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Council questions 2024 Neighborhood Safety Officer report, asks for ward-level data and ordinance references
Summary
Council and police discussed the 2024 NSO report; members asked for a ward-by-ward breakdown, ordinance citations, cleanup rates and financial tracking. Chief Green said the NSO unit ran understaffed (three vacancies) in 2024 and focused on the most egregious complaints.
Flint — Council members pressed the Flint Police Department to provide more detailed, ward-level information after a 20-minute discussion of the 2024 Neighborhood Safety Officer (NSO) report.
Councilmembers said the one-page report is difficult to use for neighborhood oversight and asked for a breakdown by ward, the specific ordinances cited for each violation type, counts of how many issued violations were cleaned up, and revenue/fine tracking for citations that carry monetary penalties.
“...it would have been helpful for me is to also have these by ward so that I know what’s happening in my ward,” the Councilwoman from the 4th Ward said…
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