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Home My WebLink About10/03/1995 e�t.Pilitc-� AGENDA MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION Tuesday, October 3, 1995 Maplewood City Hall Conference Room A 7:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. AGENDA APPROVAL III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES IV. OLD BUSINESS A. Review Planning Calendar - All B. Update from League of MN HRC Conference - Lynn & Linda C. Roseville HRC Cable Program Update - Sherrie V. NEW BUSINESS A. Discuss January 1996 HRC vacancy - Sherrie /B. Speaker from ECFE on new goals & possible HRC involvement - guest speaker (5-10 minutes) ✓ C. Review Diversity Award and Poster Contest materials - All .D. Discuss sponsoring a joint regional meeting with area Nt\a'fd) HRCs - All AI Nab, . Discuss sponsoring a Community Event - All c61-5 ✓F. Reschedule Nov. meeting - elections - All /VI. OTHER BUSINESS VII. REPORTS VIII. ADJOURNMENT C:\WP WIN60\HRC\AGENDA C4 avirwit Maplewood Human Relations Commission Minutes from Sept. 7, 1995 Present: Marie Koehler, Gordy Heininger, Linda Wainio, Carol Cude, Regina Laroche-Theune, Lynne Croes. Ex-officio: Mike McGuire, Sherrie Le. Absent: Gail Schiff The meeting was called to order at 6:35 pm by Chair Marie Koehler. This meeting was the annual planning meeting; therefore, we scheduled a longer session. A motion to approve the agenda was moved, seconded and approved. A motion to approve the minutes was moved, seconded and approved. Old Business: A. Puppets Against Racism: Marie reported that she spoke with John Ahern, principal at Edgerton Elementary, about this program as they had it at their school last spring. He felt that is was more appropriate for older children. We discussed whether older children would want to see something done by puppets. Regina saw the program at the Boys and Girls Club in Minneapolis. She had some artistic and content concerns. She felt this is a large topic for a short presentation. As a group, we decided we would look for other options. B. "To Kill A Mockingbird"discussion evaluation: Regina reported that the cast thought it was a good experience and Commission members in attendance felt the same. We discussed doing it again next year if a play was presented on a similar theme. We will initiate contact with the director to discuss this. We agreed to send a letter to the Heritage Theater and District 622 to thank them for letting us participate. C. Revisions to Hate/Bias Crimes plan: Discussion of our plan centered around Mort Rywek's visit with us last spring-- questions he raised about police sensitivity and involvement with other groups (such as the schools). A suggestion was made to wait and see what we may need to do until we have experience. The general consensus was to keep the action steps as they are and not change them until we have experienced a situation. Sherrie will send them to Chief Collins as a final, but will ask for comments. New Business: A. Plans for 1995-96: Gordy and Mike will solicit donations for the diversity and poster contest awards. Month-by-month plans were discussed and the calender will be typed up by Sherrie's secretary. We will review the draft plan at our next meeting. B. ECFE: Regina is involved with the local group and they have had discussions as to how ECFE and our commission could work together. A member of their staff would like to attend one of our meetings. ECFE has a resource sharing event two times a year and we considered having a booth in it. C. Roseville request for public access: The City of Roseville is starting a community cable access channel program on human relations. They contacted Sherrie to see if and how we wanted to be involved. We suggested that they could run our calender of events. Sherrie will call Mike Hermes, a member of Roseville's HRC, to get more information on what they are looking for. Other business: Linda reported that John Glenn Jr. High has started a multi-cultural club and asked how we could be of assistance to them. They can submit an application for the diversity award, we can invite them to come to one of our meetings and send information to them that we receive. Linda also reported that Laura Hutton (the resident who contacted us about the neo-nazi flyer that was put on her car windshield) wanted to receive our minutes. A suggestion was made to invite her to apply for commission membership. Sherrie will call her about the minutes request. Reports City of Maplewood: The EEO data sheet needs to be revised. Sherrie asked Lynne to send her a copy of the state's form. Mike has hired a new assistant city manager, Craig Dawson, currently in Eden Prairie. The process to hire a fire chief has started. The fire department will remain volunteer however. Sherrie, with assistance from the cable company, produced a short video on sexual harassment for the seasonal and temporary employees. She will bring it to the next meeting and if we have time, we will watch it. Mike McGuire plays a starring role in it. The Tri-district school was approved by the school board. There were some negative comments from the public and preservation of open space has become an issue. The schools are balking on agreeing to preserve open space. The city is holding up the building permit until this can be resolved. Mike reminded everyone that the primary elections were Sept. 12. The satellite community center (at Edgerton) opens this fall. The city will staff and take responsibility for the school after regular school hours. Grievances: A police officer is grieving a suspensionon a medical leave. There hasn't been a resolution yet. This could potentially become an ADA issue. Agenda for October: -Commission vacancy -Diversity award and poster letter to schools -Begin discussing commission community event and joint HRC plans with area commissions -League of Minn. Human Rights conference report-Lynne and Linda -Review calander -ECFE representative?? A motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:35 was seconded and approved. Respectfully submitted, HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION CALENDAR September 1995 - August 1996 September 1995 October 1995 November 1995 * Planning Meeting * Advertise for Jan HRC * Interview Prospective * Solicit donations/diversity & vacancy Commissioners poster contests * Diversity Award & Poster * School contacts for * Finalize Hate/Bias Crime Award letters - prepare & Diversity & Poster contests Response send out contest info. * Revise intro. letter to * League of MN HRC's * Discuss sponsoring an businesses & schools Conference event for community * Continue Community Event * Discuss sponsoring joint and joint regional HRC regional HRC cooperation discussions December 1995 January 1996 February 1996 * Publicity Poster Contest * Review 1st draft of Annual * Finalize Annual Report * Finalize intro. letters Report * Vote on posters and * Vote on new officers for'96 * Plan community event&/or Diversity submissions * Begin Annual Report prep. joint regional HRC meeting * Find speaker for Open House * Continue planning community event, etc. March 1996 April 1996 May 1996 * Present Annual Report to * Present awards * Open House Council diversity/poster contests * Discuss Open House * Prepare for Open House * Schedule award ceremonies June 1996 July 1996 August 1996 * Critique Open House NO MEETING SCHEDULED NO MEETING SCHEDULED 09/22/95 C\WPWIN601HRC\CALENDAR CITY,! CRYSTAL 4141 Douglas Drive North • Crystal, MN 55422-1696 Sep em•er 11, 1995 Greetings, What can we do to put an end to domestic abuse? Tougher laws? Mandatory prison sentences? Early intervention? Education? The City of Crystal's Human Rights Commission, along with the League of Women Voters, would like to help by providing an educational symposium. Sheila Wellstone, nationally-renowned expert, will be the Keynote speaker. This symposium will be held Saturday, October 21, 1995, at the Crystal Community Center, 4800 Douglas Drive No., Crystal, MN. , from 12:00 Noon to 3:30 PM. Ms. Wellstone will be speaking from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. We are inviting a wide representation of community and agency resources to set up booths with qualified representatives and hand out materials. The booths will be manned from 12:00 noon to 1;00 PM and then again from 2:00 PM until 3:30 PM. As a member of a Human Rights Commission, or the City Council, or as a city employee we know this is a topic that's important to you. Please plan to join us on October 21st. Let's all make that commitment to 'Stop Domestic Violence' Sincerely, Emeric Pr:6' Vice Chair Crystal Human Rights Commission PS}21410-01 (9,'92) • BIAS OFFENSE REPORT J. u- AGENCY IDENTIFIER (ORI) MN0620400 MONTH AND YEAR September 1995 AGENCY NAME Maplewood Pol ice Department This form is to be used to report any bias motivated crimes in violation of Minnesota State Statute 626.5531. The chief law enforcement officer for an agency must complete form and return to the Department of Public Safety, Office of Information Systems Management, 314 Transportation Building, 395 John Ireland Blvd., St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 within 30 days (Laws of Minnesota, 1988, Chapter 643). A. GENERAL OFFENSE INFORMATION 1) Agency Case Number: 95-015252 2) Date of Offense: 9-22-95 3) Bias offense based on: X Officer's belief Victim's belief 4) *Description of Offense: Det, (Satan i C) 5) *Disposition: P 6) *Type of Bias and Description: 02 / Satanic markings Type Code Description Code or Literal 7) *Target: 02 8) *Place of Occurrence: 04 B. VICTIM/OFFENDER INFORMATION 9) VICTIMS I 10) OFFENDERS 11)*RELATIONSHIP 12) AFFILIATION TO VICTIM (If any) Age Sex Race Age Sex Race 1 U U U U U U U U 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 COMMENTS: Satanic markings painted on doors and doorways to the business. Return to: DPS/OISM * Use code tables on reverse 314 DOT Bldg. 395 John Ireland Blvd. tAA'1��:� 1LJ 1 v��1\11 . 6jtU St. Paul, MN 55155 (, � 1% A'L 1< ° -/ U)'1'1 11 -J,(1 (6' s r) CODE TABLES 4) DESCRIPTION of OFFENSE: 7) TARGET CODES: To be used in further identifying offense 01 -Person 02-Private Property 01 -Cross Burning 03-Public Property 02- Swastika 03 -Bombing 04 -Hanging in Effigy 8) PLACE of OCCURRENCE: 05-Disturbing Public Meeting 06 -Graffiti 01 -Residence 07 07 -Spitting 02 -Hotel, Motel or Other Commericial Short-Term Residen 08 - Letter 03-Parking Lot Areas 09-Verbal Abuse(Person to Person) 04-Business 10 -Telephone 05•Vehicle 11 - Homicide 06-Street/Sidewalk 12 -Criminal Sexual Conduct 07 -Highway/Freeway 13 - Robbery 08-Park/School Ground 14 -Burglary 09-Vacant Lot 10 -Jail 15 -Aggravated Assault 16 -Arson 11 -Rural Area/Country Road 17 - Larceny Theft 12-Cemetery 18 - Disturbing the Peace 13-Religious Building 19 - Property Damage 14-Government Building 20 - Simple Assault 15-School Building 00-Other (Describe) 16-Private Club 17-Other(Describe) 5) DISPOSITION: Based on CJRS Reporting System-Major Offenses 11) RELATIONSHIP of OFFENDER to VICTIM: A- Arrest of Adult and/or Adult &Juvenile 01 -Family Member J- Arrest of Juvenile 02 -Neighbor E- Exceptionally Cleared U- Unfounded 03-Acquaintance P- Pending 04-Boyfriend/Ex-Boyfriend 05-Girtfriend/Ex-Girlfriend 06-Ex-Husband 6) TYPE of BIAS and DESCRIPTION: 07-Ex-Wife 08 -Employee Type Description 09-Employer 10-Friend 01 -Racial W-White 11 -Homosexual Relation H-White/Hispanic Origin 12-Other- Known to Victim N-Negro/Black 13-Stranger B-Black/Hispanic Origin 14-Gang Member I- Indian or Alaskan Native 15-Peace Officer Related M-Indian w/Hispanic Origin 16-Unknown O-Asian or Pacific Islander 17-Other(Describe) A-Asian or Pacific Islander w/Hlspanic Origin 02-Religious 01 -Catholic 02-Hindu/Budhist 03-Islamic/Moslem 04-Jewish 05-Protestant 06-Fundamentalist 07-Other(Describe) 03-National Origin Specify 04 - Sex M-Male F -Female 05 -Age Specify age(s) 06 -Disability Describe disability 07 -Sexual 01 -Homosexual Male Orientation 02 -Homosexual Female 03-Heterosexual Male 04 -Heterosexual Female PROCEDURAL RESPONSE TO ACTS OF BIAS AND PREJUDICE Action Steps: 1. A Coordinator, appointed from within the Commission on a yearly basis, will handle any contact of reported acts of bias and prejudice from the Commission membership, Chief of Police, or the general public. 2. The Commission, or Chief of Police on behalf of the Commission, will mail a letter of support to the victim(s) with a brochure outlining the victim(s) rights and resources that they might want to contact for further assistance. 3. If and when the name of the victim(s) can be released, the Coordinator can call the victim(s) and offer to visit with another Commission member to discuss further any options they may want to pursue. 4. Subsequent information regarding the incident will be shared with the Commission and the media when relevant and appropriate. 5. Follow up to the victim(s) in writing or contact will be made if deemed necessary. 6. Relevant names, titles, and phone numbers of those persons who may have to be involved include: CHIEF OF POLICE HRC STAFF LIAISON Kenneth Collins Sherrie Le 770-4531 770-4527 CITY MANAGER HRC CHAIR Michael McGuire Marie Koehler 770-4524 297-4526 BIAS RESPONSE COORDINATOR Gordy Heininger 772-2300 Attachment 06/95 LISTING OF RESOURCES FOR VICTIMS OF ACTS OF BIAS OR HATE CRIMES ST PAUL RAMSEY MEDICAL CENTER 221-3456 MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC 298-4737 CRISIS HOTLINE 347-3161 (FOR USE IN TIMES OF DESPERATION OR WHEN OTHER FACILITIES ARE CLOSED) PUBLIC DEFENDER 298-5797 NEIGHBORHOOD JUSTICE CENTER 222-4703 MAPLEWOOD CITY HALL TTY 770-4500 MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION 770-4524 MAPLEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT 770-4531 MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 296-5663 MINNESOTA RELAY SERVICE* 297-5353 * IF YOU ARE HEARING OR SPEECH IMPAIRED OR NEED TO CONTACT SOMEONE WHO IS: DIAL 297-5353 (TWIN CITIES), OR 1-800-627-3529 (GREATER MINNESOTA). GIVE THE COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT (CA) YOUR AREA CODE AND NUMBER AND THE AREA CODE AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE PERSON YOU ARE CALLING. THE CA WILL STAY ON THE LINE TO TYPE VOICE COMMUNICATION USING A TTY. PS21410-01 (9/92)• }` BIAS OFFENSE REPORT AGENCY IDENTIFIER (ORI) hiN0620400 MONTH AND YEAR September 1995 AGENCY NAME Maplewood Police Department This form is to be used to report any bias motivated crimes in violation of Minnesota State Statute 626.5531. The chief law enforcement officer for an agency must complete form and return to the Department of Public Safety, Office of Information Systems Management,314 Transportation Building, 395 John Ireland Blvd., St Paul, Minnesota 55155 within 30 days (Laws of Minnesota, 1988, Chapter 643). A. GENERAL OFFENSE INFORMATION 1) Agency Case Number: 95-01 5252 2) Date of Offense: 9-22-95 3) Bias offense based on: X Officer's belief — Victim's belief 4) *Description of Offense: 07' (Satanic) 5) *Disposition: P 6) *Type of Bias and Description: 02 / Satanic markings Type Code Description Code or Literal 7) *Target: 02 8) *Place of Occurrence: 04 B. VICTIM/OFFENDER INFORMATION 9) VICTIMS I 10) OFFENDERS 11)*RELATIONSHIP 12) AFFILIATION TO VICTIM (if any) Age Sex Race Age Sex Race 1 U U U U U U U U 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 COMMENTS: Satanic markings painted on doors and doorways to the business. Return to: DPS/OISM *Use code tables on reverse 314 DOT Bldg. Jo 0 nn � 395 John Ireland Blvd. � V�.� St. / ' V'v 1 Y l St. Paul, MN 55155 Apus