[Peace] Fwd: [CPRB] Urbana City Council to discuss Police Review Board, July 24 at 7PM

[Ricky Baldwin]

--- "Walling, Jennifer" <jwalling at law.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:14:36 -0500
> From: "Walling, Jennifer" <jwalling at law.uiuc.edu>
> To: <cprb at lists.chambana.net>
> Subject: [CPRB] Urbana City Council to discuss
> Police Review Board,
> 	July 24 at 7PM
> 
> PLEASE FORWARD
>  
> Dear Coalition for CPRB's and friends,
>  
> After years of hard work by the Coalition for
> Citizen Police Review Boards and allies across
> Champaign County, an ordinance establishing a
> Citizen Police Review Board will be on the agenda
> for discussion by the Urbana City Council on Monday,
> July 24, 2006 at 7:00PM in the Urbana City Council
> Chambers at 400 S. Vine.
>  
> Urbana City Council Meeting Discussion of Police
> Review Board Ordinance
> Date:  July 24, 2006
> Time:  7:00PM
> Location:  Urbana City Council Chambers
>  
> This is an extremely important meeting.  We need you
> to attend and, if possible, to express your support
> for this ordinance.  On this past Monday, the city
> of Urbana held a public hearing on the issue and the
> Coalition found out about it with too little notice
> to organize our supporters.  At this hearing, many
> friends of police officers addressed the council
> expressing their support for police officers and
> opposition to citizen review. The resulting
> News-Gazette article suggested that supporting the
> police and establishing citizen review were mutually
> exclusive.  
>  
> The Citizen Police Review Board ordinance in Urbana
> will work to achieve better community-police
> relations in the city of Urbana and provide a more
> fair and democratic treatment for those in our
> community who have complaints about the police.  
>  
> To address the council at Monday's meeting, simply
> fill out a form on the table as you walk in and hand
> it to the city clerk up front.  Public comment is
> allowed both at the beginning of the meeting and at
> the point in the meeting when the council gets to
> that agenda item.  You may speak either time,
> whichever is more convenient for you.  
>  
> I hope to see you there.  
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Jen Walling
> Coalition for Citizen Police Review Boards
>  
> P.S.  For more info on CPRB's check out
> www.prairienet.org/cprb
> www.nacole.org <http://www.nacole.org/> 
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