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April 3, 2004 Community Town Hall Meeting Citizen Concerns and Staff Responses This issue of improving State Highway 280 and cul-de-sacing County B has been discussed at a series of public meetings - including two joint meetings with the Lauderdale City Council - dating back to 2002. **************** C2. A resident expressed concerns about racial profiling and what the Roseville Police Department was doing to discourage racism when dealing with people of color. She also expressed a specific concern about an incident involving a juvenile she mentored. R2. Regarding the specific incident, we found no violations of Police policy or procedure. Hypothetically, if an eyewitness describes a crime suspect to police as being an adult white male, approximately 6 feet in height, with blond stringy hair, and wearing a red shirt, it is not racial profiling for police to detain and question white males in the vicinity of the crime scene shortly after the alleged crime occurs who fit that description. In general, in calendar year 2002, 41 officers of the Roseville Police Department attended 328 hours of training in laws and practices preventing Racial Profiling. In 2001, 48 police officers received 96 hours of training in Respectful Behavior. Also in 2001, 48 police officers received 384 hours of Legal Update Training, including laws regarding discrimination. We have not finished compiling all of our training records for 2003, but a police officer did attend a Spanish immersion program to help the City better meet the needs of Spanish speaking members of the community. And the Police Department also distributed brochures in 2003 that are written in Spanish and Hmong that offer information and assistance to non-English speakers. ***************** C3. How does the City Council work to get more citizen involvement in the government processes going on in Roseville? How can the City Council find out how the rest of the City feels about these things? R3. In addition to personal contacts between elected representatives and city residents, the City uses many venues to provide information to residents and to get information from residents. These include weekly news releases (the "News Fax") which are sent to the media and posted on the web. The News Fax contains information about current events in the City. The City can't control what the media choose to pick-up and distribute from these news releases, but the media are updated weekly. In response to this Community Town Hall Meeting, City staff will now make the News Fax available directly to the general public as well as to the media. Residents can contact either Tim Pratt at tim.pratt@ci.roseville.mn.us or Carolyn Curti at carolyn.curti@ci.roseville.ml1.lIs to subscribe to our weekly News Fax. We will publicize this new service through all our media outlets. Residents can also call the local cable company (651-222-3333) to request universal service to obtain Government Access Channel 16. The government access channel is 2