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Request Immediate Briefing on Boston Summer Safety Plan

Last activity July 9, 2026 (2 months ago)

  1. Introduced

    July 6, 2026

  2. In committee

  3. Council vote

  4. Adopted

The Boston City Council passed a resolution calling for an immediate briefing on the City’s Summer Safety Plan and a collaborative review to strengthen public safety. It requests information on police deployment, staffing, violence prevention, and interagency coordination, and invites broad collaboration with community groups, neighborhoods, and safety partners.

Affects Boston residents

Filed by Brian Worrell, Benjamin Jacob Weber, Henry Santana, Enrique Pepén, Ruthzee Louijeune, John FitzGerald, Sharon Durkan, Miniard Culpepper, Liz Breadon, Ed Flynn, and Erin Murphy

Now with the City Council

About Public Safety and Labor & Workforce

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Official title

Resolution calling for an immediate briefing on Boston's summer safety plan and a collaborative review to strengthen public safety.

Timeline

  1. July 8, 2026

    The rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.

    City Council

    Councilor Breadon in the chair. On motion of Councilors Murphy and Flynn, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted: yeas 11 (Breadon, Culpepper, Durkan, FitzGerald, Flynn, Louijeune, Murphy, Pepén, Santana, Weber, Worrell), not present 1 (Mejia), absent 1 (Coletta Zapata).