FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS HENRY SANTANA, AT-LARGE CITY COUNCILOR AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. TODAY IS APRIL 13TH, 2026.
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TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET NUMBER 0320 MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT
OF FIVE UH FIVE $577,500 IN THE FORM OF A GRANT THE FY 25 PORT SECURITY GRANT AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WILL FUND THE PURCHASE OF THE NEW 31 LIFE PROOF BOAT, THE REPLACEMENT OF ENGINES ON THE 31 SAFE BOAT
AND 38 SAFE BOAT AND FINALLY THE RECOLORING OF THE VEHICLE PATROL BOAT AND ICE RESCUE TRAINING. THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY MAYOR MICHELLE WU AND WAS
REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON FEBRUARY 11TH, 2026 AND DOCKET NUMBER 0759 MESSAGE IN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BOSTON
TO ACCEPT AND EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF $10 MILLION $10,925,140.07 IN THE FORM OF A GRANT FOR FY
26 COUNTER ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS GRANT PROGRAM AWARDED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, PASSED TO THE MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY TO BE ADMINISTERED BY
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE GRANT WAS FOR AN INCREASE IN BPD ABILITY TO DETECT, IDENTIFY, TRACKED AND MONITOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS WITHIN THE CITY OF BOSTON.
THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY MAYOR MICHELLE WU AND WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON APRIL 8TH, 2026 AND THE FINAL DOCKET RECOVERING TONIGHT. TODAY IS TALKING NUMBER 0476
ORDER FOR A SERIES OF HEARINGS REGARDING ALL CITY OF BOSTON GRANTS ADMINISTERED BY THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY UM COUNCILOR BY MYSELF, COUNCILOR FLYNN AND COUNCIL AS
WELL AND WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON MARCH 4TH 2026. TODAY I AM JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR AARON MURPHY AND
COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE. AND WE WILL ALSO BE JOINED WITH COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. UM, BEFORE WE START TODAY'S UH UH BEFORE WE START, UM I'M
GONNA PASS IT OVER TO THE PANEL. I'M GOING TO GIVE MY COLLEAGUES OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BRIEF OPENING REMARKS. UM, AND I'LL START WITH, UM, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THESE THIS THESE ISSUES AND THESE GRANTS, MISTER CHAIR AND WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION TEAM AND
THE BOSTON POLICE THAT ARE PRESENT TODAY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH ALL FOUR INDIVIDUALS AND FOUR OUTSTANDING LEADERS ON THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL.
UM, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE GRANTS I'VE VOTED FOR THEM IN THE PAST . I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE TO THE RESIDENTS OF BOSTON TO KEEP US SAFE, BUT I ALSO KNOW
THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO GET THIS FUNDING, UM, INTO THE APPROPRIATE INTO THE BOSTON PLACE TO FOR THE APPROPRIATE REASON AND THAT IS ALSO TO
PROTECT AND SERVE NOT JUST BOSTON RESIDENTS BUT THE THOUSANDS OF VISITORS AND TOURISTS THAT COME IN HERE WHETHER IT'S THIS UPCOMING SOCCER TOURNAMENT, UM, WHETHER
IT'S TOURISTS COMING IN FOR OTHER REASONS. UM, BUT IT'S ALSO ABOUT WORKING CLOSELY WITH CITIES AND TOWNS ACROSS THE GREATER BOSTON AREA .
AND I KNOW THAT'S WHAT BOSTON POLICE DOES EXCEPTIONALLY WELL ALSO AS IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT BOSTON, IT'S ABOUT CHELSEA, IT'S ABOUT CAMBRIDGE, IT'S ABOUT SOMERVILLE AND IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER.
THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE EVERYONE TO TALK ABOUT THESE SPECIFIC ONES.
BUT I KNOW MARIA, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO, UM, TALK US THROUGH ALL THE OTHERS I KNOW THE CHAIR LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS BEEN DOING THIS WITH THE FIRE GRANTS WHERE THEY COME IN ONCE AT THE
BEGINNING AND TALK THROUGH ALL OF THEM. SO WE'RE NOT CALLING YOU IN EACH TIME. SO JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING ABOUT THEM AND I KNOW YOU HAVE PEOPLE BEHIND YOU ALSO WHO DO A LOT OF WORK UM, YOU
KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE BEING USED PROPERLY AND THAT WE'RE GETTING THESE GRANTS SO IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY IN THE FISCAL TIME WE'RE IN NOW MAKING SURE WHATEVER GRANTS WE CAN GET TO KEEP OUR CITY SAFE, WE
ALWAYS DO AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB. WE ALWAYS PREPARE FOR, YOU KNOW, THE WHAT WE NEED THE MOST. BUT THIS SUMMER WILL BE A LOT. SO THANK YOU IN ADVANCE AND WE'LL HAVE TO SAY IT TO YOU
OFTEN PREPARING THAT YOU KNOW NOT JUST OUR RESIDENTS BUT VISITORS COME HAVE FUN AND YOU KNOW, LEAVE FAILING. YOU KNOW WHAT WE KNOW THAT THIS IS THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD.
SO THANK YOU FOR BEING THE BEST POLICE DEPARTMENT AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU MR CHAIR AND THANK YOU TO MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALL THE
WORK THAT YOU DO ON BEHALF OF OUR CITY. WE KNOW THAT THESE HEARINGS ARE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR MYSELF, FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORK OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ABOUT SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS, ABOUT HOW WE'RE FUNDING EFFORTS AND ABOUT HOW WE'RE USING TECHNOLOGIES IN LINE WITH THE ORDINANCES THAT WE'VE PASSED HERE ON THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING MORE. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU TO THE PANEL FOR BEING HERE I APPRECIATE IT. LOOK FORWARD TO THE HEARING. LET'S GO.
AWESOME GREAT. THANK YOU. AND NOW I'M GOING TO UM IS REALLY GLAD AND THANKFUL FOR ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO. UM AND LOOKING FORWARD TO
LEARNING MORE ABOUT THESE UM, GRANTS UM, BEING ABLE TO PASS THEM ON THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL FLOOR. UM, BUT UM, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU ALL. UM, I KNOW YOU'VE ALL BEEN HERE UM, BEFORE. UM, SO, UM I'LL TURN IT OVER TO
YOU. UM, AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MY COUNCIL. COLLEAGUES FOR QUESTIONS. OKAY. >> WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO START WITH AN OVERVIEW. OR WHATEVER HOWEVER YOU WANT TO START? SO I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S A, UM THANK. >> YOU THE OPPORTUNITY I.
JUST AS AN OVERVIEW WITH GRANTS WE WE, UH, ADMINISTER AN ESTIMATED 28 SOMETIMES A LITTLE BIT MORE SOMETIMES A LITTLE LESS MILLION PER YEAR AT ANY
GIVEN TIME. WE WE REWRITE UP TO 13 MILLION NEW MONEY A YEAR. AND WHEN I SAY NEW IT'S JUST MUCH OF THAT IS A CONTINUATION GRANTS THAT WE HAVE TO REAPPLY
FOR SOME OF IT IS REALLY NEW BECAUSE IT'S FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE. SO BETWEEN ANY GIVEN TIME HAVING TO FINANCIALLY ADMINISTER UP TO 28 AND THEN
EVERY YEAR BRINGING IN A NEW ABOUT 13 MILLION THAT'S THE OVERALL UMBRELLA, UH, OF THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY THAT TAKES PLACE OUT OF UH, THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
WITHIN THE BPD. UM MUCH OF THAT MONEY GOES TOWARDS THAT LIKE TO SAY HELP PROGRAMS SO THAT IT COULD INCLUDE DV ADVOCATES, UH,
MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIANS. UM, WE HAVE UH UH YOUTH CONNECT FOLKS BEST CLINICIANS. SO SOME OF THAT WORK IS REALLY SHARED EVEN THOUGH IT COMES
THROUGH OUR OFFICE IS SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT SYSTEMS. UH WE TRY TO DO THOSE DISTRICT BASED SO THEY'RE VERY GROUND LEVEL AND IN THE COMMUNITY WE DON'T LIKE TO SORT OF SPREAD
THEM ACROSS THE CITY WITH THE CITYWIDE INITIATIVES. WE LIKE TO PLACE THEM IN NEIGHBORHOODS SO THAT HELPING COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND HELPING UH, NEIGHBORHOODS DIRECTLY OUT OF SOMETIMES THE
POLICE UH DISTRICT, SOMETIMES THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER UM OTHER GRANTS THAT WE GET UH MORE OF AND IN AN INVESTIGATIVE MODE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE
SERVICES AND SOMETIMES THAT COMES IN THE FORM OF UH, LAB TESTING MONEY TRAINING EQUIPMENT FOR OUR LAB. UH, YOU KNOW A GREAT DEAL I'M SURE BY NOW ABOUT THE SAKI GRANT.
BUT THERE ARE OTHER GRANTS THAT KEEP FOLKS KEEP KEEP OUR LAB ACCREDITED AND KEEP OUR LAB STAFF WELL TRAINED AS WELL AS WELL PREPARED WITH WITH
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES. UM, OTHER SORT OF ONE OFFS IS WE HAVE SOME FUNDING TO, UH, GET ACCREDITED. WE ALSO HAVE DATA ANALYSTS WORKING TO DO COMMUNITY
COMPSTAT WORK. UM WE HAVE A HAVE COORDINATOR WHO MANAGES FIVE DIFFERENT HUB TABLES IN FIVE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS. THAT'S AN EXCELLENT DEEP COMMUNITY POLICING ENGAGEMENT
MODEL. UH, EVERY ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS TAKE PLACE ONCE A WEEK. THERE'S 3040 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE SITTING AT THOSE TABLES ON A WEEKLY BASIS IN FIVE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, WE HAVE DV ADVOCATES I MENTIONED FOR MANY YEARS WE WERE APPLYING UH, TO TRY TO GET A DV ADVOCATE. IN EVERY. >> SINGLE DISTRICT BECAUSE ON AVERAGE THERE'S 1100 CALLS FOR SERVICE GOING INTO OUR
DISTRICTS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE . THAT MONEY GETS VERY STRETCHED . UH, BUT THE CITY HAS TAKEN ON A . LOT OF THAT. AND SO NOW MOST OF OUR DV ADVOCATES WHICH THEY CAN TALK
TO MORE UH, ARE ON THE OPERATING BUDGET BUT WE STILL HAVE A FEW THAT MAYBE ONE THAT CAN SPEED UP, UM, GRANTS. UM. >> AS OF MAYBE 4 OR 5 YEARS AGO WE STARTED APPLYING FOR THE
ENCORE CASINO COMMUNITY MITIGATION FUNDING AND THAT HELPS US, UH, DEAL WITH THE DIFFERENT CRIMES THAT TAKE PLACE, UM. OR SORT OF MITIGATE THE CRIME
THAT TAKES PLACE BECAUSE OF THE OPERATION OF THE ENCORE CASINOS . UM, WE HAVE THE SHANNON GRANT. EVERYONE KNOWS THE SHANNON GRANT. WE BASICALLY GIVE AWAY OVER 1
TO 1.5 MILLION PER YEAR, UH, TO COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO DO GOOD YOUTH PREVENTION YOUTH OUTREACH WORK. UM, WE HAVE SOME MUNICIPAL ROAD SAFETY MONEY WHICH UH, DEPUTY
MARTIN IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT AS WELL AS SOME EARMARKED MONEY THAT WE GET FROM THE STATE. ALSO DEPUTY MATT WILL DISCUSS THAT ONE AS WELL AS THE PORT SECURITY. WE HAVE A WE HAVE MULTIPLE
GRANTS TO HELP US SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO SUFFER WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSES. UM, AND WE'RE. KNOWN NATIONALLY AS IS ONE OF THE BEST DEPARTMENTS IN THE
COUNTRY IN TERMS OF UH, CALL RESPONSE TO MENTAL HEALTH, UM, TO TRY TO PREVENT. UM HARM. AND ALSO GET FOLKS THE SUPPORT AND THE CARE THAT THEY NEED UH
,FROM CALL SERVICE. UM I HAVE A YOUTH POLICING PARTNERSHIP GRANT WHICH IS A TRUST GRANT WE JUST TRAINED. UH, 6. >> TO 10 POLICE OFFICERS TO
BECOME CERTIFIED TRAINERS AND WE'VE JUST, UH, BROUGHT 75 KIDS THROUGH THAT PROCESS. UH, WHICH WAS AN EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT PROCESS. I HAVE THE EVALUATION JUST GOT IT IN MY EMAIL TODAY.
UM, AND GOING BACK TO THE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES, WE HAVE A DV DV ANALYSTS UH, AT THE FTC SAKI GRANT, UH, CRIME LAB
CRIMINALIST POSITIONS TRAINING FOR. THE LAB. UM TO AND TRAFFICKING UNIT TRAININGS, UM A RESEARCH PROJECT WITH SOME OF OUR
HOMICIDE NUMBERS AND YEAH, I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED A LOT OF THE SUPPLIES AND TRAVEL AND CONTRACTS THAT GO TO THE LAB BUT ALSO THE HOMICIDE UNIT.
UM, WE HAVE A SEXUAL ASSAULT RATE THAT IS THAT ALLOWS US TO VISIT PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UH, BEEN DEEMED UM TO BE A SEXUAL ASSAULT OFFENDERS.
SO WE DO ALL THE FOLLOW UP BY KNOCKING ON THE DOORS AND MAKING SURE THAT THE ADDRESS THAT THEY GAVE WAS THE CORRECT ADDRESS. SO THERE'S A LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS AROUND GIVING THE CORRECT ADDRESS IF YOU'RE A SEXUAL OFFENDER AND YOU'RE
COMING YOU'RE RETURNING THAT YOU GIVE THE RIGHT ADDRESS. IT'S JUST. >> WITHOUT THAT GRANT IT WOULD BE HARD FOR US TO VERIFY THEIR ADDRESSES. SO THAT'S ONE OF OUR GRANTS AS WELL. BUT YOU KNOW IF. >> YOU NEED. INFORMATION ABOUT ANY ONE GRANT. PLEASE FEEL.
FREE TO CONTACT INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND WE'LL GIVE YOU A MUCH DEEPER UM, ABSTRACT AND INFORMATION. AND AND A. >> LITTLE PRESENTATION ON ANY ONE GRANT THAT YOU'RE. INTERESTED IN. >> AND I THINK THAT'S IT FOR ME FOR NOW I'M GONNA PASS IT
OFF TO. UM. >> DEPUTY MARTIN HERE. HAVE QUESTIONS? DO WE DO QUESTIONS LATER? DON'T WORRY, I THINK. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. >> MAYBE YOU. >> CAN GO HAVE A GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. UM, FOR GRANTS I'M GOING TO
SPEAK ABOUT FIRST IS THE MUNICIPAL ROAD SAFETY GRANT. THIS IS A FEDERAL GRANT APPROXIMATELY $50,000. IT'S AWARDED TO THE DEPARTMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER. UM PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
SO IT'LL BE A MONTH BY MONTH INITIATIVE. YOU KNOW, ONE MONTH MAYBE DISTRACTED DRIVING. UM. >> YOU KNOW, UM. IMPAIRED DRIVING, UM, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. SO EACH MONTH IT GOES TO AN ALLOCATES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO
UTILIZE AND OVER TIME TO ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS UM SPECIFIED IN THE GRANT. WE HAVE A SEPARATE GRANT HERE FOR UM ADA COMPLIANT BARRIERS
FOR DISTRICT ONE BASED ON THE VOLUME OF IN SCALE OF EVENT PUBLIC EVENTS WE HAVE DOWNTOWN HERE AT A1. UM THE REQUEST WAS PUT THROUGH TO PURCHASE UM $50,000 IN TWO
BARRIERS WHICH ARE ADA COMPLIANT WHICH WE COULD PUT ALL AROUND THE SO THEY ALL PLAZA EVERYWHERE NEEDED QUICKLY DEPLOYABLE QUICKLY REMOVABLE UM TO ENSURE SAFE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND ALSO
HOPEFULLY REDUCE STAFFING WHERE YOU MAY NOT NEED AS MANY POLICE OFFICERS IN CERTAIN PLACES BECAUSE YOU COULD DROP THESE BARRIERS WELL AND WILL ALSO SAVE MONEY UH STAFFING WISE IN ADDITION TO KEEPING THE EVENT SAFE.
UM, THERE'S A THIRD GRANT HERE FROM UH, AGAIN THROUGH THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. UM, THIS IS A $50,000 GRANT FOR OVERTIME WITH THE DIRECTED PATROLS AND THE BUSINESS
COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY IN THE UM B2 AND C11 COMMUNITIES WHICH CONSISTS OF UH DORCHESTER, ROXBURY, THE $50,000 AND OVERTIME FOR THESE GRANTS WILL BE UTILIZED FOR VISIBILITY AND
TARGETED PATROLS IN AROUND ALL THESE BUSINESSES IN THE BUSY TIMES OF THE YEAR BASED ON WHATEVER'S GOING ON AT THE TIME. AND LASTLY. UM. >> THIS IS THE PORT SECURITY GRANT AGAIN, IT'S A FEDERAL GRANT THAT'S UM FUNDED BY FEMA
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. THE AWARD UM, WE'D BE RECEIVING WOULD BE $577,500 FROM THAT AGENCY AND OUR REQUIRED MATCH
WOULD BE $192,500. UM, AGAIN, THIS IS FOR OUR HARBOR PATROL UNIT. WE'RE THE ONLY 24 SEVEN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY THAT PATROLS THE HARBOR WHERE THE HARBORMASTER IS. WELL, WE'RE IN CHARGE OF THAT. UM.
>> THE ENTIRETY OF THE, UH, THE HARBOR SCHOOL. SO THE FUNDS WILL BE UTILIZED TO PURCHASE A 31FT LIFE PROOF BOAT. UM, THIS WILL BE REPLACING OUR
27 FOOT, UM, NIGHTHAWK WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 25 YEARS OLD. SO THIS WILL IN FACT BE REPLACING ONE OF US BOATS SO IT'LL BE LEVEL MAINTENANCE CAN ACTUALLY BE CHEAPER. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE ON THE BOAT YOU
KNOW UH PROVIDE US ADDITIONAL UM UH ABILITY SO IT'S A BETTER DIVE PLATFORM FOR US AND IN RECOVERY AS WELL BASED ON THE UH THE MAKEUP OF THE BOAT WITH UTILIZES FOR PORT SECURITY, UH
,REGULAR HARBOR PATROLS, SEARCH AND RESCUE, UM ANYTHING THAT THAT WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH OUR MISSION, THE REST OF THE ITEMS THAT FALL WITHIN THE GRANT UM, THE COVID CHECK COLLAR REPLACEMENT AGAIN, OURS
IS LEAKING. UH, IS DATED. THIS WILL BE, UH, THE SAFER ALTERNATIVE WHICH WE DON'T HAVE TO FILL UP WITH THERE. IT'S A HARD CALL. JUST REPLACE IN SECTIONS AS YOU GO. SO IN TIME YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T OFF THE CALL. YOU JUST HAVE TO REPLACE
SECTIONS. IT'LL BE UM MAKE MORE SENSE FINANCIALLY. UM, AND ALSO THE REPLACEMENT OF TWO ENGINES FOR TWO OF OUR OTHER BOATS THOSE ENGINES ARE AUTO WARRANTY IN APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS. UM, SO.
WE SELL THOSE ENGINES TO REPLACE THEM WITH THESE AND SAVE THE CITY A LOT OF MONEY IN REPLACEMENT COSTS AND PURCHASE AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. EXCUSE ME? THE PURCHASE COSTS AND THE LAST BIT OF MONEY FUNDING THAT WOULD
COME OUT OF THE PORT SECURITY GRANT WOULD BE SOME TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE ENTIRE HARBOR UNIT FOR A BASIC ICE RESCUE AND THAT WOULD SUFFICE FOR THE AIRPORT SECURITY GROUP. AWESOME. >> THANK YOU. WELCOME, SIR.
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, MR CHAIR. COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. >> MY NAME IS LANITA CULLINANE. I'M A SUPERINTENDENT AND I OVERSEE THE BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYSIS, UM, UNDER WHICH THE BOSTON REGIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
FALLS. AND WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE 2026 COUNTER UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS GRANT PROGRAM . UH, THE TOTAL AWARD AMOUNT FOR
THAT IS $10,925,140.07. UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BROKEN DOWN BUDGET, UH, WE LOOK AT THE SALARY AND FRINGE COSTS FOR ONE FULL TIME C UAS PROGRAM MANAGER
OVER TIME FOR C U.S. ACTIVITIES, C UAS RELATED EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING AND THE AMOUNTS THAT CORRESPOND TO THOSE ARE 289,000 $982,000
$300,000 FOR THE OVERTIME FOR THE EQUIPMENT, $10,035,158.07 AND THEN TRAINING AT $300,000. THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
HAS BEEN AWARDED THE C US A THAT YOU SEE UA S GRANT FUNDING TO ESTABLISH A DEPLOYABLE COUNTER UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS CAPABILITY SUPPORTING
MAJOR VENUE SECURITY C OUR LEVEL OF EVENTS INCLUDING THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP IN AMERICA, 250. EVENTS AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AND
ANY EMERGING UAS THREAT RESPONSE ACROSS THE CITY OF BOSTON. THE PROJECT WILL ENHANCE. AND SUSTAIN. THE DEPARTMENT'S EXISTING UAS DETECTION. SYSTEM AND WILL CREATE A MOBILE
UAS DETECTION, TRACKING, IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION PLATFORM ALIGNED WITH HOMELAND SECURITY NEEDS. THE PROJECT INCLUDES PROCUREMENT OF A COMPLETE MULTI-LAYERED C UAS SYSTEM WITH
FUNCTIONALITY EQUIVALENT TO LEADING RADAR RADIO FREQUENCY. DETECTION. >> OPTICAL DETECTION AND PASSIVE IDENTIFICATION SENSORS. THESE SENSORS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO AN AIRSPACE
AWARENESS AND COMMAND AND CONTROL PLATFORM CAPABLE OF FUZING MULTI-SOURCE DATA INTO A REAL TIME OPERATIONAL PICTURE SUITABLE FOR BOTH FIXED AND MOBILE DEPLOYMENTS.
THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO FUND ASSOCIATED PERSONNEL OVERTIME AND TRAINING COSTS. I'M ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY DIRECTOR BRIAN WALSH WHO IS UM OVERSEES THE BOSTON REGIONAL
INTELLIGENCE CENTER AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO THIS GRANT. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. BRIAN LAST TIME. I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. GREAT. >> THANK YOU. UM WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING
HERE. UM, JUST FOR CONTEXT FOR MY COLLEAGUES. WELL, FIRST I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'VE BEEN JOINED BY COUNCILOR UM CULPEPER. UM, AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY COUNCILOR WEBER.
UM, JUST FOR CONTEXT, UM FOR MY COLLEAGUES UM, THERE ARE THREE SPECIFIC UM, GRANTS THAT WILL BE UM COMING UP TO THE FLOOR THIS UPCOMING WEEK FOR A VOTE
ON UM WHICH WAS WHY WE HAVE UM ,THREE INDIVIDUALS TESTIFYING ON THOSE SPECIFIC GRANTS AND THEN WE HAVE MARIA SIEVERS, UM, WHO'S UH, WILL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF ALL THE GRANTS, UM, THAT. >> GO TO THE BOSTON. >> POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, MOVING FORWARD, UM, IF THERE ARE ANY A LARGER UH AMOUNT OF GRANTS WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER HEARING. UM, I ALSO ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE'S ANY GRANTS THAT ARE COMING UP THAT WE WILL NEED TO VOTE ON AND YOU
DO UM, WANT A UM, HEARING ON THAT PLEASE. UM, THAT MY TEAM I ME AND MY TEAM KNOW AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT. THAT HAPPENS. UM UP WE WILL BE PULLING UM GRANTS UM FROM THE GREEN SHEETS
UH, MOVING FORWARD, UM, AND MY . TEAM WILL REACH OUT TO. UM, UH, MARIA CHEEVERS TO GIVE THAT. TO TO HAVE THAT. UM. >> PERSONALIZED DESCRIPTION ON THOSE GRANTS THAT CAN BE AVAILABLE. >> TO. OUR CONCERT. AND WE.
HAVE OUR GRANT COMING UP. THAT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD TALK ABOUT TODAY. OH, I HAVE A IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT IT. UH, AND I HAVE UM THE HEAD OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT, THE COMMANDER OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
UNIT BUT I DO ACTUALLY WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT NOW BEFORE WE GO TO COUNCIL QUESTIONS. THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE IF YOU GUYS HEAR IT NOW AND YOU AGREE TO IT, WE DON'T HAVE TO SET ANOTHER HEARING. ABSOLUTELY. >> SO, UM. YOU COME DOWN.
>> AND I'LL. LET YOU SIT HERE. I'LL MOVE IT. I HATE TO SQUEEZE IT IN THIS MORNING. I DON'T WANT TO WAIT.
BUT I GOT. IT ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON. >> UH, MY NAME IS. NICOLA POINT. I'M A. LIEUTENANT DETECTIVE. >> I OVERSEE THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. >> UNIT FOR. >> THE BOSTON POLICE.
UH. >> THE GRANT UH, THE TOTAL AWARD IS $150,327.96. WITH A MATCH AMOUNT OF. $50,109.32 UH, THAT COVERS.
UH. >> ONE FULL TIME SALARY FOR ONE OF OUR DV ADVOCATES. >> WE CURRENTLY HAVE. SIX DV. >> ADVOCATES SO ONE OF THEM IS COVERED BY THIS GRANT. UH, ADDITIONALLY IT. PROVIDES FOR OVERTIME FOR ALL OF. THE DV ADVOCATES. UM. >> WITH ONLY SIX.
THERE'S AREAS. IN THE CITY THAT DON'T HAVE A DEDICATED ADVOCATE. SO THE OVERTIME, UM IS SHARED AMONG THOSE ADVOCATES TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THOSE AREAS. AWESOME. >> THANK YOU. UM WITH THAT SO I'M NOT GOING
TO TURN IT OVER TO UM MY CALL MY COLLEAGUES FOR COUNSELOR QUESTIONS. UM, WE'RE GOING TO START WITH COUNCILOR FLYNN. UM. THAT'S TO UM BECAUSE THERE'S QUITE A FEW OF US WE'LL DO FIVE
MINUTES AND THEN WE'LL DO A SECOND ROUND. UM, IF ANYONE NEED TO COUNCILOR FOR ANY OTHER FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR THE THANK YOU TO THE BOSTON POLICE FOR BEING HERE.
I PLAN TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF ALL OF THESE GRANTS, INCLUDING THE ,UM, MONEY FOR BARRIERS THAT ARE, UM, RESPECTFUL FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THE.
THE THE PORT SECURITY GRANT. THE AND THE OTHER THE OTHER RELATED ISSUES FOR THE OTHER SUPPORT FOR UM B2 C11 UM AND
FOR THE THE DRONE PROGRAM I GUESS THAT YOU WOULD CALL IT THE $10 MILLION. UM UM, PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE PORT SECURITY GRANT I
REPRESENT AN AREA THAT IS MADE UP OF MOST OF DOWNTOWN BOSTON AND SOUTH BOSTON WHERE I'M FROM THAT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE OVER 20 SOMETHING YEARS IN THE NAVY.
BUT I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT UM, PROTECTING OUR PORT IS AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, DEPUTY TO THE TEAM. I SEE THEM FREQUENTLY AND THEY'RE DOING TRAINING AND THEY'RE VERY PROFESSIONAL.
BUT WHAT I ALSO LIKE ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING, DEPUTY, IS THEY'RE ALSO SUPPORTING OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS AND THAT'S THE COMMITMENT WE ALL SHARE WHEN WHEN WE'RE ON THE OCEAN.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE ABOUT SOME OF THE COOPERATION THAT EXISTS AS IT RELATES TO THE PORT SECURITY IN COOPERATION WITH MAYBE IT'S MASS PORT,
MAYBE WITH MAYBE IT'S WITH WINTHROP UM MAYBE IT'S WITH UH STATE POLICE BUT JUST GIVE ME A GIVE US AN IDEA ABOUT THAT. ABSOLUTELY, SIR. SO WE HAVE GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH WITH EVERYONE YOU MENTIONED.
UH, IN ADDITION TO THE STATE POLICE, THE COAST GUARD IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PORT. WE WORK WITH THEM ON A DAILY BASIS. UM, WHETHER IT BE ON PATROLS OR MAJOR EVENTS COMING UP IN COLLABORATION TO WORK ON SAFETY PLANS AND HOW WE CAN SUPPLEMENT
ONE ANOTHER. UH, WE PROVIDE MUTUAL AID TO THE UAC REGION UP THROUGH WINTHROP. QUINCY, UM, WHEREVER WHEREVER UH, SO, UM WE SPLIT IT WE SPLIT UP THE DUTIES, UM, BASED ON
LIMITED MANPOWER, WE SUPPLEMENT EACH OTHER WITH DIVE OPERATIONS WITH US WITH A SEARCH AND RESCUE RECOVERY AND OR SECURITY OPERATION. SO AGAIN WE HAVE GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERYONE
INVOLVED AND IT TAKES THE ROOT OF ALL TO TO KEEP THE WHOLE HARBOR SAFE SIR. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. I WAS ALSO INTERESTED IN THAT. ANOTHER ISSUE I'VE FOCUSED ON FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS IS
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE . SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU, LIEUTENANT, FOR THE WORK YOUR TEAM IS DOING. UM, CAN YOU GIVE ME A LITTLE
BIT OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON HOW YOU INTERACT WITH SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE? I REPRESENT A LARGE CANTONESE SPEAKING COMMUNITY. UH, SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY.
BUT, UM, HOW DO YOU INTERACT WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT SPEAK ENGLISH OR MAY SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE SUCH AS CANTONESE OR SPANISH?
THERE YOU GO. UM YEAH. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF SURVIVORS WHO. ENGLISH IS NOT THEIR. FIRST LANGUAGE AND THEY'RE NOT, UH. NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS. UH.
THE GRANT THE IMMIGRANT DOES UM PROVIDE FOR. THAT ONE DV ADVOCATE SHE DOES UM, SPEAK SPANISH. SHE'S MULTILINGUAL SO THAT ASSISTS US QUITE A BIT.
UM AND SO SHE IS ASSIGNED. TO AREA E 13 JAMAICA PLAIN. SHE ALSO. HELPS OUT IN EAST BOSTON. BUT SHE. HELPS CITYWIDE UM FOR ANY SPANISH SPEAKING SURVIVORS.
ADDITIONALLY WE UTILIZE THE CITY RESOURCES THE LANGUAGE LINE UM FOR ANY UH SURVIVORS THAT MAY NOT SPEAK THAT ARE ADVOCATES OR DETECTIVES DO NOT SPEAK UH, NATIVELY.
THANK YOU. >> LIEUTENANT, MY FINAL QUESTION OR MAYBE MAYBE IT'S JUST A COMMENT. IF ANYONE WANTS TO ANSWER IT, THEY CAN. IF NOT, MAYBE I CAN FOLLOW UP NEXT TIME.
BUT ONE ISSUE I'VE BEEN VERY FOCUSED ON IS THE CRIME LAB HAD THE BOSTON POLICE. I WANT TO SEE BOSTON POLICE HAVE THE BEST CRIME LAB IN THE COUNTRY.
I WANT US TO BE USING WHY SCREENING UM ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MORE STABILITY IN TERMS OF MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION AT THE CRIME LAB. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY UPDATE
FROM ME IN THE BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB? UM. >> I CAN SAY THAT, UM, WE RECENTLY WE STARTED IN AUGUST. IT TOOK US ALMOST SIX MONTHS BECAUSE OF ALL THE BACK AND
FORTH AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. BUT WE DID RADICALLY CHANGE OUR UH, SAKI AT GRANT THROUGH A BUDGET REVISION SO THAT WE COULD BEGIN OUR TRANSITION TOWARDS A Y SCREENING AND THAT
BUDGET REVISION WILL INCLUDE VALIDATION AS WELL AS TRAINING. WE ALSO REAPPLIED FOR THE SAKAI MONEY WHICH WAS THE FY 25 SAKI MONEY.
UH IF AWARDED THAT MONEY UH WHICH I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO TAKE TO EVEN AWARD MONEY AS OF LATE. UM, BUT IF AWARDED THAT MONEY
THERE'S ALSO ADDITIONAL FUNDING IN THE FY 25 SAKI TO CONTINUE THE PROCESS OF MOVING US TOWARDS Y SCREENING UH, Y SCREENING AS YOU ALL KNOW, UM.
IS 25 MORE PERCENT LIKELY TO COME BACK WITH UM WITH SOME. UH. >> RESULTS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE UM, MALE FEMALE, UH, DO YOU NAME OUT I DON'T
WANT TO GET TOO INTO IT BECAUSE THEN I'LL START PRETENDING I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO DNA MATTER AND I DON'T BUT JUST IN GENERAL WE HAVE BEEN, UM, SORT OF MOVING UH, OUR GRAND STRATEGY TOWARDS
SUPPORTING Y SCREENING. WELL THANK YOU, MARIA, THANK YOU TO THE BOSTON POLICE THAT ARE HERE. I'M OUT OF TIME. I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL TO MY CLIENTS, TO MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
COUNCILOR MURPHY AT THE FLOOR. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE OVERVIEW . I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. UM, WELL, FIRST I'LL START WITH THE SEX TRAFFICKING GRANT.
IS IT TRUE? UNFORTUNATELY, I READ RECENTLY THERE'S CONCERN THAT WITH FIFA COMING THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE. UM. >> NEED TO, YOU KNOW, BE PREPARED FOR MORE SEXUAL
TRAFFICKING AND ASSAULTS COMING UP. IS THAT TRUE? LIKE ARE WE HOW WILL WE BE PLANNING DIFFERENTLY? AND IS THIS GRANT I KNOW THIS IS A GRANT BECAUSE I KNOW WE
WERE TOGETHER A FEW MONTHS AGO JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW WE DON'T HAVE A DV ADVOCATE UM, AT THIS TIME IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD OBVIOUSLY WE PUT THEM WHERE THE NEED IS MOST AND THAT ONE
OF OUR FULL TIME, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYEES IS THROUGH A GRANT. IS THIS ENOUGH OR SHOULD WE BE ADVOCATING WHEN THE BUDGET COMES UP FOR SUPPORTING YOUR DEPARTMENT MORE?
MOST DEFINITELY. UM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT? SURE. >> UM, OVERALL. THE CASE VOLUME FOR THE CITY TO BE HANDLED BY THE SIX ADVOCATES WE HAVE IS UM, OVERWHELMING.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. UH, SO I DO THINK THAT ADDITIONAL ADVOCATES WOULD BE BENEFICIAL. UH, WE'VE PREVIOUSLY. HAD MORE ADVOCATES. ,UM, IN PREVIOUS YEARS AND
WITH BUDGET CUTS AND SORT OF SOME OF THE GRANTS CHANGING ,UH, WE HAVE LOST THOSE ADVOCATES. SO IT DOES BECOME UH, A CUMBERSOME TASK FOR THESE ADVOCATES WHO REALLY SPEND A
LOT OF TIME WITH THE SURVIVORS TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE SORT OF DIRECTING THEM TO THE CORRECT RESOURCES, FOLLOWING UP WITH THEM, UH, AND OFFERING ONGOING ASSISTANCE. OKAY. >> THANK YOU FOR THE ROAD
SAFETY GRANT IF THAT SPECIFIC TO NEIGHBORHOODS OR LOOK OVERALL. IT'S OVERALL MA'AM SO WE COULD DEPLOY WE'LL LOOK AT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE BRICK WITH CRASH SAFETY DATA AND SO FORTH. THEY WILL DEPLOY THEM BASED ON
WHERE IT'S NEEDED THE MOST. SO THAT WILL CHANGE IT'S FLUID . YES OKAY. UM AWESOME. UM IF YOU COULD JUST EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE
HARBOR UM, OBVIOUSLY REPLACING A BOAT IS IMPORTANT AND. DO WE HAVE A FULL TIME YEAR ROUND MCO WITH. THE HARBOR UNIT? I KNOW IN THE SUMMER WE.
HAVE SOMEONE WITH THEM. DO YOU KNOW IF WE HAVE SOMEONE YEAR ROUND TO. I BELIEVE THE SUMMERTIME THEY'RE DOWN THERE. NOT NOT YEAR ROUND. NO BUT UM ARE THE OFFICES THAT ARE ON THE HARBOR UNIT ALSO THE SCUBA.
DIVERS. >> THE DIVE TEAM THEY ARE ALSO TRAINED FOR BOTH. SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE STILL ASKING. YES. YEAH. NOT THAT NOT EVERY ONE OF THEM ACROSS TRAINED I'M WORKING TO GET THEM ALL CROSS-TRAINED. WE SUPPLEMENT THE DIVERS FROM
THE DISTRICT PERSONNEL WILL PULL FROM THE DISTRICT DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE DIVE OPERATION IF IT'S GOING TO EXPAND BEYOND EXCUSE ME EXPAND BEYOND THE TOURS WE NEED, ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL WILL PULL IT. BUT AT THIS TIME NOT EVERYONE
IN THE UNITS DIVE CERTIFIED BUT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT. AND WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? IS IT JUST TIME AND SCHEDULING OR IS THERE SOMETHING YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO THE HARBOR UNIT
THAT YOU'LL GET THAT TRAINING? SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THAT REQUIREMENT MOVING FORWARD. IT WASN'T ALWAYS A REQUIREMENT FOR EVERYONE I KNOW THEY SUPPLEMENTED I'LL BE ON THE SIDE OF THE UNIT OKAY. IS THAT SOMETHING AN OFFICER
COULD GET THE TRAINING AND THEN BE ELIGIBLE? IS THAT HOW IT WILL BE IN THE FUTURE IF IT'S REQUIRED? WELL IF IT'S REQUIRED WE HAVE TO PROVIDE THE TRAINING. YOU WILL. PROVIDE IT. >> THOUGH SO SOME PEOPLE COULD APPLY FOR A POSITION ALREADY HAVE THAT AND THAT'D BE ONE
ELEMENT OF THE JOB RIGHT. BUT UM IF WE'RE REQUIRED AND FOR THE POSITION THEY WON'T BE REQUIRED TO GET THE POSITION. OKAY WE. YOU'LL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR IT EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT AND THEN THEY'LL JUST BE A TIME TO MAKE SURE.
WE PROVIDE. >> THEM WITH IT. THEN WE WOULD TRAIN THEM ONCE THEY WERE, UH, ASSIGNED TO THE UNIT. OKAY. >> AWESOME. THANK YOU. UM, THE GRANT I THINK IT MIGHT
BE YOU ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE HAS A QUESTION, BUT, UM. IS THIS A GRANT THAT COMES BEFORE US EVERY YEAR? I'D THE UNARMED. NO. >> THIS IS NO DIFFERENT. NO. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME. OKAY. >> COULD YOU JUST SPEAK A
LITTLE BIT MORE THEN ABOUT UM, LIKE WHY WHY WHERE DID WE APPLY FOR IT IN THE PAST AND NOT GET IT OR SO IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE WANTED IN THE PAST AND NOW WE'VE WE FINALLY GOT.
>> IT ON. THIS ONE SECOND. SO THIS IS THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY WE'VE HAD TO APPLY THAT THIS IS A BRAND NEW GRANT THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CREATED.
UM SOMEWHAT AROUND FIFA AND THE WORLD CUP CITIES. SO THE HOST CITIES WERE ALLOWED TO APPLY THIS YEAR. UM, WE'RE TOLD THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER ROUND OF FUNDING NEXT YEAR UH, NATIONWIDE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.
AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THANK YOU. >> FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE ADMINISTRATION FOR BEING HERE.
UM, I. HAVE A QUESTION. UM, I THINK MY FIRST QUESTION IS UH, PROBABLY FOR, UH, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT MARTIN. THANK YOU FOR BEING BACK HERE.
UM, WE ALREADY HAVE AN UNARMED UNARMED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS GRANT HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, IS THAT CORRECT OR AN UNARMED A UAS PROGRAM HERE. PROGRAM PROGRAM? YOU TALK ABOUT GRANTS WITH THE
PROGRAM WE HAVE. WE BOTH. SO WE HAVE A DRONE UNIT. BUT UM, I CAN'T SPEAK REGARDING THE GRANT IF WE HAVEN'T PREVIOUSLY. WE HAVE NOT WE HAVE USED IN THE PAST SOME OF THE UM URBAN AREAS
SECURITY INITIATIVE. FUNDING FOR COUNTER UAS PURPOSES BUT IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO THAT TOPIC. OKAY. >> SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU THAT THERE'S A GRANT SPECIFIC TO THE USE OF DRONES.
UM, EVEN THOUGH IT SOUNDS IT SEEMS LIKE AND HOW I UNDERSTAND IT IS THAT WE DO HAVE. UH UNDER THE SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE POLICIES AROUND DRONE USAGE.
UM, AND DOES THIS FALL SQUARELY UNDER THAT THAT POLICY. I WOULD SAY IN GENERAL, YES. THE DEPARTMENT HAS A RULE UM, AROUND BOTH OUR USE OF DRONES OPERATIONALLY. UM. >> YOU KNOW, DEPUTY MARTIN
COULD SPEAK MORE TO THAT BUT UM, ALSO AROUND HOW WE HANDLE, UM, SUSPICIOUS, YOU KNOW, DRONE ACTIVITY IN THE CITY AS WELL. SO WE THE DEPARTMENT HAS AND OWNS ITS OWN DRONES AND THIS
GRANT SIZABLE GRANT IS TO COUNTER DRONES THAT ARE NOT OF THE DEPARTMENT. CORRECT? CORRECT. OKAY. DO WE AND WE ARE. WE DOING THAT ALREADY? CORRECT. >> YES. SO WE HAVE HAD UM DETECTION
TECHNOLOGY FOR UM ABOUT THE PAST DECADE OR SO IN THE CITY UM THAT DETECTS A PARTICULAR TYPE OF OF DRONE. UM THIS GRANT WILL ALLOW US TO EXPAND OUR COVERAGE UM, AS WE
ARE SEEING KIND OF THE THREATS FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF OF DRONES UM, EXPAND ALSO THE THE TYPE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DETECT CURRENTLY UH HAS BEEN LOSING MARKET SHARE. SO HISTORICALLY IT'S BEEN YOU
KNOW, 90 OR SO PERCENT OF THE DRONE MARKET THEY'VE BEEN KIND OF LOSING MARKET SHARE OVER TIME. SO THE NEED TO DEVELOP ADDITIONAL TECH DETECTION CAPABILITIES UH IS KIND OF MORE URGENT THIS YEAR.
SO OKAY SO THIS IS AN $11 MILLION GRANT WHICH IS A PRETTY SIZABLE GRANT. IS THAT GOING HOW IS THAT GOING TO BE USED? IS IT GOING TO BE USED TO UPDATE THAT DETECTION? WILL IT BE USED TO PURCHASE
DRONES ITSELF. SO IT WON'T BE USED TO PURCHASE ANY DRONES? UM IT WILL BE USED TO ENHANCE OUR DETECTION BY PURCHASING SOME NEWER TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE YOU KNOW, UM EXPENSIVE UM AND THEN IT WILL ALSO. >> FUND ADDITIONAL.
UH SO THE OTHER CAPABILITY HISTORICALLY OUR MITIGATION CAPABILITY HAS BEEN LIMITED TO OUR OFFICERS, UM, IDENTIFYING THE DRONE PILOT AND KIND OF ASKING THEM TO TAKE THE DRONE DOWN, UM, AND KIND OF GOING FROM THERE WITH THE
INVESTIGATIVE STEPS. ASKING THE PILOT TO TAKE THE DRONE DOWN. UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES? JUST JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE PEOPLE DO HAVE INDIVIDUALS HAVE DRONES, RIGHT. THERE'S A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT, I BELIEVE RIGHT THAT
FOLKS, YOU KNOW, HAVE ACCESS AND ABILITY TO TO SHOOT DRONES. DRONES ABOVE A CERTAIN WEIGHT HAVE TO BE FLOWN IN COMPLIANCE WITH A WHOLE HOST OF FAA REGULATIONS. UM, AND FREQUENTLY WE SEE THAT
THEY ARE NOT UM IF DONE IN THAT WAY. UM AND THERE'S UM AND THAT'S KIND OF WHEN WE STEP IN FROM A GENERALLY WE'VE WE'VE TAKEN AN EDUCATION FIRST PERSPECTIVE. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT THEY'RE FLYING THE DRONE
AGAINST THE FAA REGULATIONS. UM, AND SO WE'VE DONE A LOT OF EDUCATION OF PILOTS IN THAT REGARD. UM, THIS GRANT WILL ALLOW US UM ALONG WITH SOME RECENT CHANGES IN FEDERAL LEGISLATION WILL
ALLOW US TO UM UTILIZE AND COME IN IN SORT OF COLLABORATION WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS, UM, ADDITIONAL ELECTRONIC MITIGATION CAPABILITIES. UM, IF THE PERSON DID NOT VOLUNTARILY TAKE THEIR DRONE UM . DOWN.
>> WHICH WHICH TYPE OF DRONES PRIVATE DRONES. >> ARE YOU MONITORING? WHAT WHAT MAKES YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS A DRONE THAT YOU NEED TO MONITOR? SO THE. >> THE OUR CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IS ONE PARTICULAR TYPE OF DRONE. UM, WE GENERALLY UH ARE
PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE FLYING DURING TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS. SO IF THEY'RE FLYING OVER PEOPLE OR OVER CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES THINGS LIKE THAT THAT'S OBVIOUSLY SORT OF A TOP PRIORITY. UM AND THEN YOU KNOW, ASIDE
FROM THAT IT'S JUST THAT IF WE SEE AN UNSAFE, OBSOLETE UH, OPERATION OR A DRONE THEN WE MAY BE THINKING BE DOING UM, SURVEILLANCE OF CERTAIN TYPES, UM, YOU KNOW, PLACES THAT WE BELIEVE ARE SENSITIVE OR JUST
WOULD NOT, YOU KNOW, JUST BE A HOBBYIST OR. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO IF THERE'S A DRONE FLYING IN BOSTON, YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT IT. CURRENTLY FOR ONE TYPE OF DRONE. YES. UH, WHAT TYPE OF DRONE IS THAT?
IT'S DJI IS THE NAME OF THE COMPANY. UH. >> BUT I'M SURE THERE ARE MULTIPLE COMPANIES THAT HAVE DRONES. WHY IS IT JUST THAT DRONE THAT IS OF CONCERN? SO WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT ALL COMPANIES? YES. THAT'S WHY WE'RE SEEKING THE
ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE COVERAGE. AND $11 MILLION IS ALL FOR THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT PURCHASE. UH, SO SOME OF IT IS FOR UM SOME PERSONNEL FUNDING UM AND TRAINING AS WELL, UM, TO SORT
OF OPERATE THE SYSTEM AND IMPLEMENT IT SUCCESSFULLY. AND WE'RE ENSURING THAT PURSUANT TO THE ORDINANCE THAT EVERYONE WHO IS OPERATING UM, A DRONE OR USING A DRONE IN THE BUILDING. HAS THE APPROPRIATE PILOT
LICENSE, CORRECT? OBVIOUSLY THIS GRANT WOULD IS NOT ABOUT A BPD FLYING OF DRONES. OKAY. >> UM I HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, MR CHAIR, BUT I'LL WAIT FOR MY SECOND ROUND. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
SUPERINTENDENT. ACTUALLY VERY QUICKLY YOU WANT TO JUST GIVE. THE BREAKDOWN OF HOW I KNOW YOU GAVE. >> THE DESCRIPTION OF YOUR $10 MILLION 500,003. YES. >> SO SALARY AND FRINGE FOR ONE FULL TIME C UAS PROGRAM MANAGER
289 982 UH OVERTIME FOR C UAS ACTIVATION 300,000 C UAS RELATED EQUIPMENT
$10,035,158.07 AND THEN TRAINING 300,000 IS. >> THE BREAKDOWN. GREAT. THANK YOU SUPERINTENDENT. AWESOME. COUNSELOR FITZGERALD YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU CHIEF. UH THANK YOU CHAIR. UM. >> I ACTUALLY HAD A LOT
OF QUESTIONS AROUND THE DRONES. AS WELL. HOW WHAT. >> ARE WE GETTING THAT ARE WE GETTING OUR OWN DRONES? LIKE HOW DO YOU HOW DO WE COUNTER? RIGHT. SAY THERE WAS SOME. >> SORT OF HORRIBLE THING THAT SOMEONE. >> WANT TO TRY AND DO IN SOME NEW CREATIVE WAY DURING THESE
LARGE EVENTS? UM. WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE PURCHASING AND HOW DO WE COUNTER THAT SORT OF. UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OFF WHETHER IT'S A BIGGER DRONE, SMALLER DRONE MAN MADE OR YOU KNOW,
RIGGED TO TO DO SOMETHING ELSE UM, DO WE HAVE OUR OWN DRONES GOING UP THERE AND HAVING A LIKE A UH, FIGHT IN THE SKY OR IS IT JUST A, UH YOU KNOW HOW. WHAT IS THIS GETTING US? UH.
>> I I THINK ONE THING IS THAT, UM, SPECIFICALLY THIS GRANT IS REALLY FOR THE DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION SO THAT SO WE THERE'S NO DRONE PURCHASING WITH THIS AND I
GUESS YOU CAN ANALOGIZE IT TO. >> A SHOT SPOTTER. UM, WHERE THERE'S DETECTION EQUIPMENT. UM, IF SOMEONE HAS A DRONE AND WE'RE ABLE TO DETECT THAT
SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT AND THEN RESPOND TO WHATEVER THE THEIR BEHAVIORS. ARE THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL. IS VIOLATING, UM. IF THERE'S. IF THERE WERE ANY VIOLATIONS.
SO THAT'S KIND OF I GUESS THE EASIER EASIEST WAY TO KIND OF DESCRIBE IT. SO IT GIVES US THE CAPABILITY TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE IS A DRONE OPERATING WITH SEE WHERE IT'S OPERATING AND THEN ON THE
MITIGATION SIDE OF IT. SO THE IDENTIFICATION THE DETECTION IT GIVES US SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT ALLOWS US TO IF IT'S REGISTERED UH PROPERLY REGISTERED BECAUSE THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER ISSUE THAT WE HAVE
TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT DON'T PROPERLY REGISTER THEIR DRONES. UM AND THEN ON THE MITIGATION SIDE THERE'S A SPECTRUM UM, AS RYAN SAID, UH, IN RIGHT NOW WE'RE ABLE TO GO OUT, HAVE A.
CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE. HAVE THEM TAKE. >> IT. DOWN AND THIS WILL GIVE US THE ABILITY TO HAVE UH, TECHNOLOGICAL UM CAPABILITIES TO BRING TO TO OVERRIDE SYSTEMS .
UM, AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, IT'S DOING IT IN A WAY THAT EITHER SENDS IT BACK TO UM, THE HOME BASE UM, IN OVERRIDING IT OR ALLOWS US TO TAKE CONTROL
AND THEN BRING IT DOWN INTO A PREDETERMINED. LOCATION THAT YOU. THANK YOU. UM, BUT SO IF SOMETHING. >> WERE TO. OCCUR THIS YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE DRONE GO UP OVER A.
LARGE CROWD TODAY. IS THERE CERTAIN AREAS WHERE THIS IS, UH, TO BE DEPLOYED? I THINK I HEARD YOU TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT EARLIER BUT LIKE WHAT IS THE RADIUS OF WHICH IT CAN SORT OF DETECT THESE THINGS
. AND YOU. KNOW WHAT WOULD. DO WHAT DATA ARE WE USING TO FIND. >> OUT. WHERE TO PUT THIS. THIS NEW EQUIPMENT. SURE. >> SO A COUPLE THINGS I WOULD SAY THE SPECIFIC RADIUS IS ARE VERY MUCH DEPENDENT ON THE
SPECIFIC SENSOR TECHNOLOGY USED . UM IT'S ALSO DEPENDENT ON FRANKLY THE SORT OF OPERATING ENVIRONMENT. SO UM AREAS WITH A LOT OF TALL BUILDINGS OR YOU KNOW, OTHER UH RADIOFREQUENCY INTERFERENCE
YOUR YOUR YOUR RADIUS OF DETECTION IS SMALLER. UM, GENERALLY IT'S IN THE 2 TO 3 KILOMETER RANGE BUT THAT'S VERY HEAVILY VARIABLE. UM SO UM CURRENTLY OUR DETECTION CAPABILITY IS
CITYWIDE. UM WITH THIS GRANT WE ARE SEEKING TO ENHANCE THAT DETECTION CAPABILITY IN CERTAIN AREAS WHERE WE ONE SEE A LOT OF DRONE ACTIVITY RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND THEN NUMBER TWO UH, WHERE WE EXPECT TO HAVE THE LARGEST LIKE LARGE CROWD EVENTS ,OUTDOOR VENUES, THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE CITY UM, BECAUSE WE REALIZE THAT EVEN WITH THIS LEVEL OF GRANT FUNDING, DOING A
CITYWIDE DEPLOYMENT OF THIS MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS PROBABLY NOT, UH, FINANCIALLY FEASIBLE. UM, ADDITIONALLY. >> WITH THIS UM CAPABILITY WE ARE SEEKING TO GET A MOBILE DETECTION CAPABILITY. SO UM THE VENDORS OUT THERE IN
THIS SPACE CURRENTLY DO HAVE A CAPABILITY FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF DEPLOY SOME OF THIS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY IN LIKE A TRAILER OR A MOBILE, UM, CAPABILITY. SO WE HAD AN EVENT OUTSIDE OF OUR SORT OF ENHANCED
DETECTION AREA. UH WE COULD SUPPORT THAT AS. >> WELL. IN THE FUTURE, HOW DO WE HOPE TO COUNTERACT ANYTHING THAT WAS LIKE THAT? LIKE HOW WOULD YOU HOPE TO TO DISMANTLE YOU KNOW OKAY, THERE IS A DRONE UP IN THE SKY. WE'VE DETECTED IT.
WE DON'T HAVE A. RECORD OF IT. UH, IT. LOOKS LIKE IT IS A THREAT. OR MAYBE HAS ALREADY. ACCOMPLISHED SOME OF THAT. WHAT DO WE HAVE NOW THAT WE. DON'T HAVE THAT WE MIGHT NEED. >> IN THE FUTURE TO QUICKLY.
UM. >> NEUTRALIZE THAT SITUATION? >> I GUESS WE COULD SAY. SO I THINK I WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW WE ARE NOT DETECTING ALL THE DRONES THAT WE SHOULD BE DETECTING SO WE'RE NOT EVEN AWARE OF SOME OF THE SUSPICIOUS FLIGHTS WHICH IS AT FIRST
CONCERN OR IF WE BECOME AWARE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SORT OF YOU KNOW, TECHNOLOGICAL TRACKING ON THAT TO HELP US WITH THE FOLLOW UP INVESTIGATION. UM, I STILL THINK UM OUR BEST OPTION IS IDENTIFYING THE PILOT
AND SORT OF WORKING WITH THEM TO BRING THAT UAS DOWN SAFELY. UM. >> AND. THEN THIS MITIGATION ADDITIONAL MITIGATION EQUIPMENT WILL GIVE US OUR BEST CHANCE. ADMITTEDLY, YOU KNOW, WE ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SPEED AND THE TIMING HERE THAT WOULD
BE NECESSARY IF SOMEONE WAS TO, YOU KNOW, REALLY PLAN TO CONDUCT A DRONE FACILITATED ATTACK. UM IT'S A BIG CONCERN SO. WELL. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH ALL FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILOR FITZGERALD. COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. UH, FOR. THIS IMPORTANT HEARING. UH. >> SO DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE VULNERABLE. TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT AT THIS
POINT WHEN YOU SAID THAT WE AREN'T ABLE TO DETECT ALL THE, UH, DRONE? UH. YES, I WOULD SAY IT'S A VULNERABILITY TO SOME EXTENT RIGHT NOW. TO WHAT EXTENT HOW VULNERABLE
ARE WE? IT'S TOUGH TO SAY. I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, THROUGH COMMUNICATION WITH OUR PARTNERS DOMESTICALLY WE HAVE NOT SEEN, YOU KNOW, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF UM UAS BEING USED TO CONDUCT
PHYSICAL ATTACKS. UM, UH. DOMESTICALLY IN THE. US UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY OVERSEAS UH WE ARE SEEING THAT MORE AND MORE AND THAT HAS MADE US VERY CONCERNED. UM, YOU KNOW SO I THINK WE'RE WE'RE A LITTLE BIT KIND
OF FUTURE PROOFING OURSELVES TO SOME EXTENT WITH THIS FUNDING. UM. >> BUT UM WE HAVE SEEN UM DRONES UH IN THE CITY IN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO, YOU KNOW, CRASH IN DIFFERENT WAYS BECAUSE OF MALFUNCTIONS OR STRIKING
OBJECTS AND DO PRESENT A RISK TO OUR CITIZENS EVEN FROM JUST KIND OF ACCIDENTAL TYPE THINGS. UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE FLOWN OVER LARGE CROWDS OR IN COMPLEX AIRSPACE. AND HOW. >> PREPARED ARE WE? SO WE'VE TAKEN A LOT. OF STEPS TO TRAIN OUR PERSONNEL
TO SORT OF UNDERSTAND THE REGULATIONS AROUND. UM UAS AND WE HAVE BEEN PROACTIVELY DEPLOYING UM PERSONNEL AT THESE LARGER EVENTS TO TRY TO LIKE WE SAID, KIND OF EDUCATE THE PILOTS, IDENTIFY THEM WHEN WE CAN UM
AND SORT OF TRY TO TAKE THAT SORT OF EDUCATION FIRST APPROACH. UM, BUT UH ADMITTEDLY THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE ARE SEEKING TO KIND OF EXPAND OUR CAPABILITIES. >> I THINK. UNTIL WITH THE INVESTMENT THAT
WE'RE MAKING IN COUNTER I MEAN AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS I WOULD THE BPD APPROACH IN BOTH THE OPERATIONAL USE AND THE
OVERSIGHT OF THE TECHNOLOGY, PARTICULARLY AROUND PRIVACY DATA COLLECTION AND ENSURING IT IS DEPLOYED IN A CITY LIKE
BOSTON. THAT'S PRETTY DENSE. SURE. SO I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, WE WE UNDERSTAND PRIVACY ISSUES AND
CONCERNS AND PART OF THIS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE UM, THE THE INFORMATION THAT'S UH, COLLECTED DOESN'T COLLECT UH, PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PILOT UM, PER SE DATA IS THAT
COLLECTED THAT'S COLLECTED AS THE REMOTE ID AND THAT ALLOWS US TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON AND WHERE THEY ARE AND BECAUSE THIS IS A RADIO FREQUENCY, UM, THAT
ALLOWS US TO DETECT THEM AND SO WE TAKE THE PRIVACY CONCERNS VERY SERIOUSLY. UM, SO IT'S NOT AND MANY OF THE SITUATIONS THAT WE'VE WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UM IT'S
PEOPLE THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND UM, THE FACT THAT THEY SHOULDN'T. >> BE FLYING DRONES. >> IN THE MANNER THAT THEY ARE. SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT EDUCATION ,UM, AND GIVING PEOPLE THAT KNOWLEDGE BASE SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT. >> IT. IS THAT THEY'RE DOING.
AND I HEARD YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BRINGING THEM DOWN. HOW DOES THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? LET'S SAY YOU IDENTIFY A DRONE AND UH AND YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY
BRING IT DOWN. HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY WHERE THE OPERATOR IS AND THEN HOW DO YOU CONTACT THE OPERATOR TO TELL
THEM TO BRING IT DOWN? SO GENERALLY UM THE OPERATOR IT TENDS TO BE WITHIN A FAIRLY CLOSE RADIUS OF WHERE THE DRONE IS BEING OPERATED JUST GIVEN KIND OF CURRENT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY. SO THAT GIVES US AN ADVANTAGE.
YOU KNOW FIRST OFF UM SOME OF THE DETECTION CAPABILITIES ALSO DO ALLOW US TO DETECT UH, THE LIKELY PILOT LOCATION THROUGH, YOU KNOW, A SERIES OF SENSORS AND KIND OF SOME, YOU KNOW, ALGORITHMS IN THE BACKGROUND.
UM, SO THAT GIVES US A KIND OF A HEAD START. UM, AND THEN YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES BECAUSE WE'RE ACTIVELY, YOU KNOW, PATROLLING THESE AREAS, OUR OFFICERS, UM, YOU KNOW, WILL BE ABLE TO SOMETIMES DETECT SOMEONE KIND
OF LOOKING AT THE DRONE IN THE SKY OR YOU KNOW, UM, OFTENTIMES THE CONTROLLER IS LIKE A PHONE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, SO WE'VE HAD PRETTY GOOD SUCCESS AT IDENTIFYING THE OPERATORS WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO DETECT AND THEN ALSO I SHOULD
SAY IT'S KIND OF DETECT AND TRACK OF THE DRONE AS IT'S FLYING. SO GENERALLY THE TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS US TO SORT OF SEE WHERE THE DRONE IS MOVING TO AND THEN POTENTIALLY EVEN SEE WHERE IT GOES AND LANDS AT UM AND YOU KNOW, THAT WILL GIVE US A SENSE
OF WHERE THE PILOT LIKELY IS. AND SO WITH THE MARITIME COMING ,HOW PREPARED ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE UH HOW ARE WE PREPARING
DIFFERENTLY FROM THE TIME WHEN WE HAD THE MARATHON BOMBING? I WOULD SAY IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS. COUNCILOR BUT ON THE DRONE FRONT, UM, WE WORK WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS WHO HAVE HAD THIS KIND
OF MITIGATION TECHNOLOGY, THE ELECTRONIC MITIGATION CAPABILITY FOR A WHILE IT'S JUST BEEN VERY LIMITED IN RESOURCES. SO HISTORICALLY THE MARATHON HAS ACTUALLY BEEN OUR ONE EVENT WHEN WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET UM FEDERAL PARTNERS TO TO BRING
THAT CAPABILITY HERE TO AND IT'S A VERY NARROW GEOSPATIAL UM AREA UM TO COUNCILMAN'S POINT. UM, SO IT'S GENERALLY CONCENTRATED, YOU KNOW, IN THE FINISH LINE AREA GENERALLY BUT UM, WE DO UM WE HAVE WORKED
WITH THEM TO KIND OF IMPROVE OUR CAPABILITIES ON THAT FRONT. >> AND WE'LL HAVE THE SAME KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WITH WITH REGARD TO THE WORLD CUP AND THE WORLD CUP COME WILL HAVE THE SAME KIND OF RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS AND
THEY'LL COME IN AND AND COORDINATE AND AND HOW MUCH TRAINING DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GIVE US WITH REGARD TO THE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT? SO PERSONNEL TO OPERATE THE
SYSTEM HAVE HAD TO GO TO A THREE WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM. UM, SO WE HAVE ONE OFFICER WHO HAS ATTENDED THAT PROGRAM AT THIS POINT. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS BUT
BECAUSE I SEE MR WEBB WAS HERE I WAIT UNTIL THE SECOND ROUND. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPER. UM, HOWSOEVER YOU HAVE FOR FOR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH I KNOW TALKING ABOUT THE
WORLD CUP AND ENTERING INTO CULPEPER TIME UH EXTRA TIME IN SOCCER GAMES UM BUT UH UH I GUESS IN TERMS OF THE THE DRONE
AND THAT UH THAT GRANT SO ARE WE, UH. COLLECTING DATA ON THE PEOPLE YOU SAID TO CONTACT THE PEOPLE DO WE COLLECT DATA ON THE PEOPLE FLYING THE DRONES?
UM. >> COLLECTING I GUESS UM, I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING. >> WHAT I'M SAYING. I THINK YOU FIND OUT WHO WHO'S FLYING THE DRONES AND REACH OUT TO THEM. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO'S FLYING THE DRONES?
GENERALLY IT'S INTERPERSONAL. SO LIKE WE'LL FIND THEM WHILE THEY'RE FLYING IT. UH, ACTUALLY LIKE, YOU KNOW, ON SCENE OF THE FLIGHT. UM, THE SYSTEM GENERALLY COLLECTS MORE LIKE TELEMETRY DATA AND MAYBE LIKE THE ID
NUMBER OF THE DRONE THAT IF THE PERSON HAS PROPERLY REGISTER IT. UM, WE CAN SEARCH YOUR SYSTEMS OR HAVE PARTNERS THAT CAN SEARCH SYSTEMS TO KIND OF IDENTIFY THAT PERSON. UM. >> AND THERE ALSO MIGHT BE AN INCIDENT.
REPORT GENERATED UM REGARDING THAT INCIDENT BASED ON WHATEVER TOOK PLACE. SO IN TERMS OF COLLECTING SOMEONE'S INFORMATION FOR REPORTING PURPOSES THERE MIGHT BE A. GENERATED OKAY.
AND THEN I GUESS YOU KNOW FOR SOMEBODY WHO DOES YOU KNOW DOESN'T KNOW ANY BETTER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEIR 14 YEAR OLD KID WHO GOT A DRONE FOR A PRESENT OR SOMETHING AND THEY'RE FLYING THE DRONE YOU
KNOW IS THEIR THEIR NAME IS IN A REPORT. UH, DOES THAT I MEAN DOES THAT GET SHARED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? IS THERE A CHANCE THAT THAT HAPPENS? I WOULD SAY NOT. UNLESS THERE'S SORT. >> OF.
A MORE OF A CRIMINAL NEXUS TO THE INCIDENTS. OKAY. >> UM AND THEN I GUESS I THINK YOU TALKED A LITTLE BIT WITH COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE ABOUT THIS, BUT, UH, SO IN THE PRIOR
SURVEILLANCE OR REPORTS LIKE THIS KIND OF TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN DISCLOSED LIKE IS THERE DO YOU HAVE TO SEEK ADDITIONAL IN YOUR VIEW DO YOU HAVE TO SEEK ADDITIONAL PERMISSION FROM THE
CITY COUNCIL TO UH, USE THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY? SO I THINK WE'RE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAINTAINING OUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE ORDINANCES FOR SURE. UM, I THINK WE DO VIEW UH, AT
LEAST SOME OF THIS AS KIND OF AN EXPANSION OF ALREADY APPROVED CAPABILITIES. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT IT AND TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO REPORT UNDER THE SPIRIT OF THE ORDINANCE FOR SURE. OH YEAH. >> I MEAN, I GUESS ARE ARE YOU
GOING TO ASK UH, FOR OUR AUTHORIZATION UNDER THE SURVEILLANCE OVERSIGHT? UH, I MEAN THE ORDINANCE THE SURVEILLANCE ORDINANCE OR OR OR NOT I MEAN WE'RE GOING TO VOTE
ON THE GRANT, BUT I THINK IT'S A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PROCEDURE . I GUESS I WOULD SAY I'M NOT SURE THAT'S SORT OF ON ON. THE SORT OF. DECISION MAKING AROUND AROUND
UM WHERE IT STANDS IN TERMS OF THE ORDINANCE. >> OF OKAY, I THOUGHT MAYBE BECAUSE YOU'D ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE I THINK THE THAT TECHNOLOGY THAT MONITORS THE ONE KIND OF JOURNALISM UM, I
DON'T KNOW AT LEAST MAYBE I WOULD THINK ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN DO THAT TOGETHER. UH UM, IN TERMS OF, UH, I GUESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UM, YOU
KNOW, WE HAVE ONE SPANISH SPEAKING THAT'S THE ONLY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITY OF THE OF THE TEAM OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
YES THAT'S CORRECT. WE ONLY HAVE ONE OUT OF THE SIX AT. >> THE MOMENT. OKAY SO I I CAN'T THESE I THINK WE HEARD ABOUT HAITIAN CREOLE THERE'S NO ONE NOT ON STAFF UH IN YOUR.
NONE OF THE ADVOCATES. SO WE DO HAVE POLICE OFFICERS WE DO HAVE DETECTIVES WHO SPEAK FOREIGN LANGUAGES. BUT IN TERMS OF THE ADVOCATES WHICH. >> THE VIA. GRANT SPECIFICALLY FUNDS. FOR ONE WE. DO NOT AT THE.
TIME IS HAVE YOU UH HAVE YOU SEEN ANY IMPACT OF THE SORT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES OR PEOPLE REACHING OUT AT THE SAME LEVEL AS BEFORE?
I KNOW ONE CONCERN IS THAT PEOPLE WON'T REACH. >> OUT. FOR HELP BECAUSE THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, ICE AGENTS COMING TO THEIR DOOR AND THAT KIND OF THING. YEAH, THAT'S ALWAYS A CONCERN. UM.
STATISTICALLY WE HAVE. ABOUT THE SAME REPORTED NUMBER OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENTS IN THE CITY UM, FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. UH, SO WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT IN
TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF REPORTS REPORTED. BUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS HISTORICALLY UNDERREPORTED AS IS UM, SO IT'S SOMETHING WE ACTIVELY SORT OF WORK WITH UM
ANY SURVIVORS WITH AND WE SORT OF REFER THEM TO LEGAL SERVICES AS THEY REQUEST. UM, BUT WE CERTAINLY UH, DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SORT OF ASSIST THEM IN WHATEVER MATTERS STILL NEED HELP WITH WHETHER IT BE HOUSING OR
IMMIGRATION. AND THEN IT MAY MAYBE YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS BUT IN TERMS OF LIKE UH, SHELTER SPACE AVAILABLE LIKE HOW HOW IS THE CITY DOING ON THAT FRONT?
DO YOU FEEL LIKE THERE IS ENOUGH SPACE OR IS THAT HARD TO NAVIGATE? UH, THE HOUSING IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE SO THAT CAN BE DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE. UH, WE USE A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT
RESOURCES UM, THAT DO SORT OF PROVIDE HOUSING AND TEMPORARY SHELTER AS NEEDED. UM, SO THERE ARE A VARIETY OF RESOURCES BUT IT IS UH IT CAN BE A CHALLENGE. OH OKAY.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER I'M GOING TO ASK. >> A. FEW QUESTIONS MYSELF AND THEN I'LL, UM, DO A SECOND ROUND FOR MY COLLEAGUES. UM, SO I THINK YOU MENTIONED EARLIER USING AN ANALOGY
OF SHOTSPOTTER TO THE NEW TECHNOLOGY, UM, THAT WE WOULD. >> BE RECEIVING. THIS UPCOMING SUMMER. UM. >> WHAT DOES THAT TECHNOLOGY LOOK LIKE? LIKE PHYSICALLY LIKE WELL, UH, SO I MEAN THERE'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO DETECT.
DRONES BECAUSE. DO THEY LIKE WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE IN OUR COMMUNITIES? SO I YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO. OKAY SO IT. >> JUST EVERYTHING IT CERTAINLY. >> DEPENDS ON THE SPECIFIC. YOU KNOW VENDOR AND THERE'S A
COUPLE DIFFERENT YOU KNOW UM TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS IN THIS SPACE BUT IT'S IT'S GENERALLY A YOU KNOW, A SMALL BOX TYPE DEVICE. UM THAT WOULD BE YOU KNOW,
STRATEGICALLY PLACED TO TO GIVE THE COVERAGE AREA UH GENERALLY IN IN HIGH LOCATIONS, UM. YOU KNOW. UM ANALOGOUS TO TO THAT SORT. >> OF THING. AND AND SHOTSPOTTER I MEAN
WE'VE. SEEN THAT TECHNOLOGY BEING BEING YOU CHOOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE YOU KNOW, GUN VIOLENCE HAPPENS MORE. I MEAN I WAS THIS TECHNOLOGY GOING TO BE.
BUT THIS THIS WOULD BE MORE EVENT BASED UH THAN ANYTHING. AND SO WE. >> WOULD LOOK AT THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE HAVING, UM, AND THE NEED TO HAVE UH THE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYED FOR THOSE SPECIFIC EVENT SO. >> YOU'RE ABLE TO LIKE MOVE US
AROUND. YES. >> WE WILL HAVE THAT MOBILE CAPABILITY. OKAY, GREAT. AND THEN THIS GRANT IN GENERAL YOU KNOW I KNOW YOU MENTIONED IT'S THE FIRST TIME UM IT'S BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THIS
SUMMER. UM AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT YEAR. SO I MEAN YOU TOUCHED ON THAT A LITTLE BIT. I MEAN SO DO WE CAN WE STILL APPLY FOR IT? DO WE CAN WE NOT YOU JUST HAVE
TO QUALIFY THE SAME. WE CAN CERTAINLY APPLY NEXT YEAR IF THAT GRANT PROGRAM ACTUALLY COMES THROUGH. THEY'VE SAID. >> IT IS GOING TO UM BUT. UH WE WILL BE COMPETING AGAINST YOU KNOW ALL THE DIFFERENT STATES AS OPPOSED TO THIS YEAR. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY KIND OF COMPETING AGAINST A SMALLER POOL.
UM. >> ONE THING WE ARE HOPING TO DO THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS IS TO KIND OF BUILD IN SUSTAINMENT. UM OF THE TECHNOLOGY. INTO OUR, YOU KNOW, CONTRACT CONTRACTS, YOU KNOW, UP FRONT UM KIND OF YOU KNOW, I THINK
GET INTO YOUR CONCERN ABOUT HOW DO WE SUSTAIN THIS OVER OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS. UM, IN GENERAL THE VENDORS SEEM TO BE UM, YOU KNOW, POSITIVE ABOUT 3 TO 5 YEARS OF KIND OF SUSTAINMENT COVERAGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO WHILE WE KIND OF CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT ADDITIONAL FUTURE FUNDING SOURCES. SO YEAH. >> SO I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, WE'RE WE GET AWARDED THIS MONEY IN THIS UPCOMING SUMMER AND THEN WE HOW ABOUT WE
DON'T GET ANY MORE MOVING FORWARD. WE STILL WE WILL STILL BE ABLE TO KEEP THE EQUIPMENT THAT. >> WE HAVE HERE AND JUST OPEN IN 3 TO 5 YEARS. GOING FORWARD OKAY. PENDING THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS AND EVERYTHING. YEAH OKAY. GREAT.
>> UM THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS. I'M GOING TO NOW DO A SECOND ROUND OF QUESTIONS STARTING WITH COUNCILOR FLYNN. YOU HAVE A FIVE MINUTES. FOR THAT. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.
UM. MY QUESTION WOULD WOULD COME BACK AGAIN TO. AN ISSUE THAT. I'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND IT'S THE BOSTON POLICE CRIME LAB.
SUPERINTENDENT CULLINANE, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ANYTHING NEW THAT YOU WANT TO DO? YOU'RE ABLE TO REPORT ABOUT THE STATUS OF HOW THEY OPERATE, HOW THE OFFICE IS FUNCTIONING. NOW I. >> DO NOT AT THIS TIME.
OKAY. >> DOES DOES ANYBODY HERE HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CRIME LAB AT BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT? THAT DOESN'T FOLLOW. >> MY DEAR LEADER OKAY.
UM, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THE CRIME LAB THAT WOULD OVERSEE THE CRIME LAB? YES, THAT'S SUPERINTENDENT PAUL MCLAUGHLIN. COMING UP. >> OKAY.
DOES THE BOSTON POLICE HAVE A WRITTEN POLICY ON DRONES? YES. >> SO THERE'S A DEPARTMENT RULE 407, I BELIEVE. OKAY. >> AND IS THAT PUBLIC INFORMATION? YES, I.
BELIEVE SO. I I WAS I WAS. AT CITY HALL NOT NO NOT AT THE EVENT BUT I. FOLLOWED UP. >> ABOUT A CALL I RECEIVED ABOUT A DRONE AT CITY HALL THAT
BASICALLY CRASHED INTO THE BUILDING MAYBE OF CITY HALL DURING AN EVENT IT WASN'T BUT THE BOSTON POLICE TORONTO IS A PRIVATE PRIVATE UM DRONE THAT
WAS UP THERE. UM I SPOKE TO THE PERSON THAT WAS INJURED ACTUALLY. UM BUT. >> HOW DOES HOW DOES SOMEONE HOW DOES A PRIVATE PERSON HAVE ACCESS TO A A DRONE AND A MATE
AT A MAJOR EVENT WHERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GATHER LIKE THAT. GENERALLY IT IS AGAINST THE FAA REGULATION TO BE FLYING OVER PEOPLE PERIOD. NO MATTER SORT OF HOW MANY. PEOPLE UM. >> THAT IS GENERALLY NOT
ALLOWED. UM SOME LIMITED COMMERCIAL USES DO ALLOW THAT WITH SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, GUIDANCE FROM. >> THE FAA. >> BUT UM, WE DO SEE IT YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY. SOMETIMES AS PEOPLE WHO JUST. DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REGULATIONS FOR SURE THAT'S
BEEN A BIG PART OF OUR PUSH TO KIND OF EDUCATE IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, THESE REGULATIONS HAVE ALSO ADMITTEDLY BEEN CHANGING OVER RECENT YEARS AS THE UM I THINK THE FAA AND EVERYONE KIND OF UNDERSTANDS THE CHALLENGES
THAT DRONES PRESENT. UM, AND SO SOMETIMES AS PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, HAVE MAYBE KEPT UP TO DATE UM, AS MUCH AS THEY SHOULD UM, BUT IT'S IT'S A SIGNIFICANT CONCERN. THAT WAS THIS WAS THIS DRONE I
THINK IT WAS SOMETHING RELATED REGARDING TO A HOCKEY GAME AT THE BOSTON GARDEN. WAS THIS DRONE SOMEHOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE ESPN IN
TERMS OF CAPTURING THE CROWD IN . AND IN CITY HALL PLAZA WATCHING THE CROWD UM, PARTICIPATING IN SOME TYPE OF FAN FEST?
I'M NOT I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFICS OF UH OF OF THE EVENT OR WHO WHO WAS UH. MANNING WE. WE HAVE SEEN THAT IN THE PAST I WOULD SAY I'M NOT SURE THIS SPECIFIC INCIDENT BUT WE HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN THAT IN THE PAST
WHERE YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES FOLKS WILL WILL FLY TO KIND OF GET AN IMAGE OF THE CROWD FOR SOME SORT OF A MEDIA ORGANIZATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, WE CERTAINLY WOULD ASK THEM TO KIND OF COLLABORATE WITH US IN ADVANCE OF DOING THAT SO
THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE PROPER CLEARANCES FROM THE FAA AND AND THAT WE'RE AWARE UM ,FROM OUR KIND OF OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE FLYING IN A CERTAIN AREA. YEAH. BUT RYAN, I, I.
CAN'T HAVE PRIVATE PEOPLE. FLYING UM, A DRONE AT A PUBLIC EVENT AT CITY HALL WITH THERE'S THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND THEN JUST CRASH THE DRONE UNTIL INTO
THE CROWD. UM, WHETHER IT'S DONE INTENTIONALLY OR NOT. UM, MISTAKES DO HAPPEN. BUT MY POINT IS A PERSON LIKE THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN
GIVEN. NOT SAYING WE GAVE ANYONE PERMISSION BUT SOMEONE LIKE THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER. BEEN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVEN PUT A DRONE UP IN THE SKY AND YEAH. >> I WOULD SAY WE'RE WE'RE ACTIVELY FOLLOWING UP ON. ON A.
>> NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DRONE RELATED INCIDENTS OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, UH, IN THE CITY THAT HAVE OCCURRED THAT ARE OF CONCERN. OKAY. >> SO MY MY FINAL POINT AND I'M AND I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT BUT I
WANT US TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU GO INTO THE SUMMER THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE A DRONE IN A PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE WITH HUNDREDS
OF PEOPLE AND THE ABILITY TO HURT ANYBODY, THAT MUST BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR US. THANK YOU, MR CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN. COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR? SURE. >> JUST, UM, WANTED. TO FOLLOW. UP ON. >> MY.
COUNCILOR FLYNN WAS SAYING BECAUSE. >> EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE AN INFLUENCER AND. ON SOCIAL. MEDIA, LOTS OF PEOPLE. >> I THINK, YOU KNOW, ARE USING DRONES BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, LOCAL BUSINESSES. I SEE LIKE REAL ESTATE. AGENTS AND OTHERS UM, YOU.
>> KNOW, NOT. JUST BIG. >> COMPANIES HAVE THEM. SO ARE WE. PREPARED KNOWING. THAT LOTS OF PEOPLE. >> ARE GOING TO WANT TO CAPTURE ALL THE EVENTS THAT ARE COMING. LIKE HOW ARE WE? SO I'M SAYING IT FROM THE POINT OF.
LIKE WE'RE GOING INTO BUDGET SEASON HERE ON THE COUNCIL MAKING SURE THAT. WE'RE SUPPORTING. IN EVERY WAY WE CAN BECAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT THERE WILL BE A WANT AND THEN FOR LOTS
OF DRONES AND YOU KNOW, JUST PICTURES AND ALL COMING UP. I THINK. PART OF IT IS THE THE EDUCATION AND UH AWARENESS AND MAKING PEOPLE. UM PUTTING THE INFORMATION. OUT THERE AHEAD OF THE EVENT
THAT WHERE DRONES THERE'LL BE NO FLYING ZONES THAT KIND OF INFORMATION SO THAT PEOPLE ARE FULLY AWARE OF WHAT'S EXPECTED, UH, IN THOSE AREAS AS IT RELATES TO DRONE USAGE.
BECAUSE JUST. REGULAR DRONE. USAGE ISN'T DANGEROUS. CORRECT. LIKE AT WHAT POINT DOES IT. BECOME I HAVE TO BE HONEST I NEVER READ THE ACTUAL LAW. I'LL LOOK IT UP AFTER THIS BUT
AT WHAT POINT DOES IT BECOME DANGEROUS AND. >> NOT JUST. SOMEONE TAKING. >> A REALLY COOL PICTURE? I THINK IT'S WHEN AT FLOWN CERTAINLY OVER PEOPLE OR IN SORT OF MORE COMPLEX AIR SPACES LIKE WE'RE OBVIOUSLY CLOSE TO YOU KNOW LARGE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF HOSPITALS THAT HAVE HELICOPTER, YOU KNOW, LANDING PADS AND WE HAVE HAD INCIDENTS WHERE DRONES HAVE IMPACTED MEDICAL FLIGHTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, AND SO WE'RE CERTAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. UM. >> AND YOU KNOW, JUST WANT TO
MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS FULLY EDUCATED ON KIND OF WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE ON THEM. UM. >> NOT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO INHIBIT, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE FROM TAKING A NICE PICTURE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT UM. >> YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SEEN UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENCES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT'S NOT DONE PROPERLY.
OKAY. >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU CHAIR. THANK YOU. >> COUNCILOR MURPHY. COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. YEAH. >> UM, THANK YOU AGAIN, UH, FOR ALLOWING ME. TO ASK, UM, SOME QUESTIONS. SO IT'S. IT'S IT'S BEEN SAID NEW
DETECTION TECHNOLOGY. BUT NOT I. IMAGINE DRONES THEMSELVES AND I DON'T KNOW A TON ABOUT DRONES, BUT DRONES THEMSELVES ARE RATHER EXPENSIVE, RIGHT? UH.
NOT NECESSARILY. NOT NECESSARILY NOT NECESSARILY. >> BUT THE THE THE THE TECHNOLOGY TO SURVEIL THEM IS EXPENSIVE. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY AND
IS THIS MONEY THE $10 MILLION IS IT AN INVESTMENT IN THE UH DETECTION TECHNOLOGY AND ARE THERE GOING TO BE RECURRING COST OF SO WHAT ARE THOSE RECURRING COSTS GOING TO BE?
SO I THINK GENERALLY UM IT IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE TECHNOLOGY FOR SURE. UM OUR PLAN IS TO KIND OF THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE BUILT INTO OUR SORT OF INITIAL CONTRACT, UM, YOU
KNOW, AS MUCH SUSTAINMENT AS POSSIBLE. UH. >> BOTH IN TERMS OF MAINTENANCE AND JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, LICENSING FOR FOR SOME OF. >> YOU HAVE A VENDOR THAT YOU'RE USING OR DO PUT OUT AN RFP. WE'LL HAVE TO CERTAINLY GO THROUGH THE SORT OF TRADITIONAL
PROCUREMENT PROCESS SO WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC VENDOR AT THIS POINT. UM. BUT UM, YOU KNOW AS A SO WE'RE. >> TALKING WITH A NUMBER OF VENDORS. >> IN THE SPACE UM, THEY ARE CERTAINLY UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPENSE OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND
UM, I THINK WE'LL BE WILLING TO WORK WITH US TO KIND OF BUILD SOME OF THAT SUSTAINMENT. >> IN HOW MANY VENDORS ARE IN THIS. SO YOU SAID I MEAN JUST THAT I'M CLEAR YOU SAID THE TRI-CITIES TRADITIONAL CONTRACTING WHAT ARE THOSE SO
THAT WE'RE CLEAR THE CITY'S TRADITIONAL CONTRACTING WHAT ARE THOSE IN THIS INSTANCE. I GUESS I WOULD SAY I'M CERTAINLY NOT A PROCUREMENT EXPERT BUT THE WE WORK WITH THE CITY PROCUREMENT FOLKS, UM, ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT TOPICS AND UM, THEY'D BE MORE OF THE
EXPERT ON THAT AND DON'T WORRY IF YOU HAVE ANY. ANYTHING OVER $10,000 HAS TO GO THROUGH UH CHAPTER 30 BE RULES AND PROCEDURES SO WE CAN'T JUST
HIRE PEOPLE. THAT'S CLEARLY OVER $10,000. SO THERE WILL BE AN RFP FOR. A VENDOR OKAY THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I AND SO WHO ARE THE VENDORS IN THIS SPACE OR I'M SURE THAT FOLKS THAT YOU'VE
BEEN LOOKING INTO. UH THERE'S A NUMBER OF THEM I SOMEONE HESITATE TO KIND OF I CALL ANY OF THEM OUT SPECIFICALLY NECESSARILY BUT UM ,THERE'S CERTAINLY A NUMBER OF VENDORS IN THE SPACE ALL OF WHICH HAVE DIFFERENT, YOU
KNOW, FLAVORS OF THE TECHNOLOGY WITH DIFFERENT CAPABILITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO UM, WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO BE CAREFUL TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING, YOU KNOW, THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF UM, YOU KNOW, BANG FOR OUR BUCK IN THIS CASE FOR SURE. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE THE
INVESTMENT OF $10 MILLION HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WILL LAST? MY HOPE IS IN. THE 3. >> TO 5 YEAR RANGE IS GENERALLY UM THIS IS ALSO YOU KNOW, BOTH DRONE TECHNOLOGY IN THIS SPACE IS MOVING VERY QUICKLY AND SO YOU KNOW UM WE CERTAINLY I
THINK OUR OUR A LITTLE BIT YOU. KNOW CAUTIOUS ABOUT HOW FAR IN THE FUTURE YOU KNOW THESE TECHNOLOGIES WILL COVER US BUT OUR HOPE IS IN THE 3 TO 5 YEAR RANGE. >> I YEAH I MEAN I WOULD HOPE I MEAN I DON'T I AGAIN I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFICITIES BUT $10
MILLION HERE SEEMS TO BE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN THE TECHNOLOGY. UM YOU STATED BEFORE THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN DRONES USE LIKE A LOT OF THIS IS PRECAUTIONARY ESPECIALLY WITH THE LARGE
EVENTS THAT WE HAVE HAPPENING THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN DRONES HERE USED IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU'VE SEEN IN OVERSEAS WITH PHYSICAL ATTACKS. BUT THAT LED ME TO BELIEVE LIKE ARE THERE OTHER TYPE OF ATTACKS THAT WE'VE SEEN CYBER ATTACKS
OR OTHER FORMS OF ATTACKS THAT WE'VE SEEN UM INCREASED DRONE USAGE IN BOSTON. SO CERTAINLY DOMESTICALLY, UH ACROSS THE U.S. WE HAVE SEEN DRONES USED TO DELIVER UM LIKE
PACKAGES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, PARTICULARLY LIKE IN THE DRUG UM AREA UM AND WITH LIKE UM CORRECTIONS FACILITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, SO WE'VE SEEN CERTAINLY THAT UM WE ARE DEFINITELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY
TO USE A DRONE TO CONDUCT LIKE AN AEROSOLIZED, YOU KNOW, RELEASE OF SOME SORT OF A SUBSTANCE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT UM, THAT IT COULD FACILITATE THERE ARE CERTAINLY AGRICULTURAL DRONES OUT THERE THAT WOULD DO THAT TODAY. UM. >> THINGS LIKE THAT. I THINK IT'S KIND OF OUR MEAT
AND FRANKLY JUST KIND OF CRASHES OR MALFUNCTIONS OR THINGS LIKE THAT THAT THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE CITY ALREADY. OKAY. >> UM. SO WHAT SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS PUT OUT THIS SORT OF GRANT. >> WE APPLIED FOR IT.
WE GOT IT AND WE DON'T KNOW ON WHAT CYCLE THEY WILL PUT OUT THESE GRANTS. >> FOR. WHICH WE WILL UP REAPPLY. SO IT COMMITTED TO ONE. MORE YEAR AT LEAST HAS BEEN. >> WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD. UM THERE WILL BE A FY 27 GRANT PROGRAM PROBABLY COMING OUT THIS SUMMER. AND THE SAME AMOUNT OF 10
MILLION. UH. >> SO IT'LL. >> BE AT THE TOP LINE AMOUNT THAT THE GOVERNMENT. PUT OUT. >> I THINK IT WAS. 500 MILLION. >> I DON'T. QUOTE ME ON THAT. UM UH. INITIALLY WE WERE COMPETING AGAINST THE 11 OTHER HOST
CITIES UM AND AND DC UH, THIS YEAR WE WOULD BE COMPETING AGAINST ALL THE NATIONWIDE AND SO ALL. >> THE STATE. THANK YOU. UM, AND. IS THIS THE SORT OF THING LIKE ARE. >> WE GOING TO NEED MONEY LIKE LET'S SAY WE DON'T GET THE GRANT IN THE. FUTURE FOR WHATEVER REASON?
ARE WE GOING TO NEED MORE MONEY FROM OUR UM, OPERATING BUDGET TO TO TO MAINTAIN THIS INVESTMENT? I THINK IT'S A POSSIBILITY.
UM, I THINK OUR HOPE IS TO UTILIZE THIS GRANT FUNDING TO SUSTAIN AS MUCH AS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. AT THIS POINT. OKAY. >> UM. SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'VE HAD. DRONE TECHNOLOGY BEFORE THAT UM
IS ABLE THAT HAD IT HAS CAMERAS AND NOW THIS IS DRONE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUSPECT USING SOME. SORT OF INFRARED TECHNOLOGY. UM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UH
THAT TRACKS PEOPLE'S FACES OR PHONES FOR EXAMPLE PHONE TRACKING DOES THAT. TRIGGER A NEW USAGE UNDER THE ORDINANCE? I'M REALLY I'M GENERALLY ASKING A QUESTION IF YOU KNOW THAT IF THE.
CHANGE IN SORT OF WHAT IS. BUILT INTO THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF TRIGGERS. UM. >> A SUBSTANTIALLY NEW TECHNOLOGY UNDER THE ORDINANCE . I THINK. >> IF THE TYPE OF DATA CAPABLE OF. BEING INGESTED BY THE
TECHNOLOGY CHANGES SUBSTANTIALLY, THEN I THINK THERE WOULD BE A GOOD ARGUMENT THAT THAT KIND OF CERTAINLY INVOKES THE SURVEILLANCE ORDINANCE. BUT YOU DON'T THINK. THAT THAT CHANGE ON THE TECHNOLOGY? I THINK IT ACTUALLY WOULD BENEFIT THE OTHER WAY.
RIGHT IF THE TECHNOLOGY CHANGES. UM, BUT THE DATA OUTPUT IS THE SAME. UM. YEAH. >> I THINK I'D HAVE TO THINK ABOUT. IT A LITTLE BIT. >> BUT I UM.
CERTAINLY THERE ARE EVOLUTIONS. >> BECAUSE IT'S MORE ABOUT I MEAN. I'M SORRY I THINK THAT WAS UNCLEAR BECAUSE. IT'S MORE ABOUT THE. TECHNOLOGY THAN IT IS ABOUT THE OUTPUT. ALTHOUGH WE DO CARE ABOUT THE DATA AND HOW IT'S USED. UH. >> MY UNDERSTANDING ON THE SURVEILLANCE ORDINANCE WAS THAT
A BIG PART OF THE ORDINANCE WAS THE SORT OF DATA COLLECTION CAPABILITIES OF THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT SORT OF WOULD. YOU KNOW, CAUSE THEM TO FALL. UNDER THOSE. YES. UM DO I HAVE AN ISSUE OR I SHOULD I WAIT FOR.
NO, I HAVE PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE MORE MINUTES OF QUESTIONS. OKAY. >> LET ME JUST, UM DO ANY OF MY OTHER COLLEAGUES HAVE A CELL PHONE? DO YOU HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS? UM. >> I DON'T THAT WELL, THAT'S. >> WHAT I'M. YOU KNOW, I'M SOME OF US.
OKAY, SO I'LL GO TO CONSENT CALENDAR THEN. OKAY? OKAY. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO. >> THANK YOU. I'M NOT GOING TO ASK ANYMORE ON DRONES I THINK I'VE GOT I HAVE MY ANSWERS. UM MY QUESTIONS ANSWERED SO I
WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. UM, MAYBE I'LL GO BACK TO, UH, DEPUTY DEPUTY MARTIN. CAN YOU. >> JUST, UM I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THE THE COAST GUARD. YOU MENTIONED, UM, THE STATE
POLICE. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE TRAINING WE DO. AS IT RELATES. TO MARITIME SUPPORT AT THE PORT OF BOSTON WORKING WITH THE
COAST GUARD, WORKING WITH THE MASSPORT, WORKING WITH OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS WHETHER IT'S ON THE OCEAN OR OR EVEN ON THE CHARLES AS WELL. HOW DOES HOW DOES THAT TRAINING
UM HOW HOW HELPFUL IS THAT TRAINING AND WHAT WHAT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TRAINING INITIATIVES THAT THEY'RE UM ENGAGED IN. SO I THINK ANY TRAINING IS VALUABLE. SO WE WELCOME AS MUCH AS WE
COULD EVER PROVIDE PROVIDE OUR OFFICERS SO WE DO JOINT TRAINING SOMETIMES THE STATE POLICE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICE UM WHETHER IT'S OUT OF THE WATER OR TABLETOP EXERCISES, GROUP EXERCISES, ACTIVE SHOOTER
DRILLS. SO WE TRY TO INCORPORATE ALL THAT. UM. >> ANOTHER ON A DAILY A WEEKLY BASIS. IN ADDITION WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD UP OUR SWAT TEAMS UM, MARITIME CAPABILITY TO HELP MITIGATE ANY ISSUES AND SUPPORT
THE HARBOR UNIT AS WELL. SO UM WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO PROVIDE SAFETY. UM. >> THROUGHOUT THE HARBOR AND WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS TO DO SO. THANK YOU DEPUTY.
AND IS. PART OF THAT SECURITY TRAINING AND SAFETY WE WE WE SEE FREQUENTLY THE UM INCOMING LNG
TANKERS THAT COME INTO BOSTON OR I GUESS MAYBE EVERETT TO THE EVERETT AREA BOSTON AREA. UM, BUT WHAT TYPE OF WHAT TYPE OF TRAINING WOULD BE NECESSARY
TO SUPPORT UH, A MAJOR VESSEL? WE JUST SAID THE USS MASSACHUSETTS, A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE IN HERE. UM, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO I WAS AT THE COMMISSIONING.
UM, SO IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE WORK WITH THE NAVY AND THE COAST GUARD. BUT ON THE LNG TANKER THAT'S A PRETTY PRETTY SERIOUS ISSUE, ISN'T IT? IT IS. WE ESCORT THEM IN AND UP ON THE
HARBOR AS WELL IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR PARTNERS. UM, IN REGARDS TO THE USS MASSACHUSETTS, YOU KNOW, EACH UNIT BRINGS A DIFFERENT LEVEL THE CAPABILITY TO THE PROTECTION, YOU KNOW, SEE, SOME
ARE MORE SO JUST FOR PATROL VISIBILITY. SOME HAVE UH, MORE MORE CAPABILITY IF YOU WILL. SO WE FORMULATE OUR PLANS BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ASSETS WE HAVE. WE DEPLOY THEM ACCORDINGLY WITHIN THOSE ZONES.
YOU KNOW THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU DEPUTY. AND MY FINAL MY FINAL POINT IS ESPECIALLY DURING CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES I'M TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN ON BRINGING
TOURISTS INTO INTO BOSTON AS WELL PROVIDING THE SAFEST CITY WE POSSIBLY CAN. BUT WE HAVE RECORD NUMBERS AS YOU KNOW, OF UM, CRUISE SHIPS COMING INTO BOSTON, COMING INTO
THE FLYNN CRUISE. CRUISE PLAY. UM AND THEY LOVE COMING INTO BOSTON. THEY LOVE SEEING THE CITY AND WALKING AND THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF IT BUT ALSO IT'S
ABOUT PROVIDING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL FOR OUR VISITORS AND TOURISTS. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE POLICE FOR NOT JUST WATCHING OUT FOR RESIDENTS BUT ALSO WATCHING OUT
FOR OUR VISITORS AS WELL. SO I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS . I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE THE IMPORTANT WORK UH, BOSTON POLICE IS DOING ON THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN.
COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE. THANK YOU. >> UM I HAVE A JUST A QUESTION ABOUT HOW THE TECHNOLOGY IS YOU KNOW, I THINK I IT WAS I HEARD DIRECTOR BOSTON THAT I HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THIS
INFORMATION ABOUT SHARING THIS INFORMATION WITH OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A FEDERAL GRANT. SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THIS INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS THAT WE GET FROM THIS TECHNOLOGY? CERTAINLY.
>> SO I THINK WE CERTAINLY UH, INTEND TO FULLY COMPLY WITH ALL, YOU KNOW, STATE LAWS AND CITY ORDINANCES AROUND INFORMATION SHARING WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY AS WE DO WITH ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY. UH, THAT'S KIND OF RIGHT UP FRONT FOR SURE.
UM. >> WITH THE ON THE MITIGATION SIDE OF THIS TECHNOLOGY TO ELECTRONICALLY MITIGATE THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS IN THE FEDERAL LAW AND THE KIND OF THE GRANT TO WORK CLOSELY WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS. UM, WHEN AND IF WE WERE TO CHOOSE.
TO DO THAT AT AN EVENT. UM, BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT IMPLICATIONS TO THAT TECHNOLOGY TO KIND OF THE GENERAL ENVIRONMENT AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING IT IN THE SAFEST WAY POSSIBLE. UM, AND SO THAT'S PROBABLY
WHERE WE'D, YOU KNOW, COLLABORATE CLOSELY IF WE DO FEEL THE NEED TO UM, ACTUALLY SORT OF MITIGATE UM, A THREAT UH ELECTRONICALLY FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE IN THAT CASE I THINK WE WOULD BE FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT WE HAVE, YOU
KNOW, OBSERVED CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS THAT WE WOULD BE KIND OF FOLLOWING UP WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS FROM A COUNTERTERRORISM PERSPECTIVE ANYWAY, UM, SO I, I DON'T YEAH, THAT WE'RE BEYOND THE THRESHOLD THERE FOR SURE. UM. UH.
>> WHEN WE WOULD SHARE INFORMATION WITH THEM FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE. AND HAS THAT INFORMATION IN THE GRANT APPLICATION THAT LAID OUT EXACTLY SORT OF LIKE THE NATURE OF WHAT THE. FEDERAL SHARING OF INFORMATION WOULD BE. SO THE GRANT.
TALKED ABOUT KIND OF THE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS AROUND WHAT THAT INFORMATION SHARING UH, WOULD BE. AND THEN WE WERE ASKED TO PROVIDE A IMPLEMENTATION PLAN UM AROUND UH, YOU KNOW, UPON ACCEPTANCE OF THE AWARD THAT KIND OF OUTLINED THAT AND WE
UM, STIPULATED IN THAT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN KIND OF THAT YOU KNOW, WE WOULD OF COURSE FIRST COMPLY WITH ALL, YOU KNOW, LOCAL ORDINANCES AND AND STATE LAWS, UM, AND YOU KNOW, AND THEN KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE DO OUR OUR
TYPICAL WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS AROUND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, COULD WE GET A UH A COPY OF BOTH THE GRANT APPLICATION AND THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN? CERTAINLY.
>> UM THANK YOU. I THINK THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS ON THE GRANT. UM, THE FIRST TIME THAT. WAS IN AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT. WE ARE FOLLOWING OUR, UH, SURVEILLANCE. >> UH.
>> USAGE UH, ORDINANCE THAT DOES CARE BOTH ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF AND ABOUT HOW IT'S BEING USED. SO I THINK ON BOTH FRONTS, UM, IT'S UM IMPORTANT UM, I DO HAVE
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VAWA GRANT AND WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UM, ADVOCATES I REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR ONE OF. >> THE. CONCERNS IS THAT AT HEADQUARTERS I. BELIEVE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG
BUT AT HEADQUARTERS AND THIS CAME UP WHEN WE HAD A HEARING I HELD A HEARING LAST YEAR ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT THERE IS NO ONE THAT THERE'S NOT A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCATE IN HEADQUARTERS AND PERHAPS HAVING
A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BUT BECAUSE WE CAN'T SORT OF TOUCH ALL THE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT PERHAPS HAVING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCATE IN HEADQUARTERS WOULD BE AN ADVANTAGE. CAN YOU CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT
WHETHER THAT'S YEAH. SO THERE IS. NOT AN ADVOCATE HEADQUARTERS THERE IS AN ADVOCATE AT B2 WHICH IS VERY CLOSE TO HOME IN ROXBURY UM. WHICH IS. >> VERY CLOSE TO HEADQUARTERS. UM THERE IS WE DID ADD A
ADVOCATE TO THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER THIS YEAR THAT FALLS UNDER THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER . SO SHE HELPS BOTH WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT UNIT AND THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT AS WELL AS HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
UM, SO THERE HAS BEEN SOMEONE ADDED INTO THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER WHICH IS IN BRIGHTON. OKAY. >> UM. >> I WAS SORT OF THINKING LIKE IF YOU HAD SOMEONE A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCATE AT
HEADQUARTERS, COULD IT BE THE CATCHALL FOR ALL THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DON'T HAVE THE DV ADVOCATE THAT THEY NEED? AND I SEE SHAKING HEAD NO SORRY. I WOULD LIKE. >> TO UNDERSTAND. WELL I WOULD JUST SAY THAT MOST
OF OUR, UM, SURVIVORS DO NOT COME INTO HEADQUARTERS. THEY MOSTLY WOULD EITHER GO TO THEIR LOCAL POLICE STATION UM THAT IS USUALLY CLOSER TO WHERE THEY EITHER LIVE OR WHERE THEY
ARE OR WE GET RESPONSES FROM 911 AND THEN OFFICERS GO TO THEM AND THEN THE ADVOCATES DO FOLLOW UP WITH THEM AT A LATER TIME. THAT IS CONVENIENT. SO OUR ADVOCATES ARE ABLE TO GO
TO PLACES TO MEET UM THOSE SURVIVORS IF THEY IF THEY CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE STATION IF THEY WANT TO MEET IN PERSON. UM, WE DON'T GET A LOT OF REPORTS OF NEEDING ASSISTANCE RIGHT TO
HEADQUARTERS THAT WE SEE THEY ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO GO INTO THEIR LOCAL POLICE STATION THAT THEY KNOW IS STAFFED BY POLICE OFFICERS AND THAT THEY PROBABLY MAYBE HAVE INTERACTIONS WITH THEIR ABUSER COMMUNITY ROOMS OR HAVE SOME RELATIONSHIPS THERE.
THANK YOU. UM, I CAN YOU REMIND US OF THE AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE A DOMESTIC SO THERE ARE. SIX WHAT ARE THE AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE COVERAGE FROM A DV ADVOCATE? YES. >> UM SO.
BRIGHTON DOES NOT HAVE ONE IN DISTRICT 14 BUT THERE IS ONE AT THE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER AND THERE IS ONE AT D4 WHICH IS THE SISTER STATION OF DISTRICT 14. UM AND THEN WE DO NOT HAVE ONE
AT C6 WHICH IS SOUTH BOSTON UH A1 DOWNTOWN UH A7 EAST BOSTON AND E18. TO HYDE PARK. OKAY.
SO THAT MEANS THERE ARE FIVE. AREAS SIX FIVE AREAS. OKAY. >> UM ALSO UNDER. VALLA UH, I THINK COUNCILOR SANTANA ASKED THE QUESTION REGARDING UH, WHAT WE'VE SEEN I THINK. >> IT WAS YOU ASKED. >> A QUESTION REGARDING WHAT
WE'RE SEEING NOW IN TERMS OF OF REPORTING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENTS. UM. GIVEN SORT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND INCREASED FEAR AMONG OUR IMMIGRANT. COMMUNITIES. >> UM, WHICH IS COUNTER TO THE
IDEA OF COMMUNITY POLICING AND UM, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE UM, UPHOLD THE TRUST ACT HERE IN THE CITY TO. >> SORT OF INCREASE. >> THAT COMMUNICATION HAVING AND I THINK YOU SAID THAT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LIKE THE NUMBERS HAVE REMAINED THE SAME. IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE?
YEAH. >> I WOULD HAVE TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A DEEP DIVE. WE CAN LOOK INTO IT A LITTLE FURTHER BUT UM OVERALL THE NUMBERS FOR CALLS FOR SERVICE FOR NINE ON ONE CALLS HAVE REMAINED FAIRLY CONSISTENT. FAIRLY CONSISTENT.
YEAH OKAY. UM YEAH IT'S OBVIOUSLY A CONCERN FOR US AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THE ADVOCATES ARE SO BENEFICIAL IS THAT A LOT OF TIMES UM, EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK TO POLICE OFFICERS OR DETECTIVES,
THEY MAY, YOU KNOW, FEEL INTIMIDATED OR FEEL THAT WE ARE PART OF THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT HESITANT TO SPEAK TO. THEY DO TEND TO OPEN UP TO THE ADVOCATES A LITTLE BIT MORE. IN IN KIND OF GIVE THEM INFORMATION AND THEN THE
ADVOCATES CAN ASSIST THEM BETTER. SO EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT MOVING FORWARD SORT OF WITH THE CRIMINAL CASE FOR THAT SAID THE ADVOCATES WILL STILL PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR THEM AS THEY NEED. THANK YOU. >> I MEAN I WOULD. APPRECIATE THE DEEP DIVE IF. >> YOU COULD SORT OF ESPECIALLY BY NEIGHBORHOOD.
>> TO SEE IF THERE ARE AREAS WHERE THERE HAS BEEN. >> A DECREASE, AREAS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN IN. >> A IN AN INCREASE AND TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT. >> WE SHOULD. BE DOING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS. INTERESTING WHEN YOU. >> HEAR INFORMATION ANECDOTALLY AND WHETHER THAT ANECDOTAL INFORMATION LINES UP WITH THAT DATA WITH THAT DATA SHOWING.
SO YEAH NO ABSOLUTELY. UM AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS UNDER VALOR UM IT ALLOWS UH VICTIMS UM UNDERGROUND TO GET. SOME SORT OF UM IMMIGRATION RELIEF OR SOME. >> A PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS
WITHOUT THEIR ABUSER BEING MADE AWARE. ARE YOU AT ALL DO YOU KNOW IF. >> UH DO YOU KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT. >> BPD IS INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS AND WHETHER WE'VE SEEN UM, UH, SURVIVORS WHO. HAVE UH BEEN ABLE TO MAKE. >> USE.
OF AN IMMIGRATION STATUS PURSUANT TO VALOR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. SO ON A ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT CONVENES THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK GROUP, WHICH IS ABOUT
3040 SERVICE PROVIDERS IN UH, NOT ONLY IN BOSTON BUT IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA. SO WE HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM EVERY QUARTER AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE REACHING
OUT TO IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS AND TRYING TO GET THEM INFORMATION SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED. UH, THERE'S ALSO LEGAL ADVOCACY AVAILABLE THROUGH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. SO WE'RE A SISTER PARTNER WITH
ALL OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS AND OUR ROLE IS TO CONVENE THEM TO KEEP THOSE CONVERSATIONS RICH AND CONSISTENTLY UPDATED AND INFORMATIVE. WE ALSO HAVE THE BOSTON PUBLIC
HEALTH COMMISSION'S OFFICE OF GENDER VIOLENCE PREVENTION, WHO'S DOING A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD WORK AROUND REACHING OUT TO IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS AND GETTING THEM THE INFORMATION THEY NEED IN THE LEGAL SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED.
SO ALTHOUGH. WE BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS CASELOADS THAT OUR ADVOCATES HAVE, WE REALLY WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THAT PARTNERS NOT ONLY TO TRY TO HELP THEM MEET
THEIR NEEDS BUT THEM HELP MEET OUR NEEDS. UM, AND ANECDOTALLY IN THE PAST COUPLE OF QUARTERLY MEETINGS THEY HAVE DISCUSSED SOME STRATEGIES THAT THEY'RE USING
TO DO DEEPER WORK INTO THOSE COMMUNITIES TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE SUPPORTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THEM. UM, SO I WOULD WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING THAT QUESTION TO THEM. YEAH. >> I'M JUST CURIOUS. >> TO.
SEE WHAT CHANGES OR TRENDS. OR THINGS. >> THAT HAVE CHANGED IN THE LAST. TWO YEARS GIVEN. SORT OF. INCREASED FEAR. THEY'VE THEY'VE ENERGETICALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE HEARING. THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
YEAH. IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME TO THE NEXT DV ADVOCATE I WOULD LOVE THAT. YEAH YOU'D LOVE IT. IT'S IT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO REALLY GATHER AND HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS. SO WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE INVITE YOU TO THE NEXT ONE. THANK YOU I WOULD REALLY
APPRECIATE THAT AND. >> I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO BRING THE INFORMATION. >> BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE HEIGHTENED CONCERN. >> SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR WORK AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS MR CHAIR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
WE. WILL THANK YOU TO OUR PANEL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND ANSWERING ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS. UM, AS I MENTIONED AT THE TOP OF THE HEARING I THINK THERE'S THREE UM GRANTS THAT WE WILL UH
THAT I WILL BRING UP DURING THE GREEN SHEETS THIS UPCOMING COUNCIL MEETING AND MOVING FORWARD I'LL MAKE SURE TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU ON SPECIFIC UM, OTHER GRANTS THAT MAY COME UP, UM, THAT WE NEED TO PASS.
UM, BUT BEFORE WE GO TO THE PUBLIC TESTIMONY, I WILL DISMISS UM, THIS KIND OF PANEL AGAIN. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. UM, WE WILL NOW MOVE FORWARD WITH PUBLIC TESTIMONY WHEN YOUR
NAME IS CALLED, PLEASE COME DOWN TO ONE OF THE TWO PODIUMS AND STATE YOUR NAME NEIGHBORHOOD AND AND OR UM ORGANIZATION FOR THE ASIAN PLEASE SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE AND PLEASE KEEP YOUR
COMMENTS TO TWO MINUTES. UM WE HAVE UM CLIFTON AND WE HAVE JOHN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM CLIFTON BRAITHWAITE UM HIGH PARK AREA I.
REALLY WANTED TO GIVE SOME. INFORMATION TO THEM BUT UM I WANTED TO KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO THE DRONES HOW WILL REGULAR MEDIA GUYS THAT WANT TO, UM, RECORD WILL THEY BE A SIGN IN
SLIP FOR THEM WITH THE TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY HAVE THAT THEY KNOW THAT THOSE DRONES ARE UP? IS THERE A WAY THAT THE PUBLIC WHO IS LOCAL MEDIA UM OR GET
HIRED TO WALK WITH A BAND TO USE IT IS AT A CERTAIN HEIGHT THAT THE DRONES ARE FOR REGULAR PEOPLE COMPARED TO THE POLICE AND THEN FINDING OUT NOW ABOUT THAT MACHINE IF WE DON'T HAVE
THE FUNDING FOR THE DRONES, WILL WE STILL HAVE THE MACHINE TO PROTECT US IN THE AIRWAVES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE OKAY? AND THEN LAST POINT UM, WHEN IT COMES TO. UM.
,THE BOMBING AND HOW WE MADE CHANGES BY PLASTIC BAGS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, ARE WE GOING TO UM WITH SO MUCH GOING ON IN BOSTON THIS YEAR BESIDES JUST THE WORLD CUP AND ALL THAT
AND AND FOXBORO WITH SO MUCH THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN BOSTON, WILL WE BE NOTIFYING THE PUBLIC ON ASKING THEM TO HAVE THE SEE THROUGH BAGS AGAIN AND CHECKPOINTS? WILL WE HAVE THAT TYPE OF STUFF
PREPARED FOR THE PUBLIC? WE DID A GOOD JOB THE YEAR AFTER THE BOMBING, BUT THERE WAS STILL SOME CONFUSION WHEN IT CAME TO THE COMMUNITY SIDE SO WE WANTED TO UM HOPEFULLY
RUN SMOOTH FOR OUTSIDERS AND UM, THE BOSTON RESIDENTS BUT MORE SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO VISIT THAT IT'S A SMOOTH TRANSITION. WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO GET THE INFORMATION ALONG WITH RESIDENTS? THANK YOU.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS. THANK YOU CLIFTON AND UM HAPPY TO UM IF YOU SEND ME AN EMAIL WITH THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL I'M HAPPY TO SUBMIT THOSE QUESTIONS TO THE COMMITTEE. UM, AND GET THOSE UM ANSWERS TO
TO YOU AND THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU CLIFTON AND UM, JOHN. THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD AS TO COMING HERE TO UH.
THANK YOU. UH, THE SPEAKERS TODAY THANK YOU TO THE, UH. THE COUNSELORS. THAT APPEARED I HOPE I HOPE
BECAUSE OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE IN 2026 THAT, UH, WE GET ALL THE TECHNOLOGY WE NEED TO KEEP US SAFE. THAT'S MY MAIN CONCERN.
UH, COUNCILOR SANTANA, I TRY TO MAKE YOUR MEETINGS BECAUSE COUNCILOR FLYNN. BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT SAFETY AND WE AT THIS TIME WE NEED AS MUCH TECHNOLOGY TO HELP US.
I HOPE THEY GET THE GRANTS THAT THEY NEED FOR THE AIR AND THE THE, UM, UH, WATER AND I HOPE IT ALL GOES THE WAY WE WANT IT
TO GO. AND IF CULPEPER FITZGERALD, MURPHY LOUIJEUNE WEBER I HOPE THAT THEY'RE VOTING THE WAY THAT'S GOING TO MAKE US
PROTECTED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. BE SAFE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. SO TO THE, UH TO THE GROUP AND I WILL HOLD YOU UP ANYMORE. I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A LITTLE
LATE REFRESHED FROM LAST WEEK. I THOUGHT IT WAS A TWO AND IT WAS A THREE AND THIS ONE I THOUGHT IT WAS A THREE. IT'S A TWO SO YOU CAN TELL BY MY AGE I'M GETTING A LITTLE SCREWED UP HERE BUT THANK YOU ANYWAY. THANK YOU JOHN THANK YOU.
TO RYAN FOR THE PAPERWORK. THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING HERE AND BEING PRESENT AND CARING FOR OUR SAFETY. UM. ALSO I WILL CONCLUDE OUR PUBLIC
TESTIMONY. UM, SO, UH, I WANT TO THANK AGAIN TWO PANELISTS. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES. I WANT TO THANK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR BEING WITH US HERE TODAY.
UM, THIS HEARING ON DOCKET NUMBER 03200476 AND 0759 IS ADJOURNED.
THANK YOU.