Metro - File #: 2025-0581

• File #: 2025-0581
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/11/2025
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 9/18/2025
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE status report on Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC).
• Sponsors: Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• Indexes: Customer Experience Plan, El Monte, Emergency Operations Center, Escalators, Homeless Outreach, Informational Report, Law enforcement, Los Angeles International Airport, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Center Street Project, Metro Transit Ambassadors, Outreach, Partnerships, Police, Public Safety Advisory Committee, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Surveys, System safety, Terminal 19, Testing, Transit centers, Transit Community Public Safety Department, Transit safety, Visibility, Weapons

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2025


Subject
SUBJECT: PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE QUARTERLY REPORT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status report on Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Issue
ISSUE

In June 2020, the Board directed the CEO to form an advisory committee to contribute to developing a community-based approach to public safety on the transit system. This Board report provides an update on the work of the Public Safety Advisory Committee from June through August 2025.

Background
BACKGROUND

Metro established the first cohort of PSAC on April 7, 2021. After its 16-month tenure, the first cohort concluded on August 17, 2022. At the September 2022 Board meeting, the CEO recommended that PSAC continue, and the Board approved the recommendation. The second cohort was established on February 25, 2023, and served for two years through February 2025. The third cohort began their term on February 6, 2025.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

During this reporting period, PSAC held two meetings in June and July, and following the Board schedule, went dark in August. The Committee received updates on homeless outreach, wayfinding, Systems, Safety, and Law Enforcement (SSLE)'s monthly public safety report, the proposed weapons detection bus deployment pilot, and Committee transitioned an alternate member into a voting member position.

PSAC also participated in many high-profile events and increased community fieldwork, including: the LAX/Metro Transit Center (MTC) grand opening, and the State of the Agency. In July and August, members surveyed riders on key pilot programs, such as the Throne restrooms and Weapons Detection at several rail stations. PSAC Cohort 4 recruitment also kicked off in July and will run through September.

Meetings
June 2025 Meeting Chair's Update

Chair Jeremy Oliver-Ronceros shared his experience meeting...