REMARKS
Council Member Gale Brewer offers tributes and thanks
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Council Member Gale Brewer introduces legislation requiring public reporting of cannabis enforcement activities in New York City.
- Brewer commemorates James Davis, killed in the council chambers 21 years ago, along with other colleagues present that day.
- She acknowledges several interns and fellows, expressing gratitude for their work.
- Brewer introduces Intro 981, which would mandate public reporting of cannabis enforcement data.
- She highlights the current lack of transparency and difficulty in obtaining enforcement information from the administration.
- Brewer mentions a separate 311 data bill to address inquiries about unlicensed cannabis businesses.
Gale Brewer
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Thank you.
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Number 1, I do just want to remind people that this is 21 years since James Davis was killed in this hole.
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I was here, and we always think about him along with sergeant and chief Rafael Perez, Carl Novella, and Israel Martinez.
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We're all here that day.
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We're the only ones left, I think, but I just wanna think about James Davis.
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He was killed right up there.
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Number 2, in terms of some of the interns, and I thank them so much, is Massadio Faye, who is a SUNY Albany student.
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Janet Fisher from Xavier High School, Maton Frigood from University of Southern California, the Beer Singh, Xavier High School, Lea Spector from Rutgers University and also a recent fall.
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Fellow, Salon, Sylvan, Stanford University, Zaylen Tilly Fordham University, Avi Flado Katz, who's from Rumaz, but also a member of Community Board number 7.
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Marilyn O'Dea Baru College Campus High School, and Ali Stauffer, who's an Al Van Fellow.
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We love the Al Van Fellows.
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I want to talk about intro 981.
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This would require public reporting of cannabis enforcement activity, would include inspection locations, outcomes, and granular data, the sharer, consumer affairs, cannabis management.
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They're all doing a good job.
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But the public wants to know what's happening with smoke, trap enforcement in their neighborhoods, and it's very hard to get information.
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The state law does require the city to send biweekly reports on enforcement to the office of cannabis management at the state level.
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The sheriff's office hasn't started producing these reports because they're still waiting for instructions from the state, but there's no requirement to share when they get the reports.
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It's sometimes hard to get information out of this administration as we know.
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So we keep introducing these data bills, and this is an example.
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We just need basic information.
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I also have a 311 data bill on the same topic because there's no place at the 311 category to list questions about unlicensed cannabis businesses.
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Thank you very much.
