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City staff says juvenile disparities report moving to implementation; community members press for more transparency on street‑level policing data
Summary
City staff updated council on implementation of the Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) task force recommendations, describing training, policy review and community forums; public commenters and some council members urged release of more police stop data and narratives and recommended an adult-system study be scoped for the next budget cycle.
City staff presented the Charlottesville Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) and racial‑disparities task force update on Feb. 2, summarizing progress on multiple implementation tasks and asking council for direction about next steps, including whether to expand study work into the adult criminal justice system.
Mike Murphy, the city staff lead for the DMC implementation, told council the task force has moved from producing a report to active implementation. He reported five working subcommittees are now operating—community education and support, data, policy, training and schools—and outlined near‑term activities: community forums (one scheduled for that week in Westhaven and another in Friendship Court), an upcoming May training for officers run by Strategies for Youth, a juvenile court…
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