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MEMORANDUM
Date: June 26, 2014
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Marian K. Karr, City Clerk
Re: Council Work Session, June 16, 2014, 5:00 PM in Emma J. Harvat Hall
Council: Botchway, Dickens, Dobyns, Hayek, Mims, Payne, Throgmorton
UISG: McCarthy
Staff: Markus, Fruin, Dilkes, Karr, Hargadine, Steffen, Hart, Gaarde, Schwindt, Bowers
A transcription is available in the City Clerk's Office and on the City website.
PRESENTATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAFFIC STOP DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
FIP # 3 of 6/12 Info Packet]
Police Chief Hargadine presented information and introduced Dr. Chris Barnum, Associate
Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice and Director of Graduate Studies at St. Ambrose
University. Dr. Barnum presented a power point and information concerning the collecting of
demographic data on traffic stops in Iowa City since 1999.
After discussion a majority of Council directed staff to work with Dr. Barnum as follows:
• Continue the study for at least two years
• Explore tracking where the traffic stops were made
• Track reason for arrest
• Improve tracking of "consent search" requests more accurately (emphasizing the officer
can still ask the question but not check the box when you have another reason to
search)
ACTION: Staff to prepare information as requested and report back to Council. (Markus)
Meeting adjourned 7:20 p.m.