I’m going back a few weeks, and just listening to item 3: Cite and release.
The timing is really terrible, because a police officer was just killed – Justin Putnam – and two others were injured, and yet this is on the menu for this week. So they start with a moment of silence to acknowledge that.
Citizen comment period: probably worth tuning in for. Now, these do show up in the minutes. Also I guess today they’re just allowed written comments. SIXTY COMMENTS JFC.
These do get written out, so I can go back and read them later whenever the minutes get approved. Approval of minutes isn’t very fast. There’s a bunch of old comments on this topic from the April 7th meeting, already posted here.
So I’ll skip these for now. On to discussion.
Max moves approval. Markeymoore seconds.
No additional presentation – I guess I should go back and watch the first presentation.
Mayor Jane: Was there a postponement discussion?
Presenter: The officers don’t want to postpone. They must press on.
Mayor Jane: She supports it, but seems tepid. She’s worried about unforeseen consequences. She’d like to consult with the county. She’s got some amendments. She doesn’t like the fact that staff doesn’t like it.
THAT’S REVOLUTION! STAFF IS THE CONVENTIONS OF TYRANNY! SHAKE IT OFF!
Joca votes against a motion to let staff clean up the ordinance after the motion, and make it sound legally smooth. I guess. Everyone else passes that.
Max: Amendment to Section 1. I don’t know, it looks like it’s digging up specific penal code references. Ie driving without a license?
Some nitty gritty without unintentionally catching some class 3 stuff where a guy is driving without a license and things went haywire and someone got killed.
Max: Class B is all I meant. Not Class A.
Mayor Jane wants to switch it from 4 oz of pot to 2 oz of pot.
Max: um why?
Mayor Jane: I don’t know much about this. I found out that that’s a lot! Sounds like the difference between personal use and commercial use.
Max: As it is outlined in Texas Law, if they’re believed to be a distributor, there’s a bunch of other factors to distinguish these situation. There are other cues that an officer can use.
Saul agrees with Mayor Jane: these things get people killed or robbed.
Max: I don’t think that’s actually true. I think he’s conflating this with other issues.
Markeymoore: I’m on Team Max. State provision says 4 oz.
Max: This allows officer discretion in the 2-4 oz. This is going to be implemented unequally by race. We’ve seen how these things get implemented super problematically.
[The San Marxist: Max is knocking this out of the park. Wow.]
Mayor Jane: Well, if it doesn’t make any difference, I’ll withdraw my motion. Fine.
[Wow. Go, Max.]
Max: There’s a reference that’s wrong.
Mayor Jane: Ok, a bunch of stuff about verifying that you live/work/go to school here. Online or physical. “Here’s my class schedule,” for example.
[Seems reasonable.]
Joca: What if it’s international ID?
Identity verification is different from establishing that you’re a subject in the county, I think.
Markeymoore: (missed it)
Max: What if the person is homeless?
Mayor Jane: I was just trying to help.
Max: San Antonio skips this enumeration and they seem fine.
Mayor Jane: Let’s just add some “or anything else” language?
Joca: What about the library? Do they have library cards?
[Um, what.]
Constantino: “Or anything else” is already there.
[I don’t know, now they’re talking with the officer and it sounds like it will all get scrapped.]
Markeymoore: Where are we going with this?
Mayor Jane: I said this already. This is not about id, it’s about local address verification.
[1:42 into meeting. Going to partial-post.]
The San Marxist 