March 10, 2022 — Police Oversight Panel Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:00] Come back. awesome thanks y'all welcome we will start tonight's meetings. We always do by saying we acknowledge the Arapaho Yute and Cheyenne tribes. The traditional custodians of the land on which the police oversight, panel and boulder police department operate and pay our respects to their elders past and present, and I want to welcome any members of the public who have joined us today. Looks like we have a few, and anyone who may be covering this for a media outlet tonight. We really appreciate your participation. Welcome me to this meeting, and of course I Later on this evening we will have open public comment. I'd also like to welcome all of our panel members this evening, and to thank everyone for being here. I want to acknowledge this it's challenging time for for many reasons, all across the world hold space for that. And just thank you all for showing up being present for this important work for our community members of the public members of the press members of the

[1:05] Panel Independent Monitor. Jose, as a representative from the the police department. Thank you all for being here cindy to for our Cindy. There's Sorry i'm going through my i'm swiping through the gallery, and sending thank you for being here to take our notes for us this evening. As well. I members of the public just technical matter. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, there is A. Q. and A. let's open this evening and victor I was gonna check. Victor, can you? Are you up for monitoring the Q. And a again today. Yep. I got it awesome cool, so. Yes, members of the public feel free to use the Q. and A. We, we will not be checking the chat we want to keep it all in one area. So we know where what's going on and so victor can address any questions.

[2:02] That you have. I also want to allow the public know how it submit a complaint, and contact the panel outside of these meetings. So first of all, if you do have a complaint against an the older police department. Our web address is boulder colorado dot com slash services, board slash, police dash oversight, and that is where you can file a complaint or find a phone number as well as Joey's email to contact the panel for any other reason. We are working on getting a dedicated email address for the panel set up, and we will have that posted the website as soon as we have that in hand. Next up, just going to read through our agenda for this evening. So we are going to with any luck we're going to finalize another and adopt our bylaws. Finally as a panel. we're going to go through the public feedback tonight. We're also going to revisit our committee reports.

[3:02] Our main report tonight is from the Community Outreach and Communications Committee. Then we will have our report from Joey, the Independent Monitor, including an update on our annual report, which is coming out this this month. Report on outcome of our case, reviews, past case reviews, and our monthly case statistics, and then we will go into our panel selection of case, reviews of newly filed complaints, and then we will be open for public comment, and of course we'll take a quick! Break right around 7 30, like we always do to go be human beings for a minute and come back and otherwise panel all open it up any questions comments concerns before we jump into the bylaws again. Cool beings! No, thank you. Happy to be here. Thanks, Tayisha. Give me 1 s to pull up my screen and share it with you all going to share my bylaws screen with everyone.

[4:19] But what we're gonna do I will read out the feedback on our bylaws just one at a time, and then I'm just gonna open the floor for discussion. Then, if anyone has any motions to change the bylaws to further discussion to table it, we'll move on from there, but we will just start with one by one going through the feedback and opening it for discussion so comment A. this is specifically on section 1.1. Oh, I should just review for members of the public. So we did close our official review of the bylaws about let's see.

[5:02] A week ago 250 for everyone who offered feedback and so we're going that's what we're going through tonight. I will also know we some of the feedback that we won't talk about tonight. There were 2 comments that we got through the website that appeared to be complaints. And so, Joey is actually following up with both those And then we also received which i'll talk about at the end little the feedback that has that is in addressing the ordinance, and not so much our bylaws. And so i'll just talk about that real quick at the end But then I also would. I also want to state, Of course this is not, and end to feedback on the police panel the police oversight panels, bylaws at any time we can amend these bylaws and a panel. And so any future comments feedback that we get from the public will be considered can be submitted through our contact information on our website. We just want to, of course, get the bylaws approved, so we can start using them, and that, of course, means changing them as we go forward.

[6:07] And as we need So for the first feedback tonight that we received section 1 point, one: its state's native land, territory, and people acknowledgement does not belong in this document. I understand it provides some quotes feel good for those drafting it. but since it has nothing to do with the oversight, panel, being inclusion is unwarranted as a side note. If city Council truly wanted to make an impact related to this topic, they would place all city land and the tribes is ownership and lease it back. That is comment a and i'll open that up for discussion with the panel. What I would say is heard but the the panel decided to put it in, and as there is no negative to having it in, I think we should just keep it in.

[7:13] But commentary her our second and second Thank you, sir. this is station. Thank you, Sarah. I will say that, so I agree with the sentiment. I do remember that that was an important piece for Sasha, who was one of the founding panel people who's no longer with us, and it was important to to her to get it in there, so I would I would support that keeping it in for how she incorporated it, and i'd be open for a tribal consultation on this as well. H.

[8:03] Of. That's a really good point and that's just a second to make a note on that. Well, I do think that there is a connection to the disproportionate of policing of indigenous peoples. So, thus making this panel you know a pathway. I hope that when we do the applications that that is you know a stakeholder group that is interested in serving in this way. So that we can really have as much diverse representation of those who have escorted these lands from thousands of years, who are still here today. Those who are those are my thoughts. Do any panel members want to make a motion to change 1 point, one?

[9:12] Oh, chico I see unmuted. yeah I think of I don't have any problems with living in, and what's the harm? I mean the only thing I could ask, or maybe is it to do? Other panels outside this. What we are doing also at the similar pages. if they do, what's I can plot the project over this, so I can tell you. the city is working as a whole, to try to provide some. Common language for all the animals, and committees and boards to use I don't. They haven't finalized that yet so this may sort of be a placeholder.

[10:02] For once the the city does finalize that and then we'll get some consistent language that all the other panel and boards and commissions are you? Then we can come back and update it. If you all choose to do that, Chico, I think when we were doing our research for the bylaws, I think there was only one other example, and I forget now who it was. But we we had. we all had only found one other example, of a panel or a board engage in police oversight, including a land territory. acknowledgement there, Aren't. any other comments from the panel I think we can move on to our next piece of feedback. So this is Comment B. And it is talking about Section 1.2 be dot will foster systematic change.

[11:02] Dot dot dot leads one to believe in a foregone conclusion. Changes are necessary. I feel this section should be more along the lines of Dot Dot. Ensure our enhanced, ensure, or enhance the integrity and trust of the department. Forward slash community relationship. Sorry. Can you repeat the language proposals? Absolutely. B: dot will foster systematic change. Dot dot dot leads one to believe it's a foregone conclusion. Changes are necessary. I feel this section should be more along the lines of dot, dot, dot, ensure or enhance the integrity and trust of the Department Board Community Relation. Relationship that implies that everything's going well right now, Hmm.

[12:10] I move to my neck. Yeah, i'm sorry glad can you say that again. Sorry you cut out. Well, I need to decline the the language. I second, the and I second the Miss Tatia. Thank you, Tisha, for the second, so we will do all hands up from the panel. You agree we should not not alter This language typically I don't think we 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 that's a majority. Thank you, Ri. I see you, Martha. I see your hand. Great. Then we'll move on to comment c this is in regard to Section 4.3, a excuse the scroll anonymity of the complaint I would suggest not accepting anonymous complaints.

[13:19] However, my guess is that will not be an option in your eyes, so I will lessen the statement where these complaints will be given. The same credence and care. Anonymous complaints, in my opinion, should not be given the same credence as one where a person is willing to stand behind their complaint. This is an issue with society as a whole. Now, in the ability for completely complaints and comments to be made anonymously. The electronic means. This unduly and fairly places the recipients of the complaints in a position to defend the allegations without any context, just from Mit Ctl. And following what the contributor is saying, it reminds me of the importance of with whistleblower laws.

[14:06] Why do we have them in the first place otherwise everything would have been open? And and that's where things like retaliation comes in so some people have to be protected. So being that analogy is part of the system. So I propose we decline what contribute a wandered. Second. I agree, Chico. Thank you, Sarah, for the second. So if everyone wants to show hands for declining this comment, I see, Martha. I see you, Taisha Chico Sarah and that's a majority. Thank you, comment D. our last comment. This does not specify any particular section in the bylaws.

[15:00] When I was at one of the early meetings for the police overspace site Panel, we, I spoke with a young woman who had been sexually assaulted, and later tried to file a complaint with the boulder police department about how she was treated by one of their officers, but the Boulder Police Department refused to take the complaint so admittedly without me. Having read the bylaws. I request that there be a process for the Oversight Board, or some other non police entity to accept complaints directly, since the police department can't be trusted to accept complaints and so I will say so at the moment our complaint process laid out by the ordinances that complaints go to the office of the Independent Monitor, and as a reminder, the office of the independent model monitor is not a part of the boulder police department. it is an independent jurisdiction. I left this in here because I wasn't entirely sure i'm interested in other people's feedback.

[16:02] But I think if I think this change would have to go through the ordinance, and would not be something we could do with our bylaws. But I wanted to open it up for discussion. Is there a potential loophole here in which Kate win? They complain, goes to Joey, which I assume is a form, have actually never looked. It actually actually Ccs the alias to the panel, so that there is a duplicate copy. Would that require any ordinance changes no I don't think so. i'll comment to what you said just before, too, Sarah. many of our complaints do come through the website. But we also get a lot of complaints verbally over the phone on that sort of thing. that's actually we'll talk about it later. But that's something joining are talking about How to get us a full transcript of those complaints.

[17:00] That sort of thing. But yeah, maybe joy. if that is a process that yeah, that we can, that we can be Cc: on all initial complaints is is, yeah, yeah, we? Can, whatever you all tell me like sort of at what pace you want them. If they come in directly to me when they're online and filed, are through, someone calls the police department. It may get transmitted to me as a like a document or something, but I can either forward those to you all as soon as they come in, or you could tell me we want these you know, on you know, every Friday night, send whatever's come in during the week. However, you want me to distribute those to you, but you you obviously have access to those as a part of the case files. So if you want those little earlier in the process that's that's totally fine. I think you can done, and I think the specific feedback here was that it was not taken.

[18:03] I don't know what to do with that I feel like I want to give that comment, or some way to resubmit. It. They don't know how we would get I don't know if we have a record of who that commenter was, and we can reach out to them. Yeah. and maybe the answer to that is, you know, if this person is listening, or I think we could even get in touch with them. If there is an instance where a where the Boulder Police department did not take a complaint. They can file the complaint directly with the office and the Independent Monitor directly with us through our website. The instructions above. So actually I can follow up with them directly. And ask them to to submit their complaint through our complaint process. Yes, I'm just making a note to myself to do that or the email when we get it.

[19:05] Yeah, there it is. as far as making a change to the bylaws through. Do we want to make here's so the question in front of the panel? Do we want to make a change to the bylaws? Now, in accordance with this comment, our other option is, we can pass this off to the Governance Committee to bring us back and amend an official amendment at our next meeting. As well products. I move we pass it off to the governance for a process change versus a bylaws change. I second that all in favor. Hands up, Martha thank you, Victor Chico Sarah.

[20:06] Thank you. Tisha, that's majority i'm making a note. I'll follow up with hadas chair of governance. It's Okay, that's all of the feedback we got from the public. But there is one other matter with the bylaws that came up with our with discussions around our outreach. Give me just a second to find it in the this is compelling civic work.

[21:14] Y'all finding the committee's section live in our mind where did you go? Okay, just a sec or 2.5. So in the course of discussing chairs and co-chairs, here it is. Tatia had I an idea, and I think I heard back from at. Also she thought it was a great idea, as well as chair of governance to go ahead and combine the Governance Committee and the Education and Orientation Committee to one just to help bolster the numbers of the Committee to help get the work done. But, as Tauisha pointed out, most most is the wrong words.

[22:01] Many panels and boards assign education, responsibilities. Training responsibilities to the Governance Committee. Tisha, did you have anything to add to that? Sorry you're here. I don't need to speak for you no, no worse, thank you. I would say that for the Education Committee I was thinking it was education for the panelists, not education for the community which would go under community outreach and communications. So I just wanted to make that clarification. so maybe it's ongoing education or something, or I don't you know I don't know something like that so that it's more specific to the panelists. So you know all the train, you know the trainings and the component which is so critical to this work. Thanks, Tisha, Any other thoughts concerns, and we can redraft that now, I think, would be pretty easy before we approve. Okay, So i'm gonna redraft this before putting it into a motion.

[23:07] Right. Let me just make sure. Okay, take a look at that. Any thoughts, any further changes, any issue with that. Okay. So in that case, super exciting I move that the panel adopt these by laws. Taisha.

[24:02] Hands up to adopt these bylaws and and that's a majority. Thank you. All this was a process for sure. Thank you all so much for your work on these. Thank you to ever all the members of the public who offered your feedback. I do want to reiterate. This is a this is a living document. This panel is always open to hearing further feedback. Either comp future further comment on these bylaws. I will just scroll to the bottom. Here we have Part of these bylaws is an amendment process, a pretty straightforward one. So we will. We will work this stock until it does what it needs to do for our community. And this panel. Thank goodness y'all now also means I can officially pass this work off to Hadasa as our chair of governance, and thanks for your leadership.

[25:00] You have been pushing this forward daily, weekly through the months. So thank you a lot, and thank you sarah I echo that's congratulations and thank you to and for for leadership. And it's just been a hercules and effort and yeah. And already the next generation of panels are benefiting from the incredible lift and and thank you to your show. Thanks and thank you to everyone who contributed Martha especially for all all the writing you did for us. Adasa, who's not here for all the research I It really was a group effort, and it I think it was very well done. What I also want to. So just a quick revisit. We got several comments in this review, process, expressing that the oversight panel should have the power to punish police officers directly, or to terminate officers directly, and so the reason why we're not considering that's part of

[26:14] our bylaws, is because those are not that's not power authority. that's granted to the oversight panel through the ordinance, and so I wanted to acknowledge that we had received that comment I don't want to you know just disregard it but I do want to make a note, especially for members of the public who are here. That the ordinance is the The overarching, governing document of this panel. The bylaws are meant to fill in. You know the gaps, the procedures, the any additional information the panel needs to conduct its business under the the The authority that City council has given us through or through the ordinance, and so those that's one of those recommendations that we can't implement directly within our authority and would need would be a matter that would need to go to

[27:01] City Council, and be reflected in the law otherwise thanks again for all the feedback. We'll look out for more and next up on our agenda. Our committee will works. and so actually, Taisha all handed over to you for the community Outreach and Communications Committee update and I can actually go ahead and just share my screen. If that works for everyone. 1 s that'd be great Daniel. Thank you so much on it like about it ties. Are you able to see that? Okay, too. I can thank you so much joining from my phone. You. they call them, because of it to be devices for making

[28:01] So. Hello, everybody! Good evening. My name is Taisha Adams. I. You show her pronouns, and I am a member of the older police oversight, Panel, and I am also one of the co-chairs for the community engagement and communications. I am joined in the chairship by Victor King. But there, would you like to come on and come on camera, or bring your voice into the space and introduce yourself, and then i'll share a little bit about myself there as well in a mineral? Go ahead or what we're we're excited about serving on this panel. Sure. I think my name is Victor King. you know Longtime Boulder County resident. Bring a lot of lived experience on all sides of homelessness and law enforcement and multiple issues. Are we really looking forward to having ways for communities members to engage and give feedback?

[29:07] And so we're just trying to set all this up as we just finished our bylaws, So we're still in some of the foundational stages of this. But yep, just looking forward to to this work. Awesome. Thank you, Victor. this is Daisha. Oh, the brief overview is just about the both the police oversight panel is more so. Just a for the external distribution following this meeting, but it provides just a reminder about the recuration of the panel by the Council, as well as the relationship with the independent entity as an independent ordered by the office of the independent and police monitor, and really the the role of the of the panel being to review completed internal complaint. Investigations, make recordations on dispute, on disposition and discipline for those, and to make policy and training recommendations to the Department.

[30:10] Next slide. Yeah, this is our incredible committee member, the rest of our committee members. So we are joined by our co-chairs of the entire boulder police oversight. Panel, Daniel and Rl. and we are also joined by Sarah Holt to be Who serves on another panel as well. So thank you, Sarah, for doing double. Dvd. and to be hosting public meetings, which will offer opportunities for additional pseudo members, or i'm not sure what it's called, but certainly ways to engage, because be public. So we might as well make them engaging instead of the traditional sense get So i'm excited to model some that more dynamic and engage and methods for community engagement as well as a model.

[31:05] The types of equitable processes where we're co-creating as well as co-implant implementing. as we design what this police oversight panel will look like for our community. Next slide. So we have a tentative schedule for our plan development. I'm. Realizing this is one slide before the other. But so we started in January really just doing gathering documents and and getting our bearings around base. Get a building on all of the work that the bylaws committee had done by gathering different bylaws and just communication plans were also embedded in those which really helped to inform the outline that we'll be able to share later today. I remember this from March. We have our code chairs, and are excited to share our outline with you all.

[32:04] Tonight from March to June. we'll be doing a situational analysis. I know that's a scary term I didn't I didn't care for when I heard it. but it will unpack that in in a moment. But basically it just means getting our bearings then in July. we'll use all of that feedback to update the plan. Share it for a public review, integrate that information, and then September present back to the Boulder Police Oversight panel for our final vote. I would like to open up to the panelists. Who are, you know, really integrating this, and wanted to say, You know, if you had any initial feedback based on this outline, you know, obviously you know, we want to be mindful, of the multiple committees that going on, the fact that we have our own additional training to do as panelists as well as reviewing, and each of us are dedicated to least one, and most of us are doing 2 reviews a month and so I want to

[33:04] be mindful of of that as well, although I do know the public is eager to be. Leni comments. This is okay, me what's that now, I just said, this looks fine. This is okay for me. Awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that. I was gonna say t-shirt. I I appreciate the emphasis on laying the groundwork for this work. Knowing is the first panel that we are setting the track for future panels. And so I appreciate this timeline and what you're saying to about about getting the public in it public engagement in as soon as possible, while also making sure we're laying solid groundwork for every future, panel that comes thank you Daniel and obviously we're you know we I don't think that it's we need to vote on it per se.

[34:06] I'm not sure how procedural we need to be with our committees, but we can certainly engage more feedback, and we still, you know, amongst our committee, haven't really been able to unpack until I wanted to you know. Acknowledge that and you know old space for additional time to unpack. If you know if we need to make additional adjustments, and of course we'll let you all provide any updates next month next slide. And now i'm going over my time so all right the proposed process plan that we used is or that we're using currently is document review, and that was in this used to of develop process the situational analysis. We don't stakeholders identifying those as well as the audiences we wanted between identifying engagement and community would do strategies.

[35:05] Then the public comment here next slide. I just wanted to unpack some of these terms. So situational analysis, because I feel like people just use all these big terms. They never unpack what they are so basically it's a swan analysis which is the strength witness of opportunities and threats. for those who are familiar with the swan analysis. But basically another fancy Germans sent data. So what have people have already gathered about the police? You know those of you who have had a chances at the Border National Film Festival this year? You. is not us? Which was about the history black people involved. Incredible But anyway, to my larger point we're including and non films documentaries podcasts I mean there's a lot of information about you know.

[36:01] Good that of me, all of it. You know we want to know the best that has happened. The the strengths we can do, and so we'll identify a variety of different so thank you, Martha adding it into the chat box. And then we also think we have an opportunity to leverage inter community collaboration with our legacy. Education subcommittee for our governance. any questions about that for reactions. Basically a new assessment layer and layer the land All right, let's add, he stakeholders. Basically, this is an immigration of all of the police oversight communications, documents. I could find. No, we could gather as well as just general, you know. Now this is the unpacked majority stakeholder and audiences. But you know, elected officials, civic social organizations, public interest groups like the Naacp Staff and other city and and county departments.

[37:11] I mean, they really went into the crates with some of these other. Consider that employees sworn civilian demand. I was like, okay. So again when we're talking about communications and I just am so excited. But I also have to be mindful of bandwidth And so that's where we really are gonna need community support as well as support from the Boulder police Oversight I mean the polar police department and of course the office of the independent monitor next slide, or any reactions to this. All right. Next slide our outreach and communication strategies. So engagement, your traditional public meetings, forums, town halls, surveys, feedback forums again.

[38:02] Really a cross-section of qualitative and quantitative data and collection things that you could try and measure over time. You know. Again, we want to model the types of transparency that we want to see of our police department, not just this one, but around the country. And so again, this is where we are excited about having community, and you know we honor all forms of knowledge and knowledge integration traditional. You know experiential, academic. So you know, if this is your Bellywick, please please, please Public, hear me organizations. Hear me. This is this is an opportunity for us to show it. so. So do can look like to really come together around this. and there are other communities. That we can that have know who shoulders. We can stand on rather next slide. Thank you. Participate in upcoming public communication community engagement and Oh, wow!

[39:07] Sorry meetings is email my my email is there sorry we don't know I did not do not have the panel email at the time, so I will just navigate that into a shared folder and make sure to get all of that information. We also are collecting additional resources, as again, everyone has a the knowledge, and, you know, really want to build a beautiful mother. Any general overall comments from the panel that you've seen the whole presentation, and again thank you for my co-chair, Victor, for stepping up and being co-chair with me as out of very very large overflowing plate, and to have a co-chair is just, I mean so incredibly helpful. And I know you're incredibly deep too so we'll also be looking for public support in as well as be a finance.

[40:02] So you should just talk on Slide 8, just for the benefit and the benefit of the general public. What do you mean by educational collateral? Oh, thank you. Sorry about that, or rather, thank you for that question. Educational collateral. By that I mean one pager it's flyers information that we would share with the public if we went to a fair or went to You know the farmers market, and so that people can learn more about the police oversight panel, how they can submit a complaint. Those kinds of things as well as digital. so you know we have kind of I don't know. I mean. And again, this is where I need. You know the professional that we pay consultant or something that would be wonderful. . So you can read. Is it any other questions, or just a a point on on the point that you just made?

[41:05] We do have access to the professional communication staff with the city, and they've offered to assist with this whole plan. And we did mention last month that we raised the of scheduling a meeting with the communication staff and the Outreach Committee. So I think now that we have wonderful foundation I think that'll be our next step. I can send out an email get that started, and we can have a meeting with them and start bringing this to life. Additionally, we have. when I met with amy we talked about connecting this committee with the city's community outreach specialists, professional data team dedicated to this work as well, and so that seems like a good natural alignment as Well, as tacit, as as you've pointed out you know a need for resources to support this work as well right right and And again, I think I did use the term consultant purposefully, because I do think having an in dependent

[42:06] voices important, and so that's where I was asking about fiscal support, although again, it's more for the communications it's more of an alignment meeting it's not a permission meeting things I want to be clear on the optics. Thank you. Good point. Thank you. Any other comments. notes, Panel. Thank you, Taylor. show this this is amazing i'm so excited to get to work on it. Thank you all. I was inspired by the bylaws committee, so I had to step it up. I'll raise the ball on we've got documents so Documents. Got a document warehouse nextogen item.

[43:01] Okay? Oh, thanks, Tisha. Martha. I was just gonna check in with you if you had any. anything from the Legacy Committee. No, no worries otherwise. but I did just want to give you space. If you did. we do not. but we are gonna try and have regular meetings scheduled. Separately and we now know that we've got to make sure that they're recorded and stick them where they're supposed to go. Thank you, Martha. and as for governance hadasa our our chair couldn't make it tonight because she's on her way to her wedding. But the governance committee is meeting Monthly now. and our next month, our next monthly meeting we're gonna discuss the addition of the education and training responsibilities. With that I will hand it over to Joey for the monitors report.

[44:01] Great, thank you all, and congratulations on the bylaws and the outreach plan that's really exciting could work everyone. There was one comment just now in the chat I just wanted to quickly address It's in regards to sort of who investigates the complaints, and so just wanted to clarify for that member of the public and anyone else, all the complaints that are filed are investigated by the professional standards unit in the police department. Whether it comes to the monitor or goes directly to the police department. What happens is my role as the Monitor is to to monitor those investigations in real time, which means having direct access to all the records that are being created, sitting in and observing and making recommendations during the investigation during the interviews excuse me the officers of the complainants of the witnesses and then they conclude their investigation, and then provide that investigative file to the panel.

[45:01] And then that's where the panel process starts to review the investigation and make a determination so to help. that's helpful for the member who are the member of the public who asked that Okay, First I don't know Oh, yeah, sorry. I didn't meant to enter up but in in for fairness sake, since you addressed a member of community, I do want to recognize that there is a Manburg community who is asking lots of questions about Ada without starting an open discussion with that particular member of the community. I want you to know that we are taking notes we see what You're saying we're acknowledging it. You can have a some time to speak at the end, but we are not ignoring you. We see it. So we just wanted to let you know, and just a quick reminder to members of the public and panel to If we can get all questions and comments in the Q. And A. so that they are all in one place to what Sarah's saying so that we can keep track of everything that is coming in, and panel members to keep comments to the group open to deliver them through the video channel so that they can be

[46:07] heard, and otherwise only use the chat for direct communications. Just so. so we do. I end up with our attention in multiple places. Thank you. i'm Sorry about that no it's fine I have a hard time following with the various messages that are coming into So my first item on the monitor's report just to note that the annual report is in the works. I think if I don't have it to you by the end of the day tomorrow, it'll be in your inbox over the weekend, So you know, take it, and also at a good conversation with Daniel in the co-chair meeting. so he's seen sort of a early draft of it last week, and gave me some some comments and some thoughts, particularly on some of the charts and graphs that I was creating but you all will get that very soon. Take a couple of days with it. take, you know. Do a good review of it. see if there's any other sections you want to add to it any other kind of charts or graphs that you want me to create.

[47:07] And we'll get that out. I do think the other sort of things that need to happen. Daniel and Ariel will be writing the introductory letter in the report And so a couple of little pieces to get through but i'll i'll get you all the draft very soon, so I can get your feedback while I'm. On the topic of reports. I did want to share with everyone that after we get this annual report out, I do want to start working on a use of force report for this for the Bolton Police Department. I think there's been a lot of questions raised recently in in the press, and I think it could it it's would be helpful for us to do a full examination of the use of force, data and and put that out to the public so i'm hoping we can get that out during the summer I think that's a that's a realistic target. And similar with that, as I start getting some of the preliminary data analysis together for that, i'll start sharing that with all of you.

[48:05] With the panel members and you'll that'll Give you an opportunity to start understanding the data asking questions of it, telling me what other things you want. So what questions you want to answer with the data, And I can start building that into the report. So my my sort of vision for this is sort of a collective effort. i'll do all i'll do the leg work, but you all tell me, and sort of what you all what questions you want to see answered by this data and then we'll get that put together, together. so just wanted to make the panel aware of that, and and the public as well. So we had 3 case reviews during the month of February. I'll just go through the the summary of the case and the outcomes. First one was mi, 2,021 oh, 5 1. This case, and involved an allegation that the complainants first amendment rights were violated in June of 2018,

[49:04] When he received a harassment violation for following a demonstrator on the Pearl Street Mall. The violation summons indicated that the reporting party told the officer that 2 males were following him. After confronting him and his, about his campaigning and soliciting signatures, both individuals admitted to the officer that they were following the reporting party, and said they were mistaken, and believing that that that they were within their constitutional rights to do so as part of their free speech. The reporting reporting party requested the individuals the issue to summons, and both individuals signed the summons. The complaint that complain it in this case is one of the end. Individuals who received the summons da's office indicated that the narrative on the back of the tickets clearly supported probable cause to believe the defendants violated the harassment. statute. However, the Da's office concluded that the incident involved political activity by the suspects and victim that he implicated the first amendment, and did not appear to rise to the level of a prosecutable crime the

[50:01] Da's office. The declined to prosecute that violation. The allegation was classified as a rule 5 police authority and public trust allegation based on the issuance of the summonses the investigation found that the officer did not violate any department policy, and the allegation was deemed not sustained by both the panel and the department. The panel committee that reviewed it, as well as the police department, Kcmi, 22,145. This case involved in allegation that a detective failed to interview relevant witnesses. Despite being notified of the witnesses and being provided with their contact. Information. investigation found that the detective did not perform in a satisfactory manner to include interviewing witnesses, suspects, and taking extended amounts of time to review items of evidence. The panel, sustained the allegation, and recommended a one-day suspension for the detective. The chief of police sustained the allegation against the tech against the detective, imposed a one-year letter of reprimand.

[51:03] Mi. 2,000. 2,146. This case involved a complaint that alleged an officer issued an arrest warrant for her, but not against her husband. The officer was provided with evidence of harassment. Discharge included a domestic violence and enhancement which is required when harassment occurs between 2 individuals in an intimate relationship investigation found that the officer had sufficient probable cause to apply for the warrant, and that such action was required under State law. Both the panel and the chief of police exonerated the officer on the allegation. I should say the panel recommended the exoneration, and then the chief did actually exonerate it. In terms of our monthly case, statistics We've had 6 complaints and 3 community inquiries in February. So far in March We've had one complaint and one community inquiry, and there are currently 18 open investigations that are underway.

[52:00] We do have several cases tonight to review. that will be coming up shortly. That is the conclusion of my report chair thank you thanks Joey I'm going to suggest we go and take our 5 min break now, and we will come back and jump right into the cases to review this week. So I will see everyone back here at 7 30. Thank you very much. Well come back, everyone. so we are going to jump right back in with voting on case reviews.

[58:27] I wanted to start this off with clarification, came up in a meeting in a recent article, but in the news. And so what I wanted to this is the one part of the police oversight panel that isn't open to the public We're protecting the confidentiality of the complaints and everyone involved in complaints and So we review these these initial case summaries in privately before. You know, as Joey did tonight. once the investigation is closed, the panel and the chief have made their recommendation.

[59:01] We report those out in our meetings in our annual report what we're reviewing tonight are case summaries. These are not summaries of the complaints, and this is important, because what it is we get the information from the complaint as well as any available evidence. Initial investigations, analysis of available, some of preliminary analysis of boulder, of bodyworn camera, footage, and any other salient details that help us to fully understand the situation. Before this panel decides whether or not to take a case up for review. A recommendation did come up early on and we're working on it right now for the panel to receive the full complaints in full in the initial review as well. But, speaking for myself, I think the case summaries themselves. have several times on reviews that I have done, provided information that really did inform the panel as to the seriousness of the problem, but i'm not sure that the complaint alone would have

[60:05] done for us, and so I wanted to express appreciation for the call. Full case summary We'll be noting this in future public meetings as well, just to to be a bit aware of what we're doing right now. But otherwise, unless anyone else has anything else to add, we will jump into those. Yeah, Joey, real quick. I just wanted to point out for the benefit of the public, that you that the panel does have the option when they receive a summary to say actually, we don't feel like we have enough information yet on this one let's wait until a little bit more information develops. or Ask particular questions that they want to answer before making that decision. If they don't feel like they have everything in that summary so that is an option for the panel great. So moving forward, so panel members what i'm going to do I will read out the full case number as well as the the rule. Allegation and then we will do a hands-up vote on whether to fully review the case.

[61:04] So everyone's ready we're going to start with case number M. I 2 0, 2, 2, 0, 3. And this is a rule. 5 police authority and public trust, allegation. Give you all a chance to familiarize yourself again with that summary. Then, when you're ready, hands up if you would like the panel to review this case, thank you. hand up. If you would. Oh, thank you, Martha, one hands up! If you would not like the panel to review this case I see Chico see myself, Sarah Victor Tisha.

[62:03] Sorry i'll thank you so we will not review case number Mi. 2 0, 2, 2 0, 3. Next up is number M. I. 2 0, 2, 2 0, 0 0, 4 this is rule 5 police authority and public trust. I'll give you a second when you're ready hands up. If you would like the panel to fully review this case. I see, Victor. I see, Martha. I see Sarah, I see. Are you all I see, Taiisha so that will great and hands up! If you'd like the panel not to review this case just for the record, I see Chico. I see myself the majority has it.

[63:07] We will review Mi 2 0, 2, 2 0, 0, 4. Next up is Mi, 2 0, 2, 2 0, 0, 5. This is rule 4 respect for others. Give me a second hands up please. If you'd like the panel to review this case see myself I see, Victor, I see Sarah, I see Rl. Thank you. Hands up! If you would not like the panel to review this case, I see Chico. I see Martha dimension, or I see taisha So that's a 4 to 3 to Yes, we will review mi 2 0, 2, 2 0 5.

[64:13] Next up is Mi 2 0, 2, 2 0 0 6. This is rule, one customer service value give you a second hands up. If you would like the panel to review this case. Thank you. Hands up. If you would not like the panel to review this case, I see Rl. Martha, Sarah Victor myself. Sorry screens are all jumping around. Thank you, Victor. we will not review M. I.

[65:02] 2 0, 2, 2 0 0, 6. Next up is Mi, 2 0, 2, 2 0 0 7. This is also a rule, one customer service value key a second and hands up. If you would like the panel to review this case, I see myself. I see Chico. I see, Taisha. Thank you. Hands up! If you would not like the panel to review this case, I see, Sarah. Thank you all. We will review him. I 2 0, 2, 2 last is S. M.

[66:05] 2 0, 2, 2 0 0 2. This is serious misconduct rule. One give you a second hands up. If you would like to review this case, I see myself. I see Sarah, I see Chico. I see rl I see Martha. I see, Taisha. I see, Victor, which is everyone unanimous. Yes, we will serve. We will review S. M. 2 0, 2, 2 0 0, 2 joy. Did you catch all those? I also noted them as well. Thank you all. Give me 1 s to close this out. Okay,

[67:17] So next up on our agenda is public comment. so to review how public comment works for us, and in this setting each member of the public who's with us, I see 6 and you thank you for sticking around with us we will ask each of you if you'd like to comment. and we'll do that verbally, and we will, Joey will unmute you, so you can get the chance to tell us. Yes or no, and we will go through each one of you. To make sure, you know, accidentally, miss anyone to a technical glitch, because that happens, the public members of the public you will get to unimpeded minutes to comment. I'm gonna put a stop stop watch up on the screen if there's an interruption or a loss of connection, or anything.

[68:04] I will stop the clock and reset you will get a full toothpaste. I will also give a verbal notice of time at 20 s to the end. Just so, you know, and then I will ask to mute the feed at 2 min, so that we a hold to that rule panel members. you may offer short responses at the end of each comment. Go ahead and just chat me if you would like to offer comment, or else at the end of each one i'll just ask if anyone has anything to say say to respond. But of course, is we We want to keep this open, and we can want to keep this moving. Any questions. comments, concerns give me 1 s to share my screen Tonight's stopwatch is brought to you by Google. Okay, and so I think we will start joy let's start with Darren O'connor, If Darren would you like to give comment tonight and turn you may need to unmute your , there and you you just need to unmute

[69:24] yourself. Thanks. Okay. Thanks. panel members. I was concerned with the bylaws that Oh, Boulder Revised Code 2, 11, sevenf on due duties and powers of the police oversight panel defines, one of your duties that include that the police oversight panel shall evaluate the work of the monitors office and shall establish criteria by which to evaluate the work of the police.

[70:06] Monitor, the bylaws in section 2.6. The version. I saw said that the panel has the authority to evaluate the work of the police monitor, and thus abrogated one of your most important duties, which is to evaluate the work of the police monitor. I don't see how that happened Why, you would choose to do that, and think the public deserves to know you. Why you aggregated a duty secondly I don't know if you're aware that the police monitor that you refer to as the Independent police monitor is not independent. He's defined as a police monitor. I would define him as a police lapdog. And I would add, for your information that he applied for an actual independent monitor position in Denver, where they decided, along with 2 other applicants, to be fair.

[71:14] He didn't meet whatever criteria they had for an actual independent monitor. So I hope we hear from you about this choice to not fulfill one of your duties. Thank you. i'll actually take this one I just want to offer a quick clarifications of how the bylaws work. And so the ordinance is the overall governing document for this panel. And so, of course, all powers and duties described, outlined in the ordinance. We cannot alter those with our bylaws. We can fill in the gaps.

[72:01] We can explain procedures. but even if we wanted to limit our powers under the with our bylaws, we could not do that. We cannot expand our powers. The bylaws are meant is a supplemental document to the ordinance to help us understand and exercise. How we provide effective police oversight. in accordance with our ordinance, and of course, boulder should be commended for a A rather unique ordinance document, as we've said before that offers us a unique level of power in this process, as well as a great deal of direction, and identifying, of course, this very diverse group of people to carry out this work and to represent marginalized voices in our community. But again, just to just as a reminder that the bylaws are a supplemental document to the ordinance and all powers and responsibilities outlined in the ordinance, our powers and responsibilities. This panel will be carrying out and is carrying out panel members.

[73:04] Anyone else have any follow-up comment. The only thing that I would say to the members of the public is, remember that most of us here are just volunteer citizens, and the difference between has, and shall, for a lawyer is very different than the difference between has and Chow to ordinary citizens, so there was no intent. Thank you, Sarah. joy I think next we'll and Gilfoil, I think apologies, if that's not how your last names and pronounced and if you would like to unmute yourself Would you like to give comment tonight? You did a great job pronouncing my name, and I do not have any comments at this time.

[74:05] Thank you. Thank you, Anne. Thank you for being here, too. Joey, I think next up is Emily Brake. Emily, would you like to give comment this evening? and you may need to unmute yourself as well? I am fighting a cold. Can you hear my voice? Yes, we can thank you. Thank you. I would just like to put on the realm of consideration of this board. You've been tasked with an incredible duty and honor and for one that I am thankful that you all have volunteered, for I've volunteered on boards, too, and i've even participated in bylaws processes. I know it can be a lot of work. I hope that your time invested in this effort pays off very well.

[75:01] I encourage you and all of you to really keep in mind making sure that all of your they've got accessibility of your processes and procedures and ensuring accessibility of the law enforcement in colorado in boulder the city of boulder rather your area is something that is on your mind. Right now we have a police department building that is not physically accessible. One of its main departments for the public. is not, we are sure, accessible. It requires communication through a landline phone so right right out the gate. It's just physically not accessible for a significant percentage of people in the city of Boulder. And it happens to be the same kinds of groups of people that tend to have the these favorable outcomes when interacting with the police. So I just would like to ask that you consider that in your processes and considerations moving forward.

[76:06] Thank you. Thank you, Emily. Panel members, any follow-up comment. I would just like to thank the embryo for the kind comments. and we do this as a service, because, just like Co community members, we are just as concerned, and we have the same concerns when we see things that are not being done right. So that's why we volunteer to do what we do and i'll urge members of the public that if they do feel are grieved in any way with the way the panel is operating, or feel that it has

[77:02] limited power. There is a process in which for instance, for it that going through the change in all these ordinances. That's another process. Then the other aspect would be to for we like just like Tisha said. We are trying to ramp up community community out community and communication outreach. So i'll urge members of the public to fully get vested in what we are doing. I mean this is for all of us it's not just for us panel members. Thank you. Thanksgiving sorry to ask a member of the as a member of the to me outreach committee, you know I don't. I don't know if it's a 100% appropriate. but family, I would like to invite you to engage with us more, so that we can can take up this this particular issue that you you clearly have very specific examples.

[78:08] That you want to get in front of people and I think this is the appropriate way to do it taish. I didn't. I I hope I didn't break any rules here as the chair of your committee. I think next up. Then we have John I think it's pronounced Harrick. John, if you want to mute, would you like to give comment this evening, hey? Sorry I just actually clicked the raise your hand button I'm. A I'm not gonna come in tonight. but thank you norries thank you, John. Thank you for being here, I think. Next up, then we have my lean, my lead. if you want to unmute. Would you like to give comment this evening? thank you I Am but we'll have any calls for tonight, thank you, Milan.

[79:03] Thank you for being here, and I think end of the list we've got Peter. I believe it's heisler, Peter? do you want to unmute? Would you like to give comment this evening? All right. Can you hear me? Yes, we can thank you great thank you to the panel and to Jared I'm. An effort, some finalizing a bylaw is interviewing the case. Reports. I would just support aaron's comment about the panels, obligations oversee and independent monitor. And you think that the language in the bylaws is important, just because it you know it will be governing not only this panel, but future panel until it's amended, and I hope that it remains a living document and you know that it always it's I mean closer to turn of like in the letter and spirit of the ordinance. So. thank you again. thank you, Peter i'm just checking our attendees list.

[80:09] I think that's everyone for this evening panelists any final thoughts, comments, or concerns. And I can stop here. Hey, Daniel, this is Rl: speaking. It just wanted to say this totally totally unrelated and sorry I haven't been on screen tonight. I literally landed us and started, so I just wanted to publicly get a huge thank you to Daniel. I have had a lot going on personally, the last 2 months, and this is why we have 2 co-chairs, and Daniel has been in a support, both and personally, and I just want to give a big shout out and say that it's

[81:03] very to be in this partnership so Thanks ari yeah that's what we're here for, and I hope we're all do what we can when we can do it as we can do it. And we'll be here together to make that work happen and I want to thank all the panel members for for all your work being there for each other. You know, the last year has not been the easiest year for a lot of reasons, but also this work has been challenging, and I really just. I just appreciate all of you so much for being here doing this work, and we'll keep doing it. Yeah, sir, I see you muted yeah yeah i'm wondering I don't remember the procedure. But we have a few more minutes, I think. can we? The panelists and the Monitor go into closed session? Is that allow? Yeah, or when is that along as long as we is there aren't any, it's not there's no public business discussed or any decisions made, there will not be any of that right Okay, and and i'd only want to

[82:13] do A. Everybody else can hang on for like 10 more minutes. okay with that, If everyone else is great Okay, in that case, Joy, do you want to thank you again? Members of the public. Thank you so much for being here thank you for participating in this process, and we will we'll see we'll see soon. Thank you. Everybody waiting to see show clear. Okay, yeah. just us.