In the area of bias, the d. P. A. Has been an active participant in the Bias Working Group. And a lot of this work is done by our policy director. Shes been working in the Bias Working Group to redraft the department general order, that deals with bias policing. Weve also made recommendations that would require written consent for searches. The report found and National Studies have shown that consent searches are first of all, people of color are searched more than people who arent. The people who are white. And a lot of times asking for written consent is a Better National practice. So weve made that recommendation in the context of the bias reform sorry. The bias reforms. In the area of community policing, we are working to revise the general order there as well. And then our work in accountability has been revising department general order 2. 04, which was passed by the commission recently. And spelled out the departments jurisdiction, the department of police accountabilitys juris
Discrepancy to me. Thats why its reported. You cant fix what you cant talk about. You cant talk about what you dont know. I mean, the whole point, which why i said thats in the annual report. People can see it and track it. Before this information wasnt public and wasnt disseminated. Supervisor walton thank you, director henderson and to your entire team. Colleagues, if you dont have any questions. Thank you for having us. Supervisor walton thank you. It is time for Public Comment. Clerk it is. If members of the public who want to speak on the item, we ask you line up over by the cameras. Seeing none oh, here we go. You have two minutes. We ask you that you state your name. If you have written materials, you can leave them with the clerk. David elliott. So for five years, i worked as a trainer with the Police Department Crisis Intervention Team training. For search ive been part of the Mental Health Advisory Working Group or c. Ism t. I have worked with sam on revising the use of force
Gov. Mckee thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Weve got a lot to share tonight, so lets get down to business. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the legislature, congressman seth magaziner, thank you for being here. Our general officers, chief justice and members of the judiciary, municipal leaders, members of my cabinet, and my fellow Rhode Islanders who are watching at home, including my mom, willa and i want to thank everybody always asking how my mom is doing. Good evening. When i started thinking about this years state of the state address, i thought back to the first inaugural speech i made in march of 2021. Rhode island was in a time of significant change. We were faced with many challenges and what felt like endless unknowns. At that time, i asked my fellow Rhode Islanders to join me, to come together as one team and meet that moment head on. On that day, i shared something i used to tell the players i coached in basketball. The team i coached was calle
Gov. Mckee thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you so much. Weve got a lot to share tonight, so lets get down to business. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , members of the legislature, congressman seth magaziner, thank you for being here. Our general officers, chief justice and members of the judiciary, municipal leaders, members of my cabinet, and my fellow Rhode Islanders who are watching at home, including my mom, willa and i want to thank everybody always asking how my mom is doing. Good evening. When i started thinking about this years state of the state address, i thought back to the first inaugural speech i made in march of 2021. Rhode island was in a time of significant change. We were faced with many challenges and what felt like endless unknowns. At that time, i asked my fellow Rhode Islanders to join me, to come together as one team and meet that moment head on. On that day, i shared something i used to tell the players i coached in basketball. The team i coached was calle
Looking at are al tern tiffs to that as well that would be even more effective. Having payment data as an example when a project is completed and verifying with sub contractors is an area were looking at. Just for that, the use of elations system, it was actually the former Redevelopment Agency i believe that pioneered that and the city followed suit and added additional bells and whistles. Great. I have others, but go ahead. Commissioner ellington. I thank you for the presentation and the i thought the informational memo was very well put together. Finally appreciative to have the good faith term clearly defined and see the different steps laid out as to what that looks like for developers and so forth. I guess my question is, wbe, mbe are those subsets of sbe numbers or are those reported differently . Youre referring to the general. Yeah. Theyre part of the sbe. Theyre subset of the sbes. Okay. Its the same dollar threshold so the former agency and even the city had a program in div