The task force will be formed entirely with members of the Commission on the Status of Women, rather than council members or the Berkeley Police Department, Mayor Adena Ishii said during the meeting.
The Council also approved a resolution which would begin changing the manufacturer of fixed surveillance cameras around Berkeley to Flock Safety and reallocating a number of existing camera locations to Downtown Berkeley and one to the intersection of Durant and Telegraph Avenues.
District 7 Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra said her constituency, which is primarily students “do not feel safer” with the extension of surveillance cameras to Southside; she instead proposed a motion to remove the camera on the intersection of Durant and Telegraph Avenues from the resolution, which failed to pass.
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✍️: Paarth Mishra & Roman Trovato
📸: Esme Hyatt
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