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DESCRIPTION:The Public Hysteria Citizen Task Farce (more officially known as the Public 
 Safety Citizen Task Force) meets every other Wednesday, starting May 
 29.2013 through November, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 .\n\nThe draft minutes of 
 the last meeting (and their first meeting) are at 
 http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=32263 
 .\n\nThe meeting room is relatively small (the group of 15 takes up more 
 than half of the room).  It can also be hard to hear some of the speakers.  
 The first few meetings are scheduled to be "presentations" from police, 
 poverty pimps, etc. with a meeting or two slated for public comment, but no 
 public comment period regularly allowed.\n\nMore on the Task Farce at 
 http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/index.aspx?page=1924 .\n\nThe group is 
 stacked with right-wingers (a Seaside Company boss and a retired cop are 
 chair and vice-chair), has no homeless advocates or homeless people. And 
 there is no regular provision for public input, at least no Oral 
 Communications period.  The group was hand-picked by Mayor Hillary Bryant 
 and excludes strong critics of the Take Back Santa Cruz-prompted 
 hysteria.\n\nThis part of the on-going anti-homeless laws and increasingly 
 brutal crackdown.\n\nScott Collins is the staff member who is recording and 
 facilitating this meeting, but is not responsible for this posting and the 
 commentary here.\n\n\nRECENT POLICE ABUSE\nA recent report from W. notes 
 that while crossing Union Grove parking lot, he was tackled and assaulted 
 by Officers Warren and Ahlers, sending him to the hospital with 4 stiches 
 in his lower lip. \n\nHe noted he'd earliler been twice ticketed for 
 performing downtown, and denounced the officers for hounding him in 
 colorful terms at which point they attacked him. I haven't run into Ahlers 
 or Warren to get their side of the story. He goes to court for "interfering 
 with an officer", of course. W. says the assault was viewed by numerous 
 people. I don't know if it was videoed.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/28/18737491.php
SUMMARY:Mayor's Stacked and Packed "Public Safety Task Force" meets
LOCATION:Tony Hill Room of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium at Church and Center 
 Streets.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/05/28/18737491.php
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