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, City Council I live in the neighborhood of the “Triangle” area. Our neighborhoods have been waiting 9 years to be annexed into the City of Menlo Park, however, the city has still not moved forward on annexation. My personal experience three years ago, I desperately needed help from the l...
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...
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...
Hello, I was suggested to forward my email to this address. So, please find below the original message sent to the Mayor of Menlo Park and other members of City Hall. This message has also been sent to City Hall of Redwood City and other associations that had been referred to us. Out of all...
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...
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...
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...
Dear Councilmembers and staff, I am writing in opposition to waiving the first reading and passing an ordinance to ban RV parking and to enable law enforcement to strip vulnerable community members of their only shelter and force them onto the street. There is nothing in the staff report that...
