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student was searched by a school administrator for being in a bathroom with other students who had been vaping. The suspect in this case was arrested and booked at Juvenile Hall due to the seriousness of the crime on campus. Then in May, the SRO made three additional arrests of students (two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old male) for theft of other student's bicycles. The cases were diverted to Horizons Family Services. All of these arrests were made in private (not in front of other students). As discussed in the most recent City Council update, the Alternate Response to Mental Health Unit (ARU) was established in January 2022 and is continuing to see positive results in schools. Since then, ARU conducted 32 mental health evaluations for students who may have been in crisis; of those calls, only two students were placed on a mental health hold. This is in comparison to seven students out of 32 instances as noted in the prior update to Council. An SRO MOU Think Tank was created that is comprised of a cross section of stakeholders specifically to implement and report on initiatives in the MOU. The Think Tank has representatives from PUSD that include district staff, social workers, high school principals, parent liaisons and SROs. This group met several times to discuss SRO uniforms and options for an alternative look. Although no formal recommendation was made, the consensus of the group was to keep the SRO uniform traditional for the day-to-day interactions, but to have a "softer look" (i.e., polo shirt, khaki pants) for some calls for service where it may be more appropriate. The group discussed several incidences where officers already use this approach, such as mental health crisis evaluations, interviewing victims, and in some classroom presentation settings. The group highlights how SROs are no longer the primary responding person to students in crisis as this responsibility is now being handled by ARU whose officers do not wear a uniform. In the previous update to Council, police department staff shared the new curriculum being developed and taught in collaboration with police officers and PUSD faculty in elementary schools to replace the DARE program. Dependent on staffing, staff plans to have an officer in this new role for the 2023-24 school year. Racial and Identity Profiling Act In 2016 Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 953 titled the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA). RIPA requires peace officers in California to collect data on all instances where a person is stopped and has been phased in during the past five years based on the number of sworn officers. The data collected includes 16 potential fields. The Police Department began collecting data, in accordance with state mandates in January 2022, and although the department had collected stop data for more than 20 years, the requirements of RIPA are far greater. The collection form also has a timer to determine the amount of time officers spend completing the form to quantify the amount of time spent fulfilling the state mandate. Since RIPA is an unfunded state mandate, the City submitted for reimbursement in the recent SB 90 and anticipates receiving up to $90,000 in funding from the State. Data from Pleasanton and other police agencies will be compiled by the State Department of Justice and included in the 2024 RIPA Page 3 of 6