APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DEPARTMENT OF VIOLENCE
PREVENTION’S 2025 APRICOT ANNUAL REPORT AND APPROVING
THE AMENDED APRICOT USE POLICY AS APPROVED BY THE
PRIVACY ADVISORY COMMISSION ON JUNE 5, 2025
WHEREAS, the City of Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) has a mandate to reduce levels of group violence, intimate partner violence, commercial sexual exploitation, and trauma associated with this violence in Oakland; and
WHEREAS, the DVP funds community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver violence prevention and intervention services using funding from the 2014 Oakland Public Safety and Services Violence Prevention Act (Measure Z) and the 2024 Oakland Community and Emergency Response Act (Measure NN) and
WHEREAS, the DVP also hires and supervises staff who deliver life coaching and violence interruption services to individuals at highest risk of near-term gun violence; and
WHEREAS, the DVP requires a data management system that is able to collect and tabulate service delivery data for funded CBOs and DVP direct service staff in order to monitor, coordinate, and evaluate funded activities; and
WHEREAS, the City Council awarded a contract to Bonterra Inc., formerly Social Solutions Global, Inc., for the term of August 1, 2022, to June 30, 2027, to build and maintain a web-based data management system for the DVP through Bonterra, Inc.’s Apricot 360 platform in an amount not to exceed Six Hundred Twenty-Four Thousand Five Hundred Ninety-Seven Dollars ($624,597) (Resolution No. 89380 C.M.S. and Resolution No. 89797); and
WHEREAS, the Privacy Advisory Commission’s establishing ordinance (Ordinance No. 13349 C.M.S.) states that annual reports and recommendations on the use of the surveillance technology approved by the Privacy Advisory Commission will be submitted to the City Council; and
2 WHEREAS, the DVP’s 2025 Apricot Annual Report and amended Apricot Use Policy were presented and approved at the June 5, 2025, meeting of the Privacy Advisory Commission; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That the City Council approves the amended Apricot Use Policy.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES – BROWN, FIFE, GALLO, HOUSTON, RAMACHANDRAN, UNGER, WANG, AND
PRESIDENT JENKINS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California
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