WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.030 --> 00:00:21.750 On this week's episode: San Francisco's Board of Supervisors pauses data centers, the Los Angeles City Council takes over review of a police camera pilot, and Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors puts the state's Hug Act into practice. 2 00:00:25.094 --> 00:00:31.454 Five minutes on this week's decisions from the local governments CivicFM covers in California. 3 00:00:32.214 --> 00:00:40.814 This episode is made with AI from each government's own show, which reports from the public recordings of its meetings. Sources are in the show notes. 4 00:00:44.317 --> 00:00:56.477 Our top story this week: San Francisco hits pause on data centers. On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a forty-five-day citywide moratorium on them, without objection. 5 00:00:56.477 --> 00:00:58.612 What does a pause actually do? 6 00:00:58.612 --> 00:01:17.822 While it lasts, city approvals of data centers are on hold. State law required nine votes, and because it's an urgency ordinance, it took effect right away. The Board and the Planning Department are using the time to study the effects on energy, water, air quality, land use and communities, and to write permanent rules. 7 00:01:17.822 --> 00:01:19.742 And what comes next? 8 00:01:19.742 --> 00:01:29.557 Planning has to report back within twenty-five days, with a hearing within thirty-five. Two public commenters backed the pause, and one of them cited air quality in southeastern neighborhoods. 9 00:01:32.901 --> 00:01:41.381 Next, to Los Angeles, where the City Council voted ten to four on Tuesday to take over review of a police camera pilot. 10 00:01:41.381 --> 00:01:43.221 What kind of cameras? 11 00:01:43.221 --> 00:01:54.596 Automated license plate readers. The Police Commission had approved an agreement with the company Axon for a three-month test. The council's vote puts that approval under its own review and sends it to committee. 12 00:01:54.596 --> 00:01:56.116 Why the split? 13 00:01:56.116 --> 00:02:19.821 Supporters of the move wanted written rules on data sharing, access and audits before any cameras go up. Those against it said the delay holds up cameras that communities asked for and paid for. About seven public commenters opposed the pilot, and one of their concerns was data sharing with federal immigration authorities. The presiding councilmember said it has to be back before the council by October twenty-third. 14 00:02:23.405 --> 00:02:34.285 One more top story: on Tuesday, Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors voted four to zero to put the state's new Hug Act into practice in juvenile facilities. 15 00:02:34.285 --> 00:02:35.720 What's the Hug Act? 16 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:52.365 It's a state law that takes effect January first, twenty twenty-seven, and gives incarcerated youth a right to physical contact with visitors. As a supervisor described it, contact can't be restricted as discipline, and any restriction for safety has to be documented. 17 00:02:52.365 --> 00:02:53.725 And the county's part? 18 00:02:53.725 --> 00:03:12.485 The board directed Probation to drop its rule that contact visits need the department head's approval first, to tell youth and parents what their rights are, and to allow more contact visits through the rest of this year. Probation reports back in sixty days with a compliance plan. About twenty-seven people spoke in support. 19 00:03:15.988 --> 00:03:32.933 Now a quick trip around the state. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors also voted ten to one, on first reading, to change the city's local environmental review rules. It would cut the time to appeal those reviews to the Board from thirty days to fifteen. It isn't final yet. 20 00:03:32.933 --> 00:03:49.768 In San Jose, the City Council passed rules on Tuesday for delivery robots on sidewalks and in bike lanes. They include a five mile an hour limit on sidewalks and a thirty-minute deadline to move a disabled robot. Staff will report back after about nine months of operation and three months of analysis. 21 00:03:49.768 --> 00:04:03.003 San Jose's City Council also approved a loan of up to five point seven million dollars to help turn the former Comfort Suites hotel on North First Street into fifty-seven units for extremely low-income residents, with services. 22 00:04:03.003 --> 00:04:18.388 And Pasadena's City Council voted five to two for a contract of up to five hundred thousand dollars to write a multimodal connectivity plan for the Rose Bowl area and Brookside Park. The debate was over paying consultants for plans versus building safety fixes now. 23 00:04:21.732 --> 00:04:25.212 That's the week around California. See you next time.