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Home My WebLink About12/13/2006 - STAFF REPORTS - HRC y � y s at Not in our Town F .; t Hate Crime Statistics • Each year's edition of Nate Crime Statistics presents data regarding incidents, offenses , victims , and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim 's perceived race , religion , ethnicity, sexual orientation , or disability, aassss ■1 - - _ ors:sa siffiLa aid .y The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of more than 17, 000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal , and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation . The Program's primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration , operation , and management; however, its data have over the years become one of the country's leading social indicators. Criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice use the data for varied research and planning purposes. 2005 HATE CRIMES rEPnRrEl�—�F�.ErTF� CALIFORNIA CITIES Bias Motivation City Race Religion Sexual Orientation Ethnicity Disability Palm Springs 1 4 7 0 0 Palm Desert 1 1 10 0 0 Davis 2 0 2 0 0 Long Beach 8 3 12 0 0 West Hollywood 1 1 10 0 0 Santa Rosa 2 3 2 0 0 San Diego 18 5 10 0 0 L.A. 104 34 42 0 0 POPULA T ION TOTAL HATE CRIMES PER CAPITA Palm Springs 479082 12 .00025 Palm Desert 479058 12 .00025 Davis 643145 4 .00006 West Hollywood 375000 12 .00032 Long Beach 4909000 23 .000050 Santa Rosa 156,200 7 .00004 Sacramento 407,018 42 .00010 San Fran 73%426 91 .00012 San Diego 2,9331462 32 .00001 L.A. 3,9189951 180 .00005 - s sr- �- rr er €R; r sss; F._ _eeft i 1.10 -.aii _ _� -ilirfi 3=lsfii�1i - Y rli. By a 6-2 vote the Human Rights Commission Monday recommended the attached revised resolution be sent to the City Council, Commissioners voting to approve the revised resolution: Barbara Barrett, vice chairman Kris Benz Richard Cadarette, chairman Judith Doyle Tom Johnston Maile Klein Commissioners voting no: Joseph Aguanno Dorothy Bowens Commissioners absent: Dennis Carroll RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A `NOT IN OUR TOWN' PROGRAM SPONSPORED BY THE PALM SPRINGS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WHEREAS the City of Palm Springs embraces and defends its diversity and encourages those who live, work and visit here to demonstrate acceptance of people regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That it supports the objectives of a "Not In Our Town" Program to build unity through a campaign to advance the proposition that the City of Palm Springs has zero tolerance for any discrimination and is dedicated to educating the business community, non-profit organizations, government, religious centers, neighborhood groups, schools and individuals. SECTION 2. That if supports the continuing involvement of local law enforcement in the efforts to make Palm Springs a city that defends diversity. ADOPTED THIS 13th day of December 2006. David H. Ready, City Manager ATTEST: James Thompson, City Clerk D Resolution No. Page 2 �� • CERTIFICATION 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss. CITY OF PALM SPRINGS ) I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that Resolution No. _ is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: James Thompson, City Clerk City of Palm Springs, California Jar Thompson From: Jay Thompson Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:00 AM To: Jay Thompson Subject FW: Please refrain from misquoting and/or misrepresenting mel From: WBKPS@aol.com [mailto:WBKPS@aol.comj Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:00 PM To: Bbarrett92262@aol.com; Ginny Foat; Chris Mills; Ron Oden; Steve Pougnet; adgro@earthlink.net; carolbalasa@hotmail.com; cj@asimplemind.com; greg@gayassociatedyouth.org; JeanneMBourgeois@aol.com; johnwilliams@dc.rr.com; SpiritedWon@aol.com; Lee A. Husfeldt Subject: Please refrain from misquoting and/or misrepresenting me! How dare you, not once, but twice misquote and misrepresent my words and intentions relevant to my ongoing input and support for your resolution, DURING TODAY'S TELEVISED HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MEETING. I stood up last week at council, and again, today, using the words of"appreciate, applaud and approve" in support of the primary objectives of the The Human Rights Commission in this effort. I have never taken the position to either dey_eat or devalue fhe-imvortance and/or the integri(y of any gaals of the Palm Spr/ngs Human Rights Commission- rather, I did what you should have done...) listened and engaged the community you wish to represent in this goall I also indicated, quite clearly, that the suggestions delineated in blue, were a composite of input from others including some of those who you will be addressing on Wednesday. I said again today, "these are not my words alone, but a collection from others". In the initial case, you said "Wendie Busig-Kohn was the most verbal in opposition". UNTRUE, bordering on slanderous and defamaning. In the second case, I DID NOT say, on my own personal behalf that the wards"zero tolerance"were not acceptable. Furthermore, the reference of"community participation was largely upstaging"was quite unfortunate. This is why you lose support from those who would, otherwise, be standing shoulder to shoulder with you, in this effort. It will be interesting to see just how many"CAC"supporters will be thereon Wednesday. I agree with Joseph. This campaign,from the onset, should have the collective responsibility of the HRCI I addressed THIS opinion also today, as I said "there was a category of complaints from within the community that stemmed from an unfortunate era of suspicion minds who wondered WHY the discussions of development were not TELEVISED, BUT, INSTEAD HELD IN OFF CAMPUS MEETINGS." Please refrain from an further reference to me. I will continue to speak for myself and ACCURATELY for others who ask me to. Sincerely yours, Wendie Busig-Kohn r7d�� 12/13/2006 Jay Thompson From: Jay Thompson Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:00 AM To: Jay Thompson Subject: FW: Another correction that should be noted. From: WBKPS@aol.com [mailto:WBKPS@aol.com] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:16 PM To: DJBowens@aol.com; Ginny Feat; Chris Mills; Ron Oden; Steve Pougnet; David Ready; Lee A. Husfeldt Subject: Another correction that should be noted. Dorothy Bowens DID request minutes of the CAC meeting from December 1st. Barbara DID promise those to her. You can review the previous HRC to confirm this. AND...Because I was there, it should be duly noted that the recording device was conveniently turned off and on during what WAS a very unnecessarily HOSTILE meeting! The berating and insulting came from the three of the HRC participating commissioners towards those who "had the nerve"to try to speak up for their own concerns and ideas. This is very important for all of you to know. From this experience, I can only emphasize the absolute importance of transparency and TRUTH in reporting. There is no reason why anyone in the community who wishes to help this program cannot join in the meetings of the HRC, and under the direction of the HRC participate, including speaking at their Public Comments. Thank you, Wendie /z✓r3�,r6a� 12/13/2006 Jay Thompson From: Jay Thompson Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:00 AM To: Jay Thompson Subject: FW: Clarification and correction and a wee apology! From: WBKPS@aol.com [mailto:WBKPS@aol.com] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:18 PM To: Gin ny.Foat@palmsprings-ca.gov; Chris.Mills@palmsprings-ca.gov; David.Ready@ palmsprings-ca.gov; cityclerk@palmsprings-ca.gov; Lee.Hu.5feldt@palmsprings-ca.gov; Ron.Oden@palmsprings-ca.gov, Steve.Pougnet@palmsprings-ca.gov; Michael.McCulloch@palmsprings-ca.gov Subject: Clarification and correction and a wee apology! I am so sorry.... In a previous email, I was responding to Barbara Barrett's blantant misrepresentations, and intended to CC each of you. +(Correction "suspicious minds") I hope you did not think I was awry with_anv of you. Sorry. My errors. Excusez moi, s'il vous plait. I will continue to support the "MISSION STATEMENT OF THE PALM SPRINGS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION", at Wednesday's meeting. But, I can only encourage all of you to take a look into the viability vs. liability of the"CAC sub-committee" as indicated in previous correspondence, and as questioned by other commissioners during today's HRC meeting, The name-dropping of those in attendance was also very misleading and incorrect in its representation regarding the Dec 1 st. meeting, but I will let others speak for themselves (or not). It may be absolutely apparent by their absence on Wednesday. Once again, I apologize. I hope I didn't startle you too much with that first email Thank you, WBK �2�I3�26a � 12/13/2006 .lam pALMSA4 4 N 'm `F°R`'`p CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT DATE: DECEMBER 13, 2006 SUBJECT: THE PALM SPRINGS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'S "NOT IN OUR TOWN" CAMPAIGN FROM: David H. Ready, City Manager BY: Public Affairs Department SUMMARY The Palm Springs Human Rights Commission at its Dec. 11, 2006 meeting discussed a "Not In Our Town" campaign, which is a national program centered on embracing diversity and acceptance of people regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Attached is the proposed resolution the Human Rights Commission considered and will brief Council of their recommendation at the joint City Council/Human Rights Commission meeting Dec. 13, 2006. I (�-LLLU Lee Hus eldt, Dire or of Public Affairs David H. Ready, CpA ager Attachments: Resolution ITEM NO. Wke RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A 'NOT IN OUR TOWN" PROGRAM SPONSPORED BY THE PALM SPRINGS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WHEREAS the City of Palm Spring embraces and defends its diversity and expects those who live, work and visit here to demonstrate acceptance of people regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That it supports the objectives of a "Not In Our Town" Program to build unity through a campaign to advance the proposition that the City of Palm Springs has zero tolerance for bigotry and is dedicated to educating the business community, non-profit organizations, government, religious centers, neighborhood groups, schools and individuals about how to keep their City free of hate. SECTION 2. That it supports the involvement of local law enforcement in the efforts to make Palm Springs a city that defends diversity. ADOPTED THIS 13th day of December 2006. David H. Ready, City Manager ATTEST: James Thompson, City Clerk Resolution No. Page 2 CERTIFICATION STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss. CITY OF PALM SPRINGS ) I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that Resolution No. _ is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: James Thompson, City Clerk City of Palm Springs, California