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The meeting is held in-person at La Villita Community Church. 2300 S Millard Ave, Chicago, IL 60623. Photos of the space and attendance prior to the meeting’s start are below.

Here is the agenda for today:

The meeting begins at 6:20pm, starting 20 minutes late.

Kiisha Smith, the Chair, and Rosemarie Dominguez, leading Community Engagement, lead the meeting. Elianne Bahena (Nominating Committee lead) is not present and is currently out of the country but will be back for next month’s meeting.

Nobody gives a public comment. Attendance in the audience is 3 total (including me).

Rosemarie announces that the district council will now have a $5,000 budget. I did not catch the details of where this money came from.

Minutes are approved. Kiisha says more shootings have been happening in Little Village within the district. Rosemarie talks about the viigl she went for a 21 year old and baby that were shot recently. Learn more: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/07/…

Rosemarie speaks to two major hotspots of violence between gangs: 21st and Fairfield and some blocks between Rockwell and Washtenaw. Things have been emotional and heavy recently with violence in Little Village, she notes.

Rosemarie is working on door knocking and on how to extend networks of ground folk for deescalation tactics (including groups called flippers) instead of defaulting to calling the police.

An ACLU representative presents on the Pretrial Fairness Act and his work to abolish the money bond. Attached are handouts from the presentation.

The whole point of the Pretrial Freedom Act is that money should not be a factor to make release determinations. There should be a shift from a wealth-based system to a risk-based system, the presenter stresses.

Here is the last handout photo (5/5):

The main element of the Pretrial Freedom Act is abolishing the money bond. Secondly, it aims to make release the norm pre trial, and detention should be the “carefully-limited exception.”

To put somebody in jail pre-trial, first a prosecutor must motion to detain the individual. Second, the prosecutor must prove one or both of the following: 1) that the individual would pose high risk of doing harm to somebody else or 2) pose high risk of fleeing.

A next speaker speaks to how the Pretrial Fairness Act has benefited victims of gender-based violence and domestic violence. With the act, a victim of violent crime is required to be notified of an initial court date/location and of their rights (orders of protection, etc).

Meeting adjourned at 7:40 p.m. This concludes the 10th Police District Council meeting. For more meeting coverage, check out . documenters.org