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RECEivED <br /> +� Town of Reading TOWN hCLERK <br /> = <br /> Meeting Minutes REr " rI& <br /> i� 2111 OCT -5 PM P 12 <br /> MOPPPP' <br /> Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br /> It Human Relations Advisory Committee <br /> Date: 2020-09-15 Time: 7pm <br /> Building: Town Hall Location: Town Zoom Call <br /> Address: Remote Session: <br /> Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final <br /> Attendees: Members - Present: <br /> Kyung Yu, Kern Perry, Josh Goldlust, David Clark <br /> Members - Not Present: Jordan Serpone <br /> Others Present: John Fevir, Ma Kenzie Briere, Mario (no last name listed) <br /> Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Josh Goldlust <br /> Josh calls meeting to order at 7:03 pm <br /> 1. Sharing Experiences <br /> a. Open introductions to anyone on the call. MaKenzie and HRAC member <br /> b. Kern- Incident/ assault in Reading. Concerning and what information can be <br /> share. Chief will address in this readout section of the agenda <br /> c. Josh shared positive feedback about kids heading back to school <br /> 2. Police Readout: <br /> a. Information he can share about recent assault. Yes it is moving through the <br /> court system. Yes one of the charges was a hate crime. NIBRA information <br /> bureau for hate crimes. Yes it was reported in that system. Yes it is with our <br /> civil rights detective. She went through system training and can now input <br /> into the system. Thoroughly investigated and proper charges were filed. <br /> i. Discussion about the term 'simple assault' and the legal term <br /> ii. Statute determines if something is arrest-able or not. <br /> iii. No other incidents to discuss. They are taken seriously and moved <br /> appropriately <br /> iv. Spoke about it being good there is discussion on these topics; healthy <br /> b. Police activity postings <br /> i. National recovery month- 9/18 Kern reposted for HRAC <br /> ii. Police article for breast cancer awareness in Oct- Pink shirts, pink <br /> badges. Selling patches and donating funds Check out FB or Office O' <br /> Shaughnessy, community service officer <br /> iii. Purple ribbon for domestic violence awareness- Selling patches- <br /> RESPOND non-profit for domestic violence - Check out FB or Office <br /> O'Shaughnessy, community service officer <br /> 3. Sen/ Rep Listening Event <br /> a. Josh gave readout on event communications with Rep Haggerty's staff. There <br /> were delays with messages being received by Josh from Rep's staff so didn't <br /> get confirmation on the event date until a few days ago. Too soon to promote <br /> Page I 1 <br />