Good afternoon Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and Councillors. Sending this email to city.council@menlopark.gov per posted agenda for inclusion. The #24-080-CC Staff Report has no substantive data supporting the FLOCK surveillance system as being an effective system. Fur...
Honorable City Council, Back in September 2023, I expressed my concerns about the deployment of Flock camera technology in Menlo Park. I am writing today to express my ongoing concerns about Menlo Park becoming part of this vast, nationwide surveillance network. I have read the new staff repor...
Here here, thank you Brian for sharing this insightful information. I also urge the council to put our communitys safety and security as as a top priority and revisit ALPRs ASAP. I have to believe that 15 other communities have not come to the same conclusion without doing ample research. We are...
City Council: I strongly support the deployment of fixed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) citywide, utilizing Flock technology. The effectiveness and success of Flock ALPRs for catching criminals, solving investigations, and tying suspects to crimes is indisputable. As staff points...
Hi, My family and I have lived in Menlo Park for more than 20 years, and we are currently in the Sharon Heights neighborhood. In recent months, there have been invasive home robberies of my nextdoor neighbor and a home down the street, as part of a broader increase in home robberies in our are...
My family lives in Sharon Heights in Menlo Park, where we have lived for the past decade. Thank you for your efforts on behalf of our community. As you know, there has been a significant increase in robberies in our neighborhood, including many neighbors of mine. Recently, I personally witness...
Dear Councilmembers, I am writing to request that you approve the grant money for MPC Ready. We are a Neighbor Helping Neighbor organization with the emphasis on emergency preparedness and response. The need has been very apparent in these last two winters. The Menlo Park community has experie...
Brian, Thank you for taking the time to further research ALPR technology, and providing us with the results of your research. I had not realized that 13 (!) of our neighbor communities (plus 2 more about to come online) have deployed ALPRs. But I did know that, in those communities where ALPRs...
Seeing a response of no response from the council to my March 12 letter regarding obnoxious behavior by local police -- a silence probably recommended by the city attorney -- I have a take-away: this city is being led by a collection of milquetoasts. Theres a word you dont run across very often....
Begin forwarded message: From: Stuart Soffer Subject: Regarding the sunset oroject Date: June 18, 2024 at 5:47:58 PM PDT To: jicmurphy@menlopark.gov Reply-To: sbsoffer@gmail.com Honorable Menlo Park Council Members, Justin Murphy This project should never be ap...
