of the importance of maintaining consistent vigilance as we all should. Regarding the ADLR's and even the drones, I have taken the time to read the literature and reports on this surveillance equipment. Based on my knowledge and awareness of specific incidences, I am frustrated by the misinformation generated in social media but I for one, am convinced that this equipment serves the greater good as tools that enhance the safety of the residents of our city. However, also because individuals/entities have rightfully expressed concerns over the license plate readers (as well as drones), Chief Kennedy and her leadership team have taken these concerns to further improve their processes, procedures, restrictions, and accountability for their misuse. Let's give these useful tools a chance. Erin TsurumotoGrassi Location: 92119, San Diego Submitted At: 2:42pm 03-23-21 Alliance San Diego continues to have concerns with CVPD's ALPR program, particularly how the data is shared on the Vigilant Solutions LEARN database. While CvPD is no longer sharing data with BP and ICE through the LEARN database, there are still other federal immigration agencies that have access to the database. Since there is no way to control whether or not another department will share CVPD's ALPR data once it is on the LEARN database, we would recommend that they stop allowing the data to be shared with other agencies through Vigilant Solutions altogether. ALPR data is already shared and stored on ARJIS, which means that San Diego County agencies already have access to each other’s ALPR data. Further, while the ALPR report claims that sharing ALPR data with federal immigration agencies is not a violation of SB 54, at the end of the day, it violates the spirit of the California Values Act and does not engender public trust. Zehraa Haddawi Location: 92064, Poway Submitted At: 2:37pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust. Its ALPR surveillance program is harmful! I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. John Earl Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 2:32pm 03-23-21 End Chula Vista's involvement in the ALPR surveillance program entirely. It is an invasion of privacy and an arguably an unconstitutional threat to everyone's civil liberties, including immigrants in our community who are already reluctant to trust law enforcement officers regarding routine criminal matters. A massive database identifying people who have been spied upon without a warrant is also a recipe for misuse by law enforcement agencies due to misinformation, unscientific analysis and conclusions, leading to false allegations and harassment of innocent persons. Selectively restricting which law enforcement agencies the city will share surveillance data that should never have been collected in the first place will not prevent law enforcement agencies from sharing the information with ICE. Even the CVPD has shared such information simply because the officer got an informal call from ICE. The peace and safety of the community I live in, for the entire city, please end this program altogether. Thank you Monica Santos Location: Submitted At: 2:32pm 03-23-21 I request that the CVPD stop license plate surveillance now. The CV City Council must listen to those it represents. I do not want this data collected, shared or stored. I feel ignored, not represented and unprotected. Chula Vista must live up to the values of a Welcoming City where people feel safe, listened to and invited to fully participate. Silvia Saldivar Location: Submitted At: 2:31pm 03-23-21 As a resident of Chula Vista for over 20 years, trust has been lost due to the failure of City Council to address our following demands. We need more transparency, and community input should be a top priority of our local government. we DEMAND the city 1) Stop ALPR immediately 2) Enact usage & privacy ordinance - to address all surveillance tech use 3) Establish independent, community- led oversight board & reporting requirements. Our city must do better, I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Jerilyn Brown Location: Submitted At: 2:27pm 03-23-21 As a citizen of Chula Vista since 1955, I am frustrated and disappointed that the City Council is still not addressing this problem. We do NOT want this kind of surveillance. Please, listen to the citizens of Chula Vista! Thank you! Nancy Relaford Location: 92104, San Diego Submitted At: 2:26pm 03-23-21 The CVPD’s self-congratulatory report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) No matter what claims it makes about NOW using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH and real oversight. Stop the dragnet! Jose Lopez Location: 92173, San Ysidro Submitted At: 2:22pm 03-23-21 The ALPR surveillance program is dangerous, harmful, wrong, must be discontinued! I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. a g Location: Submitted At: 2:14pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Oren Robinson Location: 92103, San Diego Submitted At: 2:08pm 03-23-21 While I am a San Diego resident, I have been dismayed to watch news report after news report about how Chula Vista PD has erased resident's rights to privacy! I join the hundreds or thousands in saying STOP CVPD Surveillance NOW! One agency violating these rights is too much, let alone sharing private data with hundreds of OTHER agencies! END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Alicia Arambula Location: 91910, Chula Vista Submitted At: 2:05pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: a) No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED; b) Despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust. Its ALPR surveillance program is harmful! I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Vanessa Aguilera Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 1:43pm 03-23-21 We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars and passengers shared with over 800 agencies across the country. Immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance - END IT! A Welcoming City MUST do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program. No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED. Also, despite anecdotal claims about “too many success stories”, NO REAL DATA are presented. Furthermore, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! Stop the dragnet! Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust. Its ALPR surveillance program is dangerous and harmful! I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Dee Cisneros Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 1:27pm 03-23-21 STOP SURVEILLANCE. This is infringement of privacy and safety. There’s NO NEED for this kind of surveillance. Stop criminalizing and targeting our communities. There’s already EXCESSIVE police presence. Nicholas Webber Location: San Diego Submitted At: 1:22pm 03-23-21 This would be a failure by the council to listen to the community. It is invasive surveillance that does a terrible job of producing results anyway. There is little control of the data after collected, reporting more and more of our information to agencies across the country. Let's keep our communities safe with a more tactful approach. Dinora Reyna Location: Submitted At: 1:07pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Justin Joseph Location: Submitted At: 1:02pm 03-23-21 The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program. CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once it is are SHARED and despite anecdotal claims about success stories, NO REAL DATA are presented. In addition, a recent CA audit of LA County’s ALPR databases showed that 99.9% of images collected were not connected to any crime. And what about the “false positives”? We need the WHOLE TRUTH! I feel frustrated due to the failure of City Council to address the community’s concerns about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Katharine Bigel Location: 91910, Chula Vista Submitted At: 1:01pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! The Los Angeles Superior Court has determined that camera tickets are not enforceable if you do not show up to court. We should at least do the same. Dulce Garcia Location: 92102, San Diego Submitted At: 1:01pm 03-23-21 I feel angry and concerned due to the failure of City Council to address our community’s concerns about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Chula Vista City Council must STOP CVPD Surveillance! Amanda Cornell Location: Chula Visa Submitted At: 12:54pm 03-23-21 I'm deeply concerned about the ALPR surveillance program. No matter what "best practices" CVPD claims, there is no control over our data once it is shared. We need real data presented, not anecdotal claims, so we can know the whole truth. I join other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Brenda Aguirre Location: 91910, Chula Vista Submitted At: 12:52pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Emily Zaehring Location: 92104, San Diego Submitted At: 12:49pm 03-23-21 The ALPR surveillance program is dangerous and must be discontinued. I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Thank you. Mae Case Location: 92114, San Diego Submitted At: 12:46pm 03-23-21 The Chula Vista City Council needs to really listen to it's community. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. A Welcoming City must do better. We demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies.1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Vianney Ruvalcaba Location: 91911, CHULA VISTA Submitted At: 12:45pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Cassandra Fullerton Location: 92104-5729, San Diego Submitted At: 12:37pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! Aude Ruffing Location: Submitted At: 12:36pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. It needs to immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. The surveillance program harms everyone driving in CV, not just some people. We have a constitutional right to privacy as well as constitutional safeguards against government intrusion. Nothing justifies this surveillance program completely out of control that share information with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT! David Harris Location: 92105, San Diego Submitted At: 12:28pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! This is not the way of a Welcoming City. Homayra Yusufi Location: 92069, San Marcos Submitted At: 12:03pm 03-23-21 Chula Vista's ALPR License Plate Readers is an invasion of privacy and harmful to all San Diego County residents. The information sharing with immigration enforcement and 800+ other agencies throughout the country puts all of our communities at risk. I echo the calls of Chula Vista residents to end the use of this program and implement transparency and accountability measures as well as an independent community board that will protect privacy rights nd rebuild the trust with community that has been lost. Nancy Nguyen Location: Submitted At: 11:55am 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council must immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars shared with over 800 agencies across the country. I feel frustrated and saddened by the failure of City Council to address the community’s concerns about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Stacey Uy Location: 92104 Submitted At: 11:54am 03-23-21 I feel extremely saddened and frustrated by the failure of City Council to address the community’s concerns and demands about the ALPR program. A Welcoming City must do better. I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies and an end to Vigilant Solution's contract. The CVPD report has whitewashed the ALPR surveillance program: No matter what claims it makes about using “best practices”, CVPD cannot control what happens to our data once they are SHARED. Francis Riley Location: 91911, Chula Vista Submitted At: 11:43am 03-23-21 COX Communications' motto is: "Your friend in the digital age." If the City Council approves this measure, it will show that the City of Chula Vista is NOT the friend of the city's residents! The City's role, especially its Police force, is to protect its residents not to surveil them! Noun Abdelaziz Location: 92105, San Diego Submitted At: 11:34am 03-23-21 Protect the people, not humiliate them. Don’t repeat what these systems have been doing to vulnerable neighborhoods for decades now. Nothing welcoming about you are going to do with your power. I demand you to reconsider this program and give people the peace of mind they need. Shay Miller Location: Submitted At: 10:21am 03-23-21 A "welcoming city" does not spy on its citizens & the people visiting it. A "welcoming city" does not spy on us & share our data to other agencies. There is nothing "welcoming" about Chula Vista, if you continue to spy on us. I demand you to stop the ALPR program, and I demand a process that ensures meaningful community input and leads to independent community-led oversight of ANY surveillance technologies. Huy Tran Location: Submitted At: 10:19am 03-23-21 Chula Vista City Council is not listening to its community. If it did, it would immediately STOP CVPD Surveillance. We do NOT want our whereabouts and images of our cars (and sometimes passengers) shared with over 800 agencies across the country. END IT, DON’T MEND IT! The harm is already done, and you need to stop it before harming more of our community members! Michael M Location: 92116, San Diego Submitted At: 8:52pm 03-22-21 Chula Vista City Council has lost our trust. Its ALPR surveillance program must end! I join with other community members in calling on Chula Vista City Council to: 1) end the contract with Vigilant Solutions & STOP SHARING OUR DATA, 2) pass an ordinance to PROTECT OUR PRIVACY, & 3) establish an INDEPENDENT, community-led advisory board to OVERSEE acquisition & use of surveillance technology. Kathy Hardy Location: Submitted At: 3:30pm 03-22-21 “Big Brother” is alive and well in Chula Vista! The use of drones as well as ALPR technology is an infringement of privacy rights, especially when there is no oversight of how and when these insidious devices are being used. I am especially concerned with the use of license plate readers and the data collected from them. Where does this data go? Who is able to access the data? Who is in charge of oversight besides CVPD? The community deserves to have input in each of these areas and to have our voices heard. A city designated as “welcoming” should actually welcome input from its residents. I am asking for community-led oversight of any surveillance technologies used in Chula Vista from their inception to their usage. That is the least that a welcoming city should embrace for all residents and visitors to our community. NAN KAR Location: 92131 Submitted At: 12:32pm 03-22-21 Please STOP CVPD Surveillance immediately. Do NOT share whereabouts and images of our cars and passengers with 800+ agencies across the country. Thank you!