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Denver committee hears ONS briefing as programs consolidate, data system replaces paper amid budget cuts

Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee · October 22, 2025
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Summary

The Health & Safety Committee received an Oct. 22 briefing from the Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) on the consolidation of safety programs into the Office of Social Equity and Innovation and the rollout of a centralized digital data system; council members pressed staff for an organizational chart and written budget clarifications ahead of November hearings.

Daryl Watson, chair of the Denver City Council Health & Safety Committee, heard a briefing on Oct. 22 from the Office of Social Equity and Innovation about the newly created Office of Neighborhood Safety and efforts to modernize program data systems.

Ben Sanders, executive director of the Office of Social Equity and Innovation, told the committee the Office of Neighborhood Safety was formed when the mayor moved programs out of the Department of Safety into OSEI earlier in the year. "We did not receive at OSEI an office of neighborhood safety. We were not given an office of neighborhood safety. We were really excited to receive a set of programs, and we were then tasked…

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