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Recent mentions
- 4:30Um, and when George Floyd was murdered, we decided we would do more than just train the police on how to deal people with mental illness. That we would undertake a sequential intercept model mapping exercise, which looked at the whole county and the gaps um with uh services to what we call a high utilizer population. people with mental illness, substance use disorder and …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 26 passages longer discussion3:52… Hi K. Uh the next I apologize to the council is a resolution that we received late yesterday uh authorizing a budget transfer from the police department. This is time sensitive. Um as you know with rising gas costs and so forth there that line item was depleted and they
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage8:10which have still been in the question to be moved to the police department. Uh, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon because the charter needs to change in order for us to change the language to move it from the city clerk to the parking violations bureau. Um, so I have that factored in as well for that amount. Um, historically it's always been charged to that …
- 16:28… two months from now, six months from now could be some other entity and what we need are policies and procedures that ensure and the police department hats and police department has developed very robust policies and procedures. We want to ensure that both the privacy uh and and safety of other individuals and at the same time allow the police department to do their job.
- 5:29… away from the curb uh not doing parallel parking except in a situation where diagonal is allowed and so forth. So it's a category that the police department uses for things that are not captured in the other categories. Um so I may um put in some more language or definitions there but again I did go back through everything in article 4 and the categories that we are listing …
- 38:29call the sheriff's office question behind your behind barracks, right?
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20269 passages longer discussion12:35So they in their local law gave authority to their local health department and their sheriff's department to enforce that. So if they if they go into a convenience store or any kind of you know retailer of that nature and they see that they will find x amount of dollars per unit and they will be instru they can the sheriffs can confiscate or they'll be instructed to get it off …
- 37:43So when I came back from lunch, I was the the deputy sheriff there said, "You're not welcome here. I wasn't allowed to to remain there by the deputy sheriff." And that only lasted the next day because Gary, who's the deputy sheriff that's there on Thursdays, is quite understanding. So something happened there where I was actually kicked out. I'm actually composing a demand …
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p37 passages longer discussion24:20My big concern with block is not the sheriff's office. I tr trust the sheriff implicitly. I trust the deputies and everyone who works for the sheriff's office. I think we have a great sheriff's office here in Columbia County. I do not trust Flock. So my big concern is the data. Does Flock have access to the data? What are they allowed to do with the data?
- 1:48:58Um my question is are there any other alternative site analysis been completed? uh because just uh building on a site um a soil if the soil conditions will be costly and also demolition of the police towers when the new construction is finished. So close proximity um to the newly built um uh residences will be a problem in my opinion. [clears throat] Um yeah.
Longest discussions
Meetings with the most passages that use the topic's words.
- 1:11:13know that each child that is impacted by incarceration has most likely come in close contact with police at some point in their life this interaction can leave a lasting and often detrimental impact on that child creating fear mistrust and anger towards police witnessing an arrest can be particularly traumatic for a child and without departmental policies and procedures in …
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 202651 passages longer discussion1:41:49No, city of not the sheriff, but it could be the police department. So, you don't know speculation, but what I do know is that Hudson in the past year has changed its whole parking system. They used to have meters, okay, and they used to put quarters in it. Now, now the parking enforcement officers are now part of the police department. So, I think what Jolene was talking …
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p37 passages longer discussion24:20My big concern with block is not the sheriff's office. I tr trust the sheriff implicitly. I trust the deputies and everyone who works for the sheriff's office. I think we have a great sheriff's office here in Columbia County. I do not trust Flock. So my big concern is the data. Does Flock have access to the data? What are they allowed to do with the data?
- 1:27:08be astounding yeah monthly yeah the terms of the mission statement of how that police committee functions is itself something that I think needs to be established and then like the reinstatement of just a police committee where people come if it's a forum for people to bring like you know complaints or something that's one type of committee there's a lot of other people who'd …
- 1:35:17hi my question to you is how are we looking in the police department with recruiting people of color to reflect the city of hudson yeah um of course we work in the civil service systems if we've had these discussions um the police job right now as we see what's happening at the sheriff's department we're getting few and fewer and fewer applicants we're going in the opposite …
- 6:01And um that's that's basically why I'm here because um I want her to get into the police department so we can pick a handler out because after a while if I keep handling her and training her, she's just going to want me to do it. So I have to have a handler in the police department picked out to handle her.
- 16:28… two months from now, six months from now could be some other entity and what we need are policies and procedures that ensure and the police department hats and police department has developed very robust policies and procedures. We want to ensure that both the privacy uh and and safety of other individuals and at the same time allow the police department to do their job.
- 2:19:16i think what you're about to say is this is not the be-all and end-all of police reform and addressing things this is a lot of the framework and the target of going forward i would certainly be concerned about trying to go back and redraft or change anything and meet the deadline of what it is i think you know the concerns um that dominic has and anybody else on similar issues …
- 2023-02-13Other / CommitteeInformal Council Meeting - February 13, 202320 passages longer discussion31:30times Mark and was administered and then underneath it you can see 2021 statistics comparative you see arrests are up everything else is more or less in the norm of what we report every year traffic tickets are up um about 80 some tickets um and I think okay so you look at the arrest they're going up to 512 from 429 I reviewed that and it's partially attributable attributable …
- 1:13:04violations as they're on routine patrol unfortunately routine patrol gets bogged down with criminal complaints a lot and other types of complaints what the grant money does it gives us allows us to add extra people that to go out and specifically to uh go out with targeting certain violations so um we tend to do this more in the fair weather so you start to see more patrols uh …
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- 15:07… last week. I'm sorry. Authorizing the mayor to execute a contract with the Hudson city school district. For reimbursing. This the police department. I mean, the city.
- 4:10:27the Hudson Police Department to put a stop to that. That's not a good bet. So what we're really doing is coming here and saying to you that we need your approval so that we can just simply be there. And we're only going to be there until the end of the year. Nothing we are going to do won't come down in 25 to 35 minutes of, you know, effort by people who know how to do it. And …
- 4:30Um, and when George Floyd was murdered, we decided we would do more than just train the police on how to deal people with mental illness. That we would undertake a sequential intercept model mapping exercise, which looked at the whole county and the gaps um with uh services to what we call a high utilizer population. people with mental illness, substance use disorder and …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 26 passages longer discussion3:52… Hi K. Uh the next I apologize to the council is a resolution that we received late yesterday uh authorizing a budget transfer from the police department. This is time sensitive. Um as you know with rising gas costs and so forth there that line item was depleted and they
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage8:10which have still been in the question to be moved to the police department. Uh, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon because the charter needs to change in order for us to change the language to move it from the city clerk to the parking violations bureau. Um, so I have that factored in as well for that amount. Um, historically it's always been charged to that …
- 16:28… two months from now, six months from now could be some other entity and what we need are policies and procedures that ensure and the police department hats and police department has developed very robust policies and procedures. We want to ensure that both the privacy uh and and safety of other individuals and at the same time allow the police department to do their job.
- 5:29… away from the curb uh not doing parallel parking except in a situation where diagonal is allowed and so forth. So it's a category that the police department uses for things that are not captured in the other categories. Um so I may um put in some more language or definitions there but again I did go back through everything in article 4 and the categories that we are listing …
- 38:29call the sheriff's office question behind your behind barracks, right?
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20269 passages longer discussion12:35So they in their local law gave authority to their local health department and their sheriff's department to enforce that. So if they if they go into a convenience store or any kind of you know retailer of that nature and they see that they will find x amount of dollars per unit and they will be instru they can the sheriffs can confiscate or they'll be instructed to get it off …
- 37:43So when I came back from lunch, I was the the deputy sheriff there said, "You're not welcome here. I wasn't allowed to to remain there by the deputy sheriff." And that only lasted the next day because Gary, who's the deputy sheriff that's there on Thursdays, is quite understanding. So something happened there where I was actually kicked out. I'm actually composing a demand …
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p37 passages longer discussion24:20My big concern with block is not the sheriff's office. I tr trust the sheriff implicitly. I trust the deputies and everyone who works for the sheriff's office. I think we have a great sheriff's office here in Columbia County. I do not trust Flock. So my big concern is the data. Does Flock have access to the data? What are they allowed to do with the data?
- 1:48:58Um my question is are there any other alternative site analysis been completed? uh because just uh building on a site um a soil if the soil conditions will be costly and also demolition of the police towers when the new construction is finished. So close proximity um to the newly built um uh residences will be a problem in my opinion. [clears throat] Um yeah.
- 13:33Um and they're still there. So Rob said if we can get the property I mean if we get the vehicles off he has no problem putting the snow fence up. Put a barrier there. Uh the police department will if we need to facilitate if we have tow truck come in which uh could be there uh to remove the the property.
- 2026-08-26County Finance CommitteeTobacco Securitization || Finance || August 26, 2026 HD 720p10 passages longer discussion12:30Sheriff's Office vehicles to be declared surplus property. Surplus property. Motion in a second. All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Resolution number 32, authorization authorization Sheriff's Office to amend the 2026 budget in the amount of $14,901.49 due to insurance recovery from accidents. Motion in a second. All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Resolution number 33, authorization
- 5:58it may not there was also a lot of inaccuracies uh in what was in there compared to what the police department actually has and what's in the code. So there were things that were not my reg.
- 2026-08-19County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || August 19, 20263 passages longer discussion1:26:19and we can you know now that it's empty of personnel it's easy to show it even if there's some boxes there, but get a buyer for Yeah. Another thing on moving Joe, there was talk I understood that and we heard last night public safety too board of elections is expecting to get some tables and chairs from the sheriff's office.
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 202651 passages longer discussion1:41:49No, city of not the sheriff, but it could be the police department. So, you don't know speculation, but what I do know is that Hudson in the past year has changed its whole parking system. They used to have meters, okay, and they used to put quarters in it. Now, now the parking enforcement officers are now part of the police department. So, I think what Jolene was talking …
- 29:08… state. I would just put in an extraordinary job. All the first responders that were out there, the fire departments, and everyone else, public safety. Um I just thought for the amount of damage we had, the amount of rain we had, that we were in good hands the whole time. So, I wanted to thank those. And I would like to recognize Judy Matthews from the Chatham food pantry.
- 16:12… job of let's let's read them out again. The themes number one was like everyone agrees that there's a need for replacement housing for police question um the scale and density the relationship surrounding neighborhood the construction and demolition plans neighborhood impacts the site conditions and I think this section is section four is maybe not well labeled but seems to be …
- 40:01… they talk about the the the [clears throat] tree policy, right? And they said DPW, you know, like how you how are we going to be the tree police? You know, we're going to come in and take leaf blowers and blow people's faces. Like get away from that tree, right? You know, you can't touch that tree. I mean, we don't have badges. We don't have enforcement authority. We're not, …
- 11:53… I know you're not busy in the month of July, so I figured you right. I hate to see you all. Um, so here to give the, uh, Department of Police report for August. Um, so for us, uh, going to start with a overview of campa. Uh this summer we had 179 uh campers registered and uh on an average we had about 85 campers uh each day. Between the three pods um we had 5 to 7 8 to 10 and …
- 31:59Um that same individual was arrested again. A taser was pointed at that person um and then subsequently charged and arrested uh both times charged with a DWI refusal and hit the same police car both times resulting in damage and one of the police cars being out of service. Roughly 12k worth of damage.
- 47:12… the uh fire uh parking to 195. Please submit to me in writing within the next week what your suggestions are. We review them with the police department. The other thing that was part of this discussion was comparing uh of our police our fines to other municipalities because we don't want to be in that drive. So that was part of what went on. But this one um you will have a …
- 0:59Okay, so we have a quorum. Uh 8 minutes have been placed on the fire. Uh department reports have been received. I think we are still waiting We have received from uh police department and D W.
- 31:37the estimates for um the labor attorney were currently in labor contract from the police department. Um Mr. Ryan's company has uh estimated 70,000 that includes uh planning board taxor attorneys and that includes the assessment stuff uh planning board also go into that it's mitigation um relating both to the two article 78s that we've got. So what the breakout is of that of …
- 2026-07-15County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || July 15, 20263 passages longer discussion52:57David Harrison saying your praises last night at public safety. So, just so you guys know,
- 4:08… services that our residents will get the opportunity to go around and talk to and see what services they will provide. We also have the police and fire department that attend as well as the sheriff's department. Um, the uh uh city government um representatives will be here and we will be cooking for and feeding our residents and playing some music, dancing and playing games. …
- 2026-07-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || July 14, 202614 passages longer discussion1:20:50accommodations and uh he said no I want to see what's going on and ultimately the uh village uh police department called me also and asked for the same information. Um so I answer any questions on that. Uh, also that night, that same night, we got the severe weather that um some people thought was a tornado, but um the National Weather Service has stuck to their guns on that. …
- 24:31this was from the legal committee. I just wanted to share the police reports that associated with the one. So the one where there was the rear end the uh
- 9:16… a referral there. But I know you guys are in the crisis response or probably the hospital first. But I didn't know if they were put on the police department's radar as a resource yet. No, I mean I this is the first I've heard about it. I mean and I'm certainly and I think everyone is certainly happy and willing to have some kind of diversion as opposed to just straight to the …
- 21:41I called the police department.
- 3:22Opposed? Carried. Public safety resolution number 13, authorization to amend the 2026 Columbia County adopted budget.
- 19:03It's a good point. But even police don't have they shouldn't.
- 6:34I community services there's no additional things. What Hudson Police Department sheriff state that covers it. Fire protection, Department, Greenport Rescue, that Um, Henry Hudson that's it's really about it. L um part for a little it's it's primarily for identification So, I said the EF for a local law is do have to go through two and three which is where the meat of address …
- 21:43There there was another accident right where the near the rosary which is the 128 that and the the police would not send me the image of because it's pending investigation and on on green right where this right in front of the rosary the old rosary the flat road and that just happened three So I don't know what that really means from the police department as far as what the …
- 53:40… and moving all the boxes. Um, courthouse. Uh, we just uh just got done taking out basically all the county equipment and stuff, the sheriff items, uh, removing all the door cores um because they're made to their system. So, uh, gave them back to them, the inmate, uh, bench and, uh, stuff went to, uh, 11 War.
- 0:00I'd like to call the public safety committee meeting to order. Today is the 16th of June at 5:00 p.m. First up, we have fire. Look at that. It's you. You're already ready. I don't know. She does the agenda. 25 years, never been on time. The only thing I've got tonight is other than our monthly report is a financial resolution to amend our budget. We sold some scrap metal paper …
- 13:10Uh the we had a a bunch to discuss at from HPD in terms of speeding tickets and speeding in town. Uh they've deployed the sheriff's trailer on upper 800 block of Warren and they're going to be moving around their trailer as well as the mountable radar machine that collects data. The sheriff's trailer collects data. Our HPD trailer that does speed does not collect data. Um, and …
- 18:38I had a question. Yes. Um, there's a community walk, bike bus on the 12th of June from 7 to 8 a.m. I thought that would be a great opportunity to do a little bit of maybe you could get the police involved or maybe you I don't know the safety committee might want to be involved
- 20:55… with zoning? And to the extent with which the project will require the provision of additional services, education, transportation, police, fire, medical service. We've had discussions uh you know with the previous projects uh how uh extensive will the ambulance or police calls be and uh then the extent to which the project will provide additional sources of revenue uh for the …