From: John Christian [jpchristian58@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 6:57 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Re: Claremont Pines and the Domain Awareness Center Your message confirms what we all know- that the Chronicle is half the newspaper it used to be. I appreciate your taking the time to respond thoroughly and swiftly. There was a time, years ago, when I attended City Council meetings on occasion, and would often watch the meetings on Tuesday nights on the television, until I couldn't t ake it any more. Your description of Tuesday's meeting tells me things haven't changed all that m uch. Sounds to me that Council Member Schaaf is trying to play it down the middle as she campai gns for mayor. It is quite the juxtaposition to have an article in the Chronicle on Sunday abou t Jasper Jurcenoks and the proliferation of neighborhood associations, primarily in the hills neigh borhoods, funding security camera networks (as we are now researching) with the Chronicle's report today on the DAC, which suggests that the Council was bullied and intimidated by the ACLU.. Phil Matier so much as said the same thing in an interview last night. Sadly, at the end of the day, those neighborhoods who can afford it have long pa id for private patrols, and are now going the security camera route. At least Randy Reed, who se business on Telegraph -- in your district -- is enjoying a boom in business. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Kalb, Dan <DKalb@oaklandnet.com> wrote: Greetings John. Thanks for contacting me. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The article in the Chronicle was a bit misleading. My vote earlier this week was to save the DAC from being completely eliminated. Last year, I voted to support the so-called DAC and took a leadership role (with Councilmember Schaaf) in making sure that the city develops appropriate privacy policies as th e DAC was about to be implemented. However, some Members of the Council became squeamish over the past two months a bout the broad nature of the DAC and started to either oppose it altogether or ask that i t effectively be limited to the Port area as was originally intended. I was not one of those squeamish Me mbers, but I also know that you need five votes to get anything done. When it became clear that th ere were not five votes to support the broader DAC proposal beyond the Port boundaries, I supporte d a resolution to at least keep it alive. After it has been up and running for a couple years, additi onal systems could be added with Council approval and adherence to the yet-to-be completed privacy pol icy document. Because disaster response is a high priority for me, I was responsible for makin g sure that the citywide police and fire Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) technology system, which can help with emergency response after major disasters, was kept IN the DAC system. My understanding of my colleagues positions are as follows (youll have to check wi th each of them to get their official response): Councilmember McElhaney outright opposes the entir e DAC in all forms. Councilmember Kaplan might be open to a PORT-only proposal, but voted against th e DAC because of some unanswered questions and on-going advocacy from privacy advocates. Councilm ember Gallo supports a full-scale DAC (and did not want a mere Port-only approach), and vice -mayor Reid does as well. Vice-mayor Reid supported the scaled-back version because he realized that not doing so could have tanked the entire project. Councilmember Brooks took the lead in wanting a scaled-back, Port- only approach, but she did not want to get rid of the DAC altogether. Councilmem ber Schaaf indicated that she is more comfortable with a Port-only DAC at this time. Ms. Schaaf secon ded the motion to support Ms. Brooks resolution to save the DAC in some Port-only form; however sh e then voted against that same motion, thereby forcing the Mayor to make the tie-breaking vot e to save the DAC. Council President Kernighan was prepared to support a broader DAC; but as the ni ght wore on, she went along with the more limited proposal once my amendment for the CAD was acce pted. The Mayor broke the tie and ensured that the DAC continues to move forward. Without the Mayors tie- breaking vote, funding for DAC going forward likely would have been eliminated a ltogether. I hope my response gives you a better idea of the nuances involved in the decisi on we made. Thanks for contacting me. -Dan p.s. I am a supporter of the ShotSpotter technology and we will continue to have that system in place at OPD. From: John Christian [mailto:jpchristian58@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 4:47 PM To: Kalb, Dan Subject: Claremont Pines and the Domain Awareness Center Council Member Kalb Im the President of the Claremont Pines Association, in Upper Rockridge. Historic ally the CPA concerned itself primarily with docile issues such as landscaping, stop signs, d esign review, etc., particularly in the aftermath of the 1991 fire which wiped out much of our neigh borhood. The organization has been largely dormant in recent years as our little neighborhood returned to a mature state, but the crime wave hitting our neighborhood has changed all that. Today, were suffering from unprecedented crime (beyond the too-frequent car break-ins) such as forcible ent ry burglaries, to the point we are developing RFPs for security camera networks, I see that you voted in favor of gutting the Domain Awareness Center for the City of Oakland Tuesday night. Disabling camer as and ShotSpotter technology in an era where every pedestrian it seems has a smartphone and theref ore a camera? I would have expected that from Jane Brunner, but not from you. Your vote was bo th disappointing and surprising. I recall how you were a victim of street crime when you were running for office . xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ssssssssIts come to the point where these crimes have become so commonplace that theyre underreported. Your vote leaves me shaking my head in wonderment. Sincerely, John P. Christian