Golden Valley’s Collaborative Solutions: Investing In Community Well-Being initiative embodies the City’s commitment to ensuring everyone in the community feels safe, accepted, and welcomed. Because public safety plays a big role, the City is focusing on enhancing public safety and well-being for all and being a leader in expanding how these services are delivered.
In 2021 the City was awarded a $250,000 Public Safety Reducing Harm Through Collaborative Solutions Grant from the Pohlad Family Foundation. Goals include:
- innovating and transforming traditional approaches
- to public safety by working with community
- reducing harm and increasing racial equity in public safety
- reducing the occurrence and severity of negative
- encounters between law enforcement and the community
Collaborative Solutions aims to achieve these goals by:
- providing training and development for public safety personnel
- conducting a racial equity policy audit for the police handbook and getting community feedback on policy updates
- engaging community to provide input on expanding public safety response services
In addition to starting the initiatives listed above, other examples of the City’s work in this area to date include embedding a social worker in the Police Department to provide additional services, reviewing and updating animal care and control procedures, and hosting employee engagement sessions to solicit input on police policies and public safety expanded response services. .
The City is seeking community input on police policies through May.
Upcoming Police Policy Manual Community Input Sessions
Topic: Public Recording Of Law Enforcement Activity
Online via WebEx: Monday, April 21, 12:30–2 pm
In Person: Thursday, April 24, 6–8 pm, Brookview Bassett Creek South Room, 316 Brookview Pkwy S
Topic: Personnel Complaints
Online via WebEx: Monday, May 19, 12:30–2 pm
In Person: Thursday, May 22, 6–8 pm, PRISM, 1220 Zane Ave N, Golden Valley
Registration is encouraged for all sessions. Register at www.bit.ly/3FshHpz.
Learn more on the Collaborative Solutions web page.