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Councilors highlight public-safety town hall, surveillance transparency and traffic-calming work session
Summary
Council members reported on a recent police town hall and neighborhood meetings, pressing the city to craft transparent policies for surveillance technologies (including Flock), and announced a traffic-calming work session for Aug. 24; multiple members praised police and public-works staff for outreach and operations.
During council-member reports on Aug. 3, members recounted a series of town halls and engagement activities and urged action on public-safety concerns, surveillance transparency and traffic safety.
Councilor Harris and others summarized district-level town-hall feedback that emphasized traffic and pedestrian safety, repeat offenders and nonemergency response times. Several council members urged more structural fixes—engineering, enforcement and neighborhood interventions—rather than relying solely on citation-based enforcement. Councilors also discussed surveillance technologies: Councilor Harris said police and other departments are working on transparency measures, and Councilor Campbell and others called for model legislation and public portals to disclose Flock operations and requests from outside law enforcement.
Mayor Pro Tem Munoz and other members praised the Las Cruces Police Department for hosting the town hall and noted the department earned CALEA accreditation; members also highlighted public-works and solid-waste operations and reminded residents about strategic-plan listening sessions across districts scheduled Aug. 3–6. Council set a traffic-calming work session for Aug. 24 to examine engineering and enforcement options.
