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Ordinance 228-2025, as amended, revises sections 630.01 and 630.02 of the codified ordinances (as amended by ordinance 574-18). Assistant Director Schachner, representing the Department of Public Safety, summarized the administration’s changes and told the committee the revisions are intended to strengthen enforcement tools for “problem properties” where police repeatedly respond.

Under the amended ordinance, the city may declare a property a nuisance after a pattern of criminal-activity calls for service (the committee approved changing the counting period to incidents on separate calendar days within any 12-month period). Once the third qualifying nuisance activity has occurred, the owner must submit an abatement plan to the director of public safety within 10 days; failure to submit the plan triggers a $100-per-day penalty until the plan is filed. At the fourth qualifying incident in the counting window a property is formally declared a nuisance and a $250 fine is imposed immediately; subsequent responses carry escalating fines ($500, $750 and then $1,000 for each additional qualifying call). If fines are not paid they can be submitted to the county and assessed on property tax bills in September, staff said.

Schachner described how the city will document incidents: responses are pulled from the CAD (computer-aided dispatch) record and officers may count probable-cause observations and witness statements rather than relying solely on citations or arrests. “Previously, citations or arrests were necessary for a nuisance declaration. The change allows for no citation or arrests required. It's a probable cause standard,” Schachner said. The department also added “person associated with the property” to the list of actors whose conduct can count toward a nuisance declaration, allowing evidence about trespassers or other non-invitees to be considered.

Staff explained that the ordinance includes due-process protections: investigations are reviewed by a supervising sergeant before a declaration, property owners can appeal to the director of public safety, and there is a further administrative appeal to the Board of Zoning Appeals. Assistant directors told the committee the city will exercise discretion in cases involving elderly homeowners or family members and will coordinate with social-services and housing teams when appropriate.

Council members pressed for stronger enforcement and simpler processes. Several members said the existing ordinance had not been enforced adequately and urged the administration to make enforcement consistent and visible to affected neighborhoods. Councilman Jones, who described repeated nuisance problems in his district, urged a longer oversight period for clearly flagged properties; council members debated options including a 12-month or two-year window for counting incidents. The committee ultimately adopted an amendment replacing references to a six-month counting period with 12 months.

The committee approved ordinance 228-2025 as amended and asked the administration to publicize the enforcement process and reporting channels for residents. Staff reiterated that residents should report nuisances through emergency and nonemergency dispatch lines so incidents generate CAD records the city can use for investigations and potential nuisance declarations.

Votes at a glance: ordinance 228-2025 (amending Codified Ordinances sections 630.01 and 630.02), approved as amended (motion passed in committee; tally not specified).","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Safety Committee, April 16, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Safety & Justice Committee approved ordinance 228-2025 with amendments that make abatement plans mandatory after repeated criminal-nuisance activity, impose a $250 fine at nuisance declaration and change the accumulation window from six to 12 months.","taxTitle","Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio","taxId",2662,"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},6269818,"Committee renews Case Western data contract as city says consent-decree reporting remains incomplete",1120,4400,1124755,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3040076-c773beaf62f57ea0a8a338594300f0ef&start=4&end=1124","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3040076-c773beaf62f57ea0a8a338594300f0ef/thumbnail_4400.jpg","/articles/6269818/Cleveland/Cuyahoga-County/Ohio/Committee-renews-Case-Western-data-contract-as-city-says-consent-decree-reporting-remains-incomplete","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6269818-12ae913d429bc5843c9ec9f8a2990e92/orig.mp4?Expires=1771192809&Signature=P1EXwg8pcg0BfEY43eCvjvI~vGd6OJcULnYEayNRN~~vF-vRKY9c~qyYKdhlB0I7ulGkSlxiB3Ee8z2DD4U6EO8TK1yN-N14Z27CrEmEaVpKix5lLM~ZjTjADPnhqA3rFsHOxAXGHEeD63QFJNCReIEc~louLCxbPG6CKFdbEJmNN1c0yqYgHgZy5-KHjmQF9F9Jpnt5qCZ1nM3vp38Diua8sGLDwBCW123AOxEIbyj5T8iX2RzGdhzyqAMz9RFybpIe-x8kgAAVmAoPD-pXIv3H75qNI0CsVh8K13lg9WAnBPm2qjttRzKUYt7-dF60SmxR5eo3WGySlgnqc5R42A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Cleveland City Council Safety & Justice Committee voted to renew a professional-services contract with Case Western Reserve University to continue collecting and analyzing police data tied to the city's federal consent decree, while city officials said one paragraph of the decree remains in noncompliance and additional assessments are pending.

Committee members approved ordinance 330-2025 to renew the contract; the measure was recorded as approved as read. City and Case Western staff described recent public releases of use-of-force and crisis-intervention data and said the teams are working through outstanding data fields and monitoring requests.

The work matters because the consent decree — a court-ordered settlement arising from a Department of Justice investigation — requires regular, documented data collection and public reporting on use of force, crisis intervention and other policing activities. Council members pressed administration and Case Western staff for a timeline to move sections of the decree from “partial” or “noncompliant” to higher compliance ratings and for clearer guidance from the federal monitoring team.

Dr. Rania Issa, who leads the Case Western team, told the committee the data effort has produced public datasets and dashboards and said the work supports the city’s monitoring process. “I can attest to the impactful and effective work that I've seen the data analysis piece. So I think that it's a great return on the investment for the city of Cleveland, specifically within the area of the consent decree,” Issa said.

Officials said the Case Western engagement dates to 2016. Staff and council repeatedly discussed a cluster of consent-decree paragraphs (referred to in the meeting as paragraphs 2.57 through 2.68) that specify how the division must collect and analyze data; committee members and staff singled out paragraph 2.65, which directs an annual assessment and report, as currently listed in the monitoring documents as noncompliant.

Dr. Issa and Dr. Anderson described the city’s work to populate public datasets. Use-of-force and crisis-intervention data have been published on the city’s open data portal, officials said; Issa recounted a six-month investigatory-stops report for 2021 and a full 2022 stop report, and said the teams are working on 2023–24 stop data. Dr. Anderson said some required fields for the investigatory-stop reporting only began collecting in 2021–22, which affects the ability to produce a complete historical annual report for every year since 2016.

The monitoring process and communications with the federal monitor drew repeated questions. City staff said they have requested “paragraph meetings” with the monitoring team — targeted sessions to clarify the monitor’s methodology for judging compliance on discrete consent-decree paragraphs — and that only one such meeting had taken place to date. The city has filed a court motion asking the monitor to explain its methodology so the city can correct specific deficiencies rather than guess at the monitor’s standards.

Director Drummond praised frontline officers while stressing administrative follow-through. “We are doing everything within our power to collect the data so we can put out an annual report,” Drummond said, adding the city’s goal is to produce accurate, reliable reports for monitors and the public.

Committee members pressed for concrete timelines. Staff said the monitoring team already has access to the systems and that the monitor will present publicly before the judge and to council in a scheduled court date; staff said they are coordinating when the monitor will brief council and confirmed the monitor presents to the judge in court (the meeting record cited a court date with Judge Oliver in late April). City officials also said federal technical-assistance resources for one community program had been paused recently by the Department of Justice.

What happens next: the committee approved the contract renewal so the Case Western team can continue data work. City staff said they will press for more paragraph meetings with the monitoring team, continue publishing datasets, and attempt to produce the outstanding annual assessments required by the consent decree.

Votes at a glance: ordinance 330-2025 to renew the Case Western Reserve professional-services contract — approved as read (tally not specified in the committee record).","The Safety & Justice Committee approved renewal of a Case Western Reserve professional-services contract to continue police data collection and analysis tied to the city's federal consent decree while officials told council one paragraph of the decree remains noncompliant and other sections are still being assessed.","actionData","errors"]

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Council committee amends criminal-nuisance ordinance, mandates abatement plans and sets new fines

Committee renews Case Western data contract as city says consent-decree reporting remains incomplete