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Page 1 of 3 <br />Item #14 <br /> CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT <br /> <br />May 20, 2025 <br />Police <br /> <br />TITLE: CONTINUED FROM MAY 6, 2025 - RECEIVE ANNUAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT <br />USE REPORT FOR 2024; INTRODUCE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2279 TO AMEND THE PLEASANTON POLICE <br />DEPARTMENT'S MILITARY EQUIPMENT USE POLICY TO ADD EQUIPMENT TO <br />THE POLICY'S MILITARY EQUIPMENT INVENTORY; AND ADOPT A <br />RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE ANNUAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT USE REPORT <br />FOR 2024 DETERMINING THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S USE OF <br />MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN 2024 COMPLIED WITH THE STANDARDS OF <br />APPROVAL AND RENEWING THE MILITARY USE POLICY <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br />Assembly Bill 481, codified as Government Code sections 7070 through 7075, requires a law <br />enforcement agency to obtain approval from the City Council, by adoption of a military <br />equipment use policy by ordinance, prior to funding, acquiring, or using military equipment as <br />defined in the law. The law further states the governing body shall review the ordinance that it <br />has adopted pursuant to this section annually and vote to renew the ordinance at a regular <br />meeting. <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Continued from May 6, 2025 - Receive annual Military Equipment Use Report for 2024; <br />introduce an ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2279 to amend the Pleasanton Police <br />Department's Military Equipment Use Policy to add equipment to the Policy's military <br />equipment inventory; and adopt a resolution accepting the annual Military Equipment Use <br />Report for 2024 determining that the Police Department's use of military equipment in 2024 <br />complied with the standards of approval and renewing the Military Use Policy. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />AB 481 was enacted in 2021 to create consistency for the funding, acquisition, and use of <br />military equipment by law enforcement agencies and to increase transparency, accountability, <br />and oversight for the acquisition and use of certain equipment. <br /> <br />The bill requires a law enforcement agency to obtain approval of the applicable governing body <br />(City Council) by adopting a military equipment use policy, as specified, by ordinance at a <br />regular meeting held pursuant to specified open meeting laws, prior to taking certain actions <br />relating to the funding, acquisition, or use of military equipment as defined. Approval was <br />received and the ordinance was adopted by the City Council on July 19, 2022. The bill also <br />requires an annual review by the City Council to renew or disapprove the acquisition of this <br />equipment, the creation of a military equipment use policy, and to publish that policy on the <br />agency’s website. <br /> <br />The Annual Military Equipment Use Report for 2024, which includes the military equipment <br />Page 213 of 682