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Philadelphia City Council actions
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Other actions actions from the October 17, 2007 meeting.
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This adopted resolution honors and mourns the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.
Remembering, Memorializing, Honoring, and Mourning the 32 people slain at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, and authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings to investigate how safe the College Campuses in The City of Philadelphia are; and, in furtherance of such investigation, authorizing the issuance of subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents to the full extent authorized under Section 2-401 of the Home Rule Charter.
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This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings about whether Philadelphia emergency call centers could use systems that receive photos and videos from cell phones and computers.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings to examine and evaluate the feasibility of equipping emergency call centers with "Incident Linked Multimedia" (Camera Cell Phone) type response systems, and the crime fighting and security benefits they offer; in addition, to determine the resources and planning required to enable the emergency call centers, crisis response teams and citizens of our City to take advantage of this technology.
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