Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Stephen M. Wagstaffe, District Attorney
Subject: Second Amendment to Agreement with City of San Mateo for Personnel Support to the San Mateo County Gun Relinquishment Task Force
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing a second amendment to the agreement with the City of San Mateo for the purpose of providing personnel support to the San Mateo County Gun Relinquishment Task Force, increasing the not-to-exceed amount by $600,000 from $1,300,000 to $1,900,000 and extending the term of the agreement through November 20, 2028.
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BACKGROUND:
The purpose of the San Mateo County Gun Violence Prevention Program (GVPP) is to coordinate and share resources amongst the law enforcement agencies in San Mateo County to enforce unlawful firearm possession laws more effectively, in the interest of promoting safety and reducing gun violence in the county.
The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office has been designated as the law enforcement partner for the San Mateo County Superior Court for the purposes of complying with California Senate Bill 320, a comprehensive firearms relinquishment statutory change that went into effect January 1, 2022.
Thereafter, the District Attorney’s Office created the San Mateo County Gun Relinquishment Task Force (Task Force), the law enforcement “partner” segment of the GVPP, in the form of two outside agency law enforcement detectives working under the supervision of the District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation. Since 2022, those two outside agency law enforcement detectives have made up the heart of the GVPP, working closely with our partners from the Superior Court. GVPP Detectives review court orders every weekday to ensure firearms, ammunition, and firearm components are voluntarily surrendered by prohibited persons or seized pursuant to a valid court order when prohibited person(s) refuse t...
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