What to Expect When You're Expecting the RNC 2016 - Ohio ...

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN

YOU’RE EXPECTING THE

RNC 2016

Ohio Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

Jocelyn Rosnick

[email protected]

216.5050.nlg (654)

Clemovementlaw.org

ORDINANCE NO. 880-14: RNC, JULY 2014

� (1)(a) City-owned facilities, including City Hall, Browns Stadium, Voinovich Park, Malls

A, B, & C, City-owned lakefront parking lots, Public Square, and North Coast Marina …

� (d) City will provide all security, traffic control, and related protective services…

� (e) City will coordinate a comprehensive technology/ telecommunications services plan.

� (2) Director of Public Safety….security and traffic control plan...consultation with federal,

state, and other local law enforcement...consistent with national security

requirements...security zones...

� (7) ...insurance policies…

� (11) Public Works, Public Safety and Capital Projects….issue public gathering

permits...during period one month before the first day of the Convention.. subject to time,

place, manner restrictions…in accordance with security plan...

� (15) Can reserve airport and lakefront property, including Burke Lakefront Airport and

parking areas for RNC...

� (17) ...may enter into contracts with...State of Ohio, Greater Cleveland Regional

Transit Authority, Cuyahoga County, Gateway Development Corporation, Cleveland-

Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Cavaliers Operating Company, Cleveland Indians

Baseball Company, and any other entity involved in the Convention process as needed...

ORDINANCES:

PARADE-RELATED, SUMMER 2015

CLEVELAND CODIFIED ORDINANCE § 411.05

MASS ARRESTS

DISPERSAL ORDER/ MASS ARREST PROTOCOLS

�Dispersal Order Protocol

� Multiple, audible warnings that clearly

state how to exit the area to avoid arrest.

�Mass Arrest Protocol

� Arresting officer ID written on

plastic flexicuffs.

� Date, time and location of arrest and

officer name/ Id printed on a sticker

placed on the back of the arrestee.

CITY OF CLEVELAND

RNC PREPARATIONS

� Approval of $50million Security Grant� $30 million – Personnel

� $20 million – Equipment

� Insurance Policy (Managed Risk Insurance Program)

� ... to insure the City … from claims, loss, cost and expense

arising from its hosting … the 2016 RNC and providing law enforcement, safety and security services, whether through its own forces or safety and law enforcement officers or equipment supplied to the City by other jurisdictions …

� ... developing a comprehensive risk-management analysis including … law enforcement, safety and security operations to identify potential hazards, risks, liabilities and claims....

CITY OF CLEVELAND

RNC PREPARATIONS

Equipment Purchases, Invitations to

Bid, and Requests for Proposals

2,000 SETS:

RIOT GEAR

2,000 SETS:

26” RETRACTABLE STEEL BATON

STEEL BARRIERS

• 2000, 43” X 98” (3.5FT X 8FT)

• 500, 78" X 78" (6.5FT X 6.5FT)

• APPROXIMATELY 3.7 MILES

2,400:

HYDRATION

PACKS

24 SETS: BALLISTIC

HELMET, PROTECTIVE

FACE VISOR & FACE

SHIELD

24 SETS: BALLISTIC

VEST, PANELS, BICEP

PROTECTION, GROIN

PROTECTION

15 MOTORCYCLES

&

310 SETS: LONG SLEEVE JACKETS/

KNEE/ SHIN GUARDS/ GLOVES

310 POLICE BIKES

&

HELMETS & RELATED EQUIPMENT

3 SETS:

HORSE TRAILERS

10,000

FLEXICUFFS

2 NIGHT VISION MOUNTS

16 POINTER ILLUMINATOR

AIMING LASERS

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM

AND NETWORK MAINTENANCE

2 NIKON COOLPIX CAMERAS

8 SURFACE PRO

LAPTOPS

CITY OF CLEVELAND

RNC PREPARATIONS

What else might the City of Cleveland

purchase for the RNC?

We can look to past convention sites

for ideas.

TAMPA RNC EXPENDITURES:

SECURITY/ SURVEILLANCE

TAMPA RNC EXPENDITURES:

“NON-LETHAL” MUNITIONS

MAP

SLIDE

TAMPA RNC EXPENDITURES:

SOUND WEAPONS &“NON-LETHAL” MUNITIONS

LONG-RANGE ACOUSTIC DEVICE (LRAD)

STING RAY

CHEMICAL “NON-LETHAL” MUNITIONS

“NON-LETHAL” MUNITIONS:

RUBBER/ WOODEN BULLETS

“NON-LETHAL” MUNITIONS: TASERS

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