[CUCPJ Announce] [CPRB] When to meet to discuss CPRB?

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:25:31PM -0600, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> There is language in the FOP contract passed by council members at  
> our last meeting which does not allow the CPRB to hire or conduct  
> independent investigations.  To include language allowing for  
> independent investigation CPRB ordinance would violate the FOP  
> contact at this point.  I was expressly unhappy with this arrangement  
> throughout the negotiations.  In the end, it was the will of the  
> majority prohibit independent investigation on the part of the CPRB.   
> The other aspects of the FOP contract I do not see as a weakening of  
> the task force's proposal.  I expect the ordinance to come to council  
> within the next 2 months.

Curious -- is it clear from the contract what it would mean for an
investigation to be independent?  I'd have imagined that it might
simply limit the CPRB to only consider incidents that the police
had had a chance to consider -- and so the restriction would be trivially
met under the proposed law anyway, since IIRC the proposal called for the
CPRB to only accept complaints which had been brought to the police first,
and referred to the CPRB by the police.  Right?

But from your comment, Danielle, it sounds as though it must mean more than that...

Puzzled

   Stuart

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