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Safety Committee approves emergency ordinance to create community crisis response bureau
Summary
The Cleveland City Council Safety Committee approved, as amended, an emergency ordinance to create a Bureau of Community Crisis Response inside EMS (known as 'Tanisha’s Law'), including a deputy commissioner post, unarmed response teams and public reporting requirements; administration said it will post the deputy-commissioner job and begin implementation steps.
The Cleveland City Council Safety Committee voted to approve an emergency ordinance to establish a Bureau of Community Crisis Response within the Division of Emergency Medical Services, a measure sponsors said aims to route nonviolent behavioral-health calls away from police and into unarmed crisis-response teams.
The ordinance, read into the record by Assistant Director Jason Schachner, creates a deputy commissioner position to lead the bureau, authorizes unarmed response teams to be dispatched through 911 crisis-call diversion, requires publicly available policies and an annual program report, and sets minimum crisis-intervention training standards for police staff. Councilwoman House Jones, one of the ordinance sponsors, said the changes were developed in collaboration with the administration and community…
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