City Council

(48) 26-0061 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON UNARMED CRISIS PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES REPORT relative to adopting the Unarmed Model of Crisis Response (UMCR) on a permanent basis, improving coordination and technology integration for unarmed crisis dispatch, advancing the Department of Community Safety, and establishing a more centralized care-first response to non- violent crises. Recommendations for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Blumenfield, Hernandez - Harris-Dawson): 1. DIRECT the City Administrative Officer (CAO) to permanently adopt the ongoing UMCR pilot, while ensuring that County services associated with the program remain. 2. DIRECT the CAO to establish and coordinate a Crisis Response Dispatch Working Group that includes LAPD, LAFD, CIRCLE, UMCR, and all other alternative crisis response programs that are dispatched through 9-1-1 to create a more coordinated dispatch system and report back on changes to the system in order to centralize unarmed crisis response dispatch and deployment, reducing system fragmentation, improving response times, and ensuring appropriate, care-first responses to non-violent crises. 3. DIRECT the CAO, and the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), with the assistance of LAFD, LAPD, report to Council on the status of the Department of Community Safety, as included within the adopted budget action for FY 25-26, CF 25-0600 (Exhibit H, Instruction 49), and that CAO and CLA conduct a community engagement process that ensures meaningful input from residents, neighborhoods, and community-based organizations, service providers, and labor partners across the city. Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the CAO nor the CLA has completed a financial analysis of this report.