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...
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...
Hello, I am writing in favor of the proposal to install Flock fixed Automated License Plate Readers citywide in Menlo Park. I believe we need evidence-based approaches to the rise of crime in our city. According to this paper I will link, "Intuitively, both Flock Devices per Sworn and Shared Flock...
Thanks for the update! Any way this info can be put on the Menlo Park government website to make this more easily accessible? Best, Kelly On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 3:22 PM Dixon, William A > wrote: Good afternoon, Ms. Chien. All red light...
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...
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...
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...
Good afternoon, Ms. Chien. All red light photo enforcement equipment in the City of Menlo Park has been inactive since 2019. If you have any further questions please feel free to contact me directly. Thank you. [cid:CMP_Email_Logo_100dpi_05d92d5b-e8e3-498f-93a6-d0da509bd602111111...
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....
