June 18, 2007

Resolution #54: Providing Prisoners Reentering Society and Ex-Offenders Greater Opportunities to Attain Self-sufficiency supports comprehensive education, housing and employment efforts to more effectively integrate persons leaving jail or prison back into society.

Resolution #55: Helping Young People with Criminal Records Become Self'sufficient urges development of a more consistent and enforceable system to govern the sealing, expunging and releasing of juvenile records; and urges serious consideration to expunging children’s records relating to nonviolent crimes.

Resolution #56: Supporting Voting Rights for Residents of the District of Columbia calls on the Senate to approve and the President to sign legislation granting District residents the same voting rights enjoyed by other U.S. citizens with full voting rights in the U.S. House of Representatives, and create an additional congressional seat for the State of Utah.

Resolution #57: In Support of Efforts to Fight Illegal Guns calls on Congress to reject legislative proposals such as the Tiahrt amendment, urges that local governments and law enforcement be given access to ATF gun trace data; and that the ATF resume publication of Annual Crime Trace Reports.

Resolution #58: Urging the Development of an Official System for the Management and Release of Crime Data calls on the Department of Justice and FBI to work with the Conference of Mayors to develop a joint working group to establish a new system for the management and release of crime data, and provide education on what the data means and does not mean.

Resolution #59: Building Safer Communities Through Deployment of Less-Lethal Police Technologies urges cities seeking to deploy, or currently deploying, electronic control devices to consider guidelines developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Police Executive Research Forum; and calls on Congress to support COPS technology and equipment grants.

Resolution #22: Resolution to Reduce the Recurrence of Violent Crime urges cities to recognize all violence as a public health issue; encourages cities to work with health care institutions to establish programs that protect the safety of all victims of violence, and urges cities to partner with health care institutions to train health care providers to treat all victims of violence.

Resolution #60: Human Trafficking: Prevention and Prosecution urges that Title II of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act be fully funded; that funding be provided for the biennial survey of the unlawful commercial sex industry so that cities and towns can have the data they need; and applauds the efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Rescue and Restore Campaign.

Resolution #13: Supporting Comprehensive Plan to Combat Global Piracy and Counterfeiting of Goods calls on Congress to combat the crisis of domestic and international piracy and counterfeiting of goods; and calls on Congress and state governments to enact legislation which strengthens penalties and makes it easier to convict individuals who commit intellectual property crimes.

Resolution #28: Fund Homeland Security Initiatives Related to Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness sees an absolute critical need for homeland security initiatives related to bioterrorism and public health preparedness.

Resolution #61: Protecting City Critical Assets Underground Infrastructure and Manhole Security supports a federal pilot program, with no negative impact on existing homeland security grants, which would support policy, study and funding that secures cities’ vulnerable underground infrastructure by protecting against breaches of most critical manholes.

Resolution #62: Assuring National Disaster Response Capabilities by Authorizing and Fully Funding Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces supports an explicit authorization within FEMA; grants that ensure equipment, operational, administrative, and training costs continue to be met; and urges inclusion of a provision that requires the Federal Government to reimburse state or local employers for workers compensation benefits related to a FEMA deployment.

Resolution #63: Supporting the Repeal of The Real ID Act of 2005 calls for repeal of Title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, to provide states additional regulatory flexibility and funding authorization to more rapidly produce tamper- and counterfeit-resistant driver licenses, and to protect privacy and civil liberties by providing interested stakeholders with guidance for negotiated rulemaking to achieve improved 21st century licenses.

Resolution #64: Comprehensive Immigration Reform urges reform that would improve security, bolster economic prosperity, and provide the approximately 12 million people already in the U.S. without legal authorization an opportunity to earn their permanent residence and citizenship.

Resolution #65: U.S. Immigration and Border Security Policy calls on our nation’s immigration policies to follow principles related to Economics/Fiscal Impact, Education, Legal/Political, Security, and Social Justice.

Resolution #31: A New Bottom Line in Reducing the Harms of Substance Abuse calls for a public health approach that concentrates more fully on reducing the negative consequences associated with drug abuse; establishes quantifiable, short- and long-term objectives for drug policy; saves taxpayer money; holds state and federal agencies accountable; offers a wide range of effective drug abuse treatment options and supporting services to all who need them; and eliminates the federal ban on funding of sterile syringe exchange programs and encourages the adoption of local overdose prevention strategies.

Resolution #30: Saving Lives, Saving Money: City-Coordinated Drug Overdose Prevention encourages cities to implement programs that provide overdose prevention education, rescue breathing training, and take-home naloxone directly to lay people; and supports establishing emergency “Good Samaritan” policies that protect people for calling 911.

Resolution #66: Opposing Random, Suspicionless Student Drug Testing: Protecting Family Privacy and Student Safety states opposition to the use of random, suspicionless student drug testing programs in cities’ schools; and supports better use of taxpayer dollars to support proven alcohol and other drug prevention and educational policies in cities.

Resolution #67: Resolution Calling Upon the United States House of Representatives to Initiate Impeachment Proceedings Against President George W. Bush calls upon the U.S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bush for abuses of power, breaches of trust, violations of domestic and international laws, and egregious human rights abuses.