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Mayor Franklin announces youth-safety directive and a police drone-as-first-responder pilot; council committee to brief public

2876477 · April 4, 2025
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Mayor Franklin announced a renewed city directive on youth safety including a partnership aimed at diverting Latino youth, and highlighted a new police drone-as-first-responder pilot that staff say could improve response times and officer safety.

Mayor Cassie Franklin used the council meeting’s opening remarks on April 2 to outline a renewed directive on youth safety and to describe a new police drone-as-first-responder pilot program.

The mayor said the youth-safety directive will concentrate on incident response, prevention, community engagement and partnerships. She described a partnership with the Latino Civic Alliance and a youth diversion effort she referred to in the meeting as “I Am Jaguar grama,” intended to steer Latino…

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