QUESTION
Are there plans to implement metal detectors for safety in facilities, and how is safety ensured?
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The New York City Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (MOASO) is conducting a security assessment at all sites, with Randall being a priority, to ensure safety and consider the implementation of metal detectors.
- A security assessment is underway at all sites managed by MOASO, emphasizing Randall as a top priority.
- Changes have been made to improve security, and further modifications are planned.
- Council Member Ayala shares a concerning account of unsafe conditions, theft, and violence at one of the facilities, emphasizing the necessity of reassessing safety measures.
- Instances of unauthorized re-entry and delayed security responses to fights raise serious safety concerns.
Diana I. Ayala
1:48:43
Is there a plan to add metal detectors and ensure that everyone that is in those facilities is save or not.
Molly Schaeffer
1:48:53
As mentioned, we were doing a security assessment at all of our sites.
1:48:57
Randall is on the top of that list.
1:48:59
And again, happy to sit down to with you to talk about the specifics.
1:49:03
We have made some changes already, and we'll continue to make changes.
Diana I. Ayala
1:49:06
Okay.
1:49:06
I just want to share it with you that the last week.
1:49:09
We had a well, you know, we've been working with the family of the young man that passed away.
1:49:16
I've, you know, gotten to know a few of the family members and people, you know, friends that have come here and there was a young man that came from Denver and was cited at awards on a Tuesday.
1:49:31
I'm just making I was last week, something I don't believe.
1:49:34
By Wednesday morning, he wanted to leave.
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He was like, it's horrible.
1:49:38
There's no place to put your stuff.
1:49:39
People, you know, can easily just take whatever proper you have, but there are fights in there.
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There was a fight that was pretty, you know, disturbing, and the guards didn't come until after it was already too late.
1:49:52
They felt unsafe.
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They felt that people were they said that they they witnessed people that had been barred from the center.
1:50:00
From the site coming in through the through the back doors.
1:50:04
That that to me is it raises a lot of red flags.
1:50:09
And, again, I wanna make sure that everybody that's in there is is feeling safe enough that they don't have to be bringing in a and that people that are not bringing hand knives feel safe enough to know that.
1:50:18
Nothing that they're not gonna be witness to that.
