SACRAMENTO — Sacramento’s Incident Management Team (IMT) launched one year ago and the director of the Department of Community Outreach calls the specialized team’s results “significant.”
The IMT has representatives from multiple departments within the city including Sacramento police, Sacramento Fire, the city manager’s office, and code enforcement. The goal when the team was established was to “ensure all of the City’s available resources are being utilized and leveraged in the best manner possible for response to the homelessness crisis.”
Since it’s inception last year, the City of Sacramento released data from the group’s work:
- Responded to more than 41,000 calls for service.
- Created more than 12,000 engagements with people experiencing homelessness to help connect them with services.
- Obtained compliance more than 4,800 times with city laws.
- Removed approximately 10 million pounds of trash.
“The IMT takes a compassionate enforcement approach. We aren’t going to reduce homelessness with just offering social services or with just providing enforcement. We need a balanced approach to meet the needs of all our community,” Brian Pedro, the director of the Department of Community Outreach, said in a statement…