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Special Commission for Safe Communities presents 29-page plan and council signals support to continue work
Summary
Dr. Scott Denton, chair of the Special Commission for Safe Communities, presented the commission's 29-page final report to the Bloomington City Council on Oct. 27 after two years of study. The report focused on prevention, data collection and interagency coordination, and the council asked staff to return with language to continue the commission or form a task force to implement the recommendations.
Dr. Scott Denton, chair of the Special Commission for Safe Communities, presented the commission's 29-page final report to the Bloomington City Council on Oct. 27 after two years of study. The report, Denton said, focused on prevention, data collection and interagency coordination rather than criminal-justice responses. "We made no recommendations in that regard," Denton said, referring to constitutional or second-amendment issues.
The commission offered eight interlinked recommendations, Denton said: expand community-group collaboration and data collection; promote secure gun storage and distribution of gun locks and consider buyback programs; gather youth perspectives and support school-based prevention programs such as restorative justice and social-emotional learning; strengthen…
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