ACL - Draft Resolution to Amend the RNP
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The Anti-Communitarian League: Grassroots Research & Analysis of the Ultimate Third Way
Draft Resolution to Amend the Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan
Whereas: It has been clearly established that the definition for Rooming and Boarding Houses used in the Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan (RNP) at IC-L-14 is not only eroneous, it is in fact an inversion of the legal definition of family, as defined by SMC Title 22; and
Whereas: The RNP established a Department of Justice enforcement pilot program in the Roosevelt Neighborhoods at IC-L-13, that directly refers to the enforcement of Rooming and Boarding Houses (R&B), under the erroneous definition at IC-L-14; and
Whereas: An exclusive committee assumed authority to find innovative ways to test new community government regulations against homes identified as R&B houses, based on the designated pilot test in the RNP, which used the erroneous definition at IC-L-14; and
Whereas: This exclusive committee, known as the North NAT'S Rooming and Boarding House Committee, participated in the enforcement efforts identified in IC-L-13 & 14 and did create and maintain illegal files on persons identified as residing in R&B houses, based on the erroneous RNP definition at IC-L-14, for the purpose of gathering private data for Human Subject's Research and "potential for crime mapping resarch," under the direction of the Department of Justice's Crime Mapping Research Center; and
Whereas: The people identified as living in R&B houses by the erroneous definition in the RNP had their private data gathered without any attempt at standard informed consent practices, in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, Seattle Municipal Code # 108333 (known as the Police Surveillance Act), and 28 CFR Part 46; and
Whereas: The City of Seattle refuses to adhere to, or even acknowledge the existance of, the Code of Federal Regulations concerning the restrictions for engaging in Human Subject's Research, while continuing to gather new government and private sector sources under the Community Mapping, Planning and Analysis for Safety Strategies pilot test that's merging individual citizen's private data into DoJ crime mapping programs; and
Whereas: The people erroneously identified as living in R&B houses have no avenue to petition their unelected community government for redress of greivances in response to actions taken against their civil liberties under the authority of the Neighborhood Plan, as is their First Amendment Rights under a legal American system of government; therefore,
Resolved, That Seattle City Council and the Mayor approve the following amendments to the Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan Adoption and Approval Package:
1. Repeal of Sections IC-L-13 and 14, permanently cancelling endorsement of all related DCLU, NATS, COPS, SPD and DON neighborhood centered enforcement models,
2. Require full, immediate public disclosure of all government and NGO grant funds and sources that assisted planners and provided tools to Tomorrow's Roosevelt Committee,
3. Review the process used to implement the pilot test at IC-L-13, including the NAT'S R&B test on two "identified" Roosevelt neighborhood R&B houses on 9/30/99, initiating a full Council Review of the facts alledged by the five plaintiffs in Dawson et. al v. The City of Seattle et. al, CO2 1046L,
4. Add a clause at IC-L-15 that requires the City of Seattle to provide for a legitimate neighborhood ombudsman service that meets ABA criteria in every Seattle neighborhood, within 30 days of the submission of these amendments, based on the proven uselessness of the ombudsman referred to at IC-L-15, who was used by the RNP planner to represent the City's objectives, yet claimed to fulfill both our U.S. and WA State's clear constitutional requirements for an avenue to petition our public servants for a redress of grievances,
5. Require the City of Seattle to provide immediate funds for an unbiased legal firm, with expertise in property and privacy rights, to study all the plans and esure that in its entirety each Plan adheres to both the Washinton State and U.S. constitutions by protecting the rights of the individuals who reside, do business, oe own property in Seattle, thereby adhering to the established and only legal purpose for any form of American government,
6. Require the legitimately created and established Seattle City government to put these and all other valid suggested amendments on a ballot before the citizens of Seattle as a referendum, (as opposed to "community government validation events"), advertising clear statements of purpose that include all the available facts regarding Sound Transit related devlopment, neighborhood planning, community policing, The National Partnership for Reinventing Government, re-building communities, building community capacity, and the connection between Neighborhood Plans, Sustainable Seattle, and U.N. Local Agenda 21.
Respectfully submitted to Councilmember Nick Licata, cc'd to all other Councilmembers and Mayor Greg Nickels, on November 9, 2002, via email.