Below is the message I received from Steve Aguilar, the City Attorney for ABQ and the accompanying attachment. Chuck: I hope this finds you well. I wanted to give you a heads up about the launch of the new Albuquerque Community Safety department today, which is detailed on the attached info sheet. The ACS department will create a third group of first responders, who will refocus resources across the City to send trained professionals to calls where police are not the best response in areas like mental health, addiction, and issues relating to housing and homelessness. We are engaging in a public input process as we develop this program over the next few months and will work with the public and all community stakeholders, but the general principles are to help better ensure that every person in our community receives the right response, at the right time. We have been doing several experiments/test projects over the last two years, and this announcement is the culmination of work across multiple City departments. I wanted to share and will continue to keep you updated as this concept develops. Hope you are well and please reach out if you have any questions. [cid:image001.png@01D64321.74223930] Esteban Aguilar, Jr., City Attorney Office of the City Attorney One Civic Plaza NW | Ste. 4072 | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 Telephone: 505-768-4500 | Fax: 505-768-4525 | eaj@cabq.gov<mailto:eaj@cabq.gov> http://www.cabq.gov/legal Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail and its attachments are for the personal and confidential use of the named recipient(s) only and are intended, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to be privileged and confidential as an attorney-client communication and/or work product. If you are not an intended recipient, or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you have received this e-mail in error. In that event, please (i) immediately notify me by reply e-mail, (ii) do not review, copy, save, forward, or print this e-mail or any of its attachments, and (iii) immediately delete and/or destroy this e-mail and its attachments and all copies thereof. Thank you for your cooperation.