2026-10-20 - Youth & Human Services Committee

00:06>> Councilmember Albi: ALL

00:07RIGHT, WELCOME EVERYONE TO DOES'

00:09YOUTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

00:10COMMITTEE MEETING. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

00:12I'M GOING TO DO A QUICK ROUND OF

00:14INTRODUCTIONS. DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT?

00:16DIDN'T THINK SO.

00:17THANK YOU. SOME DAY, SOME DAY SOMEONE WILL.

00:20I AM COUNCILMEMBER ANNA ALBI,

00:21I'M JOINED BY VICE CHAIR NOLAN,

00:25VICE MAYOR KEARNEY,

00:26COUNCILMEMBER RYAN JAMES, WE

00:28ALSO HAVE DIRECTOR TIFFANY BROWN

00:30AND SOLICITOR BRICE ROADS.

00:32ALSO WE'RE JOINED BY CITICABLE.

00:33SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE

00:36TODAY.

00:37OH, AND OUR CLERK ALAN TODAY,

00:39SORRY, IS ALSO HERE.

00:41AND I WANTED TO START TODAY WITH

00:44A LITTLE BIT OF A TRIGGER

00:45WARNING, YOU WILL BE TALKING

00:46ABOUT SOME HEAVY TOPICS

00:49THROUGHOUT TODAY'S PRESENTATION.

00:50I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO BE

00:52JOINED. WE'RE REALLY GRATEFUL

00:54TO BE JOINED BY OUR HAMILTON

00:56COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TASK

00:57FORCE. SO WE ARE GOING TO BE TACKLING

00:59TOUGH TOPICS, UNFORTUNATELY THIS

01:01SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN NUMBERS

01:03GO UP IN THE PAST YEAR OR MORE.

01:07SO WE'RE TRENDING IN KIND OF,

01:09WELL, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO IT

01:10ON THE DATA.

01:11BUT BEFORE WE HAVE OUR

01:13PRESENTERS COME UP, HOPEFULLY MY

01:15COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BE OKAY IF

01:17WE FIRST FILE THE COMMUNICATION

01:19THAT'S HERE, THE COMMUNICATION

01:20THAT'S BEING SUBMITTED IS OUR

01:22STARS REPORT WHICH IS OUR POLICE

01:25RECORDS OF KIND OF CRIMES THAT'S

01:27BEING REPORTED INVESTIGATED IN

01:30IT ONE OF HIGHLIGHT THE STAGE A

01:33LITTLE BIT WE HAVE LAST TWO

01:36YEARS STARTED TRACKING

01:40STRANGULATION REPORTS AND UNFORTUNATELY YEAR TO DATE WE

01:42HAVE SEEN 50% INCREASE IN THOSE

01:46NUMBERS WITH 112 MORE CASES.

01:48WE ALSO IN THE SAME STARS REPORT

01:52SEE A INCREASE TO THE REPORTED

01:54NUMBER OF RAPES, WE HAVE HAD A

01:5656% INCREASE WITH 87 MORE

01:59REPORTED YEAR TO DATE.

02:00SO, WE'RE GOING TO DIG IN ON

02:02THESE DIFFICULT TOPICS TODAY SO

02:03I'M GRATEFUL WE HAVE A ROOMFUL

02:06OF EXPERTS HERE HERE TO JOIN US.

02:08SO WITHOUT OBJECTION WE'LL FILE

02:11THAT COMMUNICATION.

02:17OH, WAS -- OKAY.

02:21YES, CLERK?

02:22>> [INDISCERNIBLE].

02:25IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN NEW I HAD

02:26AT THE TIME VERSION OF THE

02:28AGENDA I AM HOLDING HERE.

02:30ALL RIGHT, WE'LL COME BACK TO

02:31THE END I DON'T WANT TO THROW US

02:32OFF I WANT TO GET TO OUR

02:34PRESENTERS HERE I WANT TO

02:36WELCOME UP OUR PRESENTATION TEAM

02:37IN ORDER THAT I RECEIVED THEIR

02:40NAMES SO HONORABLE ANNE FLOTTMAN

02:48IS FROM DOMESTIC RELATIONS.

02:52AND SERGEANT RICK SNOW FROM THE

02:54HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE.

02:56THANK YOU. AND WELCOME.

02:57>> THANK YOU ALL FOR INVITING

02:59US. I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE.

03:04I'M HONORABLE ANNE FLOTTMAN WITH

03:06DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT.

03:10DOMESTIC RELATIONS AND CHILD

03:11CUSTODY AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE

03:13DO CIVIL PROTECTION ORDERS.

03:14THEY ARE ABOUT HALF OF WHAT WE

03:17DO. SO IN THE FALL OF 2023 I

03:20RECEIVED A CALL LATER IN THE

03:22EVENING FROM SHERIFF BECAUSE

03:24THERE HAD BEEN A HUGE?

03:28FEW, A COMPLETE, IT WOULD BE A

03:31COMEDY OF ERRORS IF THE OUTCOME

03:34WERE NOT FUNNY.

03:38OF WYOMING POLICE TRYING TO

03:40SERVE A CIVIL PROTECTION ORDER.

03:42LET ME CLARIFY A CIVIL

03:44PROTECTION ORDER IS DIFFERENT

03:46FROM ONE WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT

03:48IS INVOLVED IN FILING IT.

03:50THAT'S A TEMPORARY PROTECTIVE

03:53ORDER THAT A POLICE OFFICER

03:55FILES, THE PROSECUTOR

03:58PROSECUTES. IN A CIVIL PROTECTION ORDER IF

04:00YOU ARE A FAMILY MEMBER OR

04:02HOUSEHOLD MEMBER, YOU CAN JUST

04:04COME AND TELL US WHAT HAPPENED

04:06TO YOU, WHAT YOU FEEL WAS

04:10VIOLENT, A THREAT OF VIOLENCE OR

04:11MADE YOU FEARFUL OR STALKING OR

04:13WHATEVER THE STATUTE IT AND WE

04:15WILL GRANT YOU AN ORDER AND THEN

04:16SET IT FOR A FULL HEARING SO

04:18THAT THE PERSON AGAINST WHOM THE

04:19ORDER IS GRANTED CAN APPEAR AND

04:22HAS DUE PROCESS.

04:23OKAY? SO THAT'S THE BIG DIFFERENCE.

04:27SO, THE INVOLVEMENT OF LAW

04:29ENFORCEMENT COMES WHEN THEY HAVE

04:30TO GO OUT AND SERVE THE ORDER.

04:32A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF OR ORDERS

04:34ARE SERVED BY SERGEANT SNOW'S

04:36TEAM, HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF.

04:38BUT ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN

04:39SERVE THEM.

04:40SO THE WAY WAY MANY I

04:43WWW.WWW.POLICE DEPARTMENT THE

04:44PERSON SERVING WAS COMPLETELY

04:46UNFAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS.

04:48IT WAS NOT COMPLETELY, IT WAS

04:49NOT DONE CORRECTLY AT ALL.

04:52AS A RESULT THIS EX BOYFRIEND

04:55WHO HAD BROKEN BACK INTO A

04:58WOMAN'S HOME WHILE SHE'S TRYING

04:59TO SORT IT OUT AND CALLED CHAR

05:04SHERIFF MCGUFFEY, HE SOLD ALL OF

05:08ALREADY BELONGS ON FACEBOOK

05:10MARKETPLACE, HE MOVED HIS MOTHER

05:12AND DISABLED SISTER INTO HER

05:14HOME. IT TOOK WEEKS TO UNRAVEL HE

05:16WILL.

05:17SO ON THAT EAVES OF EVENING IN

05:192023, THE SHERIFF CALLED ME AND

05:21SAID CAN YOU COME MEET WITH ME

05:22ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE IT WAS AN

05:24ORDER MY COURT HAD SHOOED AND WE

05:26MAD THE MISTAKE THAT CAUTIONED

05:28THIS CASCADE OF OTHER MISTAKES.

05:31SO WE WENT TO A MEETING, I WENT

05:33TO THE A MEETING AT THE SHERIFF

05:35OFFICE.

05:36THERE WERE MAYBE 10 OF US THERE

05:37AND THE SHERIFF DECIDED TO START

05:41A TASK FORCE, SHE'S THE

05:43ORIGINATOR OF THIS.

05:44YOU HAVE A FEW OF OUR MEMBERS,

05:45THE PEOPLE HERE TODAY, THEY ARE

05:47BUT WE HAVE MANY, MANY MORE

05:50MEMBERS. WE HAVE INVOLVED INVOLVEMENT

05:52FROM THE HAMILTON COUNTY

05:53COMMISSION ON WOMEN AND GIRLS,

05:54HAMILTON COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS,

05:56THE YWCA, COUNTY PROSECUTOR,

06:00DELHI PD, GOLF MANOR PD,

06:04CINCINNATI PD, 911 EMERGENCY

06:08SERVICES, ANIMAL CARE, HAMILTON

06:10COUNTY PROBATION IF I DIDN'T SAY

06:12THEM. SO THERE IS ABOUT 40 AND WE MEET

06:16EVERY OTHER WEEK AT AT THE 16TH

06:20FLOWER OF 800 BROADWAY AND TRY

06:22TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS.

06:24WHAT HAPPENS FIRST IT IS

06:25CONFUSING TO PEOPLE BECAUSE

06:26THERE ARE TWO ORDERS.

06:27THE KIND THAT THE POLICE ARE

06:28GOING TO FILE FOR YOU, THE

06:30TEMPORARY AND KIND THAT WE'RE

06:31GOING TO JUST GIVE YOU.

06:32AND SO THEY DON'T KNOW WHICH

06:34COURTHOUSE TO GO TO, THEN A

06:36GREAT DEAL OF OUR OTHER 42

06:41AGENCIES IN HAMILTON COUNTY HAVE

06:42NOT HAD FULL TRAINING ON HOW TO

06:44SERVE THE ORDERS.

06:48SO, AS A RESULT OF THIS

06:51TASKFORCE WE WE WE HAVE GOTTEN

06:54OUT OF OUR SILOS, THE SHERIFF

06:57HAS CALLED PULLED ALL THESE

06:58PELLET PEOPLE TOGETHER AND WE

07:00HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF OUR SILOS AND

07:03BEGUN TO SOLVE SO MANY PROBLEMS.

07:05IT IS A WHACK A MOSTLY WITH

07:07LET'S FIX THIS AND WE HAVE TO

07:09FIX THIS TOO.

07:10BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS I DON'T

07:11KNOW HOW TO DO THE THINGS BUT I

07:13WILL TELL YOU MY STATISTICS, WE

07:16USED TO HAVE, OH, THANK YOU,

07:18THERE WE GO.

07:20SO ONE OF THE FIRST THING I DID

07:24WAS TALK TO WOMEN HELPING WOMEN

07:26WHO IS PRESENT HERE TODAY TO ASK

07:28THEM WHAT IN PARTICULAR ARE YOU

07:32HEARING WHEN YOUR -- SO WHEN OUR

07:35PETITIONERS COME DOWN TO THE

07:38COURTHOUSE, THEY ARE BY

07:40THEMSELVES.

07:41THEY WERE BY THEMSELVES.

07:43THEY ARE IN A STATE OF PANIC

07:48SOMETIMES, FEAR, ANXIETY,

07:51FRUSTRATION, CONFUSION, CHEERS

07:54& APPLAUSE ] AND THEY HAVE TO

07:55WALK IN A ROOM AND TELL THIS

07:57PERFECT STRANGER WHAT HAPPENED

07:58TO THEM.

07:59AND SO OFTEN THEY ARE

08:01EMBARRASSED AND FEEL GUILTY

08:02ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM EVEN

08:04THOUGH THEY SHOULD NOT. THAT IS A COMMON REACTION.

08:08AND I HEARD FROM WOMEN HELPING

08:10WOMEN AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE WITH

08:13WHOM I SPOKE JUST WHAT A BAD JOB

08:17THE MAGISTRATES HEARING THESE

08:18WERE DOING.

08:20THEY HADN'T BEEN TRAINED AT ALL.

08:22IN FACT WHEN THEY WERE HIRED AS

08:24MAGISTRATES TO DO BOTH OUR

08:27DOMESTIC RELATION, CHILD

08:30CUSTODY, DIVORCE THEY WOULD

08:31TRAIN THEM BY HAVING THEM DO

08:33DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HEARINGS WHICH

08:35HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ILL

08:40THOUGHT OUT DECISIONS EVER.

08:44SO, WHAT AFTER SPEAKING WITH

08:46WOMEN HELPING WOMEN I BEGAN TO

08:48AUDIT SOME OF AUDIO AND IT WAS

08:50JUST AWFUL.

08:51THESE PEOPLE WERE COMING UP AND

08:53THEY WERE BEING SAID THE

08:56MAGISTRATE WOULD SAY, WELL WHY

08:57DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE?

08:59WHY DID YOU GO BACK?

09:00WHY DID YOU DO THIS?

09:01WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL THE POLICE?

09:04IT WAS WHY DIDN'T YOU, WHY

09:06DIDN'T YOU? SO I CREATED A DEDICATED DV TEAM

09:11OF FOUR MAGISTRATES, THE ONLY

09:13ONCE A LOUD TO HEAR THESE.

09:15THEY HAVE RECEIVED SPECIAL

09:16TRAINING. THEY A TEN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

09:20TASKFORCE AND WE HAVE THE WE

09:22HAVE MY LITTLE TEAM.

09:24BEFORE I MADE THESE CHANGES WE

09:26HISTORICALLY WERE LOSING ABOUT

09:2980% OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAME

09:32LOOKING FOR HELP WOULD NOT COME

09:35BACK FOR THE SECOND HEARING,

09:37WOULD NOT FOLLOW THROUGH, AND WE

09:40WOULD LOSE THEM.

09:45SO I CRUELTIED THE SPECIFIC TEAM

09:47OF MAGISTRATES, WOMEN HELPING

09:48WOMEN OPENED AN OFFICE IN OUR

09:50BUILDING, SO WE DIDN'T HAVE TO

09:51CALL THEM, THEY HAVE A OFFICE,

09:53THEY HAVE AVOUCHED ADVOCATE

09:54THERE ALL THE TIME.

09:57WE STARTED GIVING THE

09:59PETITIONERS TWO COPIES OF THEIR

10:02ORDER BECAUSE THE SHERIFF

10:03STOPPED SERVES AT 4 ALTHOUGH I

10:05KNOW SERGEANT SNOW AND HIS

10:07TEAMWORK A LOT LATER THAN THAT

10:08MOST OF THE TIME, BUT THEY ARE

10:10SUPPOSED TO STOP AT FOUR.

10:12SO IF THE PETITIONER GETS HOME

10:13AND IT IS AFTER 4 AND THE GUY

10:16THAT'S THREATENING HER HIS CAR

10:18IS IN THE DRIVEWAY SHE NEED TO

10:21QUAD CPD, GOLF MACHINE OR,

10:23WHOEVER IT IS AND HAVE THEM

10:24SERVE. THAT'S THE PART WE'RE WORKING

10:26ON. AND THROUGH ALL OF THESE EFFORTS

10:29WE HAVE DROPPED OUR DISMISSAL

10:32RATE FROM ABOUT 80% TO ABOUT

10:3567%.

10:36IT WAS 59% LAST MONTH.

10:39SO, SOME OF THOSE ARE WHAT WE'RE

10:42TRACKING MORE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO

10:43JUST DON'T SHOW UP UP THE SECOND

10:46TIME. THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT HAS

10:47DECLINED THE MOST.

10:48SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT.

10:54COUNCILMEMBER ANNA ALBI, YOU HAD

10:56TALKED WITH ME BRIEFLY ABOUT ARE

10:58WE HEARING MORE ABOUT

11:00STRANGULATION. YES WE ARE.

11:05AS THE CITY PROSECUTOR HAS FAR

11:08MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS AND

11:09CAN GIVE IT TO YOU, BUT THE

11:12MAGISTRATES ARE HEARING -- I WAS

11:14A MAGISTRATE IN WARREN COUNTY

11:16WHEN I BEFORE I WAS JUDGE I

11:19HEARD 1500 TO 2000 OF THEE PIECE

11:22TUITIONS AND UP THERE THEY WOULD

11:24SAY I CHOKED ME OR PUT HIS

11:26HANDS-ON ME.

11:27NOW THE PETITIONERS ARE SAYING

11:29HE STRANGULATED ME.

11:31NOW OKAY, THAT'S NOT MAYBE THE

11:32RIGHT TERM BUT THAT MEANS TO ME

11:35THAT THE IDEA OF STRANGE LAYINGS

11:37BEING THE NAME OF THE CRIME AND

11:39IT BEING WRONG HAS MADE ITS WAY

11:42INTO THE PUBLIC LEXICON.

11:44AND I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT,

11:45NOT EXCITED BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I

11:47MEAN, I'M EXCITED THAT THE WORD

11:48IS OUT THERE.

11:49SO THEY ARE HEARING THAT MORE

11:50AND MORE, 3-4 TIMES A WEEK, PER

11:55MAGISTRATE.

11:56AND THEY ARE NOW ALSO HEARING AT

11:58THE DOCKET OFFICE WHERE THE

12:00PERSON FIRST GOES TO START THE

12:04PAPER WORK. THE POLICE TOLD ME

12:06TO COME HERE BECAUSE HE

12:08STRANGULATED ME.

12:09SO THE WORD IS GETTING OUT

12:11THERE.

12:12SO, FOR ALL THAT WE'RE DOING

12:14WITH THE TASKFORCE THANK YOU TO

12:18THE SHERIFF THE COORDINATION,

12:19THE TRACKING THE AUDITING KEEP

12:22WILLING UP WITH THIS WE'RE

12:23SEEING REAL RESULTS.

12:24I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR

12:26YOU FOR MY PORTION UNLESS YOU

12:27HAVE QUESTIONS FOR ME

12:29SPECIFICALLY.

12:30>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU, MAYBE QUICKLY JUDGE, IF YOU

12:33COULD TALK ABOUT THE OHIO STATE

12:36LAW CHANGED EARLIER THIS YEAR,

12:38IF YOU COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT THE

12:40CHANGE WAS AND WHAT POSSIBLY --

12:43>> TO THE PROSECUTORS BECAUSE I

12:46ONLY DO CIVIL AND I DON'T REALLY

12:48KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN AN

12:50ARRAIGNMENT.

12:51I'M NOT YOUR ONE IF YOU WANT TO

12:53TALK ABOUT CIVIL PROTECTION

12:54ORDERS I COULD KEEP YOU HERE

12:56UNTIL 5.

12:57>> Councilmember Albi: NO

12:58WORRIES. THANK YOU.

12:59ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE

13:00JUDGE?

13:01OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS FOR SERGEANT SNOW

13:03AND HIS ROLE?

13:05IF YOU HAVE SOME COMMENTS AS

13:07WELL.

13:08>> SO, UNLIKE CINCINNATI POLICE,

13:10THE SHERIFF OFFICE HAS TWO ROLES

13:13IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

13:15SITUATION. OUR BEAT OFFICERS WHO RUNT

13:17PATROL BEATS HANDLE THE CRIMINAL

13:20ASPECT JUST LIKE YOUR CINCINNATI

13:21POLICE DEPARTMENT DOES.

13:22THEY FILE THE PAPERWORK TO HAVE

13:24A PROTECTION ORDER ISSUED

13:27PURSUANT TO CRIMINAL CHARGES.

13:29IF THAT ON ORDER IS GRANTED THAT

13:31EXPIRES WHEN THE CRIMINAL CHARGE

13:33IS OVER.

13:34I WORKOUT OF COURT SERVICES, THE

13:37OFFICERS THAT WORK WITH ME, FOR

13:39ME, ARE ALL ASSIGNED TO COURT

13:42SERVICES. AND OUR PRIMARY FUNCTION IS FOR

13:44THE SECTIONS THAT I SUPERVISE

13:47ARE SERVING THESE COURT ORDERS,

13:50THOSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS AND CIVIL

13:52STALKING ORDERS.

13:53DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORDERS COME

13:54OUT OF THE JUDGE'S OFFICE.

13:58THE CIVIL STALKING COME OUT OF

14:01558 ABOVE THE COURTHOUSE.

14:02THE BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE

14:04TWO A CIVIL STALKING ORDER IS

14:07MORE HARASSMENT.

14:08YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO BE PUT ON

14:10NOTICE TO STAY AWAY FROM YOU.

14:12STOP FOLLOWING YOU, SIT ACROSS

14:14THE STREET FROM YOU, OBSERVING

14:15YOUR BUSINESS, THINGS OF THAT

14:18NATURE. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORDERS THE

14:20MAGISTRATE HAS SAW FIT TO ISSUE

14:21AN ORDER BASED ON A THREAT OF

14:25ACTUAL VIOLENCE OR A FEAR OF

14:27ACTUAL VIOLENCE.

14:29THE TEMPORARY ORDER THAT COMES

14:30OUT WHICH IS THE EX PARTE WHICH

14:33IS WHAT WE SERVE INITIALLY IS

14:35GOOD FOR ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE

14:37OF THE HEARING.

14:39THE IN THAT PERIOD THEY WILL

14:41HAVE WHAT IS CALLED A FULL

14:42HEARING WHICH IS THE SECOND

14:44HEARING AND THE MAGISTRATES CAN

14:47EXTEND THAT ORDER UP TO 5 YEARS.

14:50SO AN ORDER THAT WOULD BE ISSUED

14:51TODAY A FULL ORDER GRANTING

14:53COULD TECHNICALLY BE IN AFFECT

14:57UNTIL 2031, THE ORDER ITSELF IS

14:59CIVIL, A VIOLATION THOUGH

15:01BECOMES A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, THE

15:03SUBJECT CAN BE ARRESTED, CHARGED

15:05IN MUNICIPAL COURT DEPENDING ON

15:06HOW MANY TIMES THEY VIOLATED

15:08ORDER. YOU KEEP VIOLATING THE

15:10ORDER EVENTUALLY IT TURNS INTO A

15:14FELONY.

15:15THESE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORDERS DIRECT US TO DO SPECIFIC THINGS.

15:17WE MAY BE DIRECTED TO TAKE CAR

15:22KEYS, GARAGE DOOR OPENERS,

15:23THINGS OF THAT NATURE FROM THE

15:25PARTY THAT WAS THE ALLEGED

15:28ABUSER. WE HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO VACATE

15:30THE SUBJECT FROM THE RESIDENCE

15:33UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE FULL

15:34HEARING CAN BE CONDUCTED AND THE

15:36COURT MAKES A DECISION AS TO

15:40SEMI PERMANENT POSITION OF THE

15:43POSSESSION EFFORTS RESIDENCE.

15:44AND THE MOST SERIOUS ONE WE ARE

15:46ORDERED SOMETIMES TO SEIZE

15:49FIREARMS.

15:50THOSE FIREARMS ARE HELD UNTIL

15:52THE ORDINANCE EXPIRES.

15:53AND THEY ARE ONLY RELEASED AFTER

15:56IT IS VERIFIED THAT THE

15:59INDIVIDUAL THAT THE FIREARMS ARE

16:01RETURNED TO IS LEGALLY ALLOWED

16:02TO OWN A FIREARM.

16:05THESE ORDERS, IN ORDER TO CHARGE

16:07A VIOLATION WHICH TURNS INTO THE

16:09CRIMINAL ASPECT OF IT YOU HAVE

16:11TO HAVE PERFECTION OF SERVICE

16:14WHICH IS MY OFFICER ACTUAL

16:17HANDING THE ORDER TO THE PARTY

16:18THAT THE ORDER IS AGAINST AND

16:21EXPLAINING THE ORDER TO THE

16:24INDIVIDUALS. CAN I STEEL THAT FOR A MINUTE?

16:28AN EX PARTE ORDER HAS

16:32POTENTIALLY 31 BOXES THAT THE

16:40MAGISTRATE CAN CHECK.

16:42EVERY BOX THAT IS CHECKED MY

16:43OFFICERS EXPLAIN TO THE

16:45INDIVIDUAL, THIS IS WHAT THE

16:46COURT IS DIRECTING US TO DO.

16:48THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT

16:51DO. THIS IS WHEN YOUR NEXT HEARING

16:53IS.

16:54IF YOU VIOLATE ANY OF THESE

16:58STIPULATIONS, IT IS A CRIMINAL

17:00OFFENSE AND ALL THEIR IS

17:03RECORDED ON BODY WORN CAMERA AND

17:04THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE

17:06PROSECUTOR GETTING ACCESS TO IN

17:08THE EVENT OF A VIOLATION

17:11HEARING.

17:12BACK IN 2023, 2024 WHEN TASK

17:15FORCE FIRST STARTED, I HAD FOUR

17:17OFFICERS THAT COVERED HAMILTON

17:19COUNTY.

17:20WE BREAK THE COUNTY UP BY ZIP

17:23CODES. IN MID 2025 SHERIFF GAVE US A

17:26FIFTH OFFICER. SO WE NOW HAVE FIVE OFFICERS.

17:30AS FAR AS VOLUME, IN 2024 WE

17:38AVERAGED 274 COMBINED CIVIL

17:41STALKING AND CRIMINAL DOMESTIC

17:42VIOLENCE ORDERS PER MONTH.

17:44THOSE ARE NEW CASE NUMBERS.

17:47WE ACTUALLY HAD MORE SERVICES

17:50THAN THAT BECAUSE SOMETIMES

17:51THESE ORDERS HAVE 2, 3, 4

17:53SERVICE THAT IS HAVE TO GO OUT.

17:55BUT IN 2024 WE AVERAGED 274,

17:582025 WE AVERAGE AD 300, AND

18:03UNFORTUNATELY THROUGH SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR WE'RE AVERAGING

18:05312.

18:06THE NUMBERS KEEP GOING UP.

18:10AS JUDGE SAID ONE OF THE REASONS

18:12THIS TASK FORCE STARTED WAS WE

18:14HAD TO LOOP IN ADDITIONAL LAW

18:17ENFORCEMENT FOR ASSISTANCE.

18:21OLD SCHOOL OFFICERS WERE TAUGHT

18:22THAT'S THE SHERIFF'S JOB, IT IS

18:24CIVIL.

18:25WE DON'T DO THAT.

18:26WELL THAT'S NOT TRUE.

18:27THE ORDER CLEARLY STATES THAT

18:30ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER CAN

18:32SERVE AND EXECUTE ONE OF THESE

18:35ORDERS.

18:36WHAT WITH HOPE TO DO FROM THE

18:37TASK FORCE IS ED INDICATE A LOT

18:42OF THEE LOCAL DEPARTMENTS WHAT

18:43SERVICE MEANS, WHAT THAT ORDER

18:45REQUIRES TO YOU DO AND HOW TO

18:46REPORT THAT ORDER BACK TO OUR

18:48OFFICE DOWN AT THE COURTHOUSE

18:50BECAUSE THESE ORDERS ARE ENTERED

18:52INTO THE DATA BASIS.

18:58ONCE SERVED AND GRANTED THAT'S

18:59ORDERS HAVE FULL FAITH AND

19:02CREDIT. IF YOU WOULD TRAVEL TO KANSAS

19:06AND YOU WOULD RUN INTO THE PARTY

19:07THAT YOU HAVE A PROTECTION ORDER

19:09AGAINST, IT DOESN'T RENT MATTER

19:11THAT ARE YOU IN CANS CAST, IF

19:12YOU ARE NOT WITHIN 500 FEET OF

19:14THEM IN OHIO, ARE YOU NOT

19:16ALLOWED WITHIN 3500 FEET OF THEM

19:17IN KANSAS.

19:18SO THAT'S WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO

19:21PERFECT SERVICE, GET THE

19:23REPORTING ACCURATELY SO THAT ALL

19:24THESE DATA BASIS CAN BE UPDATED.

19:29>> THANK YOU FOR THAT.

19:30YOU KNOW AS YOU SPOKE I WOULD

19:33LOVE EITHER OF YOUR SPECIFIES.

19:35AS WE THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE

19:36STALKING OR SOME OF THAT

19:39HARASSMENT I THINK SOMETIMES

19:42TOES CRIMES CAN BE BE BRUSHED

19:44OFF A LITTLE BIT OR INTO THE

19:45TAKEN AS SERIOUSLY BUT THEY CAN

19:48OFTEN ESCALATE.

19:49CAN YOU TAKE ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE

19:50FROM YOUR PERCH IN TERMS OF HOW

19:54THESE BEHAVIORS ESCALATOR

19:57INTERSECT WITH EACH OTHER?

19:59>> AS FAR AS ESCALATION IN MY

20:01OPINION THAT TURNS THIS CIVIL

20:02MATTER INTO A CRIMINAL MATTER.

20:06BECAUSE THEY DON'T CALL COURT

20:08SERVICES WHEN IT ESCALATES, THEY

20:09CALL THE LOCAL LOCAL POLICE

20:11DEPARTMENT AND SAY I HAVE A

20:13STALKING ORDER AGAINST THAT

20:14INDIVIDUAL AND THEY ARE NOT

20:15ALLOWED TO DO THIS, THIS AND

20:17THIS, HERE IS TEXT MESSAGES THEY

20:18SENT ME, HERE IS MY RING DOOR

20:21BELL FOOTAGE THAT SHOWS THEM IN

20:23FRONT OF MY APARTMENT.MENT.

20:26S THAT'S THE ESCALATION.

20:27AND WITH ESCALATION THAT

20:30STALKING COULD BECOME A VIOLENT

20:34ACT. >> AND I THINK FROM MY

20:35PERSPECTIVE THAT IS ONE OF THE

20:37ADVANTAGES OF HAVING THE

20:38DEDICATED MAGISTRATES HEARING

20:39THESIS THEY RECOGNIZE AND

20:41UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT SOMETHING

20:44THAT SEEMS NOT -- IT DOESN'T

20:46HAVE TO BE LIFE THREATENING FOR

20:48US TO GIVE YOU AN ORDER.

20:49IT HAS TO BE MAKING YOU FEARFUL,

20:51HAVE MENTAL DISTRESS, YOU CAN

20:55SEE THE PATTERN OF ESCALATION

20:58AND THEY ARE AWARE OF IT.

20:59SO THE BEAUTY OF THE CIVIL

21:02PROTECTION ORDER IS YOU DON'T

21:03HAVE TO CONVINCE A POLICE

21:04OFFICER THAT A CRIME IS

21:06OCCURRING.

21:07YOU HAVE TO CONVINCE A POLICE

21:09OFFICER THAT THIS PERSON IS

21:11CAUSING YOU, HAS CAUSED YOU

21:14HARM, IS THREATENING TO CAUSE

21:16YOU HARM OR STALKING YOU IN A

21:17WAY THAT MAKES YOU FEAR THEY ARE

21:19GOING TO CAUSE YOU HARM.

21:20AND JUST TO CLARIFY THE STALK

21:24STALKING ORDERS THAT ARE IN THE

21:27MAIN COURTHOUSE, THOSE ARE FOR

21:29PEOPLE WHO AREN'T RELATED TO ONE

21:31ANOTHER NECESSARILY.

21:33FAMILY MEMBERS, HOUSEHOLD

21:34MEMBERS AND FORMER INTIMATE

21:38PARTNERS. SO, WE'RE TRYING TO RECOGNIZE

21:40THE ESCALATION AND THAT THE

21:42WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE CIVIL

21:44PROTECTION ORDER WAS JUST THAT,

21:47SOME THINGS BECAUSE IF YOU ARE

21:49HAVING A FIGHT WITH YOUR PARTNER

21:51IN YOUR HOME AND CALL THE

21:53POLICE, THRUST A LIKELIHOOD THEY

21:54ARE GOING TO JUST TELL ONE OF

21:56YOU TO LEAVE.

21:57THAT'S A SHORT TERM SOLUTION.

21:59THESE ARE A LONG TERM SOLUTION

22:01BECAUSE AS SERGEANT SNOW POINTED

22:02OUT, WE CAN GIVE THEM FOR A

22:04PERIOD FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS.

22:08>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU

22:09FOR THAT. ANY QUESTIONS?

22:10>> Vice Mayor Kearney: THANK YOU

22:11SO MUCH.

22:12THIS IS, YOU KNOW, REALLY

22:13INFORMATIVE.

22:14WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

22:17I JUST HAD TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT

22:18DISMISS ALWAYS.

22:19TWO THINGS THAT I HAVE SEEN

22:20HAPPEN A LOT AND I WONDER DO WE

22:22HAVE SOME RESOURCES FOR THIS.

22:24ONE, THE VICTIM IS RELUCTANT TO

22:27GO FORWARD BECAUSE THE

22:29PERPETRATOR IS THE BRAID AND

22:31BUTTER FOR THE FAMILY AND THEY

22:33FEEL WHAT WILL THIS PERSON DO IF

22:35THEY ARE TAKEN OUT OF THE HOUSE.

22:37AND THE SECOND THING HAVE I SEEN

22:39HAPPEN A LOT IS THE PERPETRATOR

22:41BULLIES THE VICTIM AND SAYS

22:43DON'T SHOW UP.

22:45YOU BETTER NOT SHOW UP.

22:46AND SO THEY DON'T.

22:47AND THEN THE CASE GETS

22:49DISMISSED. DO WE HAVE -- WHAT DO WE DO

22:53ABOUT THOSE?

22:54>> WHEN SHE TALKS ABOUT WOMEN

22:55HELPING WOMEN OFFERS IT IS TRULY

22:58UNBELIEVABLE AND WE HAVE A LONG

22:59RESOURCE LIST THAT WE GIVE EACH

23:01OF OUR PETITIONERS TO TELL THEM

23:04HERE IS HOW YOU ARE GOING TO GET

23:06HOUSING, HERE IS HOW YOU ARE

23:07GOING TO GET FOOD ASSISTANCE,

23:10JUST EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN

23:12THINK OF, MENTAL HEALTH.

23:15BUT WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ARE SUCH

23:17GREAT PARTNERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE

23:19EVEN INSURED A UBER RIDE TO COME

23:22BACK TO COURT BECAUSE IF YOU

23:24DON'T APPEAR, IF WE GIVE YOU AN

23:27ORDER YOUR EX PARTE, YOUR FIRST

23:28ONE AND THEN WE SET THE FULL

23:30HEARING, IT HAS TO BE 7-10 DAYS

23:33DEPENDING ON WHETHER SERGEANT

23:35SNOW HAD TO VACATE THE PERSON OR

23:37NOT. AND YOU DON'T SHOW UP WE HAVE TO

23:39DISMISS.

23:40THAT'S THE NUMBER I'M TRACKING

23:42THE MOST THAT I WANT TO BRING

23:43DOWN THE MOST.

23:47SOMETIMES THE RESOURCE LIST AND

23:50WOMEN HELPING WOMEN HAVE

23:51EVERYTHING COVERED.

23:52ANIMAL CARRIES ALSO A BIG ISSUE

23:54WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T

23:55WANT TO LEAVE THEIR ANIMALS

23:57BEHIND AND VERY OFTEN THE ANIMAL

23:59IS RECEIVING THE ABUSE TO

24:02INDICATE TO THE VICTIM THIS WHAT

24:04IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU NEXT.

24:06SO THE ANIMAL CARE PART OF THE

24:08SHERIFF DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN VERY

24:10HELPFUL WITH THAT AND THERE ARE

24:11SHELTERS THERE. THERE IS A NETWORK OUT THERE BUT

24:14UNTIL SHERIFF MCGUFFEY STARTED

24:17TASK FORCE WE WERE CHUCK

24:19CHUCKING ALONG IN OUR SILOS.

24:22>> Vice Mayor Kearney: VERY

24:24REASSURING, THANK YOU.

24:25>> Councilmember Albi: THANK

24:26YOU. ALL RIGHT.

24:27WELL THANK YOU JUDGE, THANK YOU

24:29SERGEANT. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND BIG

24:32THANK YOU TO JUDGE HONORABLE

24:36ANNE FLOTTMAN AND THAT THANK YOU

24:37FOR SPEARHEADING THAT AND TO THE

24:41SHERIFF TEAM AS WELL.

24:42WE WILL BRING UP OUR NEXT TWO

24:45SPEAKERS, TWO OF OUR OWN FROM

24:46THE CITY POLICE WELCOME

24:49SOLICITOR EMILY SMART WOERNER

24:50AND OUR PROSECUTOR SUSAN

24:53ZURFACE. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.

24:54>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.

24:56SO, ABSOLUTELY THANK YOU SO MUCH

24:59FOR BRINGING MORE A TENSION TO

25:07THIS TOPIC.

25:08YOU SEE MY EVERY WEEK BUT TO

25:13INTRODUCE THE CITY CHIEF

25:16PROSECUTOR SUSAN ZURFACE SHE HAS

25:17BEEN IN THIS ROLE IN THIS

25:18POSITION FOR OVER A YEAR NOW.

25:23ABOUT BUT SHE SUPERVISES A TEAM

25:26WITH WITH IN THE LEPPED LAW

25:28DEPARTMENT THAT'S THE SOME CITY

25:29DEPARTMENTS.

25:30THERE ARE TWO SUPERVISORS AND 8

25:33PARALLELS THEY ARE ALL DEDICATED

25:36TO PROSECUTING MISDEMEANOR

25:39OFFENSE INS CITY OF CINCINNATI,

25:40ONE OF WHICH IS DOMESTIC

25:42VIOLENCE. SO FROM THERE I'M GOING TO TURN

25:43IT OVER TO SUSAN ZURFACE.

25:46>> THANK YOU.

25:49I WANT TO START OFF BY

25:51ADDRESSING THE QUESTION EARLIER

25:53ABOUT CHANGES IN STRANGULATION

25:56STATUTE.

25:58BEFORE APRIL OF 2023 A LOT OF

26:00TIMES WHEN A ISSUE OF

26:02STRANGULATION OCCURRED THERE

26:03WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF ROUTES

26:04THAT SOMEBODY COULD GO IN ORDER

26:06TO FILE A CHARGE.

26:07ONE OF THOSE CHARGES WAS AN

26:08ASSAULT CHARGE.

26:10ONE OF THOSE CHARGES IF SERIOUS

26:11PHYSICAL HARM OCCURRED WAS A

26:14FELONIOUS ASSAULT CHARGE AND IF

26:16THE PARTIES WERE FAMILY OR

26:20HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS THAT WOULD BE

26:21A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGE.

26:22WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 2023

26:26AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IN

26:28THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY A COUPLE OF

26:31STOPS AND STARTS OHIO BECAME THE

26:3350TH STATE IN THE UNION TO ADOPT

26:35A FREE STANDING STRANGULATION

26:39STATUTE.

26:40>> Councilmember Albi: I WANT TO

26:41EMPHASIZE, 50TH MAKES US THE

26:42LAST STATE IN THE NATION TO

26:45UPDATE THIS LAW, SO I JUST FEEL

26:47LIKE WE SHOULD PUT A FINE POINT

26:48ON ON THAT.

26:49>> I APPRECIATE THAT FINE POINT.

26:58SO STRANGULATION IS NOW

27:00CODIFIED. THE IT FAKES THIS LEVEL OF

27:02OFFENSE TO DIRECTLY TO A FELONY

27:05PATHWAY. THE CITY PROSECUTORS OFFICE WE

27:07DO NOT DIRECTLY OR NOT DIRECTLY

27:10INVOLVED IN THE PROSECUTION OF

27:11FELONIES.

27:12I WILL SHARE A LITTLE BIT HOW

27:13WE'RE INDIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH

27:15THOSE, BUT WHAT YOU WILL SEE IS

27:17THAT FREQUENTLY NOW WE'LL HAVE

27:19THESE STRANGULATION OFFENSES

27:21THAT BEGIN ORIGINATE AS A FELL

27:23KNOW OFFENSE AND THEY WILL HAVE

27:25A COMPANION DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

27:27CHARGE.

27:28THAT'S BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME

27:29WHAT WE SEE IS THAT

27:30STRANGULATION DOES OCCUR BETWEEN

27:33INTIMATE PARTNERS THAT MEET THE

27:34STAT STATUTORY DEFINITION OF A

27:36FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER.

27:39FOR STRANGULATION ALONE FREE

27:40STANDING YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A

27:42FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER.

27:44UNDER STRANGULATION WHICH

27:46ORIGINATES AS A FELONY WHAT YOU

27:48GET IS THAT IF THERE'S INTIMATE

27:50PARTNER RELATIONSHIP THAT CAN

27:52ELEVATE THE TYPE OF CHARGE, IT

27:55CAN ELEVATE THAT LEVEL OF

27:57OFFENSE, THE PUNISHMENT FOR THAT

27:59OFFENSE. IN ADDITION THE THINGS THAT ARE

28:02HOW SEVERE THE HARM IS TO THE

28:05VICTIM, WHICH THEN IF SOMEBODY

28:07IS SERIOUSLY PHYSICALLY HARMED

28:09AS A RESULT OF STRANGULATION IT

28:12SURPASSES THEN THAT ORIGINAL

28:14FLOWN YOUTH SERVICES UNIT

28:16ASSAULT CHARGE AND MAKES

28:17STRANGULATION THE BETTER CHOSEN

28:21CHARGE IN THAT SITUATION.

28:24A LITTLE BIT ON OUR DATA, WHAT I

28:27HAVE DONE IS GONE BACK THROUGH

28:29THE CLERK'S OFFICE CASE

28:31MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND JUST TRIED

28:33TO A CHOIR TWO SETS OF DATA FOR

28:35YOU.

28:37GOING BACK TO 2024 AND REMEMBER

28:39IN 2023 STRANGULATION BECAME A

28:41OFFENSE IN OHIO.

28:42SO GOING BACK TO 2024 WHICH WAS

28:44OUR FIRST FULL YEAR OF BEING

28:46ABLE TO FILE AND PROSECUTE

28:48STRANGULATION CHARGES WE SAW

28:50THAT IN THE CITY OF CINCINNATI

28:53181 SUCH CHARGES WERE FILED AND

28:55TO THE VICE MAYOR'S POINT

28:56EARLIER, WHAT YOU WILL SEE IS

28:58THAT A HIGH LEVEL OF THOSE ARE

29:01DISMISSED. IN THIS CASE BECAUSE THEY

29:03ORIGINATE AS FELONIES, WE'RE

29:04GOING TO USE THE TERM IGNORED BY

29:06THE GRAND JURY.

29:07THAT SIMPLY MEANS BY THE TIME IT

29:09GOT TO THE POINT WHERE A FORMAL

29:11CHARGE COULD BE FILED THE GRAND

29:13INJURY WAS NOT ABLE TO GET

29:15ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVINCED IT

29:17THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO GO

29:20WITH FORWARD WITH THE FILING

29:21THAT HAVE CHARGE, SO THEY GET

29:22IGNORED WHICH IS IS THE SAME AS

29:24A MISS DISSAL.

29:25OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT

29:27COUPLE YEARS YOU HAVE SEEN SOME

29:29INCREASE.

29:302025 WE HAD A LITTLE DROP OFF,

29:322026 WE'RE BACK UP TO 224 OF

29:35THOSE FILINGS WHICH IF YOU LOOK

29:37AT THAT DATA IT DOES REPRESENT A

29:40INCREASE IN CHARGES FILED AS

29:42STRANGULATION OFFENSES AND YOU

29:44CAN SEE THAT A SIMILAR INCREASE

29:47WE'RE NOT SEEING A LOT OF

29:48IMPROVEMENT IN GETTING THOSE

29:50PAST THE GRAND JURY.

29:51AND I WILL SPEAK TO THAT POINT

29:53VICE MAYOR AGAIN IN A MOMENT

29:55WHEN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT HURDLES

29:57OF THE PROSECUTING THESE

30:01CHARGES.

30:10WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS A DROP OFF

30:12IN THE FILING OF MISDEMEANOR

30:15DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHY THAT IS.

30:16I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT IS NOT

30:18BECAUSE THERE ARE FEWER

30:19COMPLAINTS COMING IN.

30:21ANECDOTALLY ONE CHANGE THAT WE

30:23HAD OFFER THE PAST YEAR IS HOW

30:25THE COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE IS

30:28TAKING FELONY CASES AND

30:30PACKAGING THEM WITH COMPANION

30:33MISDEMEANORS AND ALL OF THAT

30:34THEN GOES UP AND BECOMES A

30:36FELONY WHEN IT GOES THROUGH

30:38PROSECUTION. SO I THINK THAT ANECDOTALLY SOME

30:40OF THAT DROP OFF TO WHERE WE ARE

30:42RIGHT NOW IN OCTOBER WITH 900

30:45MISDEMEANOR FILINGS IS PROBABLY

30:48BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SEEING THE

30:50FILINGS THAT THEN GO UP TO THE

30:51GRAND JURY AND MAYBE ARE IGNORED

30:53AT THAT LEVEL OR THAT ARE

30:56INDICTED AT THAT LEVEL AND THEN

30:57GO FORWARD AS A FELONY COMPANION

31:00CASE. WHAT YOU DO SEE THOUGH IS THAT

31:02OUR DISMISSAL RATE IS ALSO

31:05PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL.

31:08AND THAT IS GOING TO BE ONE OF

31:10THE PRIMARY HURDLES THAT WITH

31:12HAVE WITH PROSECUTING THESE

31:14TYPES OF CASES.

31:15SOMETIMES WE HAVE A DELAYED

31:17RECORD ARE REPORTING BY THE

31:18VICTIM, SOMETIMES WHOA HAVE THIS

31:20DELAYED OR LACK OF MEDICAL

31:22TREATMENT ALTOGETHER.

31:23WHAT WE DO FIND BECAUSE MOST OF

31:25THE TIME THE PARTIES ARE

31:27INTIMATE PARTNERS WHAT WE DO

31:28FIND IS THERE'S LACK OF

31:30INDEPENDENT WITNESSES.

31:31AT THE TIMES VERY UNUSUAL FOR A

31:33DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO OCCUR IN

31:34FRONT OF A POLICE OFFICER, IN

31:36FRONT A NEIGHBOR, ON FILM IN

31:38SOME WAY.

31:39SOMETIMES IT DOES HAPPEN.

31:40THOSE CASES ARE A LOT EASIER FOR

31:42US TO PROSECUTE ASSUMING WE CAN

31:44GET THAT INDEPENDENT WITNESS TO

31:46COURT AS WELL.

31:47WHEN THERE IS A LACK OF MEDICAL

31:49TREATMENT, WHEN THERE IS DELAYED

31:51MEDICAL TREATMENT THE NEXT

31:53HURDLE IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE NIB

31:55ANYTHING TO SUBSTANTIATE A CLAIM

31:57ESPECIALLY IF THERE IS DELAYED

31:58REPORTING BY A VICTIM.

31:59WE ALWAYS WANT TO BELIEVE OUR

32:01VICTIMS WHEN THEY COME FORWARD,

32:03WHEN YOU'VE VICTIM PRESENTS 3 OR

32:055 OR 10 DAYS OR 30 DAYS PAST AN

32:09ALLEGATION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

32:10AND HAS NO PHYSICAL INJURIES AND

32:13NO WITNESSES IT MAKES IT A LOT

32:16HARDER FOR TO US PROOF IT, NOT

32:17NOT TO BELIEVE THAT VICTIM, WE

32:19BELIEVE THAT VICTIM BUT IT IS

32:21MORE CPI TO PROVE THAT CHARGE.

32:23IN ADDITION A LOT OF TIMES THE

32:25CHARGES GET FILED BUT THERE ARE

32:27DELAYS IN WARRANT SERVICE, WE

32:28CANNOT FIND THE OFFENDER IN A

32:30REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME TO

32:31BRING THAT CASE TO JUSTICE.

32:33AND A COUPLE THINGS HAPPEN WHEN

32:35WE DELAY WARRANT SERVICE.

32:37ONE IS RECONCILIATION.

32:40OUR VICTIMS FATIGUE VERY QUICKLY

32:43IN THIS PROCESS.

32:44THEY KNOW THEY FACE COLLATERAL

32:48CONSEQUENCES WITH GOING FORWARD WITH THAT PROSECUTION.

32:49SOME OF THOSE MIGHT BE

32:51FINANCIAL. SOME MIGHT BE LOSING CUSTODY OF

32:53THEIR CHILDREN.

32:54SOME OF THEM MIGHT BE BEING

32:56INVESTED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE

32:58SYSTEM IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY

32:59LOSE THEIR JOB OR MEANS OF

33:02EMPLOYMENT.

33:03SO THERE ARE A LOT OF COLLATERAL

33:05CONSEQUENCES THAT WE HAVE TO BE

33:07MINDFUL OF IN ORDER TO PROVIDE

33:10VICTIM CENTRIC TRAUMA INFORMED

33:12RESPONSES TO WHAT OUR VICTIMS

33:14NEED.

33:15AND OF COURSE THERE IS VICTIM

33:16AND WITNESS FATIGUE AND FEAR AND

33:19FATIGUE IT JUST MEANS EXACTLY

33:21WHAT IT SAYS, IT IS I'M TIRED OF

33:23GOING THROUGH THIS.

33:24THIS PROCESS IS TAKING TOO LONG,

33:26IT IS TAKING TOO MUCH OUT OF ME.

33:27I DON'T HAVE THE EXECUTIVE

33:30FUNCTION RIGHT NOW TO MANAGE

33:32THIS AND ALSO MANAGE ALL OF THE

33:33OTHER COMPETING COMPONENTS OF MY

33:35LIFE.

33:36I WANT THIS OVER WITH.

33:39ANECDOTALLY I HAD A SITUATION

33:41WITH A VICTIM WHO THE SITUATION

33:43ESCALATED QUICKLY.

33:44SHE HAD FILED A DOMESTIC

33:47VIOLENCE CHARGE AT THAT POINT IN

33:48TIME WE WERE PRETTY CONFIDENT

33:50SHE DID NOT INTEND TO GO FORWARD

33:51WITH PROSECUTING.

33:52AND WHILE THAT ONE WAS PENDING

33:57THE SIGNIFICANT OTHER PLOTTED TO

33:58KILL HER.

33:59SHE BECAME AWARE OF THE PLOT TO

34:01KILL HER, POLICE DEPARTMENT

34:03BECAME AWARE OF PLOT TO KILL HER

34:05AND INTERVENED VERY, VERY

34:06QUICKLY.

34:07WE WERE ABLE TO GET HER TO

34:08SAFETY.

34:09WE WERE ABLE TO GET ICON

34:11VEHICLES ON THE UNDERLYING

34:12DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGE.

34:13THE FACTS OF THAT DOMESTIC

34:15VIOLENCE CHARGE WERE HEINOUS.

34:16IN THE COURSE OF CONVERSATION

34:18WITH HER I ASKED THE QUESTION AS

34:22COMPASSIONATELY AS I COULD BUT THE QUESTION THAT'S ALWAYS ON

34:24OUR MINDS WHICH IS, WHY HAVE YOU

34:26GONE BACK?

34:27WHY HAVE THERE BEEN SO MANY

34:28TIMES THAT YOU HAVE CALLED THE

34:29POLICE TO INTERVENE AND THEN YOU

34:31HAVE NOT FOLLOWED THROUGH?

34:33AND HER RESPONSE WAS UNSETTLING

34:37AND INCREDIBLY PRACTICAL.

34:38SHE WAS ALWAYS SAFER KNOWING

34:40WHERE HE WAS.

34:42IF SHE WANT BACK TO HIM IT WAS

34:45THE DEVIL THAT SHE KNEW FOR A

34:46TURN OF PHRASE.

34:47SHE KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT, SHE

34:51FELT LIKE SHE COULD CONTROL IT

34:52BY CONTROLLING HER BEHAVIOR SHE

34:53COULD CONTROL HIS BEHAVIOR.

34:55BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF SHE

34:57WAS SEPARATED FROM HIM, SHE

34:58DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING

34:59TO COME FROM.

35:00SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT CORNER HE

35:02MIGHT BE AROUND.

35:03AND THAT IS A TRUTH OF WHAT WE

35:05DEAL WITH WHEN WE'RE TALKING

35:07ABOUT THE FEAR THAT OUR VICTIMS

35:11ARE SURVEILLANCE OF DOMESTIC

35:12VIOLENCE FACE.

35:13WE HAVE LIMITED PROSECUTION

35:16RESOURCES. THIS IS A SMALL NUMBER OF OUR

35:18CASES, A COUPLE THOUSAND CASES A

35:21YEAR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

35:22CHARGES, ANOTHER COUPLE THOUSAND A YEAR OF VIOLATED PROTECTION

35:25ORDINANCE AND OTHER TYPES OF

35:26INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

35:27CHARGES THAT ROLL BACK TO US FOR

35:30PROSPEROUS EXECUTION.

35:32BUT THAT IS REPRESENTS A SMALL

35:34PORTION OF THE NORLY 30,000

35:35CASES THAT COME THROUGH OUR

35:37DIVISION WHICH INCLUDE A

35:40SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF TRAFFIC

35:41OFFENSE THAT IS WE ARE CHARGED

35:42WITH PROSECUTING.

35:43AT A RESULT OF THAT WE HAVE A

35:46LOT LESS VICTIM ENGAGEMENT.

35:47WE ARE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN EARLY

35:49AND OFTEN CONTACT WITH OUR

35:50VICTIMS.

35:51WE DO RELY HEAVILY ON OUR

35:55TASKFORCE PARTNERS TO HELP US

35:56WITH THAT, PARTICULARLY WITH

35:58WOMEN HELPING WOMEN WHO PROVIDE

36:00US ADVOCACY SERVICES THAT HELP

36:02US AT LEAST TRY TO GET IMMEDIATE

36:04CONTACT ON A WEEKLY BASIS WITH

36:07THE VICTIMS OF OFFENSES COMING

36:09UP. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK?

36:10>> I JUST LIKE TO ADD A LITTLE

36:13BIT ABOUT THE RESOURCES.

36:15SO THE 20 PROSECUTORS AND 8

36:17PARALLELS THAT I DISCUSSED, THEY

36:19ARE STAFFING 14 COURTROOMS EVERY

36:21DAY AND ARRAIGNMENT COURTROOM

36:23EVERY DAY.

36:24THEY HANDLE ALL OF THE APPEALS

36:26CONTROL OUT OF THE CRIMINAL

36:27CASES THAT WE PROSECUTE.

36:29THEY ARE HANDLING THE TRAFFIC

36:32DOCKET. THEY HAVE SPECIALTY DOCKETS.

36:35THEY ALSO HAVE LIVES OUTSIDE OF

36:38WORK. THEY PUT IN THE HOURS.

36:41THEY ARE HERE NIGHTS AND

36:42WEEKENDS.

36:43THEY DON'T GET OVER TIME.

36:44THEY ARE WORKING INCREDIBLY HARD

36:47BUT THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH THEY

36:48HE CAN DO.

36:49THERE IS ONLY SO MANY HOURS IN

36:50THE DAY.

36:52AND SO TO GIVE YOU JUST AN IDEA

36:55OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO HAVE

36:57MORE RESOURCES DEDICATED TO

36:59THESE CASES, THE CITY OF

37:01COLUMBUS HAS A STAND ALONE

37:04DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT.

37:06THAT UNIT HAS A DEPUTY

37:08PROSECUTOR THAT RUNS IT, 7

37:11DEDICATED PROSECUTORS, 20 VICTIM

37:15ADVOCATES, A DEDICATED DV

37:18RECEPTIONIST, A DEDICATED CYBER

37:21CRIME STALKING ADVOCATE, AND

37:23ADDITIONAL STALKING ADVOCATE.

37:26IF YOU TAKE THIS JUST EVEN

37:29ROUGHLY PROPORTIONALLY FOR THE

37:30DIFFERENCES IN POPULATION AND

37:31NUMBER OF CASES FILED BETWEEN

37:34COLUMBUS AND CINCINNATI, WHAT WE

37:36WOULD NEED TO EVEN START

37:38APPROACHING THIS LEVEL OF CARE

37:40AND ATTENTION WOULD BE AT LEAST

37:422 DEDICATED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

37:45PROSECUTORS AND 6 DEDICATED

37:49ADVOCATE.

37:50LIKE SUSAN ZURFACE MENTIONED WE

37:51ARE SO THANKFUL FOR OUR PARTNERS

37:55IN THE TASKFORCE, OUR

37:58PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN HELPING WOMEN AND THE YWCA FOR YOUR

38:02CONTEXT WE WERE PREVIOUSLY A

38:05RECIPIENT OF A YWCA GRANT THAT

38:08FUNDED A DV POSITION FOR A TIME.

38:09BUT THE REALITY IS RIGHT NOW WE

38:15HAVE ONE PART-TIME VICTIM

38:17ADVOCATE FROM WOMEN HELPING

38:18WOMEN WHO IS ABLE TO BE WITH US

38:21TWO AND A HALF HOURS A DAY.

38:24COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE

38:26NEED FOR THESE CASES.

38:28THE OTHER THING IS WE HAVE

38:30TALKED A LOT ABOUT HOW CAN WE

38:33APPROACH CASES IN WHICH A VICTIM

38:36OR SURVIVE IS NOT COMFORTABLE,

38:38IS NOT ABLE TO TESTIFY?

38:40CAN WE PROSECUTE THESE CASES

38:43WITHOUT THEIR PARSE.

38:45BUT THAT'S A COMPLICATED CASE TO

38:46PUT ON BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PROOF

38:49THE FAMILIAR RELATIONSHIP, THE

38:51HARM.

38:52SO THE NUMBER OF THE CASES IS

38:54SMALLER, THE COMPLEXITY TO THEM

38:56TO DO THEM RIGHT, TO BE ABLE TO

38:58ENGAGE WITH OUR VICTIMS IN A

39:00MEANINGFUL WAY TO MAKE THEM FEEL

39:02THEY HE ARE TRUSTED AND

39:04SUPPORTED ON THIS HALF, WE ARE

39:06WOEFULLY UNRESOURCED TO BE ABLE

39:08TO DO THAT.

39:10AND THE DIFFICULT MISSILES SHOW.

39:12AND I THINK THAT THERE IS

39:15ABSOLUTELY MORE WE COULD DO AND

39:17BETTER WE COULD DO IF WE HAD THE

39:19RESOURCES TO DO IT.

39:25>> AS I JUMP INTO PLACES THAT WE

39:26HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE

39:28PROGRESS, ONE THING THIS I YOU

39:30DO WANT TO ADDRESS COUNCILMEMBER

39:31ANNA ALBI, IS THE STARS REPORT

39:33THAT CAME OUT.

39:37BY NO MOONS AM I PURPORTING TO

39:39HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT

39:41CPD COULD PROVIDE FOR YOU.

39:42I DID SPEAK WITH THE ANALYST DRR

39:47SOME OF THE NUMBERS AND WHAT

39:48THEY MIGHT REPRESENT.

39:49ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MIGHT

39:51HAVE NORFOLK SOUTHERN NOTICED IS

39:52THAT THE YEAR TO DATE FIGURE ON

39:54THIS STARS REPORT WHICH LOOKS

39:55LIKE IT WAS PUBLISHED EARLY IN

39:57OCTOBER, SO JUST A COUPLE WEEKS

40:00AGO, SHOWED ABOUT 329 CALLS FOR

40:04STRANGULATION, THAT'S HOW THOSE

40:05HAVE GOTTEN CODED IN THE POLICE

40:09SYSTEM, THEIR ACTION ON CASE

40:11MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

40:12SO IN THIS CASE MANAGEMENT

40:13SYSTEM THEY ARE REPORTING 329

40:15AND THEN IN THE CLERK OF COURT'S

40:17CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WE'RE

40:18JUST OVER 200, ABOUT 225 OF THE

40:21THOSE. WHICH IS ABOUT A HUNDRED CASES

40:23THAT WE HAVE TO WONDER WHAT DOES

40:26THAT NONE WHAT HAPPENED WITH

40:27THOSE HUNDRED CASES?

40:31SO AFTER AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK

40:32WITH DR. DESMOND AND JUST

40:33UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF HOW

40:35CASES GO INTO INVESTIGATION AND

40:38RESULT IN CRIMINAL CHARGES, ONE

40:39THING CAN I SHARE WITH YOU IS

40:41THAT DIFFERENCE OF A HUNDRED

40:43CASES LIKELY COMES FROM AN

40:47IDENTIFICATION WHEN THAT CALL

40:49NOW IS BEING, THAT CALL COMES

40:51INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THEY

40:52ARE NOW MORE EASILY IDENTIFYING

40:55THAT THIS INVOLVES

40:57STRANGULATION.

40:58NOW WHILE THE INCREASE ON PAPER

41:00IS ALARMING AND IT AN APPEARS

41:01LIKE WE ARE HAVING THIS

41:04PANDEMIC, EPIDEMIC OF

41:06STRANGULATION CHARGES, WHAT WE

41:07SEE ACTUALLY IS PROMISING

41:09BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

41:10WE DID TO MAKE PROGRESS LAST

41:13YEAR WAS CHRISTINE HAS CHRISTINE

41:19HASSERT WHO WILL SPARK IN A

41:20MOMENT PUT TOGETHER A 2 HOUR

41:22CONTINUING POLICE TRAINING AT

41:23THE END OF LAST YEAR THAT WAS

41:24PRESENTED AT THE BEGINNING OF

41:262026, AND THAT 2 HOUR TRAINING

41:28FOCUSED ON TWO THINGS: FIRST

41:31ONE WAS ON STRANGULATION

41:33SPECIFICALLY.

41:34HOW TO IDENTIFY IT, WHAT THE

41:36RAMIFICATIONS OF STRANGULATION

41:37MIGHT BE FOR A VICTIM MANY AND

41:39THEN FOR OUR PART WHAT WE

41:41PRESENTED WAS SOME OF THE

41:42INFORMATION THAT SOLICITOR

41:45WOERNER SPOKE TO IS HOW CAN WE

41:47BETTER SERVE OUR VICTIMS AND

41:49SURVIVORS BY PROCEEDING ON THESE

41:51CASES WHEN THE VICTIM IS UNABLE

41:53TO BE THERE, CHOOSES NOT TO BE

41:55THERE, OR JUST CANNOT GO FORWARD

41:57NOR SOME REASON WITH THIS

41:59PROSECUTION. AND HOW WE CAN BE BETTER ABOUT

42:02COLLECTING EVIDENCE, HOW WE CAN

42:04USE THAT EVIDENCE BETTER.

42:05SO WHAT I SEE WHEN I SEE THIS

42:09DATA IS I SEE THAT THE POLICE

42:11DEPARTMENT IS DOING BETTER AT

42:13IDENTIFYING WHAT THE TRUE

42:15COMPLAINT IS COMING IN.

42:17FURTHERMORE WE SORT STARTED

42:20WORKING MORE WITH THE FOUR PRIME

42:21A POLICE DETAINERS I DON'T WANT

42:26TO LIVE CBS, WE ARE ARE A HIGH

42:29NUMBER OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

42:32CHARGES OFFERING NATIONAL, AS A

42:33AT CENTRAL BUSINESS SECTION DOES

42:35NOT HAVE A DEDICATED DOMESTIC

42:37VIOLENCE DETECTIVE.

42:38HOWEVER OTHER DIVISIONS DO AND I

42:42BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST DISTRICT

42:45HAS TWO DEDICATED DETECTIVES FOR

42:48DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

42:49WORKING WITH THEM AND

42:51COLLABORATING FURTHER THE

42:52TRI-HEALTH CARES TEAM WE HAVE

42:54IMPLEMENTED SOME PROCESSES TO

42:55MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING

42:58THE EVIDENCE NECESSARY ON

42:59STRANGULATION CASE THAT IS DO

43:00ROLL BACK TO US BECAUSE THEY

43:02CAN'T GO FORWARD AS A FELONY

43:05PROSECUTION, BUT THEY ROLL BACK

43:06TO US AS TO PROSECUTE AS A

43:08DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGE MAKING

43:09SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THAT MEDICAL

43:12INFORMATION WHERE IT WAS HOUSED

43:14A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY AND

43:15MORE CUMBERSOME FOR ALL OF TO US

43:17IDENTIFY WHAT EVIDENCE WE

43:19NEEDED. SO WE'RE WORKING MORE CLOSELY

43:21WITH THEM TO DO THOSE THINGS.

43:23WHICH MEANS THAT WE HAVE THIS

43:24GROUP OF DETECTIVES, OF

43:27INVESTIGATORS WITH THE POLICE

43:28DEPARTMENT WHO ARE GETTING MORE

43:29ENGAGED IN TRYING TO IDENTIFY

43:31WHAT THE EVIDENCE IS AND WHAT

43:34THE EVIDENTIARY SHROVES AND ARE

43:36COMMUNICATING WITH US MORE

43:37FREQUENTLY.

43:38ONE REASON WE HE VEST MORE

43:41COMPLAINTS THAN CRIMINAL CHARGES

43:43IS THEY ARE IDENTIFYING A

43:44DIFFERENT PATHWAY TO GOING

43:45FORWARD ON THOSE CRIMINAL

43:48CHARGES. PERHAPS FILING FLAT FELONIOUS

43:53ASSAULT AND THAT DOMESTIC

43:54VIOLENCE THAT THAT IS MORE A

43:56PROPER PROP YA' OFFENSE AND WE

43:58OFTEN HAVE VICTIM ATTRITION ON

44:00THE INVESTIGATION SIDE.

44:01AND THAT JUST MEANS THAT WE'RE

44:02NO LONGER ABLE TO CONTACT THAT

44:05VICTIM. WE DON'T HAVE THE EVIDENCE THAT

44:06WE NEED TO GO FORWARD, WE DON'T

44:08HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR TO US

44:09GET TO PROBABLE CAUSE LET ALONE

44:11TO MOVE FORWARD WITH FILING

44:12THOSE CHARGES.

44:13SO AGAIN, I CAN CERTAINLY

44:15UNDERSTAND HOW THAT COULD LOOK

44:18ALARMING FOR US WORRY LESS

44:21ALARMED BY THAT, IT SHOWS THAT

44:22OUR EDUCATIONS WORKING, OUR

44:24COLLABORATION WITH THE POLICE

44:26DEPARTMENT IS COME OUT WITH SOME

44:27MORE POSITIVE OUTCOMES.

44:30>> ONE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED

44:33TO COMMEND CPD ON IS INTERIM

44:36CHIEF HENNIE EXPLAINED DELAYS IN

44:38WARRANT SERVICE CAN REALLY

44:40IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO

44:42SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTE THESE

44:43OFFENSES.

44:44AND SO INTERIM CHIEF HENNIE

44:46DETAILED AN ADDITIONAL OFFICER

44:48TO WORK WITH THE FUGITIVE

44:51APPREHENSION UNIT TO FOLK ON

44:53DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PARENTS AND

44:54TPO WARRANTS TO HELP HIGHLIGHT

44:56THOSE AND HOPEFULLY MACK A

44:57IMPROVEMENT ON HOW QUICKLY WE'RE

44:59ABLE TO SERVE THOSE WARRANTS.

45:02>> THANK YOU.

45:04ONE OTHER PLACE WHERE WE'RE

45:05MAKING PROGRESS IN PROSECUTION

45:07IS BY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

45:09WHETHER THE DATA THAT I

45:10PRESENTED EARLIER REALLY SHOWS A

45:12TRUE REPRESENTATION OF WHAT

45:13WE'RE TABLE TO DO FOR YOU'RE

45:16VICTIMS, FOR OUR SURVIVORS.

45:17WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF ON

45:19BOARDING A CASE MANAGEMENT

45:21SYSTEM THAT WILL GIVE US A FEW

45:23DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR

45:25UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING

45:26WITH A CLUSTER OF CASES.

45:28THE DATA THAT YOU SEE OR SAW

45:31EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION IS

45:32VERY RAW DATA.

45:33IT IS THIS MANY CRIMINAL CHARGES

45:36EXISTED, THIS IS HOW THOSE

45:37INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL CHARGES WERE

45:39RESOLVED. WHAT WE FREQUENTLY DO IS WE

45:42REACH GLOBAL RESOLUTIONS WITH

45:44THOSE CHARGES.

45:45IF WE HAVE FOR INSTANCE A

45:49DEFENDANT DEFENDANT IS WHO IS

45:51INCARCERATED IN COUNTY JAIL AND

45:53WE THINK THAT VICTIM IS NOT

45:54GOING TO SHOW UP WE KNOW THAT

45:56VICTIM IS NOT GOING TO SHOW UP,

45:58ONE THING WE DO BETTER NOW IS WE

46:00TRY MONITOR THOSE JAIL CALLS SO

46:01THAT WE CAN HEAR THOSE THREATS

46:04TO THE VICTIM.

46:05HEAR THEM SAY DON'T SHOW UP FOR

46:07COURT.

46:08HEAR THEM BEING ENCOURAGED TO

46:09NOT COME TO COURT BECAUSE ONCE

46:11WE GET THAT ENCOURAGEMENT, THEN

46:13WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DIFFERENT

46:15PATH FOR THAT HE WAS WE CAN GO

46:17DOWN.

46:18AND INTO THEN ALLOWS US TO FILE

46:20CHARGES CALLED VIOLATING A

46:22PROTECTION ORDER BECAUSE MOST OF

46:23OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGES

46:24RESULT IN A TEMPORARY PROTECTION

46:26ORDER, DIFFERENT THAN THE TYPES

46:28OF PROTECTION ORDERS THAT THE

46:29JUDGE WAS ADDRESSING EARLIER.

46:31ONCE WE HAVE THOSE VIOLATING

46:34PROTECTION ORDER CHARGES

46:35FREQUENTLY WE'LL ALLOW THE

46:37DISMISSAL OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

46:38CHARGE IN EXCHANGE FOR

46:39CONVICTIONS ON THOSE VIOLATING

46:41PROTECTION ORDER CHARGES WHICH

46:42DO NOT REQUIRE TO US HAVE A

46:45VICTIM'S COOPERATION GO FORWARD

46:46ON. THAT IS NOT REPRESENTED IN THAT

46:49RAW DATA BUT FLOW OUR CASE

46:52MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HOPEFULLY

46:53WE'LL BE ABLE TO OVER THE NEXT

46:54COUPLE YEARS PRESENT A MORE

46:56CLEAR PICTURE EVER HOW WE'RE

46:58BEING MORE VICTIM CENTERED AND

47:01TRAUMA INFORMED IN WHICH CASES

47:03WE'RE GOING FORWARD ON AND HOW

47:04WE'RE DEVELOPING RESOLUTIONS

47:07THAT HORSEPOWER PROTECT THE AND

47:08THAT GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED

47:10WHILE ALSO HOLDING THOSE

47:13OFFENDERS MORE ACCOUNTABLE.

47:15>> THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT PART

47:17CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT WE

47:18HAVE BEEN WORKING SO HARD TO GET

47:20FULLY IMPLEMENTED IS IT PULSE

47:22THE INFORMATION MORE QUICKLY

47:24FROM CPD ACE RECORD MANAGEMENT

47:26SYSTEM, IF WE HAVE ACCURATE DATA

47:28WE CAN AUTOMATE REMINDERS TO

47:31WITNESSES ABOUT THEIR COURT DATE

47:32BY E-MAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE.

47:35WE'RE ABLE TO TRACK THE CASES

47:37MORE SEAMLESSLY AND KEEP THE

47:39NOTES MORE SEAMLESSLY.

47:42AND THEN LIKE SUE SAID, THE

47:44ABILITY TO SEE THE DATA AND TO

47:47UNDERSTAND THAT BETTER IS

47:48SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY

47:50EXCITED ABOUT.

47:52>> VERY EXCITED.

47:53IT HAS BEEN VERY YEARS.

47:56>> SO THE FINAL THING WOULD I

47:58LIKE TO SAY IS OUR COLLABORATION

48:00WITH THE TASERS TASKFORCE

48:03PARTNERS HAS BEEN AND THAT

48:05TASKFORCE WE'RE ABLE TO IDENTIFY

48:07GAPS IN SERVICE, WE HAVE CREATED

48:10BETTER WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

48:11WITH A LOT OF THE AGENCIES THAT

48:13PROVIDE SERVICE AND WE'RE MORE

48:15FREQUENTLY ABLE TO HEAVE REFER

48:17OUR VICTIMS AND OUR SURVEILLANCE

48:20OVER SURVIVORS THAT TO THOSE

48:22SERVICE THAT IS ASSIST THEM.

48:24ANY QUESTIONS FOR US?

48:26>> Councilmember Albi: I WANT TO

48:27MAKE A QUICK NOTE SINCE YOU

48:28MENTIONED CPD A COUPLE TIMES.

48:30WE DID INVITE THEM TO PRESENT.

48:34ASSISTANT CITY MEMBER SAID I

48:36WOULD RATHER HAVE THEM PHOTO

48:37PUBLIC SAFETY. SORRY TO HAVE TWO SEPARATE

48:42PRESENTATIONS.

48:43THERE IS COLLABORATION BEHIND

48:44THE SCENES STILL.

48:46I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE DATA

48:48SLIDE YOU HAD.

48:50ONE OF THE SLIDE HEADERS THAT

48:52STARTLES ME A BIT I WANT TO GO

48:53BACK AND CLARIFY.

48:55THE IGNORED BY GRAND JURY.

48:58CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE

49:01ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS?

49:02IT IS A LARGE NUMBER.

49:03I MEAN CAN YOU JUST SPELL IT OUT

49:05FOR A COMMON PERSON WHO KNOWS

49:08NOTHING BUT COURT SYSTEM WHY IT

49:10IS BEING IGNORED, WHAT THE

49:13IMPLICATIONS?

49:14>> ONE THING WE HAVE TO BE

49:15CAREFUL ABOUT IS WE DON'T, LIKE

49:16OUR OFFICE DOES NOT PRESENT

49:18CASES TO THE GRAND JURY.

49:20THAT'S THE JOB OF THE HAMILTON

49:21COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE AND WE

49:25HAVEN'T HAD A CHAIRMAN TO IF YOU

49:26GOLY DIG IN TO DISCUSS WITH THEM

49:29THE REASONS WHY THEY BELIEVE THE

49:32NUMBERS ARE WHAT THIS ARE.

49:34THAT BEING SAID SUE CAN RUN

49:37THROUGH AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT

49:38THAT TERM MEANS.

49:40>> THANK YOU.

49:43I CAN SHARE WITH YOU WHAT I KNOW

49:46ABOUT THIS BUT I CAN ONING

49:50SOLICITOR WOERNER CONCERNS THAT

49:51THE REALLY ARE THE COUNTY AND

49:53WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN FOR THEM.

49:54I CAN TELL YOU DEFINITIONALLY

49:57WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CASE IS

49:59PRESENT TODAY GRAND JURY.

50:00AT THE TIMES A GROUP OF PEOPLE

50:02THAT MEET AT THE DIRECTION OF

50:04THE HAMILTON COUNTY PROSECUTORS

50:05OFFICE AND THEIR JOB IS TO

50:07DECIDE WHETHER THIS IS PROBABLE

50:09CAUSE THAT EXISTS TO FILE A

50:10CHARGE.

50:11SO IN LAYMAN'S TERMS IT IS MORE

50:14LIKELY THAN NOT THAT THIS CRIME

50:16HAPPENED? ADVERTISE MORE LIKELY THAN NOT

50:17THAT THE PERSON WE'RE ACCUSING

50:19OF COMMITTING THIS CRIME

50:21COMMITTED THE CRIME?

50:22SO THE NOT ON THOSE SCALES IS

50:24JUST A TIP IN FAVOR OF THE

50:27CHARGING.

50:28MOST FREQUENTLY CASE THAT ARE

50:31IGNORED BY THE GRAND JURY FACE

50:33THE SAME HURDLES THAT WHEN WE

50:36THROUGH TO PROVE THEM AT THE

50:37MISDEMEANOR LEVEL AND THAT'S A

50:39LACK EVER VICTIM ENGAGEMENT WITH

50:40THE PROCESS.

50:42SO GRAND JURY FROM FROM THE

50:49POINT ARREST IS WITHIN 10-14

50:51DAYS.

50:52THEY ARE GOING TO MEET AND

50:53DECIDE.

50:54SO THAT GIVES YOU SOME IDEA OF

50:55THE QUICK NECESSARY OF THE TURN

50:57AROUND AND THE QUICK NECESSARY

50:59WITH WHICH A VICTIM WILL GO FROM

51:02NEEDING TO HAVE POLICE

51:04INTERVENTION TO ARE YOU THINKING

51:08WHEN THEY WANT POLICE

51:09INTERVENTION, THAT IS GENERALLY

51:10REPRESENTED BY THEM NOT

51:11FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH THOSE

51:12CRIMINAL CHARGES. SO I IN ORDER

51:14BY THE GRAND JURY MEANS THAT AT

51:16THE TIME WHEN THE GRAND JURY MET

51:18THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO

51:20GO FORWARD WITH THE INDICTMENT.

51:22GENERALLY SPEAKING, THAT'S GOING

51:23TO BE EVIDENCE THAT A VICTIM

51:25WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE.

51:27>> AND KIND OF JUST BACKING UP

51:30PROCEDURALLY, FOR NELL ANY

51:32CHARGES BECAUSE THE PENALTIES

51:34ARE MORE SEVERE, THE BEGAN JURY

51:36US A PROCEDURAL CHECK ON THOSE

51:38CHARGES.

51:39AND SO IF THE GRAND JURY FINDS

51:42PROBABLE CAUSE THE CHARGE IS

51:44INDICTED GOES TO COMMON PLEAS

51:47COURT IT IS I WOULD IN ORDER AND

51:48IT ENDS THERE.

51:53WANT I DON'T WANT TO OVER STEP

51:55BECAUSE THIS ISN'T THE HAMILTON

51:56COUNTY PROSECUTOR BUCKET WHEN I

51:58LOOT A THAT NUMBER IN 2026, 224

52:01CHARGES FILED, 194 IGNORED BY

52:04GRAND JURY, IS THAT KIND OF THE

52:06RATE IT TYPICALLY IS IF IT LOOK

52:08AT OTHER TYPES OF CRIMES?

52:10IS THIS OR IS THIS BECAUSE IT IS

52:12WHAT YOU MENTIONED KIND OF LIKE

52:14HE SAID SHE SAID SITUATION IT IS

52:16TOUGHER ON THESE KIND OF CASES?

52:18>> I AM REALLY HESITANT TO SPEAK

52:21TOO DEEPLY ABOUT THEIR DATA.

52:24AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS THE

52:26OTHER THING TO KNOW IS THAT

52:27THERE IS SECRECY FOR THE GRAND

52:29JURY PROCEEDINGS, SO I THINK

52:32THEY CAN SHARE BROADLY WHAT THEY

52:33ARE SEEING BUT FOR INDIVIDUAL

52:35CASES IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BUILT

52:38DIFFERENT I THINK THAT THIS IS

52:39MORE OF A OUTLIER OF CASES THAT

52:44A TYPE OF CHARGE THAT

52:45CONSISTENTLY IS NOT BEING

52:48INDICTED, AS TO THE WHY IT COULD

52:49BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMPLEX

52:52PIECES THAT I THINK THAT A

52:54COUNTY COULD SPEAK TO IN-DEPTH.

52:59**.

53:00>> Councilmember Albi: COULD YOU BOTH SPEAK TO CITY OF CINCINNATI

53:01IN 2023 PASSED AN ORDER AROUND

53:03IT WAS ON TOP OF THE THE

53:05DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WITH A

53:07FIREARM SITUATION THE OHIO ASK

53:09YOU SIP PRE COURT MADE A RULING

53:11EARLY THEY ARE YEAR THAT

53:12THROUGHOUT THAT I'M GOING TO PUT

53:14MUCH THIS SUMMARY SO PLEASE GUM

53:16IN. I THINK YOU KNOW WHERE I'VE

53:17GOING WITH THIS BUT CAN YOU TALK

53:19ABOUT THAT OHIO SUPREME COURT

53:21CASE AND HOW THAT AFFECTED OUR

53:23ALMOST O LOCAL ORDER?

53:24>> I MEAN BROADLY THERE IS STILL

53:27THE FEDERAL PROHIBITION OF

53:29PEOPLE CONVICTED OF MISDEMEANOR

53:33OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

53:34FROM POSSESSING FIREARMS AND

53:42[INDISCERNIBLE] THEY DO ARE MANY

53:46SOMETHING THAT IS MORE

53:48CHALLENGING FOR US TO PROSECUTE

53:52AND THE OHIO SUPREME COURT CASE

53:55COMPLICATES THAT FOR US.

53:58>> Councilmember Albi: A FACT I

53:59LEARNED FROM WOMEN HELPING WOMEN

54:00TWO YEARS WHEN SHE PRESENT TODAY

54:01COMMITTEE WAS AROUND THE

54:03CORRELATION BETWEEN

54:05STRANGULATION AND BEING

54:06THREATENED WITH A FIREARM AND

54:08OFTEN TIMES IT IS AN ESCALATION

54:10OR PAIRED TOGETHER WHICH I FIND

54:11IS A REALLY FRIGHTENING TREND SO

54:15FOR ME WHEN I LOOK AT STARS

54:16REPORT AND I SEE STRANGULATION

54:18CASES OR EVEN WITH WHY THE

54:21MENTIONED ABOUT THAT BEING

54:22CALLED OUT I HAVE THAT TO ME

54:27REAM I REALLY, REALLY BREAKS MY

54:31HEART BECAUSE TO ME I READ THAT

54:33AS A EARLY INDICATOR OF A

54:34POTENTIAL INCREASED GUN VIOLENCE

54:37IN THOSE DOMESTIC SITUATIONS I

54:39DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK

54:40TO WHAT WE SEE IN THE COURSE OF

54:42THESE TYPE OF CASE AS ROUND GUNS

54:44BEING INVOLVED IN THESE DV

54:47SITUATIONS?

54:48>> I DON'T HAVE ANY DATA

54:51SPECIFICALLY ON GUNS BEING

54:54INVOLVED. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS IT IS NOT

54:58AS FREQUENT IN THE ALLEGATIONS.

55:02MOST FREQUENTLY IT IS THERE IS

55:04NOT A WEAPON INVOLVED IN

55:07DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND THAT'S

55:08LIKE A LARGE GENERAL SAYINGS OF

55:11THE CASE THAT IS WITH SEE AS

55:14MISDEMEANORS.

55:15ONCE THERE IS A GUN OR KNIFE

55:17INVOLVED THAT FREQUENTLY WILL

55:19ESCALATE THE TYPE OF CHARGE OR

55:20THE INVESTIGATION TO A FELONIOUS

55:24ASSAULT INVESTIGATION OR CHARGE

55:25OR A FELONY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

55:28CHARGE.

55:29OPEN YOUSLY IF SOME BEING SHOT

55:31IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION, EVEN THE FELONY

55:33DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATUTE IS

55:34GOING TO BE A LOWER LEVEL FELONY

55:37THAN A FELONIOUS ASSAULT WOULD

55:38BE.

55:39SO THAT DATA IS GOING TO BE

55:40HOUSED REALLY MORE THIS THAT

55:43FELONIOUS ASSAULT AREA. WHAT WE WILL SEE IS A LOT OF

55:47HANDS-ON, WE DO FREQUENTLY SEE

55:49GRABBED MY NECK TYPE OF

55:51ALLEGATIONS.

55:52AND WE ARE MORE FREQUENTLY

55:53SEEING PROPER USE OF THE

55:55LANGUAGE WHERE UP UNTIL ABOUT A

55:56YEAR OR TWO AGO WE WERE

55:59FREQUENTLY SEEING CHOKED, WE NOW

56:00ARE SEEING STRANGLED.

56:02>> AND I THINK KIND OF THIS

56:05DISTINCTION OF WHAT WE'RE

56:07LOOKING AT AS THE MISDEMEANOR

56:11OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

56:12AND THEN YOU HEAR MORE THE

56:15BROADER TERMS.

56:16SO I THINK WOMEN HELPING WOMEN

56:17WILL BE ABLE TO SHARE MORE OF

56:19THE DATA AND THE PREDICTOR DATA

56:23THAT WE'RE AWARE OF BUT THEN

56:26ALSO JUST WHEN YOU ARE THINKING

56:29MORE HOLISTICALLY I THINK IT IS

56:32WHERE IT IS CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT

56:34WHEN JUDGE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE

56:35CIVIL PROTECTION ORDERS THOSE

56:36ARE HANDLED PROPERLY AND IF

56:38THERE IS A BASIS TO ORDER SEES

56:41OR OF WEAPONS IN OHIO THERE ARE

56:43SO FEW TIMES THAT THAT CAN

56:45HAPPEN THAT IT IS CRITICALLY

56:48IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF

56:49THE STRIDES THAT SHE EXPLAINED,

56:52THESE KINDS OF DISCUSSION THAT

56:53IS WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT EVERY

56:55CHANCE THAT THAT KIND OF ORDER

56:58IS SUPPORTED, THAT WE CAN GO

57:00THROUGH WITH IT.

57:02>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU

57:03FOR THAT.

57:04I WISH OHIO AT THE ESTATE LEVEL

57:05HAD A STRONGER OR ANY EMERGENCY

57:08PROTECTION ORDER LAW OR RED FLAG

57:10LAW IN THESE SITUATIONS BECAUSE

57:12OBVIOUSLY THESE ARE REALLY

57:13DANGEROUS SITUATIONS.

57:15AND THANK YOU SOLICITOR I WANT

57:16TO THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING

57:19THE KIND OF NEED FOR OUR

57:22DEDICATED ADVOCATES AND

57:23PROSECUTORS IN COMPARISON TO

57:24OTHER CITIES.

57:26NOTED FOR NEXT BUDGET CYCLE.

57:27I THINK THAT'S A REAL GUY CALL

57:30OUT. I'M STRADDLED ON PEOPLE ON

57:32EITHER SIDE THAT HAVE ACTUAL LAW

57:34DEGREES. I WILL TURN IT OVER

57:35TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO MAY HAVE

57:37ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.

57:39NOPE?

57:40VICE MAYOR? >> Vice Mayor Kearney: I JUST

57:41WANT TO SAY THANK YOU I THINK

57:42THE CITY PLANNING AND

57:43ENGAGEMENTS WAS REALLY CLEAR

57:46ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE GRAD JURY

57:47PROCESS BECAUSE PEOPLE DO WON

57:49WON DOCTOR ABOUT WHY SO MANY

57:52CHARGES WERE IGNORED AND IT IS A

57:54MATTER OF ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO

57:56MAKE IT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT.

57:59AND THAT CAN BE, THAT CAN BE

58:01EVEN EVEN AT THAT LOW LEVEL A

58:02REAL HURDLE.

58:04SO JUST YOUR CITY PLANNING AND

58:05ENGAGEMENTSES WERE REALLY

58:06WONDERFUL.

58:07THE WORK WE APPRECIATE IT.

58:09LOVE THAT THERE ESSAY TASK

58:11FORCE, JUDGE, AND CAROL, YOU

58:14KNOW WITH FROM THE SHERIFF'S

58:15OFFICE.

58:16THAT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S A REAL

58:17BIG RESOURCE FOR US AND SO VERY

58:20HELPFUL.

58:21AND YOU KNOW I ECHO WHAT

58:23COUNCILMEMBER ANNA ALBI SAID, WE

58:25HEAR YOU.

58:26WE NEED MORE RESOURCES IN OUR

58:28LEGAL DEPARTMENT.

58:29SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT, RIGHT?

58:32WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO SUPPORT

58:33THAT.

58:34SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

58:35>> AND I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR

58:38CLEAR THAT I KNOW THAT AS A

58:40COUNCIL YOU HAVE SO MANY

58:41CRITICAL NEEDS THAT YOU ARE

58:43BALANCING AND THAT WE HAVE VERY

58:44LIMITED RESOURCES, BUT DIFFICULT

58:46WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE

58:48ARMED WITH THE INFORMATION

58:50BECAUSE I DON'T THINKS WE CAN

58:51HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC

58:52SAFETY DISCUSSION WITHOUT

58:54INCLUDING WHAT HAPPENED HAPPENS

58:55AT THE COURTHOUSE TOO.

58:57>> AND ACTUALLY WHAT WE'RE

58:58TALKING ABOUT HERE IS REALLY

59:00ABOUT LIFE OR DEATH, SO I MEAN

59:01IT IS A LOT MORE THAN SOME OTHER

59:08ISSUES, SO WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO

59:09PAY ATTENTION.

59:10THANK YOU.

59:11>> THANK YOU.

59:13>> Councilmember Nolan: I JUST

59:14WANTED TO ADD A COMMENT, HAVING

59:15ALL OF THE DAD IN FRONT OF US

59:18HELP INFORM OUR POLICIES AND FOR

59:19A LONG TIME IT HAS BEEN A REAL

59:20STRUGGLE TOTAL GET THE DATA OUT

59:22OF THE COURTHOUSE. I MONTHS NEW

59:23CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS BEING

59:26IMPLEMENTED UNDER THE THE THE

59:28CLERK OF COURTS.

59:29WE HEAR AT THE CITY INVEST IN

59:31MONEY WITH MEASURES FOR JUSTICE

59:33TO TRY AND GET A LITTLE MORE

59:35DATA TRANSPARENCY TO HELP INFORM

59:36THOSE POLICY DECISIONS, SO I

59:38THINK HAVING THESE NUMBERS IS

59:40GREAT AND USING THEM FORWARD

59:43WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT. >> THE CLERK'S OFFICE HAS BEEN

59:46SURE A CREDIBLE PARTNER FOR ALL

59:47OF THIS.

59:48IT HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL.

59:50>> Councilmember Nolan: THAT'S

59:51GREAT TO HEAR.

59:52>> Vice Mayor Kearney: CAN I ADD

59:53TOO IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF WHAT

59:55WE DO WE'RE LEANING ON WOMEN

59:57HELPING WOMEN, SO I THINK WE

59:59HAVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH

1:00:00THEM, HOW ARE THEIR RESOURCES

1:00:02BECAUSE SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE

1:00:04REALLY, I KNOW THEY ARE AN

1:00:06INTEGRAL PART OF THIS PROCESS.

1:00:07SO, YOU WILL HAVE TO TALK TO US.

1:00:13>> Councilmember Albi: WITH THAT

1:00:14WE'LL WELCOME OUR NEXT SET OF

1:00:15SPEAKERS.

1:00:16THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR LAW

1:00:17DEPARTMENT, REALLY APPRECIATE

1:00:20THE PRESENTATION WITH THAT WE'LL

1:00:25WELCOME -P OUR NEXT TWO

1:00:28SPEAKERS, CHRISTINE HASSERT

1:00:32AMBER MALOTT. SHERIFF MC CUFF I

1:00:35WAS UNABLE TO BE HERE AND

1:00:37TRAVELING AND THIS DATE DIDN'T

1:00:38WORKOUT. ALL THE WORK SHE HAS DONE

1:00:42THROUGH TASKFORCE AND DEDICATED

1:00:43TO THIS WORK I WANT TO GIVE A

1:00:45BIG THANK YOU AND THANK YOU MARY

1:00:48CAROL FOR BEING HERE FROM SURE

1:00:49OFFERS.

1:00:50I FORGOT TO MENTION IT AT THE

1:00:51BEGINNING BUT WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR

1:00:52THE SHERIFF AND ALL HER WORK W.

1:00:54THAT CHRISTINE, OVER HERE, THANK

1:00:56YOU FOR BEING HERE.

1:00:57>> THANK YOU I'M CHRIS AT THIS

1:01:00TIME O CHRISTINE HASSERT I'M THE

1:01:03ODD BALANCE IN THE ROOM.

1:01:04AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE

1:01:06TODAY AND I A BACKGROUND I'M A

1:01:08NURSE BY TRADE.

1:01:10MOST OF MY BACKGROUND IS

1:01:12EMERGENCY AND TRAUMA.

1:01:13AND I'M COORDINATOR ON THE

1:01:19FORENSIC EARN FORENSIC AND

1:01:22DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VIOLENCE EXAMS

1:01:23AND STRANGULATION KIDS THAT

1:01:27INVOLVED WATER QUALITY

1:01:28MONITORING OR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE AND THAT.

1:01:31>> Councilmember Nolan: SINCE WE HAVE STARTED DOING THIS SINCE

1:01:32HAVE I BEEN DOING THIS IN 2021

1:01:34NON FATAL STRANGULATION BECAME A

1:01:36FELONY SO THEN IT MADE SENSE

1:01:38THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING OUR DUE

1:01:40DILIGENCE WITH OUR DOMESTIC

1:01:41VIOLENCE CASES THAT INVOLVED

1:01:43STRANGULATION BECAUSE ON ANY

1:01:44GIVEN YEAR IT AVERAGES ABOUT

1:01:4775%. SO, I MET WITH THE CRIME LAB AND

1:01:49WE DEVELOPED STRANGULATION KITS.

1:01:51I ALSO WORKED WITH AN OUTSIDE

1:01:54VENDOR ON PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM

1:01:55BECAUSE OUR PHOTOGRAPHY WAS LESS

1:01:57THAN STELLAR AT THAT TIME.

1:01:58AND SO WE HAVE A VERY NICE

1:02:00CAMERA SYSTEM THAT WE USE THAT

1:02:02YOU PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT ON THE

1:02:04NEWS CALLED THE CORTEX FLOW AND

1:02:05THAT'S VALIDATED OUR SURVIVORS.

1:02:09THAT ALSO SAID THAT'S MADE US

1:02:10QUITE POPULAR AND WE HAVE SEEN

1:02:12JUST IN OUR VOLUME OF GROWTH IN

1:02:14THE LAST TIME YEARS WE HAVE SEEN

1:02:16OVER 170% VOLUME GROWTH IN OUR

1:02:19PROGRAM.

1:02:20WE ARE STILL OPERATING ON THE

1:02:21SAME STRUCTURE AS WE WERE FIVE

1:02:22YEARS AGO, SO THAT'S REALLY

1:02:25CREATED A BIG DEMAND AND A BIG

1:02:27STRAIN. AND IT SHOULD BE ADDED THAT

1:02:29EVERY SINGLE THAT I THINK WE DO

1:02:30IS NOT BILLABLE TO THE PATIENT.

1:02:32SO WE ARE LARGELY ABSORBED BY

1:02:35TRI-HEALTH OF EVERYTHING THAT WE

1:02:37DO.

1:02:38SO, IT IS A ONGOING CONVERSATION

1:02:41AND I'M SO THANKFUL TO BE

1:02:43INCLUDED IN THIS CIRCLE AND THIS

1:02:46CONVERSATION TO ADVOCATE FOR THE

1:02:48CONTINUED WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.

1:02:50SO WHETHER HE THESE VICTIMS COME

1:02:52IN WE SEE AGE 14 AND UP, DOUGH

1:02:55MESS AT THIS TIME A SOUGHT,

1:02:57DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ELDER ABUSE.

1:03:01WE CHECK THE RAPE AND

1:03:05STRANGULATION KITS AND SWAP

1:03:06MOUTH AND NECK AND NAILS.

1:03:08WE DO PHOTOGRAPHY AND

1:03:09COLLABORATE WITH OUR ADVOCACY

1:03:11PARTNERS LIKE WOMEN HELPING

1:03:14WOMEN.

1:03:15>> AS YOU FLIP THE SLIDE CAN YOU

1:03:16TALK ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHY PIECE

1:03:18BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WAS A

1:03:20EVOLUTION IMPROVEMENT IN THAT

1:03:23PROCESS. >> SO I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE OF

1:03:24THE CAMERA BUT IT IS A CORE TEXT

1:03:26FLOW CAMERA SYSTEM.

1:03:28THERE IS NO W AT THE END OF THE

1:03:30WE CALL HER KNOW, WHAT SHE DOES

1:03:32IS REALLY GREAT THINGS.

1:03:34THAN FANTASTIC THINGS THEY DOES

1:03:37CONTRAST PHOTOGRAPHITY.

1:03:38CONTRAST IS COLOR.

1:03:40THE REASON THAT'S SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR SURVIVORS

1:03:42ARE DARKER SKIN TONED AND WE

1:03:45WOULD VISUALIZE THE EXAMINER

1:03:48WOULD I VISUALIZE A SCRAPE OR A

1:03:49BRUISE AND HE I WOULD TAKE A

1:03:51PICTURE TAN WOULD ALMOST JUST

1:03:53DISAPPEAR.

1:03:54SO THE CORTEX FLOW CAMERA SYSTEM

1:03:56THE CONTRAST A LOWS ME TO APPLY

1:03:59COLOR TO THE AREA OF INJURY AND

1:04:01IT PULSE COLOR AWAY FROM THE

1:04:03THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT

1:04:04IT.

1:04:05IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE ORIGINAL

1:04:07BLUEPRINT OF THE PICTURE.

1:04:08AS THE EXAMINER I HAVE TO

1:04:10VISUALIZE THE INJURY WITH MY

1:04:12NAKED EYE DESPITE WHAT A LOT HAS

1:04:14BEEN SAID ON THE MEDIA, IT

1:04:15DOESN'T SHOW ME ANYTHING CAN I

1:04:17NOT ALREADY SEE, IT GIVES ME

1:04:19BETTER DEFINITION TO THE INJURY

1:04:20I SEE WITH THE NAKED EYE AND

1:04:22THAT CAN BE REALLY VALIDATING TO

1:04:24OUR SURVIVORS AND REALLY

1:04:25SIGNIFICANT WHEN YOU GO TO A

1:04:27JURY BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS TO

1:04:29SEE THE INJURY.

1:04:30SO, THAT'S WHAT THE CONTRAST

1:04:32SOFTWARE DOES.

1:04:33SHE ALSO HAS E-MAIL ADDRESS, SHE

1:04:35DOES ALL SORTS OF REALLY GREAT

1:04:37THINGS THAT'S THE FANTASTIC

1:04:38THING THAT WE HAVE BEEN EXCITED

1:04:40TO USE.

1:04:42SO A A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT

1:04:44STRANGULATION AND JUST AS A

1:04:46REITERATION THIS IS WHY I AM SO

1:04:49HAPPY TO BE IN THIS SPACE, YEARS

1:04:51AGO WE ARE WERE NOT REALLY

1:04:53SEEING ANYBODY REPORTING

1:04:55STRANGULATION AND I THINK IT IS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO

1:04:57ASSESS FOR IT. WE WERE ASKING IF THEY WERE

1:04:59STRANGLED AND A LOT OF TIMES

1:05:01THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE

1:05:03QUESTION THIS. CONSIDERED IT

1:05:04CHOKING. NOW WE KNOW HOW TO ASSESS FOR IT

1:05:07WE GET WAY DIFFERENT ANSWERS,

1:05:08MOST ALL OF OUR PATIENTS HAVE

1:05:10BEEN STRANGLED. IT IS THE MOST

1:05:13COMMON FORM OF PHYSICAL

1:05:15VIOLENCE, TO DIFFERENTIATE

1:05:17CHOKING IS NOT STRANGULATION,

1:05:18THAT'S WHERE SOMEBODY HAS A

1:05:21OBJECT IN THEIR AIRWAY LIKE FOOD

1:05:23OR TOY.

1:05:24CHOKING IS THE ONE MOST COMMON

1:05:26TERM THAT THEY USE.

1:05:27STRANGULATION WHERE IT IS EX

1:05:29TURN PRESSURE A APPLIED TO THE

1:05:31NECK EITHER CUTTING OFF

1:05:32CIRCULATION AND/OR THE AIRWAY.

1:05:35MOST FATAL STRANGULATIONS HAVE

1:05:36NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AIRWAY,

1:05:38IT IS ALL CIRCULATORY COMPROMISE

1:05:41AND SO TO DO WITHOUT LEAVING A

1:05:42MARK ON THE NECK.

1:05:43SO IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO SAY

1:05:45THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST TO LOOK AT

1:05:46THE NECK AND NOT SEE ANYTHING

1:05:48PHYSICAL INJURY REALLY

1:05:51DIMINISHES THE LETHALITY

1:05:52FACTORS. IT IS NOT ANYTHING I I'M SEEING

1:05:54ON THE NECK THAT CAN I SEE, A

1:05:56SCRAPE OR BRUISE, AS SIGNIFICANT

1:05:58AS THAT I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT

1:05:59THE INJURIES CAN YOU NOT

1:06:00VISUALLY SEE LIKE THE ACQUIRED

1:06:02BRAIN INJURIES OR DISSECTIONS OR

1:06:03TEARS IN THE VESSELS.

1:06:04SO YOU KNOW JUST BECAUSE WE

1:06:06DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON THE NECK

1:06:08DOES NOT DIMINISH THE LETHALITY

1:06:10FACTOR OR THE RISK FACTORS FOR

1:06:13STROKE OR DEATH.

1:06:16I SAID THIS ALREADY I KIND OF

1:06:17JUMP ADD ROUND A LITTLE BIT BUT

1:06:19THIS IS SIGNIFICANT IN WHAT WE

1:06:20DO BECAUSE THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

1:06:21CASES IT IS THE MOST COMMON FORM

1:06:23OF PHYSICAL VIE LICENSE THAT WE

1:06:25SEE.

1:06:26WHEN THESE WOMEN AND DOMESTIC

1:06:29RELATIONSHIPS GO THROUGH

1:06:30STRANGULATION ONE TIME, THEY ARE

1:06:31AS CYCLE OF 700% AND WE LEARNED

1:06:34THROUGH A LOT OF TRAININGS THAT

1:06:36THERE IS A HIGH CORRELATION

1:06:38BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO STRANGLE AND

1:06:40PEOPLE WHO DO MASS SHOOTINGS AND

1:06:42KILL POLICE OFFICERS.

1:06:43I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG YOU HAVE

1:06:45BEEN IN CINCINNATI, BUT HOPE AND

1:06:49JETER BACK IN THE 90'S I BELIEVE

1:06:50THEY WERE KILLED BY A PERSON

1:06:52WITH A HISTORY OF STRANGULATION.

1:06:55SUNNY KIM WAS KILLED BY A PERSON

1:06:57WITH A HISTORY STRANGULATION.

1:06:58THIS IS A BIG WARNING FACTOR AND

1:07:00AS A NURSE I'M SO THANKFUL TO BE

1:07:03IN THIS SPACE BECAUSE WHEN I

1:07:05TALKED TO THE POLICE OFFICERS

1:07:06AND TELL HIM OR HER THAT I HAVE

1:07:08A STRANGULATION KIT FOR THEM TO

1:07:09PICK UP, AND THERE IS A HISTORY

1:07:11OF STRANGULATION, YOU KNOW, I'M

1:07:14ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT THESE

1:07:15POLICE OFFICERS SERVING WARRANTS

1:07:17AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES, THOSE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS

1:07:20RESPONSES BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE A

1:07:22LETHALITY FACTOR ON TOP OF IT,

1:07:24THAT'S REALLY SIGNIFICANT.

1:07:25SO, YOU KNOW WE'RE THANKFUL TO

1:07:27BE IN THIS SPACE, WE'RE THANKFUL

1:07:29TO THE WORK. I'M THANKING FULL TO WORK FOR A

1:07:31ORGANIZATION THAT BELIEVES IN

1:07:32THIS WORK EVEN THOUGH IT IS

1:07:33LARGELY UNFUNDED BY THE STATE OR

1:07:36REALLY ANYBODY.

1:07:37IT IS LARGELY PHILANTHROPY AND

1:07:39WE SEE THE NUMBERS CONTINUE TO

1:07:40GO UP.

1:07:41WE SEE THE PROJECTIONS OF OUR

1:07:45CASES AND WE CONTINUE TO STAND

1:07:46BY THE WORK AND ADVOCATE FOR IT.

1:07:48SO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.

1:07:50THAT WAS MY LAST SLIDE.

1:07:54>> HELLO COUNCIL MEMBERS THANK

1:07:56YOU FOR GIVING US A PLATFORM TO

1:07:58HAVE THIS DISCUSSION TODAY.

1:08:00I APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION AND

1:08:02CONSTANT SUPPORT ESPECIALLY FOR

1:08:03THE WORK OF WOMEN HELPING WOMEN

1:08:05AROUND THIS ISSUE.

1:08:07AND FOR SURVIVORS.

1:08:08THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO

1:08:10ARE ALSO HERE CURRENTLY WHO HAVE

1:08:12KIND OF TOOTHED THE INTO THE OF

1:08:14WOMEN HELPING WOMEN IN SUPPORT

1:08:15OF OUR ADVOCACY UC ADVOCATE AND

1:08:16SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE.

1:08:19MY EVEN CONTINUATION EYE AMBER

1:08:20MALOTT I'M WITH WOMEN HELPING

1:08:21WOMEN AND MY INTENTION WITH THIS

1:08:24PART OF THE PORTION OF THE

1:08:26PRESENTATION IS TO REALLY LET

1:08:27YOU KNOW WHAT DATA WE'RE SEEING,

1:08:30MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT WE'RE

1:08:32HEARING FROM SURVIVORS AND WHAT

1:08:33THEY ARE IDENTIFYING AS NEEDS

1:08:36AND CONCERNS.

1:08:37AND THEN REALLY TO KIND OF CLOSE

1:08:39WITH THE BENEFITS OF THIS

1:08:43TASKFORCE AND HOW IT HAS

1:08:45CENTERED THE VOICES AND KNEES OF

1:08:47SURVIVORS TO HELP COMBINE OUR

1:08:49RESOURCES TOWARD THIS WORK.

1:08:51SO, WHAT WE KNOW TO DATE WITH

1:08:54WOMEN HELPING WOMEN THROUGH Q3

1:08:55OF THIS YEAR IS THAT WE ARE

1:08:58SEEING A 18.5% INCREASE IN OUR

1:09:01HOTLINE CALLS, SPECIFICALLY TO

1:09:03HAMILTON COUNTY RESIDENTS.

1:09:04WE HAVE HAD OVER 4,000 DIFFERENT

1:09:06HOTLINE CALLS JUST THIS YEAR.

1:09:09/DVERT RESPONSES ARE PRETTY STET

1:09:11I WITH WHERE WE WERE LAST AREA.

1:09:13I BELIEVE WE'RE ONLY ABOUT 20E

1:09:15RESPONSE MORE THAN WE WERE

1:09:16THROUGH THE END OF Q3 IN 2025

1:09:19BUT WE STILL BEEN OUT ON DVERT

1:09:24RUNS 1419 TIMES.

1:09:25WHERE WE SEE THE GREATEST

1:09:27INCREASE IN CONCERN IS WITH OUR

1:09:29HOSPITAL PROGRAM, PARTICULARLY

1:09:30WITH OUR DV HOSPITAL RESPONSE,

1:09:33AS CHRISTINE HAS ALREADY

1:09:35MENTIONED. THE NUMBERS IN THE CASES JUST

1:09:37KEEP INCREASING AND WE'RE SEEING

1:09:39MORE LETHALITY INDICATE

1:09:40ORGANIZATIONS PRESENT, LARGELY

1:09:41TIED TO STRANGULATION

1:09:43>> FROM THIS TIME LAST YEAR

1:09:44WE'RE AT A ALMOST 31% INCREASE

1:09:47IN THE NUMBER OF HOSPITAL

1:09:48RESPONSES THAT WE HAVE HAD.

1:09:51WE HAVE SERVED 5595 SURVIVORS AS

1:09:54THE END OF Q3.

1:09:56WE HAVE PROVIDE OVER 28,000

1:09:59DIFFERENT CYST SERVICES TO THOSE

1:10:01SURVIVORS IN HAMILTON COUNTY AND

1:10:02THEN HAMILTON COUNTY WE HAVE

1:10:05PROVIDED $317,000 TO THE

1:10:08SURVIVORS THAT WORRY SERVING.

1:10:09AND THAT'S TIED PREDOMINANTLY TO

1:10:13ALLEVIATING THOSE BARRIERS THAT

1:10:14WERE MENTIONED BY SUSAN ZURFACE

1:10:16IN REGARD TO PROSECUTION.

1:10:18IT COULD BE SOMETHING ASEMIA

1:10:20UBER AND LYFT TO GET FOLKS TO

1:10:23COURT. BUT LARGELY THE FUNDS ARE GOING

1:10:26TOWARD HOUSING STABILITY.

1:10:28EVICTION PREVENTION, DEPOSITS.

1:10:31RENT, MOVING EXPENSES, UTILITY

1:10:34BACK PAYMENT, SO THAT THEY CAN

1:10:37FIND SAFE AND STABLE HOUSING FOR

1:10:38THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR

1:10:40FAMILIES.

1:10:41MORE IMPORTANTLY AND BECAUSE

1:10:42THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN A

1:10:44SUPPORTER OF WOMEN HELPING WOMEN

1:10:45IN GENERAL AND OUR PREVENTION

1:10:47WORK WE ARE TRYING TO GET ON THE

1:10:49FRONT END OF THIS ALWAYS BY

1:10:52PROVIDING OUR PRESENT AND

1:10:53EMPOWER PROGRAM.

1:10:54THIS YEAR TO DATE WE HAVE SERVED

1:10:58704 PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH

1:10:59THAT PROGRAM.

1:11:00PREVENTION IS ONE OF THE THINGS

1:11:01THAT HELPS ME GET UP EVERY DAY

1:11:03AND DO THIS WORK KNOWING THAT

1:11:04THESE NUMBERS ARE ESCALATING SO

1:11:06I DEFINITELY FEEL LIKE IT IS

1:11:07RELEVANT TO SHARE THAT

1:11:08INFORMATION WITH YOU.

1:11:11WHAT THIS DATA IS REALLY TELLING

1:11:14US AT WOMEN HELPING WOMEN IS

1:11:15THAT THE DEMAND FOR OUR SERVICE

1:11:17AND OUR SUPPORT JUST CONTINUES

1:11:19TO INN CREASE.

1:11:20THE NEEDS OF SURVIVORS ARE

1:11:22BECOMING MORE COMPLEX.

1:11:23AND WE ARE PROJECTING RECORD

1:11:26BREAKING NUMBERS FOR 2026 WHICH

1:11:29WE'RE NOT HAPPY ABOUT AGAIN A

1:11:31SILVER LINING WITH THIS THOUGH

1:11:33IS THAT OUR PARTNERS AND OUR

1:11:36STAFF ARE DOING THEIR WORK TO ED

1:11:38INDICATE PUBLIC TO LET THEM NO

1:11:40THAT HE WITH EXIST, THAT WE ARE

1:11:42A SUPPORT, THAT IS CONFIDENTIAL

1:11:45AND 24/577 AND WE'RE REMOVING

1:11:47BARRIERS FOR FOLKS BEING ABLE TO

1:11:48ACCESS OUR SERVICES AS HIDER AS

1:11:52WELL FROM MY PARTNERS AND

1:11:54COLLEAGUES HERE WHAT WE'RE

1:11:56NOTICING ABOUT A 07% INCREASE IN

1:11:59STRANGULATION ACROSS THE BOARD

1:12:00THIS YEAR TO DATE AND THAT'S

1:12:02PREDOMINANTLY COMING THROUGH

1:12:03THAT HOSPITAL PROGRAM AND THE DV

1:12:08RESPONSES.

1:12:09HIGH RISK INDICATORS AND WHAT

1:12:11WE'RE IN THING THAT IS SURVIVORS

1:12:13ARE TELLING ON US ON TOP

1:12:14STRANGULATION THAT THEY ARE

1:12:16REPORTING ARE THREATS AND ACCESS

1:12:18TO FIREARMS.

1:12:19I DON'T HAVE AUTHENTICATED DATA

1:12:20ON THIS BUT WE USUALLY WHOM ERR

1:12:23ROUND 50% OF THE FOLKS THAT

1:12:25WE'RE SERVING REPORT THAT'S

1:12:26THEIR PERPETRATOR HAS ACCESS TO

1:12:27A FIREARM AND WE KNOW THAT WHEN

1:12:30FIREARMS ARE PRESENT AND THIS

1:12:32HAPPENS IT IS INCREASES THE LAKE

1:12:34LIE HOOD OF HOMICIDE BY 5 100%.

1:12:37WE'RE NOTICING THAT THE VIOLENCE

1:12:40IS ESCALATING, OBVIOUSLY, WITH

1:12:42THE LETHALITY INDICATORS THAT

1:12:44ARE PROMINENT AROUND

1:12:46STRANGULATION AND FIREARMS.

1:12:47WE'RE NOTICING THAT STALKING IS

1:12:49BECOMING MORE OF A PROBLEM AND A

1:12:52PATTERN. AND THAT DURING SEPARATION IS

1:12:55ONE OF THE MOST LETHAL AND

1:12:57DANGEROUS TIMES FOR FAMILIES TO

1:12:59TRY TO FIND SAFETY AND SUPPORT.

1:13:02AND PROTECTION ORDINANCE

1:13:03VIOLATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE

1:13:07COMMON.

1:13:09SO SURVIVORS NEEDS, WHAT THEY

1:13:12NEED, SAFETY, STABILITY,

1:13:13SUPPORT, AND AND NAVIGATION.

1:13:16WE OFFER SAFETY PLANNING

1:13:17SERVICES, WE ASSIST WITH THE

1:13:19PROTECTION ORDINANCE PROCESS AS

1:13:21I MENTIONED RELOCATION

1:13:22ASSISTANCE IS ONE OF THOSE

1:13:23THINGS THAT KEEPS US BUSY

1:13:26CONSTANTLY. WE'RE TRYING TO FIND RESOURCES

1:13:28FOR HOUSING FOR FINANCIAL

1:13:30EMPOWERMENT AND SUPPORT, TO TRY

1:13:32TO CREATE PIPELINES FOR

1:13:34EMPLOYMENT.

1:13:35WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE

1:13:36CAN TO TRY TO TO OFFER

1:13:39COUNSELING, SUPPORT GROUPS, AND

1:13:40MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE ARE

1:13:42NOTESSED THAT WE CAN EXHIBIT

1:13:43SPANNED SOME OF OUR SERVICES FOR

1:13:46YOUTH.

1:13:47OUTSIDE OF JUST PREVENTION

1:13:50OREGON WE'RE SERVING SLOYDS ARE

1:13:5114 AND OLDER WITH INTERVENTION

1:13:53BASED SERVICES, WE ARE DIVING

1:13:55INTO A COLLABORATIVE THAT I HAVE

1:13:57HAD THE PLEASURE OF LEADING THIS

1:13:59YEAR AROUND KIDS EXPOSURE TO

1:14:01VIOLENCE AND HOW WHICH CAN KIND

1:14:03OF COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND

1:14:05RESOURCES WITH PARTNERS TO MAKE

1:14:08SURE THAT DON'T FALL THROUGHOUT

1:14:09CRACKS AND IF THEY ARE EXPOSED

1:14:10TO VIOLENCE DURING OUR DVERT

1:14:13RUNS HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THEY

1:14:14ARE CONNECTED TO SUPPORTS AND

1:14:15SERVICES, WHETHER THAT IS WITHIN

1:14:17THE COMMUNITY OR WITHIN THEIR

1:14:18OWN SCHOOL, WITH THAT THEY MAY

1:14:20HAVE TO ATTEND THE NEXT DAY.

1:14:23COURT ACCOMPANY ANIMENT IS A

1:14:25GROWING DEMAND AND SERVICE LINE

1:14:27FOR US, OUR HEALTH CARE

1:14:29REFERRALS ARE HUGE AS FAR AS OUR

1:14:31HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIPS AND WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO USE OUR

1:14:36ADVOCATES AS NAVIGATORS THROUGH

1:14:38THESE SYSTEMS TO TRY TO MAKE

1:14:39SURE THAT THE BURDEN AND THE

1:14:41STRESS OF CALLING ALL OF THE

1:14:43NUMBERS, DOING ALL OF THE THINGS

1:14:45IS REMOVED FROM THE SURVIVE

1:14:47THEMSELVES AND WE CAN ENCUMBER

1:14:49THAT BURDEN.

1:14:50I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE THIS

1:14:51YEAR OF ALSO DOING FOCUS GROUPS

1:14:52AND LISTENING SENSOR WAS

1:14:55SURVIVORS. IT REALLY CENTERS ME AND THE

1:14:58DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING ON

1:14:59HOW WE'RE DOING OUR OUR PROCESS

1:15:01AND PROVIDING OUR ADVOCACY AS

1:15:04WELL AS HOW WE'RE WORKING WITH

1:15:05OUR PARTNERS.

1:15:06WHAT SURVIVORS HAVE SAID IS I

1:15:08DON'T NEED FIVE PHONE NUMBERS I

1:15:09JUST NEED HELP GETTING CONNECTED

1:15:11TO THE RIGHT PERSON WHO IS GOING

1:15:12TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO NEXT,

1:15:14WHERE TO GO, HELP ME TO MAKE

1:15:16THOSE PHONE CALLS AND MAKE THOSE

1:15:17SOFT REFERRALS.

1:15:20AND LASTLY, THE IMPACT OF A

1:15:23COORDINATED COMMUNITY RESPONSE.

1:15:26I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH POSITIVE

1:15:29THINGS ABOUT WORKING WITH IN

1:15:31THIS TASKFORCE, BEING IN THIS

1:15:33FIELD, WATCHING THESE NUMBERS

1:15:35ESCALATE CONSTANTLY, I WILLS

1:15:36THAN TO WHAT SURVIVORS ARE

1:15:39EXPERIENCING AND SAYING IS VERY,

1:15:40VERY CHALLENGING AND DIFFICULT

1:15:42TO NAVIGATE.

1:15:43BUT EVERY TWO WEEKS I GET TO

1:15:45WALK INTO A ROOM FILLED WITH 40

1:15:49PEOPLE WITH THOSE PEOPLE COMES

1:15:50THE POWER AND THE AUTHORITY TO

1:15:52MAKE DECISIONS, TO CHANGE

1:15:56PROCESSES, AND TO REALLY REMOVE

1:15:58THE BARRIERS THAT WE'RE ALL

1:16:00IDENTIFYING FOR SURVIVORS.

1:16:01SO IT IS REALLY WHAT KEEPS ME

1:16:04GOING AND KNOW THAT'S THERE ARE

1:16:06TIMES WHEN THERE ARE A LACK OF

1:16:08RESOURCES AND A LACK OF SUPPORT

1:16:10THAT WE'RE NOT WORKING IN SILOS

1:16:12ANY LONGER.

1:16:13AND WE ARE COMBINING OUR FORCES

1:16:15AND SHARING ALL OF OUR RESOURCES

1:16:17TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DO MORE

1:16:19WITH LESS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT

1:16:20THE DEMAND WILL CONTINUE.

1:16:23IN THAT SPACE THE NEEDS AND

1:16:25VOICE OF SURVIVORS ARE CON

1:16:27STANDLY CENTERED AND THAT'S

1:16:30EXACTLY HOW JUDGE AND SHERIFF

1:16:32OPERATE IN THE WAY THAT THEY

1:16:35BRING FOLKS TO THE TABLE, THE

1:16:36WAY THEY SHARE ANNOUNCEMENTS,

1:16:38THE WAY WE TACKLE THE OBSTACLES

1:16:40THAT ARE PUT IN FRONT OF US.

1:16:43SO, BETTER OUTCOMES ARE BOUND TO

1:16:45OCCUR KNOWING THAT THIS IS

1:16:47HAPPENING AND THIS TASKS FORCE

1:16:48IS GROWING AND BUILDING AND

1:16:51GROWING STRONGER. IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INVITE YOU

1:16:54TO A TASK FORCE MEETING IF YOU

1:16:55EVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVERY

1:16:58OTHER TUESDAY ON THE 16TH INTO

1:17:01THE AT 800 BROADWAY WE ARE

1:17:02THERE. IF YOU NEED SOME INSPIRATION

1:17:04PLEASE STOP BY.

1:17:05AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY THE

1:17:08TASK FORCE IS HOSTING A TRAINING

1:17:10ON MONDAY MONDAY AT THE CORNER'S

1:17:12OFFICE, ROTATING ALL AROUND

1:17:14STRANGULATION.

1:17:15SO THERE ARE TWO SESSION THAT IS

1:17:16WILL BE OFFERED FROM 9-NOON AND

1:17:191-4 IF YOU HAVE A BREAK IN YOUR

1:17:21DAY YOU CAN MAKE AN APPEARANCE,

1:17:23DON'T WORRY ABOUT REGISTERING,

1:17:25JUST SHOW UP.

1:17:26THERE WILL BE SOME LUNCH THAT

1:17:28CAN YOU GRAB ON YOUR WAY IN OR

1:17:30OUT AS WELL.

1:17:31ANYTIME YOU NEED MORE

1:17:32INFORMATION I KNOW I DON'T WANT

1:17:34TO SPEAK FOR EVERYONE BUT I'M

1:17:36CERTAIN THAT EVERYONE AROUND

1:17:38THAT YOU HAVE HEARD FROM TODAY

1:17:39WOULD BE MORE THAN WILLING TO

1:17:41TALK ABOUT THIS UNTIL

1:17:455:00 O'CLOCK OR THE COULD YOUS

1:17:49COWS COME HOME. THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE PLAT

1:17:51FOR.

1:17:52>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU

1:17:53BOTH SO MUCH FOR THIS.

1:17:54AND THANK YOU FOR ALL I DON'T

1:17:55REMEMBER WORK TO SUPPORT

1:17:57SURVIVORS. I UNDERSTAND PART OF THE WORK OF

1:18:00THE TASKFORCE IS WHEN WORKING

1:18:01WITH SURVIVORS MAKING SURE THAT

1:18:02THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE ASKING THE

1:18:03RIGHT QUESTIONS AT THE RIGHT

1:18:05TIME IN THE PROCESS.

1:18:06SO WE'RE NOT RE-TRAUMATIZING

1:18:08VICTIMS BY ASKING SURVIVORS BY

1:18:10ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS OVER

1:18:11AND OVER GAME CAN YOU TALK A

1:18:13LITTLE BIT TO THE IMPORTANCE OF

1:18:14THAT WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:18:16WE'RE REALLY TRAUMA INFORMED

1:18:18CARE IN HOW WE'RE WORKING WITH

1:18:19SURVIVORS AS WE GATHER WHAT CAN

1:18:21BE REALLY TRAUMATIC DETAILS FROM

1:18:25INCIDENTS? >> YOU WANT TO TACKLE THAT ONE?

1:18:27>> SO WHEN WE TRAIN OUR

1:18:28NUMBERSES WE TRAIN THEM IN AWE

1:18:31TRAUMA INFORMED APPROACH SO OUR

1:18:32LANGUAGE AND BODY LANGUAGE IS

1:18:34INTENTIONAL WE DON'T WANT TO

1:18:36RETRAUMATIZE THEM.

1:18:37AT TRY HEALTH WE ALSO WORK WITH

1:18:39THE EMERGENCY NURSES THAT THEY

1:18:40WHEN THEY ARE TRIAGED IN THEY

1:18:42DESCRIBE RAY RATLY DON'T GO THE

1:18:45INTO THE WEEDS WITH THESE

1:18:46PEOPLE. THEY REPORT AN ASSAULT, THEY

1:18:48REPORT SEXUAL SALT, DOMESTIC

1:18:50VIOLENCE AND THEY KIND OF HOLD

1:18:51THE REST IN THE FORENSIC NURSE

1:18:53SHOWS UP BECAUSE WE GO INTO THE

1:18:55WEEDS WITH THEM.

1:18:56ESPECIALLY SEXUAL ASSAULTS WE

1:18:57HAVE TO ASK A LOT OF REALLY

1:18:59SENSITIVE QUESTIONS. SO THE PROVIDERS INTENTIONALLY

1:19:02STAY AWAY FROM THAT TOO.

1:19:03THEY RELY ON US TO GET THAT

1:19:05INFORMATION AND WE COMMUNICATE

1:19:06THAT WITH THE E R STEAMS WE CAN

1:19:09GIVE THEM THE BEST COLLABORATIVE

1:19:10CARE. WE WORK TOGETHER WITH THE

1:19:13ADVOCATE TOO THAT WE WORK AS A

1:19:15TEAM IN THE ROOM TO SUPPORT

1:19:17THEM, THE ADVOCATES ARE

1:19:20PHENOMENAL. WE COULDN'T DO A LOT OF WHAT WE

1:19:22DO WITH A OUT THIS TO MAKE SURE

1:19:23THAT WE SUPPORT THEM IN THAT

1:19:25WHOLE APPROACH.

1:19:27>> AND WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY

1:19:28IS THE FACT THAT WE DO HAVE THE

1:19:32TECHNOLOGY LIKE FLOW REALLY DOES

1:19:33HELP SUPPORT THE LESS LIKELY

1:19:37HOOD THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO

1:19:39CONTINUE TO TELL THEIR STORY

1:19:41THROUGH PROSECUTION AND SUCH

1:19:42BECAUSE THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IS

1:19:44THERE. IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT

1:19:46YES, WE DO PROVIDE TRAUMA

1:19:49TRAINING TO OUR STAFF, OUR

1:19:51PARTNERS ARE HEAVILY INFORMED

1:19:53ABOUT HOW TO PROVIDE TRAUMA

1:19:55SENSITIVITY IN THEIR THOUGHTS

1:19:56AND THE WAY THAT THEY ARE COULD

1:19:58ORDER NATIONALLING THE

1:20:00RESOURCES. SO I BELIEVE THAT THE ENTIRE

1:20:03RESPONSE THAT WE HAVE FOR THE

1:20:05COUNTY IS LAID IN A FOUNDATION

1:20:08OF TRAUMA INFORMED CARE AND

1:20:09SERVICE DELIVERY.

1:20:11>> AND EVERY STATEMENT THAT WE

1:20:12COLLECT FROM THE PATIENTS WE IT

1:20:13IS OUR GOAL TO WRITE DOWN

1:20:15EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE SAYING AND

1:20:18BE AS THOROUGH AS WE CAN IN OUR

1:20:20REPORTS AND WHENEVER WE HAVE

1:20:21EVIDENCE WE HANDS-OFF THAT TO

1:20:23THE INVESTIGATIVE OFFICER SO

1:20:24THEY HAVE MUCH OF HOPEFULLY A

1:20:26LOT OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION

1:20:28THERE IN FRONT OF THEM AS WELL.

1:20:30AND SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO RE-ASK

1:20:31SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.

1:20:33>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU

1:20:34FOR THAT. ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE HAVING

1:20:35THIS CONVERSATION NOW IS IT IS

1:20:38DV AWARENESS MONTH SHINING A

1:20:40LIGHT ON THAT AND THE NUMBERS.

1:20:42BUT ALSO YOU KNOW NOT THAT MANY

1:20:43WEEKS AGO THERE WAS A LOT IN THE

1:20:45NEWS AROUND THE CORNELL 7.

1:20:47A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY HORRIFIED

1:20:50BY THE DETAILS OF THAT CASE AND,

1:20:52YOU KNOW, SOME OF WHAT JANE

1:20:54DOUGH SHARED IN TERMS OF HER

1:20:56EXPERIENCE AND HOW THE

1:20:58INVESTIGATION WENT AFTERWARDS.

1:20:59WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SHARE, YOU

1:21:01KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS

1:21:02IN OUR CITY.

1:21:03WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE

1:21:05FOR ANY OF OUR STUDENTS WHO GOD

1:21:07FORBID THEY END UP IN A

1:21:09SITUATION LIKE THAT?

1:21:10WHERE CAN THEY GO FOR HELP AND

1:21:12HOW CAN WE LOCALLY MAKE SURE

1:21:13WE'RE SUPPORTING OUR SURVIVORS

1:21:15IN THE CASE OF THOSE SITUATIONS?

1:21:17>> DO YOU WANT TO TACKLE THAT

1:21:18FROM A ADVOCACY STANDPOINT.

1:21:20>> ABSOLUTELY, YES, I THINK THAT

1:21:21WHAT WE CAN DO I MEAN IN ORDER

1:21:23TO TRY TO GET ON THE FRONT END

1:21:25OF THIS IS CONTINUALLY TRY TO BE

1:21:27IN COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS TALKING

1:21:29ABOUT PREVENTION, TALKING ABOUT

1:21:30CONSENT, TALKING ABOUT HOW TO

1:21:33ACTIVATE INTERVENTION

1:21:35STRATEGIES. BUT THEN ALSO TO REALLY THINK

1:21:39THAT WE USE THIS PLATFORM TO

1:21:40JUST PROMOTE TWO PEOPLE THAT

1:21:42THERE IS ACCESS 24/7 TO EXPERT

1:21:47SUPPORT THROUGH OUR HOTLINE.

1:21:48IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO

1:21:51BE IN THE MOMENT OF CRISIS TO BE

1:21:54CONTACTING US TO GET SUPPORT.

1:21:55IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU MAY

1:21:57BE EXPERIENCING A A RED FLAGS

1:21:59THAT COULD BE POPPING UP OR

1:22:00THINGS THAT ARE CONCERNING TO

1:22:01YOU IN THE WAY YOU'RE BEING

1:22:03TREAT YOU HAD THROUGH YOUR

1:22:05RELATIONSHIPS ON CAMPUS, IN

1:22:07COMMUNITY WHEREVER, PICK UP THE

1:22:08PHONE AND CALL, ASK IF THIS IS

1:22:11NORMAL, EXPRESS TO SOMEONE HOW

1:22:13YOU ARE FEELING SO THEY CAN KIND

1:22:14OF PROCESS THOSE THINGS WITH YOU

1:22:16AND START TO BUILD SAFETY PLANS,

1:22:19KNOWLEDGE, RESOURCES,

1:22:21CONNECTIVITY SO THAT IT DOESN'T

1:22:23ESCALATE TO SOMETHING THAT COULD

1:22:24BE POTENTIALLY MORE LETHAL.

1:22:30WATERWORKS I KNOW WOMEN HELPING

1:22:31WOMEN THAT IS EMPHASIZED

1:22:32IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION IN HIGH

1:22:33SCHOOL AND EARLIER.

1:22:35CAN YOU TALK TO KIND OF IT

1:22:37BREAKS MY HEART THAT WE HAVE

1:22:39YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCING THESE

1:22:41ISSUES SO YOUNG, CAN YOU SPEAK A

1:22:43LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE AGES WE'RE

1:22:45SEEING? >> WHEN IT COMES TO CONSENT AND

1:22:48ARMING KIDS WITH THE TOOLS THAT

1:22:49THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO KEEP

1:22:51THEMSELVES SAFE, I THINK IT CAN

1:22:53START AS EARLY AS YOU WANT IT TO

1:22:55BEGIN.

1:22:56I BELIEVE THAT IT IS EVERYONE'S

1:22:58OBLIGATION TO PARENT AND PROVIDE

1:23:01CARE AND PROTECTION TO THEIR

1:23:04CHILDREN OR THE YOUTH THAT THEY

1:23:05ARE AROUND.

1:23:06AND THAT INVOLVES HAVING

1:23:08CONVERSATIONS AND EMPOWERING

1:23:09THEM AROUND THE A TON MY AND

1:23:12CHOICE WITH THEIR OWN BODIES.

1:23:14THIS CAN BEGIN AT ANY AGE.

1:23:16SO THERE IS SOME THAT SOMEONE

1:23:19CAN DO ALWAYS WHEN IT COMES TO

1:23:21TRYING TO LAY A FOUNDATION OF

1:23:23BUILDING THAT CULTURE OF CONSENT

1:23:25AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT

1:23:26PREVENTION LOOKS LIKE AND REALLY

1:23:29EQUIPPING YOUTH AND COMMUNITY

1:23:31WITH THE TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO

1:23:33INTERVENE AND SHOW SUPPORT.

1:23:35AND COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE WHO

1:23:36ARE EXPERIENCING THAT TYPE OF

1:23:40VIOLENCE. >> Councilmember Albi: THANK

1:23:41YOU, QUESTIONS FROM MY

1:23:42COLLEAGUES?

1:23:43VICE CHAIR?

1:23:44>> Councilmember Nolan: THANK

1:23:45YOU, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING

1:23:47HERE COUNCILMEMBER ANNA ALBI

1:23:49MENTIONED A COUPLE REASONS WHY

1:23:50HOW THIS CONVERSATION CAME

1:23:53TOGETHER THE WAY IT DID THIS

1:23:55WEEK. YOU KNOW I WILL JUST ADD THAT WE

1:23:57HAVE HAD PRESENTATIONS ABOUT HOW

1:23:59GOOD THE CRIME DATA HAVE LOOKED

1:24:02FROM THE SUMMER OR THIS YEAR

1:24:04GENERALLY AND OBVIOUSLY THERE

1:24:05ARE SOME PRETTY SERIOUS OUTLIERS

1:24:07HERE THAT WE FELT WE NEEDED TO

1:24:11SHOWN A LIGHT ON AND DISCUSS.

1:24:13AND I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU WILL

1:24:14BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION

1:24:17FOR THE LARGE, FOR THE MOST PART

1:24:19THE WORK THAT YOU DO IS FOCUSED

1:24:21ON THE VICTIMS.

1:24:23YOU KNOW, NOT EXCLUSIVELY BUT

1:24:25FOR THE MOST PART WE'RE TALKING

1:24:27ABOUT CRIMES COMMITTED BY MEN

1:24:29AGAINST WOMEN AND SO IT IS A

1:24:31DISTURBING TREND TO SEE THAT MEN

1:24:33ARE BEHAVING THIS WAY MORE AND

1:24:37MORE.

1:24:38IS THERE THERE ANY RESEARCH OR

1:24:41UNDERLYING INFORMATION THAT

1:24:42HELPS INFORM US ABOUT WHY THAT

1:24:44IS HAPPENING?

1:24:46AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP

1:24:48ADDRESS THAT AS THE FAR OF TWO

1:24:51DAUGHTERS I'M NERVOUS ABOUT THE

1:24:52FUTURE FOR A LOFT REASONS.

1:24:55SO, BUT WHEN YOU WE SEE IN SORT

1:24:59OF DATA IT IS DISTURB THAN ANIME

1:25:02CURIOUS IF THERE IS ANYTHING CAN

1:25:03YOU SHARE ON THAT QUESTION.

1:25:05>> MY SIMPLE THOUGHT ON THAT IS

1:25:06THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT ANYONE

1:25:08CAN BE A VICTIM AND ANYONE CAN

1:25:10BE A PERPETRATOR SO IF WE

1:25:12BREAKDOWN SIGNIFICANT IN AS TO

1:25:15MALES REPORTING THAT THEY HAVE

1:25:17EXPERIENCED HARM AND DEE SIGMA

1:25:20NOTIFY THE AGENTED TO SPEAK FOR

1:25:23IT, TO REACH OUT TO RECEIVE

1:25:25SUPPORT AND SERVICES, AND WE'RE

1:25:28CREATING A CULTURE OF ACCEPTANCE

1:25:31AND UNDERSTANDING WHERE THEY CAN

1:25:35HALE AND MAYBE BE LESS LIKELY TO

1:25:36PER TRAIT VIOLENCE IN THE

1:25:38FUTURE.

1:25:39SO ANYBODY CAN EXPERIENCE

1:25:40VIOLENCE AND PERPETRATE THE

1:25:41VIOLENCE IF WE CAN DESTIGMATIZE

1:25:45THE ASSOCIATION THAT IT CAN ONLY

1:25:46BE A CERTAIN TIME TYPE OF PERSON

1:25:49OR CERTAIN IDENTITYITY WE KNOW

1:25:51THAT VIOLENCE DOESN'T

1:25:53DISCRIMINATE AND IT AFFECTS

1:25:54EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF SORB WHY

1:25:57ECONOMIC STATUS OR GEOGRAPHY OR

1:25:59RELIGIOUS OREGON ANY OF THESE

1:26:00THINGS. AND THE MORE THAT WE WE HAVE

1:26:02CONVERSATION AS ROUND THAT AND

1:26:04BUILD GENERAL UNDERSTANDING THEN

1:26:05I THINK WE'RE DOING OUR PART TO

1:26:09INFORM WOMEN AND GIRLS AND

1:26:10INFORM MEN AND BOYS ABOUT ITS

1:26:14PREVALENCE, WHAT ITS FOUNDATION

1:26:15IS AROUND POWER AND CONTROL AND

1:26:17HOW TO BUILD HEALTHIER

1:26:19RELATIONSHIPS SO THAT IT WILL

1:26:20NOT LIKELY BE PRESENT IN THEIR

1:26:24LIVES. >> Councilmember Nolan: THANK

1:26:25YOU. >> A LOT OF MALE STRANGLERS

1:26:28GROUP YOU UP IN VIOLENT HOMES

1:26:31AND STRAG WILLED AS CHILDREN.

1:26:32STATLY WE KNOW THAT MOST ADULTS

1:26:34THAT STRANGLE CHILDREN ARE THE

1:26:36MOTHERS.

1:26:37IT CREATES THIS SEEK OF VIOLENCE

1:26:38AND THEN THEY GROW UP.

1:26:39I THINK CALLING IT CHOKING

1:26:42MINIMIZES THE LETHALITY OF

1:26:44STRANGULATION.

1:26:45AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT IN THE

1:26:47COLLEGE COMMUNITY THAT

1:26:48STRANGULATION DURING SEX IS A

1:26:49VERY COMMON, COMMONPLACE THING

1:26:52THAT TAKES PLACE.

1:26:53AND I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY

1:26:55UNDERSTAND THEY CALL IT CHOKING

1:26:56DID YOURS SEX.

1:26:57THEY DON'T CALL IT

1:26:59STRANGULATION. SO I THINK THAT US TO CONTINUE

1:27:01TO BE IN THESE SPACES I HAVE

1:27:03DONE A LOT OF EDUCATION AS WELL

1:27:04WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND

1:27:06COLLEGE STUDENTS ABOUT, YOU

1:27:08KNOW, THIS IS UNSEEN RISK

1:27:10BECAUSE YOU DON'T PHYSICALLY SEE

1:27:11ANYTHING DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT IS

1:27:13NOT RISKY, THERE IS ALWAYS A

1:27:15RISK WITH STRAININGS LAYING

1:27:16WHETHER IT IS CONSENSUAL OR NOT.

1:27:17SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO

1:27:18CONTINUE TO SHOW UP IN THE

1:27:20SPALLINGS SPACES AND EDUCATE ON

1:27:22HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE

1:27:23CYCLE VIOLENCE AND WHERE YOUR

1:27:25RESOURCES ARE AND WHO YOU CAN GO

1:27:26TO FOR HELP AND YOUR TITLE 9

1:27:29OFFICERS ON CAMPUS AND TEACHERS

1:27:31AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER AND

1:27:32CONTINUE TO BE IN THIS SPACE

1:27:34TOGETHER. I THINK THAT'S OUR BEST

1:27:38MECHANISM AGAINST SOMETHING LIKE

1:27:39THAT FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS.

1:27:40I THINK THAT WE NEED TO TALK

1:27:43ABOUT IT.

1:27:45>> Councilmember Nolan: THANK

1:27:47YOU.

1:27:50>> Vice Mayor Kearney: ADVERTISE

1:27:51MY TURN? THANKS.

1:27:52I JUST WANTED TO ASK ABOUT

1:27:53FOLLOW-UP SERVICES I'M JUST

1:27:55THINKING I HAVE HEARD SO MANY

1:27:57WOMEN WHO ARE VICTIMS OF

1:28:01DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SAY IT IS

1:28:02THEIR FAULT. LIKE THEY KNOW THEY COULD HAVE,

1:28:04THEY COULD HAVE HAD DINNER

1:28:06RED/TIME, THEY COULD HAVE HAD

1:28:07THE HOUSE CLEANER, THEY COULD

1:28:09HAVE DONE THIS OR THAT.

1:28:10AND I MEAN IT IS HEART BREAKING,

1:28:12SO I JUST WONDER IS THERE

1:28:17FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING, IS THERE A

1:28:20SURVIVES KIND OF RESOURCE FOR

1:28:23THEM?

1:28:24BECAUSE I THINK EVEN AFTER THE

1:28:27PROSECUTION THEY STILL FEEL LIKE

1:28:29MAYBE THERE IS SOME THEY SHOULD

1:28:30HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY AND THEY

1:28:32ARE STILL BLAMING THEMSELVES,

1:28:34THEY ARE BLAMES IT'S VICTIM.

1:28:36>> THE HEALING NEEDS TO HAPPEN,

1:28:38FAR AFTER BRUISES, CUTS AND

1:28:40WELTS HAVE HEALED SO TENDING TO

1:28:42SOMEBODY EMOTIONALLY AND GETTING

1:28:44THEM CONNECTED TO RESOURCES FOR

1:28:46MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT OR AT

1:28:48LEAST A SUPPORT GROUP IS

1:28:50SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO KIND OF

1:28:52BECOME A NORMAL NEXT STEP.

1:28:54ONCE JUSTICE IS SOUGHT AND

1:28:56WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR

1:28:58THAT UNIQUE PERSON THAT

1:29:00CONNECTIVITY TO COMMUNITY SO

1:29:01THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND IT WAS

1:29:03NOT THEIR FAULT.

1:29:04THIS IS NOT NORMAL AND MORE

1:29:07IMPORTANTLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID

1:29:08HE FINE WHAT HEALTHY LOVE AND

1:29:11RELATIONSHIPS LOOK AND

1:29:12FORECLOSURE FEEL LIKE. SO WHEN THEY DO EXPERIENCE THAT,

1:29:15THEY COMFORTABLE ABLE AND ABLE

1:29:17TO ACCEPT IT AND NOT STORE AWAY

1:29:20FROM IT. >> Vice Mayor Kearney: I LOVE

1:29:21THAT. IS THAT PART OF THE PREVENT AND

1:29:24EMPOWER EDUCATIONAL PIECE FOR

1:29:26THE STUDENTS THAT. >> ABSOLUTELY.

1:29:27DEFINING WHAT HEALTHY

1:29:28RELATIONSHIPS LOOK LIKE,

1:29:30DEFINING WHAT RED FLAGS AND

1:29:33ABUSE LOOKS LIKE.

1:29:35DAY ONE. >> Vice Mayor Kearney: THAT'S

1:29:36REALLY IMPORTANT.

1:29:37THANK YOU FOR THAT.

1:29:40>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU FOR THE CONVERSATION TODAY I

1:29:41THINK WHAT I HEARD WE LOOK AT

1:29:43THESE NUMBERS AND SEE THEM IN

1:29:44THE RED AND THE NUMBERS GOING UP

1:29:46AND OCCUPY WHAT I HEARD ACROSS

1:29:47THE BOARD FROM EVERY PART OF

1:29:49THIS SYSTEM IS YOU KNOW

1:29:51INCREASING EDUCATION AROUND

1:29:53OFFICERS WHO ARE TAKING THESE

1:29:55REPORTS, INCREASING EFFORTS TO

1:29:57KIND OF SUPPORT SURVIVORS AS

1:29:58THEY GO THROUGH THE PROCESS SO

1:30:00THEY STAY WITH THE LEGAL PROCESS

1:30:02THROUGHOUT AND THEN MAKING SURE

1:30:03THAT WE HAVE GREATER AWARENESS

1:30:06SO SURVIVORS FEEL COMFORTABLE

1:30:08COMING FORWARD AND KNOWING THOSE

1:30:09RESOURCES ARE.

1:30:10SO WHEN WE LOOT ON AND SEE THESE

1:30:12NUMBERS IN THE RED IN SOME WAYS

1:30:14IT SHOWS THE SUCCESS OF OUR WORK

1:30:17PROVIDING THESE RESOURCES AND

1:30:19MAKING SURE THAT OUR SURVIVORS

1:30:21ARE EMPOWERED TO COME FORWARD.

1:30:23WOULD EITHER EVER YOU LIKE TO

1:30:25SHARE ANYTHING MORE OF THAT FROM

1:30:26WHERE YOU SET WORKING WITH

1:30:27SURVIVORS EVERY DAY?

1:30:28>> I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THE

1:30:32INCREDIBLE WORK OF THE CITY

1:30:34PROSECUTORS OFFICE BECAUSE, YOU

1:30:35KNOW, WE ALL KNOW THAT IT IS

1:30:36DIFFICULT FOR THESE PEOPLE TO

1:30:38CONTINUE TO COOPERATE WITH THE

1:30:40COURT SYSTEM. IT IS REALLY HARD AND IT IS STAR

1:30:42I QUITE FRANKLY.

1:30:44SO I OUR ULTIMATE GOAL IS THAT

1:30:47WE ARE ABLE TO PROSECUTE THESE

1:30:50BASED ON EVIDENCE BASE VERSUS

1:30:52VICTIM PARTICIPATION FOR MANY

1:30:54REASONS. AND SO I LOVE SUSAN ZURFACE

1:30:56BEING IN THAT ROLE AS A ADVOCATE

1:30:58OF THAT AND VOCAL ABOUT THAT AND

1:31:00I KNOW IT IS SUCH A CHALLENGING

1:31:02UPHILL BATTLE.

1:31:03AND I'M THANKFUL FOR US TO BE IN

1:31:06THIS, YOU KNOW, POSITION TO BE

1:31:07ABLE TO TRY TO CONTRIBUTE WHAT

1:31:09WE CAN WITH THAT THROUGH OUR

1:31:11EVIDENTIARY SWABS AND PICTURES

1:31:15AND MEDICAL EXCEPTION TO THE

1:31:17HEARSAY IN THE STATEMENTS.

1:31:18SO I AM JUST THANKFUL TO THE

1:31:21WHOLE TASKFORCE FOR WORKING

1:31:23TOGETHER BECAUSE WE'RE STRONGER

1:31:24TOGETHER AND BEING AT THIS TABLE

1:31:26TOGETHER.

1:31:27WE'RE ONLY ONE BY OURSELVES.

1:31:29THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE.

1:31:31>> Councilmember Albi: THANK YOU

1:31:32AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING SO MUCH

1:31:33TIME TO DIVE INTO THE STATISTICS

1:31:35AND REALLY SHARING I THINK

1:31:37AROUND STRANGULATION REALLY

1:31:39HIGHLIGHTING WHY THAT IS THE

1:31:40KIND OF CANARY IN THE COAL MINE

1:31:43WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OTHER FURTHER

1:31:46ESCALATIONS, DOWN THE LINE SO I

1:31:48AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL THIS WORK.

1:31:50PLEASE LET US KNOW HOW THIS

1:31:52COMMITTEE CAN SUPPORT THE DV

1:31:54TASK FORCE. I KNOW GENERAL AN ATTENDS THE

1:31:57MEETINGS ON BEHALF EVER OUR TEAM

1:31:58AND I THINK WE HEARD LOUD AND

1:32:01CLEAR FROM OUR CITY PERSPECTIVE

1:32:02HOW WE CAN GREATER SUPPORT OUR

1:32:09SURVIVE SURVIVORS ADVOCATES AND

1:32:10THANK YOU SO MUCH TRULY AND

1:32:12PULLED THIS TOGETHER RATHER

1:32:13QUICKLY. THANK YOU FOR THE QUICK WORK.

1:32:15SO THANK YOU.

1:32:16WITH THAT WE WILL FILE THE

1:32:19PRESENTATION.

1:32:20AND THEN CLERK, AROUND THE

1:32:22COMMUNICATION THAT WE WANTED TO

1:32:24SUBMIT WITH THE STARS REPORT,

1:32:25ARE WE ABLE TO DO THAT NOW?

1:32:26IT WAS ON ONE VERSION OF THE

1:32:28AGENDA AND GOT DROPPED.

1:32:31>> YES, THAT'S JUST A MATTER OF

1:32:33GETTING IT ADDED INTO THE

1:32:34SYSTEM.

1:32:35WE'LL FILE THAT AS WELL.

1:32:37>> Councilmember Albi: FANTASTIC, WE'LL FILE THAT AS

1:32:38WELL.

1:32:39ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS FROM OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS?

1:32:41OKAY, WITH THAT ONE LAST THANK

1:32:43YOU AND THIS COMMITTEE IS

1:32:44ADJOURNED.

1:32:45THANK YOU EXECUTIVE FINANCE REVIEW 1.

1:32:46-CAPTIONING QUESTIONS CALL

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