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Merit Appeals Board July 28, 2023 <br />MR. WISEMAN: No, not on the report. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Ms. Mathews, any question? <br />MS. MATHEWS: No. Thank you. <br />MAB Monthly Divisional Activity Report: July 2023 <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Moving along to the MAB monthly divisional activity report for the <br />month of July. You have questions? Okay. Kate, you have questions? <br />MS. DE SOTO: Yeah. Can someone stop me, if I can't ask this. Under the Health and Safety <br />Division, seeing that the County is the largest employer in our County, correct? I was curious <br />recently, in our State we have a Threat Assessment Conference because there's a huge push in <br />the state among law enforcement divisions to encourage threat assessment teams be housed <br />within our communities. <br />Do you know if the Health and Safety Division is aware of that effort or it's open to discussing <br />that effort with our community members? <br />MR. PATEL: I don't know if they're aware of that. And theyI don't know necessarily that <br />they would be discussing that directly with community members. That division is primarily for <br />County employees. They do work closely with, hand-in-hand, with police when issues come up. <br />They help coordinate, for example, the Active Shooter trainings—and that sort of thing. <br />MS. DE SOTO: Yeah. There's some interesting trends that are happening in terms of how the <br />State is starting to approach it and doing multi -disciplinary teams, and encouraging employers to <br />start to have teams and partnering with community teams, like we have a statewide team called <br />Threat Team Hawaii that anyone can elevate cases to, parallel with law enforcement. Because <br />law enforcement often doesn't take a preventative approach. It's an intervention approach. <br />MR. PATEL: Mm-hmm. <br />MS. DE SOTO: So, it broadens the approach. <br />MR. PATEL: That, definitely, sounds interesting and something I can discuss with that division. <br />I know that for that division, more recently, too, they've been more involved with civil defense <br />operations in more of an expanded role, which kind of ties into the public safety the public, in <br />general, versus just County of Hawaii employees. <br />And then, through Civil Defense they're looking at community action teams. So, I think there <br />might be some kind of tie-in there but, definitely, open to having that discussion with health and <br />safety. <br />Page 22 <br />