File #: 210756    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Referred
File created: 8/24/2021 In control: Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee
On agenda: 9/15/2021 Final action:
Title: RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to identify $200,000.00 in funding for this fiscal year to be used to develop and implement a program to receive, store and safely dispose of weapons surrendered in Kansas City Municipal Court domestic violence cases and to report back to Council within 45 days with a plan for sustainable funding, development and implementation of this program that includes best practices from other jurisdictions.
Sponsors: Quinton Lucas, Kevin O'Neill
Attachments: 1. fact sheet-weapon receipt, 2. FiscalNote_210756, 3. Authenticated Ordinance 210756 sub

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR RESOLUTION NO. 210756

 

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RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to identify $200,000.00 in funding for this fiscal year to be used to develop and implement a program to receive, store and safely dispose of weapons surrendered in Kansas City Municipal Court domestic violence cases and to report back to Council within 45 days with a plan for sustainable funding, development and implementation of this program that includes best practices from other jurisdictions.

 

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WHEREAS, Kansas City funds its Municipal Court, providing, among other items, much needed support for those in our community who are victims of domestic violence; and

 

WHEREAS, Municipal Court has a division dedicated to the prosecution of domestic violence; and

 

WHEREAS, in connection with Municipal Court convictions, defendants often agree to permanently forfeit any weapons possessed by that defendant as a condition of probation; and

 

WHEREAS, Municipal Court has 171 defendants with 288 open cases where either “permanently forfeit weapon” or “do not possess or purchase any firearm ammunition” is a condition of the probation; and

 

WHEREAS, when weapons are surrendered by a defendant, there is no physical location for that defendant to turn the weapons in; i.e., no employee, no process to comply with that term of probation and no location established to receive the weapons, store the weapons or safely dispose of the weapons; and

 

WHEREAS, to effectively establish a program to receive, store and safely dispose of all weapons voluntarily forfeited in domestic violence actions, a city employee classification will need to be identified and funded to oversee all elements of the program and a depository safe to store the weapons must be purchased and placed in a location identified as safe for receipt of the weapons; and

 

WHEREAS, Council desires to establish a process for receipt, storage and safe disposal of all weapons voluntarily forfeited in Kansas City Municipal Court domestic violence actions; and

 

WHEREAS, working with the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) to effectuate the goals of this resolution will create a positive and impactful path to solve the issues identified herein; NOW, THEREFORE,

                      

                     BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

 

The City Manager is directed to identify $200,000.00 in funding for this fiscal year to be used to develop and implement a program to receive, store and safely dispose of all weapons surrendered in connection with Kansas City Municipal Court domestic violence cases and to report back to Council within 45 days with a plan for sustainable funding, development and implementation of this program that include best practices from other jurisdictions.

 

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