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POR 2021-85

City Manager is hereby requested to work with the Police Commissioner and report back to the Public Safety Committee on steps taken to address this concern and issue a status report on how the City is moving forward with reducing weapons and equipment deemed unnecessary by the Cambridge Police Department

How it started
Apr 26, 2021 · Proposed by Councillor Quinton Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happened
Apr 26, 2021 · Held by charter right the city's note: “Exercised by Councillor Simmons”
May 3, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended, 8–1. The Council's request went to the City Manager.
View the roll call

Voted yes (8)

  • Dennis Carlone
  • Patty Nolan
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
  • Alanna Mallon
  • Marc McGovern
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Timothy J. Toomey

Voted no (1)

  • Quinton Zondervan
Roll call of May 3, 2021 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
🏛 This item on the city's site
🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Apr 26, 2021