HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/25/2025 Item 4a, Walker, K. (2)
kathie walker <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:Another SLOPD complaint at 720 E. Foothill (Item 4a, Planning Commission
6/25/2025)
Planning Commissioners,
For the record, the SLOPD log showed yet another noise complaint for a "loud party" at 720 Foothill on
Saturday, 6/21/2025.
The log shows there was a delay of almost one hour before SLOPD dispatched anyone, and they sent a
SNAP employee named "I. Dahmen", shown as Unit P1 on the log. SNAP is not supposed to be
dispatched to fraternity houses (or addresses with a previous noise citation within 9 months). 720
Foothill is a fraternity and has also had multiple citations within the past 9 months. It should have been
coded as "NOISE POLICE" under "Type" in the upper left corner of the SLOPD call log, as shown below.
"NOISE POLICE" requires a response from a sworn officer, but somehow the call was mistakenly input as
"Noise Party"; the call was delayed, and SNAP was dispatched.
The red arrows show the call on Saturday, 6/21 (top) as Type: "Noise Party," which was changed in
SLOPD's database from "NOISE POLICE" (bottom), shown on a previous citation, and all previous calls to
720 E. Foothill Blvd.
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It looks like SNAP called other SLOPD Units 4248 and 4247. In any event, the noise complaint was
ultimately cleared as a negative violation.
SLOPD could provide more information about the mix-up and delay, what the complaining party reported
hearing, and what the officers observed when they got there, an hour after the call was made on 6/21.
This is the 11th noise complaint made for 720 E. Foothill since the beginning of the academic year in
September for a loud party or other disturbing noise.
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