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Request for Special City Council Work Session
A special meeting may be called by the Mayor or by any two Councilmembers.
Reason for meeting: 1. Policing in the City of Arden Hills
Requested D ate: 6 I 29 I 2020
Requested time: 5:30 pm
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City of Arden Hills .1245 West Highway 96 . Arden Hills Minnesota 551l2
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Phone 651.792.7800 . Fax 651 .634.5137 . www.cit),ofardenhills.org
Mayor:
David Grant
Councilmembers:
Brenda Holden
Fran Holmes
Dave McClung
Steve Scott
Agenda
June 29, 2020
Address:
1245 West Highway 96
Arden Hills MN 55112
Phone:
651.792.7800
Website:
www.cityofardenhills.org
Special City Council Work Session – 5:30 p.m.
City Vision
Arden Hills is a strong community that values its unique environmental setting, strong residential neighborhoods,
vital business community, well-maintained infrastructure, fiscal soundness, and our long-standing tradition
as a desirable City in which to live, work, and play.
This meeting can be accessed remotely by joining via Zoom
To join the Zoom Meeting, click this link (or copy and paste it into a new browser):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81472847460
CALL TO ORDER
1. AGENDA ITEMS Staff/Presenters Time
A. Policing in the City of Arden Hills Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office
2. COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS
ADJOURN
AGENDA ITEM – 1A
MEMORANDUM
DATE: June 29, 2020
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Dave Perrault, City Administrator
SUBJECT: Policing in the City of Arden Hills
Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source:
N/A N/A N/A
For Council Consideration
Representatives from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office will be present for a discussion on
policing in the City of Arden Hills.
Background
At its June 8, 2020 special meeting, the City Council instructed staff to coordinate a discussion
with the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office regarding policing in the City of Arden Hills, and
policing generally in the contract cities. The Council requested the Sheriff’s Office address the
eight use of force policy concerns below, as well as give an overview on deputy union contracts
and how those affect discipline and discuss qualified immunity. It should also be noted that a
contract city wide discussion with the Sheriff’s Office and the cities of Arden Hills, Falcon
Heights, Little Canada, North Oaks, Shoreview, White Bear Township, and Vadnais Heights was
raised at the previous Sheriff’s meeting, the Sheriff’s Office agreed it is a discussion that should
happen; the Sheriff’s Office is working on the logistics for a future larger meeting.
Use of Force policy concerns (these concerns are nationwide concerns, the Sheriff’s Office will
discuss their policies and how they relate to the below):
1. Failing to require officers to de-escalate situations, where possible, by communicating with
subjects, maintaining distance, and otherwise eliminating the need to use force.
2. Allowing officers to choke or strangle civilians, in many cases where less lethal force could be
used instead, resulting in the unnecessary death or serious injury of civilians.
3. Failing to require officers to intervene and stop excessive force used by other officers and
report these incidents immediately to a supervisor.
4. Failing to restrict officers from shooting at moving vehicles, which is regarded as a
particularly dangerous and ineffective tactic.
5. Failing to develop a Force Continuum that limits the types of force and/or weapons that can be
used to respond to specific types of resistance.
6. Failing to require officers to exhaust all other reasonable means before resorting to deadly
force.
7. Failing to require officers to give a verbal warning, when possible, before shooting at a
civilian.
8. Failing to require officers to report each time they use force or threaten to use force against
civilians.
Budget Impact
N/A
Attachment
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