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2026-10-28 - Public Safety Committee

Summary

Status: read from a scanned document (the posted agenda is an image-only PDF); names and numbers may contain reading errors. No minutes or video recorded yet, so motions and votes are not known.

  • Every item is tabled business; no new items were listed. Three came from October 6: the Lawrence Police Department Flock Safety cameras (412/26, see Surveillance Technology and Flock License Plate Readers), shooting statistics and public safety technology (413/26, see Police Shooting Statistics and Public Safety Technology), and contractor and developer compliance with city ordinances and permits (414/26, see Contractor and Developer Compliance with City Ordinances and Permits).
  • Winter items from February 2026: review of the snow emergency process and winter parking enforcement (043A/26), how residents are alerted to a winter parking ban (043B/26 and 044/26), and requests for annual and semi-annual reports from Police, Fire and Inspectional Services (045A-C/26).
  • Traffic and parking items: a citywide 25 mph maximum speed (125/17), a Speed Limit Pilot Project Act (496/24), parking ordinance and towing list reviews (71/25, 30/25), and a 30 second delay at all traffic lights (439/23).
  • Older public safety items include an audit of the Police Department for FY2025 (232/25), a fire prevention plan (192/23), methadone clinic and syringe service concerns (315/22, 239/22), youth substance misuse (161/22), motorcycle enforcement, school safety and camera updates (2022), and a long tail of items going back to 2013 (crime statistics, opioid overview, City Hall security, auxiliary police, emergency management response).
  • Voting members: Vivian Marmol (Chair), Celina Reyes (Vice-Chair), Ana Levy and Rosaly Gonzalez. Minutes of October 14 listed for approval; the meeting is hybrid.

Agenda

Tabled new business, October 6, 2026

Tabled, February 3, 2026 (Vivian Marmol)

  • 043A/26 Review snow emergencies process and procedure and winter parking enforcement policies
  • 043B/26 and 044/26 Review process for alerting residents of winter parking ban activation
  • 045A/26, 045B/26, 045C/26 Presentation of annual and semi-annual reports from Police, Fire and Inspectional Services

Tabled, 2025

  • 232/25 Audit of the Police Department for Fiscal Year 2025 (Councilor Wendy Luzon, May 20)
  • 71/25 Review parking ordinances and regulations, inviting traffic enforcement (March 4)
  • 30/25 Review the city's towing list, criteria and procedures, with Police and DPW (February 4)

Tabled, 2022 to 2024

  • 125/17 Maximum citywide motor vehicle speed of 25 mph, amending Chapter 10.26; 496/24 Speed Limit Pilot Project Act (Marc Laplante) (October 1, 2024)
  • 470/23 Illegal dumping in alleyways and homeless situation; 472/23 Trash pick-up concerns (December 5, 2023)
  • 439/23 Synchronized 30 second delay at all traffic lights (November 8, 2023)
  • 192/23 Fire prevention plan development (June 6, 2023)
  • 315/22 Methadone use and clinic operation; 262/22 Water Street lower section drainage; 239/22 Syringe Service Program community response plan; 161/22 Youth substance misuse; 124/22, 125/22 Unregistered motorcycle enforcement and noise; 126/22 Quarterly school safety site visits; 127/22 License plate reader technology update; 128/22 Public camera system update; 271/21 Parking on Hamlet Street (December 2021)

Tabled, 2021 and earlier

  • 229/21 Incidents at Lawrence High School; 186/20 Flooding on Lawrence streets; 155/20 School openings; 97A/20 Winter parking ordinance discussion; 349/19 Alcohol in public parks and sporting events; 356/19 Public safety in Lawrence Public Schools
  • 328/18 Emergency management response; 217/18 Sex trafficking and prostitution; 188/18 City Hall security and safety; 148/18 Lawrence Auxiliary Police (re-committed); 130/18 Police camera rules and regulations; 104/18 City Physician annual report request; 133/17 Police Department Trust Act report; 01/17 Overview of the opioid epidemic (re-committed December 5, 2023); 432/16 Traffic and safety study; 330/14 Crime reduction strategy; 114/13 Crime city statistics

Minutes for approval: 10/14/2026

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