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Commissioners press designers on sally port, holding-cell transitions and secure circulation
Summary
Commissioners raised operational and safety concerns about the proposed sally port and the path from vehicle intake to holding cells; police representatives recommended a working session with the architect and chief to finalize secure circulation and staffing-dependent hold locations.
Commissioners questioned whether the sally port and police processing flows would be isolated from public spaces and whether detainee movements would be secure.
Mr. Moloney and architect David Benamu described a sally port located in the garage with conveyance (vestibule and dedicated elevators) that would take detainees up by secure bridge to the second-floor police station. A police representative said the city processes "about a 100 or under" detainees a year through the sally port and emphasized that the distance and visibility between intake and holding cells must be short and monitored to avoid safety risks.
Staff and police urged a focused working session including the architect, the city's police chief and operations staff to decide whether the holding cells should be located at-grade, on the garage second level, or adjacent to staffed areas; they noted state temporary detention requirements and the need for secure evidence storage and supervised spaces. Designers agreed to revisit layouts to limit public exposure and to prepare secure circulation options for review.
