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11/4/2025 3:30 PM Purchase Order for
Encrypted Radios
from Motorola
Solutions
Isabel Hernández isabelmhernandez.
[email protected]
Good afternoon
Mayor and City
Councilmembers, I
want to express
my strong support
for keeping
Richmond Police
Department radio
communications
encrypted. I speak
as someone who
understands what
it means to live
with fear, and how
essential privacy
and trust are when
you need help. My
sister and her
daughter are both
survivors of
domestic violence
and sexual assault.
I know how
terrifying it is for
them to think that
their name,
address, and other
personal details
could be broadcast
over a public police
scanner for anyone
to hear, including
their abuser.
Encryption
For Appro
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protects survivors,
exactly as state law
intended. I am also
an immigrant, my
family having fled
Castro and his
regime when I was
very little. For
undocumented
residents and
those from mixed-
status families,
encryption also
provides critical
protection. Open
scanner traffic can
be monitored by
outside agencies,
including ICE and
other federal
immigration
authorities. No one
should have to risk
being deported
and separated
from their family
simply for calling
the police for help.
Encryption helps
ensure that
everyone in
Richmond —
regardless of
status — feels safe
seeking help and
builds trust
between the
community and
RPD. Encryption
also protects our
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criminals have
used scanner apps
to track police
movements,
facilitate ambush
incidents, and
evade arrest in
Richmond and
other Bay Area
cities. In 2024
alone, the
Department of
Justice Office of
Community
Oriented Policing
Services reported
there were: 62
total ambush
incidents 80 total
officers shot in
ambushes 12 total
officers killed in
ambushes. The
annual number of
ambushes
fluctuates, with the
highest number in
the past 5 years
being 115
ambushes in 2023.
Keeping
communications
encrypted helps
prevent tracking
police movements,
ambushes and
evading arrest,
thereby keeping
both the public
and law
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If Richmond were
to be the only city
in Contra Costa
and Alameda
counties without
encrypted
scanners, it would
make us a target,
effectively inviting
more crime here.
RPD has also
shown a strong
commitment to
balancing public
access,
accountability, and
safety by
publishing daily
incident and call
logs online, issuing
press releases on
major events, and
sharing timely
safety updates
through social
media. Please
support the state’s,
county’s and RPD’s
efforts to encrypt
radio
communications as
it truly is about
protecting
survivors of violent
acts, our
undocumented
immigrants, our
officers, and our
community as a
whole. Thank you
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and hearing my
concerns.
Sincerely, Isabel
Hernández
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To: Soheila Bana; Jamelia Brown; Claudia Jimenez; Eduardo Martinez; Doria Robinson; Sue Wilson; Cesar Zepeda Cc: Daniel Chavarria; Robert Armijo; Hillal Hamdan; City Clerk Dept User Subject: Public Comment: October 4 Agenda item N.7.a - Accept & Appropriate STMP Funding Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:57:17 AM
Attachments: 20250417165547581 Exhibit 1.2 Project Map - Downtown Point Richmond Bicycle Connectivity.pdf This email originated from outside of the City's email system. Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources.
This email originated from outside of the City's email system. Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources.
Mayor Martinez and City Councillors,
TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee, supports adoption of the resolution accepting and appropriating a $241,000 STMP grant for Richmond Ferry to Bridge Bicycle Network Improvements: Pt. Richmond at Tewksbury and Castro Streets to SF Bay Trail, AKA Downtown Point Richmond Bicycle and Pedestrian Connectivity Project, and authorizing the City Manager to execute a cooperative funding agreement with WCCTC.
This is the final
Priority Project designated in the
Ferry to Bridge to Freeway Complete Streets
Plan adopted by the Richmond Council in February 2021.
Referring to the attached map, other Priority Projects completed include:
1. A protected bikeway along Ohio Avenue connecting the end of the Richmond Greenway at 2nd Street with the Bay Trail on Garrard Blvd.;
2. A protected bikeway along Garrard Blvd. between Ohio Avenue and Cutting Blvd. and
3. 2-1/4 miles of protected bikeway along Harbour Way South, Hoffman Blvd. & Cutting Blvd. between the Ferry Terminal and Garrard Blvd.
These bikeways receive very high use and make cycling much more attractive and safer for residents of Richmond and the rest of the East Bay riding the Bay Trail from El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville & Oakland, and those arriving by BART from elsewhere to reach the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail, Point Molate and the Ferry
Point Loop of the Bay Trail.
The
Downtown Point Richmond Bicycle and Pedestrian Connectivity Project will make it safer for both cyclists and pedestrians in the Point Richmond Historic District. The project also includes major improvements to sub-standard AC Transit bus stops.
Please approve this STMP funding resolution on Consent as recommended by Staff.
Bruce
___________________
Bruce Beyaert, TRAC Chair
[email protected]
Mobile 510-789-3078
http://www.pointrichmond.com/baytrail/
http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/109/TRAC
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