FW: [Cprb] CPRB assignments

[Walling, Jennifer]

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 Hi everyone,
I am forwarding this e-mail once again to remind you all that your
organizations need to be contacted!  Please let me know ASAP if you are
unable to contact organizations.

So is everyone still up for having a meeting on January 13 at the IDF?  I
will go book a room thursday morning.  This meeting will be an
organizational meeting to (hopefully) discuss new co-sponsors and prepare
for the february meeting which we hope a lot of people will come to (if we
can get a city council member.

Happy New Year ;)

-jennifer

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Sent: 12/14/2003 6:35 PM
Subject: [Cprb] CPRB assignments

Hi everyone,

So sorry this is so late!

Attached is the revised contact list (in excel... let me know if you
need it another way).  Please contact your organizations by Jan. 10 by
phone.  A script with suggestions from John follows this e-mail.  

The goal of these calls is to let people know that we're working on this
initiative, get the organization to agree to co-sponsor or agree to
share this info with their organization, and to let the organization
know about our next two meetings.  The 2nd tuesday of jan and feb at the
IDF.

Katherine, could you please contact those 2 organizations you brought
up?  The National Council of African American Women?

PLEASE let me know if you will be unable to do this.  Forward any
questions you get to the list.

THANKS!

-jen

Hi! May I speak to the director (or other leader...) of (name of
organization)?" Or if you know the person's name, "May I speak to
_______, please?"

"Hello. My name is ______________, and I'm with a local organization
called the Coalition for Citizen Police Review. Our group is trying to
pass legislation that will create citizen police review boards in
Champaign, Urbana, and on the UIUC campus, and we're trying to identify
community organizations who might be in favor of such boards."

And here, instead of launching into an immediate description of what a
CPRB is, I'd have the caller say something like, "Are you familiar with
the concept of a Citizen Police Review Board?" and then ad lib in
response to the reply of the person called, perhaps using a variation of
the script below.

 

"A Citizen Police Review Board is an impartial body of ordinary
citizens, independent of the police department, empowered to receive and
investigate citizen complaints against police officers and to perform
other oversight functions. We're looking for organizations to join our
coalition and co-sponsor this effort. We were wondering if your
organization would be willing to join our coalition."

"Co-sponsorship basically involves your signing a resolution in favor of
the creation of Citizen Police Review Boards, and allowing us to list
your organization's name on our web page and literature as being in
support of our efforts. If possible, we'd also like you to appoint or
identify a representative to whom we can convey meeting announcements
and other important news."

Then there needs to be some kind of "closing". E.g., "What would be the
best way to go about getting your organization to commit its support?"
The options, which would have to be sort of ad libbed, would be to snail
mail literature and the resolution to be signed (as we did before), to
arrange for a speaker to attend one of their meetings, or some other
plan. It's also important to nail down a time schedule for followup,
which we did NOT do before. I don't know how to incorporate that into a
script. It's just something the caller needs to have in mind.

 
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