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Committee Chair called for a motion to approve the minutes; Council Member Godfrey moved to approve and Council Member Duchin seconded. The chair announced the minutes were approved \"without objection.\"","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Austin - Public Safety Committee - Jun 02, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Public Safety Committee approved the minutes of its May 19 special meeting without objection on June 2; motion made by Council Member Godfrey and seconded by Council Member Duchin.","taxTitle","Austin, Travis County, Texas","taxId",2819,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6542366,"APD outlines widening use of non‑sworn staff: training, records, drones and mental‑health pilot",2072,1354000,3426000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3626360-cc13c9947b34b320ffc639796443cb9c&start=1354&end=3426","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3626360-cc13c9947b34b320ffc639796443cb9c/thumbnail_1354000.jpg","/articles/6542366/Austin/Travis-County/Texas/APD-outlines-widening-use-of-nonsworn-staff-training-records-drones-and-mentalhealth-pilot","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6542366-ac46b96dc30ac7a7b6d5793b69b184e4/orig.mp4?Expires=1771003154&Signature=AESuoItHBlmugvsCH9rpq1nKoA4qjhkojHzToXWKzHSoK-hW1iG1tw0dC~~K6CYy3l0RHjgMrTWlIyVwSlxELYvNOnv13KzguD-CFq34bYnWOSx9fH4PvwIMNSKwT7xrDc2-cUR~hHlRqTNDI3YVyRLjzp~MWO~lGoL8TQzyfOxgFTPnYmxOXlFss0Fpuy-PTGlHBfsOM7ZvjAfZxP0TlVk2uz~eR2Rza-~wvrTAwx3mKJaA5Vsmm0kNMP1qNO3BgZOA-ebPG34eUKybC03WB0ZvRn6i8zq3beB5vQ8ry85eG6KSd2R7f~1MlctoWv~MgqMRO33AqMTxWX545qfTtw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Austin — Assistant Chief James Mason told the Austin City Council Public Safety Committee on June 2 that the Austin Police Department is using and expanding non‑sworn personnel to carry out administrative, technical and some response functions as the department grapples with sworn staffing shortages.

Mason listed existing and potential non‑sworn roles: civilian staff in case‑management units such as SOAR (sex‑offender registration and tracking), retired officers doing background checks in recruiting, civilian analysts and technicians in the real‑time crime center, seven civilian full‑time equivalents supporting the training academy, a civilian burglar‑alarm unit, a reserve‑officer program of more than 30 people used for large events, and integration with 3‑1‑1 to get online reports into iReport for detectives.

Mason said APD has placed Integral Care clinicians in the 9‑1‑1/dispatch center to handle many crisis‑type calls without police response; he estimated that “about around a thousand a month” previously would have required officer response but are now handled by Integral Care or diverted at dispatch. He said EMS and other partners are interested in taking larger roles in medical or behavioral responses.

The department described an early-stage plan for drone-based “first responder” capability managed from the real‑time crime center by civilian operators; drones could be flown to a scene to determine whether a sworn response is necessary or to give officers information before arrival. Mason said vendors and other cities are further along, and APD is watching and testing approaches.

On vehicle crash reports, Mason told the committee that state law requires a licensed peace officer to sign the official collision form and that City Legal had taken the view that the signature requirement blocks replacing sworn officers for that certification. Council member Greg‑Alter (note: transcript attribution used \"Alter\") and Mason discussed whether trained civilians could complete reports that officers would then certify; Mason said legal and legislative work would be required to change the current practice.

Mason said the department is not moving non‑sworn staff into potentially dangerous field tasks such as vehicle abatement or unverified burglar‑alarm responses. The burglar‑alarm unit itself is civilian and handles false alarms, but the department said it does not want to place civilians in situations that could turn violent.

On implementation planning, Mason said a workload analysis requested by Chief Davis is in final stages; a draft was expected within several weeks and a final report in late summer to inform staffing and non‑sworn deployment decisions. Eddie Garcia, assistant manager of public safety, told the committee the alternate response model pilot for mental‑health calls was being finalized and the department hoped to bring the proposal back to the committee within a couple of months.

Committee members asked for more timeline detail and encouraged creative approaches — including pursuing legislative changes if needed — to reduce response times for collisions and to divert appropriate calls from sworn officers to civilians, EMS or behavioral‑health teams.

The committee did not take any formal votes on implementation at the meeting.","Assistant Chief James Mason briefed the Public Safety Committee on June 2 about existing civilian roles in APD and potential expansions, including drone 'first responder' trials, greater use of retired officers in report‑writing roles, and a mental‑health alternate response pilot expected to come to the committee in the next months.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6542370,"APD says open-data portal 76% complete; HR system rollouts slow final datasets",1308,44000,1352000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3626360-cc13c9947b34b320ffc639796443cb9c&start=44&end=1352","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3626360-cc13c9947b34b320ffc639796443cb9c/thumbnail_44000.jpg","/articles/6542370/Austin/Travis-County/Texas/APD-says-open-data-portal-76-complete-HR-system-rollouts-slow-final-datasets","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6542370-7939abde934f692d1eab99f2264ca798/orig.mp4?Expires=1771003154&Signature=TqL8gDr-dhkVvDqQYlHTNP4gMkgHy6d8xlcioFkLCVv9LbFCGVCm1us6s~xTLZ5CiYnxGapOv0DSTddE~WAU8Jj9Yzqz4hH1~uAdmRIQVpIlSg96y9D~-0r9DP6gOcdn5oGcPkgr~0FZcuJJo9GJ4Mzaw7DFVJdk02UlTppqO8wkWWONKPStnln2v1HCDTJyHW26E7Uef0UQ1j5JOGF6XiF3ArO0nWyWII81evs6WDqEfHNBVB2GeM9JjAp6MbGwlCKWSbQuYwT8cj-F9C1qqwNW7NoqdYrhEOSGZ20OFemDHPTiXX1O1VhmEdemrf7w2HzanL-J4vImCT2Fy2RjvQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Austin — Ozzy Krobach, information-technology manager for the Austin Police Department, told the Austin City Council Public Safety Committee on June 2 that the department’s open-data portal is about 76% implemented and that 16 of 21 datasets required under a 2023 council resolution are publicly available.

Krobach said five remaining datasets are delayed because the APD is not the authoritative source for some data elements. “We are kind of paused at this point with these datasets in order to await the data warehouses for these datasets, which are now collecting the authoritative data,” he said, referring to upcoming human-resources systems UKG and Workday.

The unresolved datasets include sworn and non‑sworn assignments, overtime hours by individual, overtime expenditures by activity category, citations and tickets, and a “stop and release” dataset that relies on unstructured narrative text. Krobach said citations currently flow from citation devices to the municipal court system and that APD is working on identifying an e‑citation device and a custodial arrangement so the department can be the record custodian for citation data.

Community members and council members have pushed for more granular location information in crime reports, such as X/Y coordinates and addresses. Krobach cautioned that exposing precise coordinates can disclose sensitive information about victims. “This is the worst day of somebody’s life, and we want to be really conscientious that we’re not collecting their information because they wanted to volunteer it to us,” he said, adding the department is exploring ways to ‘jitter’ coordinates so researchers can study patterns while preserving privacy.

Krobach said the resolution’s drafters included census block groups as a geographic field, and that most datasets already include it. He said the portal currently provides a map showing census block groups and training aids to help users look up and filter by that field, but acknowledged the interface is not yet as seamless as the city would like. He said APD has moved the data hosting from central CTM to CTM Public Safety to gain closer technical support for records-management and computer-aided dispatch systems.

Committee members asked for additional metrics and documentation. When asked about portal usage statistics, Krobach said the data are available but that he would follow up with specifics and with the presentation slides used for the briefing. The committee also raised neighborhood-level and alternative geographies such as census tracts or school-feeder patterns so that data can be consistently applied across the city — including areas that are not in neighborhood associations.

Krobach said APD has received community requests for historical use‑of‑force rows (2018–2019) and traffic stop data and confirmed work is ongoing on the traffic-stop dataset. He also said the department provides an email (APD Open Data Assets at austintexas.gov) for public feedback and that staff are weighing whether requests should be handled through the open-data portal or as public‑records requests.

Krobach and committee members agreed to follow up with delivery of the presentation backup and portal usage statistics. The committee moved on to other agenda items after the briefing.

The briefing referenced city council resolution 2023-0914-132, which directed the department to publish specified datasets; Krobach said he was hired after the resolution passed and has been leading implementation work since then.","Austin Police Department IT manager told the Public Safety Committee on June 2 that the department has published 16 of 21 datasets required by a 2023 council resolution and is pausing completion of five datasets while HR and citation systems come online.","actionData","errors"]

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