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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: 4/1/2024
Meeting Type: Regular Meeting
Staff Contact/Dept.: George Crolly/SPD
Staff Phone No: 541-744-4165
Estimated Time: Consent Calendar
S P R I N G F I E L D
C I T Y C O U N C I L
Council Goals: Mandate
ITEM TITLE: AUTHORIZATION FOR GUN DESTRUCTION
ACTION
REQUESTED:
Provide authorization for Springfield Police Department to remove certain firearms
from its property inventory pursuant to Springfield Municipal Code (SMC)
2.760(4).
ISSUE
STATEMENT:
SPD is seeking to remove and have rendered inoperable certain firearms in its
evidence/property room pursuant to SMC 2.760(4).
ATTACHMENTS: 1: Inventory
DISCUSSION/
FINANCIAL
IMPACT:
The SPD property/evidence inventory includes a number of firearms as a result of
police seizures, found property, or criminal cases that have accumulated over many
years. We are currently seeking to begin reduction in that inventory by rendering
inoperable some of those firearms held in property/evidence per state law and
municipal code. SPD is approaching this project in phases, beginning with the
elimination of firearms that are inoperable, where destruction requests from the
rightful owners exist, are designated “ghost guns”, or are of little or no value
monetarily. SMC 2.760(4) requires Council approval to destroy guns. The
firearms will be rendered inoperable by the Development and Public Works
Operations Department Division.
SPD intends to seek additional Council approval at a later date for other weapons
after they have been through the unclaimed property process pursuant to SMC.
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