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...
Hi, I am a long-time resident of Menlo Park. We live on Siskiyou and had a break-in a few years ago. No one was arrested. With the recent spate of burglaries, we have upgraded our security system and taken several actions to "harden" our home. Over the last several weeks, I have looked into the...
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...
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...
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...
Hi City Council, I know there are bigger issues than the one I am bringing up so thank you for reading my suggestion. Driving up and down Oak Grove from El Camino to Menlo Atherton HS, between the "rush hour" of 7:45 am until around 8:15am. At the intersection of Laurel and Oak Grove, heading...
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...
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...
We offer the City Council reasons for our united opposition to the Parkline Project. 1) Increased Traffic – In the last few years, large Springline/Middle Plaza complexes have contributed 400 new apartments to a ~ 1 mi Sq Ft area bound by El Camino, Oak Grove Ave, Middlefield/Willow Rds....
