Micah Smith joined the station in December 2018 and is Denver7's Social Equity Reporter
DENVER — As Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration prepares to shift $11 million away from Denver’s Office of Public Safety to a new Office of Neighborhood Safety, members of Denver’s STAR Community Advisory Committee are concerned about the impact this will have on the STAR Program.
The Support Team Assisted Response Program serves as an alternative to policing by sending behavioral health counselors to low-risk dispatch calls.
“The STAR Community Advisory Committee was created in 2021 as a permanent, lasting mechanism of community input, accountability, oversight voice to drive this program from the people that created it because it is a creation of the community, not of the city. And so this is a way to continue to influence the program, to keep it accountable, to give input to it.
Kayla Frawley, a STAR Community Advisory Committee member, was in attendance when Johnston announced his plans for the Office of Neighborhood Safety.
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