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Committee directs SAPD to convene task force and pursue CPS Energy lighting to address cluster mailbox theft
Summary
Following a council consideration request, San Antonio staff outlined mailbox theft trends and solvability challenges and the committee directed SAPD to convene a multi-stakeholder task force and proceed with a CPS Energy partnership for all-night security lighting near cluster mailboxes.
The Public Safety Committee heard a briefing on cluster mailbox theft and directed San Antonio Police Department staff to convene a multi-stakeholder task force and to pursue a partnership with CPS Energy to install all-night security lighting near cluster mailboxes.
The briefing stemmed from a CCR filed by Councilmember Aldrete Gavito. SAPD staff reviewed applicable state and federal laws (mail theft can be charged as a misdemeanor or, depending on scale, a state jail or third-degree felony), presented a city heat map showing concentrations in the Upper Northwest/I-10 corridor and provided…
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