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File #: 22-1095 MEETING DATE: 12/20/2022
Subject:
Submitted by Councilmember Burns - Request for HBPD Crime Statistics and Enhanced
Public Safety Enforcement Activities
Recommended Action:
1. Direct the City Manager to work with the Police Chief and return on January 17, 2023 with a report
on crime statistics over the past year, particularly regarding theft from or damage to our local
businesses and home invasion burglaries throughout the City; and
2. Return on January 17, 2023 with a report on what measures (without reporting/revealing tactics
that should be kept confidential) that the HBPD will take in 2023 to increase public safety and law
enforcement; and
3. Return quarterly with crime statistics and include explanations of the HBPD's increased efforts to
fight crime; and
4. Direct the City Attorney to return on January 17, 2023 with any recommendations to increase
prosecutorial support of the HBPD, if any.
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CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
CITY COUNCIL MEETING—COUNCIL MEMBER ITEMS REPORT
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
FROM: PAT BURNS, CITY COUNCILMEMBER
DATE: 12/20/2022
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR HBPD CRIME STATISTICS AND ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
There is concern in the community that the City of Huntington Beach should be doing more to fight
crime and/or address an increase in certain crimes. For example, there is an increase in shoplifting
from shops in Huntington Beach in broad daylight. These crimes are often treated as misdemeanors
that cannot be dealt with adequately by the criminal justice system,yet many of these kinds of crimes
can be presented to a prosecutor not simply as petty theft,but as a higher charge of burglary,in order
to get greater penalties. In another example, there has been a measurable increase in home
burglaries both on Edwards Hill and in the Huntington Harbour area. In fact, Huntington Harbour has
seen nearly 30 in-home burglaries from January 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Direct the City Manager to work with the Police Chief and return on January 17, 2023 with a
report on crime statistics over the past year, particularly regarding theft from or damage to
our local businesses and home invasion burglaries throughout the City; and
2. Return on January 17, 2023 with a report on what measures (without reporting/revealing
tactics that should be kept confidential) that the HBPD will take in 2023 to increase public
safety and law enforcement; and
3. Return quarterly with crime statistics and include explanations of the HBPD's increased
efforts to fight crime; and
4. Direct the City Attorney to return on January 17,2023 with any recommendations to increase
prosecutorial support of the HBPD, if any.
Moore, Tania
From: Gino J. Bruno <gbruno@socal.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 5:36 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL
Cc: Zelinka, AI; e.parra@surf ' -hb.org; Hopkins, Travis; Gates, Michael
Subject: CC Agenda Items 29 32
Regarding Items#29 and #32 on the City Council Agenda, 12/20/2022 . . .
Council members:
Excerpts from some of the more interesting Municipal Code ordinances already on our books (and, Yes, we
have a Navigation Center—see Martin v. City of Boise, 920 F.3d 584) . . .
§13.10.030 UNLAWFUL CAMPING
It is unlawful and a public nuisance for any person to camp, occupy camp facilities, or use camp paraphernalia
in the following areas:
A. Any public property; or
B. Any private property [without owner's consent].
§13.10.040 UNLAWFUL STORAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
It shall be unlawful and a public nuisance for any person to leave stored personal property on public property
or private property without the consent of the property owner or except as otherwise approved by the Police
Chief, the Community & Library Services Director, the Public Works Director, or any of their designees. Stored
personal property left on public or private property in violation of this section may be impounded pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter.
§13.10.041 IMPOUNDING STORED PERSONAL PROPERTY
A. The Police Chief, or his or her designee, is authorized to impound stored personal property located on
public property or private property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The Police Chief is authorized to
adopt written policies and procedures to implement provision of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be
construed to limit or otherwise interfere with State law regarding the impounding of evidence related to a crime.
B. Stored personal property may be impounded and disposed of without notice if there is a cause to
reasonably believe that the stored personal property is:
1. Perishable;
2. Contaminated with feces, urine or bodily fluid;
3. Infested with insects;
4. Contaminated with mold or mildew; SUPPLEMENTAL5. Intentionally discarded;
6. An immediate threat to public health or safety. COUNICATION
§9.20.015 PUBLIC NUDITY Meeting Date: 1,12/1 0/90n-
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It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of nine years old to appear, bathe, sunbathe, walk or
be on any public park, playground, beach, or in the water adjacent thereto, or on any other public
land, or on any private property open to public view from any public beach, playground, park, public
place, or public right-of-way in such a manner as to knowingly and intentionally expose his or her
genitals, pubic hair, perineum, anal region or pubic hair region, or expose the nipples and/or areola of
the female breast except as necessary while engaging in breastfeeding.
§9.20.020 HUMAN WASTE
No person shall urinate or evacuate his or her bowels on private property in an area exposed to the
public view, or on any public street, sidewalk, alley, park, or other public place, except in a public
restroom.
§9.44.010 DRINKING IN PUBLIC PLACES
No person shall drink any malt, spirituous or vinous liquor containing more than one-half of one
percent of alcohol by volume, upon any public streets, alleys, sidewalks, parkways, playgrounds,
parking lots open to the public, public parks, public school grounds, and public recreation areas within
this City, unless such person is on any place for which a conditional use permit or special permit has
been issued by the City of Huntington Beach permitting alcohol consumption.
Thank you.
Gino J. Bruno
Huntington Beach
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