Montpelier Taser Community Discussion Committee to be Formed

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( – promoted by Jack McCullough)

(cross-posted from Montpelier Matters, here)

The following excerpt was found within Montpelier City Manager Bill Fraser‘s January 21, 2011 report to members of the city council concerning how they had decided to proceed regarding the request to purchase Tasers (here; via PDF version, Adobe Acrobat Reader required):


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Tasers:

I will draft a proposed charge for a committee based on your comments and on the e-mail that the Mayor sent out. I assume we could discuss the charge at the next meeting and seek to appoint the committee right after town meeting.

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Thus, anyone wanting to consider participating with any Taser community discussion committee that could potentially be formed, for if and when the city council decides the parameters for doing so, should let one’s city councilors, the Mayor and the city manager know as soon as possible.

The more interest expressed by members of the community for making this happen, the sooner things can begin to proceed.

View archived video of the Montpelier City Council’s Thursday, January 20, 2011 Taser policy discussion continuation (agenda item 5, actual discussion begins at 3:53 mark and ends at 1:13:51 mark; includes agenda; then later, during discussion on the proposed 2012 budget – agenda item 6, funding for the Tasers was brought up and discussed beginning at the 2:50:48 mark), here. Archived meeting agenda, here.

Read a brief report shared by Zack Hughes, here, as well as a longer one of mine, here.

View archived video of the Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Taser Policy Discussion (actual discussion begins at 5:32 mark and lasts for nearly 3 hours; includes agenda and attached related documents), here. Archived meeting agenda with attached related documents (agenda item 8), here.

5 thoughts on “Montpelier Taser Community Discussion Committee to be Formed”

  1. Once again, the conversations that take place in Montpelier could become significant to those in the rest of the state, and indeed throughout the nation.

  2. Don’t know if this is true, but I heard Nat Frothingham’s next BRIDGE is going to include a petition in which the undersigned will pledge to vote down the Montpelier town budget if any taser appropriation is in it.  Now, that’s a democratic action that has teeth.  Wish we could do that with the Federal budget.

    If so, I have emailed Nat suggesting some links to GMD so people can sign online.

    If this is effective, people can do it year to year, until the City Council gets the point.

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