City Council addresses safety in public parks in Santa Monica

At Santa Monica City Council’s March 5 meeting the Council directed the City to study the costs and benefits of securing safety in the parks. Santa Monica City Staff presented its recommendations including encouraging community members to get out and use the parks, improvements to infrastructure including lighting and landscaping, ongoing maintenance and park ambassadors, monitoring, reporting and enforcement, stopping outdoor food distribution and education.

The Recreation and Parks Commission’s recommendations included a pilot program for sworn police officers at Reed Park, a beach curfew, lighting improvements in Tongva Park, park-based surveillance cameras, emergency phones, ongoing funding for hospitality services and bathroom attendants as well as ongoing local funding for the Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team (HMST) and County-City-Community Partnership (C3) outreach and treatment programs for those experiencing homelessness.

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