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Equity: The Leadership of the Pleasanton Police Department has made an intensive effort to complete a comprehensive and thorough assessment of the President's Task Force report and its themes, recommendations, and action items. The effort of the department's leadership represents a commitment to the Pleasanton community by its Police Department to ensure the City's law enforcement agency exemplifies a culture and models practices that are contemporary, at the forefront of the policing profession, and meets the community's expectations. The Pleasanton Police Department has a long standing and demonstrated success of being accountable to the community it serves. With strong connection and meaningful partnerships between the Police Department and the community, the level of trust that exist and continues to be developed is reflective of that accountability. Pillar 2 of the Task Force Report highlights the issue and importance of civilian oversight to strengthen trust between the police and the community it serves. As of September, 2021, the Pleasanton Police Department formed Community Advisory Board (CAB) giving an opportunity for community members to have their voice heard. To promote trust and transparency, the Community Advisory Board will focus on public safety issues and engage in productive conversation with leadership at Pleasanton Police Department. Chief Swing will lead CAB meetings monthly and discussions may cover topics such as mental health response, use of force, and technology. Members will provide insights while weighing in on matters of policy and procedure. It was critical the make-up of the CAB reflected the diversity of our community. Diversity in all areas including race, gender, age, faith, thought, and experience. On January 1st, 2022, Pleasanton Police Department began tracking RIPA (Racial Identity and Profiling Act) data to the Department of Justice. Even though official data did not start being transmitted to DOJ until January of 2022, we began gathering data in a testing phase, starting October of 2021. The purpose of gathering this data is to ensure Pleasanton Police Officers are enforcing the laws equally without any malice or bias. Once approved for this grant, Pleasanton Police Department will continue our current policies and procedures regarding collecting data to make sure our enforcement efforts are being implemented fairly, without any malice or bias. Strategies: Pleasanton Police Department will use a multi-faceted approach in implementing the grant funds. Most of these efforts will be traffic enforcement related focusing on specific traffic violations which are the leading causes of injury collisions within Pleasanton. Grant funds will cover overtime used to assign officers to directed enforcement opportunities focusing on the grant goals to reduce collisions. Distracted driving , bicycle and pedestrian enforcement operations are ways the grant will be implemented within the city. Additionally, PPD will use grant funds to send officers to needed POST certified training programs such as SFST's, A-Ride, and DRE. These essential trainings are needed for officer development and increasing the confidence in officers when conducting proactive DUI enforcement operations. During this current nationwide shortage of police officers, PPD had several collaborative operations with neighboring agencies to conducted DUI enforcement operations. These operations were made possible by OTS grant funds and will assist with future similar operations. PPD will communicate with the community via social media and inform them about the grant and the goal of reducing factor that are contributing towards collisions. Portable lighted sign boards along with PPD's website will be employed to further the traffic safety message in the community. Bringing attention to specific traffic related issues will make the community aware of them and will assist in reducing the number of collisions within the city.