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give us a concrete idea of what has transpired thus far; and (2) she wanted to discuss whether or not there is any kind of a less restrictive alternative that could be considered. Councilmember Ayala mentioned a possible remedy that apparently never happened and could he discuss some of those things also. She asked Chief Neai what exactly happens when the department goes out on this type of a call. For instance, a neighbor calls and complains, it is a nuisance call, excessive noise coming from a house late at night; parents are probably not at home and could the police come and take a look at the situation. What happens? Chief Neal said the only data available was in the past and the department does not track the disposition of the calls that pertain to juveniles versus adults. He was able to determine the department responded to 342 calls in 2002. Staff felt that 8 out of 10 of those calls intend to be juvenile party calls versus adult calls. The second question pertaining to what the department does at present is situational. A simple noise complaint is commonly addressed by going to the door. Absent any other factors, simply telling the people the neighbors are starting to call the police and it is time to turn it down. Many of those calls are resolved simply by turning down the noise. In a teen party where alcohol is present they tend to be a little wilder and oftentimes when the door is answered it is not the resident and many times kids are all over the house. It is not uncommon for the police car to pull up and a lot of the kids exit whatever way they can and scatter into the surrounding neighborhood. They the police find them elsewhere in the neighborhood detached from their friends and cars. Peripheral complaints then come in for trespassing, public urination, and things that go with that. If an officer goes to the door and can see people that he believes under the age of 21 consuming alcohol, then the current ordinance prevents us, as does State law, to determine whether someone is engaging in the act of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and/or violating our current ordinance that is hosting a party for those under 21 years old and serving alcohol. They have the ability to arrest with the contributing statute, which is a misdemeanor; or to cite under the Pleasanton Municipal Code, which is an infraction, the host of the party for serving alcohol. The frustrating piece is that all of the kids standing around under the age of 21 consuming alcohol, there is not a thing the police can do about. Absent some situation that may be putting their live at risk, the police do the best they to try to make sure everyone is going to have a ride home. They have no legal authority to identify them, detain them, or even figure out who they are to make phone calls. In a recent incident in a neighborhood there was party that generated a number of calls and the circumstances played out exactly as just described. There was alcohol consumption by teen agers, but not much could be done. The shift supervisor got as many units into the neighborhood as long as he could because the last thing wanted is for the people involved to get into their cars. Some kids were topped from leaving the party, but in truth the police would like to get ahead of the situation. To sit and wait for an intoxicated juvenile to get behind the wheel of a car, or even to step out on the sidewalk where other statutes apply is not how the police want to engage in this. The whole idea is to deal with the root issue which is the drinking. This is unlawful in 340 degrees of their live, but the missing 20 degrees is there because society assumes a parent is going to take care of this. It is not uncommon to find a parent condoning this activity and think it is okay as long as you do Pleasanton City Council 13 04/01/03 Minutes