October 4, 2015
Dear NACOLE Conference Attendee:
On behalf of NACOLE, its Board of Directors, members, and staff, I welcome you to Riverside and our Twenty-first Annual NACOLE Conference. We are excited to be in Riverside.
The theme of this year’s conference, Many Roads to Reform, challenges us to recognize the different tools available to the different actors who are all working towards the same goal, that of reform. There is strength in having diverse approaches, and with openness and accountability, they benefit from each other. The theme also cautions against judging the performance of one by the standard you would apply to another. The conference opens Sunday afternoon with a gathering for first-time attendees, new members, and those interested in NACOLE’s Mentoring Program at 2:00 p.m., followed by our opening reception at 6:00 p.m.
This year’s conference continues from there with a wide variety of workshops and panels, including sessions on de- escalation, community participation in oversight, body cameras, police shootings, implicit bias, racial reconciliation, prosecuting police misconduct, and building a roadmap to community trust. Additionally, the entire program incorporates NACOLE’s Core Competencies and all of the sessions can be applied toward the Certified Practitioner of Oversight program.
NACOLE is delighted to welcome this year’s conference Keynote Speaker Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice. Under her leadership, the Division continues its crucially important work in a number of areas, including advancing constitutional policing and other criminal justice reforms.
Please enjoy your stay in Riverside, the city of arts and innovation. There are many restaurants and shops within walking distance of your hotel. Or, take advantage of any one of the many public transportation options nearby to venture out and partake in Southern California’s vast assortment of food, music, art, and cultural offerings.
I am confident that you will find the quality of the programming is consistent with what you have come to expect from NACOLE and will meet the high standards we set for ourselves. Please contact any NACOLE Board or NACOLE staff member throughout the conference if there is anything we can do to help make the conference a better experience for you.
Kind regards,
Brian Buchner President NACOLE
P.O. Box 87227 Tucson, Arizona 85754 (317) 721-8133 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nacole.org
Many Roads to Reform The 21 st Annual NACOLE Conference
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 1
Acronym List 2
NACOLE Founders 3
NACOLE Presidents 3
2014 – 2015 NACOLE Board of Directors 3
NACOLE Organizational Information 4 Mission and Goals Activities
NACOLE Honorees 5 Flame Award Achievement in or Contribution to Oversight Award Additional Awards
2015 Award Recipient Biographies 7
Annual Conference Scholarship Fund and 2015 Recipients 8
Daily Schedule 11
Conference Session Summaries and Details 14
Core Competencies for Civilian Oversight Practitioners 34
Keynote, Speaker and Panelist Biographies 38
2015 Annual Conference Attendees 68
Acknowledgments NACOLE would like to thank the following:
The City of Riverside, California The Honorable Rust Bailey, Mayor The Riverside City Council John Russo, City Manager Alex Nguyen, Assistant City Manager
Community Police Review Commission Frank Hauptmann, CPRC Manager Robin Jackson, Chair Jane Adams, Vice-Chair Ken Rotker, Commissioner Dale Roberts, Commissioner Tony Ybarra, Commissioner Bobby Hawkins, Commissioner Greg Smith, Commissioner Mark Andres, Commissioner Abel Huerta, Commissioner Phoebe Sherron, Administrative Assistant
Riverside Local Conference Planning Committee Frank Hauptmann CPRC Manager Robin Jackson, CPRC Chair Dale Roberts, Committee Chair Jane Adams, CPRC Vice-Chair Phoebe Sherron, Sr. Office Specialist Bobby Taylor, Former CPRC Commissioner Joseph Ortiz, Former CPRC Commissioner
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Riverside Police Department Sergio Diaz, Chief of Police
Riverside Convention and Visitors Bureau Scott Menga Anne Seymour Megan Alfaro
2015 NACOLE Annual Conference Committee Brian Corr & Christian Klossner, Co-Chairs Brian Center, Wendy Gamble, William Harrison, Robin Jackson, Nicole Junior, Simone Levine, Camelia Naguib, Dale Roberts, Deborah Walker Jayson Wechter, and Noemi Zamacona
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Acronym List
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union CA-OIG State of California Office of the Inspector General CCRB New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board CIP Civilian Investigative Panel CPC Community Police Commission CPRC Community Police Review Commission DPD Dallas Police Department FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation IACOLE International Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement IPR Portland Independent Police Review IPRA Chicago Independent Police Review Authority LADA Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office LAPD Los Angeles Police Department LAPD OIG Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General LACo-OIG Los Angeles County Office of Inspector General NACOLE National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement NYPD New York Police Department OCC Office of Citizen Complaints OCSD Orange County Sheriff’s Department OIG Office of the Inspector General OIG-NYPD Office of the Inspector General for the New York Police Department OIM Office of the Independent Monitor OIR Office of Independent Review OIPA Office of the Independent Police Auditor OIPM Office of the Independent Police Monitor OPC Office of Police Complaints OPM Office of the Police Monitor PAC Police Advisory Commission PRC Police Review Commission PPB Portland Police Bureau PRAB Police Review & Advisory Board RCSD Riverside County Sheriff’s Department RPD Riverside Police Department SPD Seattle Police Department
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NACOLE Founders In 1993, members of the United States (U.S.) delegation to the IACOLE conference in Cambridge, MA, met to discuss issues relating to civilian oversight of law enforcement within the U.S. The focus of the meeting was the creation of a national organization that would address these issues. Two years later, a group met in Landover, MD, and NACOLE was established. Their hard work and dedication laid the foundation for continued growth and advancement of the practice of civilian oversight of the police.
DONALD CASIMERE CLYDE B. DAVIS FELICIA DAVIS JAMES L. JOHNSON
ROBIN LOLAR MALVINA MONTEIRO BRIAN C. REEDER LARNA SPEARMAN
NACOLE Presidents Since NACOLE’s founding, it has been led by individuals with a strong commitment to civilian oversight and NACOLE’s mission. Their commitment has ensured the organization’s continued growth and stability.
BRIAN C. REEDER (1997-2000) PHILIP K. EURE (2008-2009, 2010) Indianapolis, IN Washington, DC
SUE L. QUINN (2000-2003) ANDRÉ BIROTTE, JR. (2009) San Diego, CA Los Angeles, CA
MALVINA MONTEIRO (2003-2005) KATHRYN OLSON (2010-2012) Cambridge, MA Seattle, Washington
BARBARA ATTARD (2005-2006) ILANA ROSENZWEIG (2012-2013) San Francisco, CA Chicago, IL
PIERCE MURPHY (2006-2007) BRIAN BUCHNER (2013-PRESENT) Boise, ID Los Angeles, CA
EDUARDO DIAZ, Ph.D. (2007-2008) Miami, FL
2014 – 2015 NACOLE Board of Directors
BRIAN BUCHNER, President BRIAN CORR, Member-at-Large Los Angeles, CA Cambridge, MA
ILANA ROSENZWEIG, Immediate Past-President JOYCE M. HICKS, Member-at-Large Singapore San Francisco, CA
AINSLEY CROMWELL, Vice-President CHRISTIAN J. KLOSSNER, Member-at-Large Detroit, MI Washington, DC
AVICE EVANS REID, Treasurer NICHOLAS E. MITCHELL, Member-at-Large Knoxville, TN Denver, CO
KAREN ULLERY WILLIAMS, Secretary DAWN REYNOLDS, Member-at-Large Kansas City, MO Dallas, OR
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Organizational Information
NACOLE Mission and Goals The mission of NACOLE is to enhance fair and professional law enforcement that is responsive to community needs.
The goals of NACOLE are as follows: To provide for the establishment, development, education, and technical assistance of/for civilian oversight of law enforcement. To develop a national forum to provide an informational and educational clearinghouse and a publication resource of educational information for the public and organizations in the field of civilian oversight of law enforcement. To encourage the highest ethical standards in organizations which oversee law enforcement. To educate the public by developing mechanisms to enhance police and community relations, educate law enforcement agencies, and encourage law enforcement to respond with sensitivity to citizens' issues and complaints. To encourage full racial and ethnic representation and participation in this organization and the agencies overseen by its members.
NACOLE Activities NACOLE is the largest and premier civilian oversight organization in the U.S.; its membership comprises nearly 1,000 oversight practitioners, current and former law enforcement personnel, elected officials, journalists, academics, students, and community stakeholders, among others. NACOLE has worked to legitimize police oversight as a professional field of study and practice and facilitated the development of professional standards, including a Code of Ethics, as well as core competencies and training guidelines for oversight practitioners. NACOLE also hosts an annual training conference where civilian overseers and other interested stakeholders meet and exchange information and ideas about issues facing law enforcement oversight.
NACOLE works collaboratively and in partnership with civilian oversight groups, communities, law enforcement, and organizations nationwide interested in oversight. From the public perspective, NACOLE ensures oversight is present, knowledgeable, and capable. From the law enforcement perspective, NACOLE ensures policies and processes are in place to ensure transparency, accountability, and institutional commitment to constitutional policing. NACOLE seeks to engage stakeholders in a dialog that firmly establishes partnerships and helps create an environment in which police are responsive to community, they engage with the community impartially, and the community in turn views the police with legitimacy and respect.
In addition, NACOLE: Organizes training conferences and seminars Provides technical assistance and support Encourages networking, communications, and information sharing Maintains a national information and resource clearinghouse Sponsors a listserv for information on the topics of policing and police oversight Offers a professional credential for oversight practitioners Publishes a regular newsletter Produces a webinar series on topics important to those in and around oversight Facilitates a professional mentoring program
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NACOLE Honorees NACOLE recognizes those individuals, organizations, and agencies whose contributions or accomplishments have helped to further the field of civilian oversight of law enforcement.
Flame Award The Flame Award, the Association’s highest honor, recognizes significant long-term contributions to the field of civilian oversight of law enforcement. The following are recipients of this award. The year and location of the annual conference in which they were recognized are also noted.
CHARLES D. REYNOLDS Riverside, CA | 2015
JOHN W. MACK NUALA O’LOAN Kansas City, MO | 2014 San Jose, CA | 2007
PHILIP K. EURE ANTHONY D. ROMERO Salt Lake City, UT | 2013 San Jose, CA | 2007
MICHAEL GENNACO SAMUEL WALKER San Diego, CA | 2012 Miami, FL | 2005
RICHARD ROSENTHAL JANET RENO New Orleans, LA | 2011 Miami, FL | 2005
AL LACABE MERRICK BOBB Seattle, WA | 2010 Los Angeles, CA | 2003
Achievement In and Contribution to Oversight Award Both the Achievement in Oversight and the Contribution to Oversight Awards recognize a specific, significant accomplishment or contribution to civilian oversight by an individual, organization, or agency. The following are recipients of this award. The year and location of the annual conference in which they were recognized are also noted.
ST. LOUIS CITY ALDERMAN ANTONIO FRENCH & TERRY KENNEDY Achievement in Oversight | Riverside, CA | 2015
SAMARA MARION Achievement in Oversight | Riverside, CA | 2015
BRAD LANDER & JUMAANE WILLIAMS KELLY DAVIS, LIAM DILLON, & DAVE MAASS Kansas City, MO | 2014 Kansas City, MO | 2014
PATRISSE CULLORS CENTER FOR JUSTICE Kansas City, MO | 2014 Salt Lake City, UT | 2013
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JOHN DAHLBURG, SALLY KESTIN, STATE ASSEMBLYMAN MARK LENO & & JOHN MAINES STATE SENATOR GLORIA ROMERO Salt Lake City, UT | 2013 San Jose, CA | 2007
ANDRÉ MARIN MARK SCHLOSBERG San Diego, CA | 2012 San Jose, CA | 2007
TOM JENNINGS, LAURA MAGGI, BRENDAN JOHN CREW MCCARTHY, & A.C. THOMPSON Denver, CO | 2001 San Diego, CA | 2012
Additional Awards In previous years the Board has chosen to honor certain Board members for long-term, outstanding service to NACOLE. The year and location of the annual conference in which they were recognized are also noted.
CAROL SCOTT TERESA GUERRERO-DALEY Seattle, WA | 2010 Chicago, IL | 2004
DONALD CASIMERE ROBERT AARONSON Cincinnati, OH | 2008 Chicago, IL | 2004
ROBIN LOLAR DENISE DEFOREST San Jose, CA | 2007 Chicago, IL | 2004
ROSE CEJA-ARAGON JOE SANDOVAL Miami, FL | 2005 Los Angeles, CA | 2003
SUE L. QUINN DEDE WILHELM Miami, FL | 2005 Los Angeles, CA | 2003
NACOLE FOUNDERS Cambridge, MA | 2002
The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement
Working to enhance fair and professional law enforcement that is responsive to community needs.
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2015 Award Recipient Biographies
CHARLES D. REYNOLDS Flame Award
Charles D. Reynolds will receive the NACOLE Flame Award, the association’s highest honor, in recognition of his significant, long-term contributions to the field of police oversight and to advancing effective constitutional policing throughout his career. Mr. Reynolds is a former police chief, who has had various appointments as monitor of federal consent decrees, is a national and international policing expert, and was a member of the NACOLE Board of Directors for nine years, including having served as the Board Secretary. Mr. Reynolds’s policing career spanned more than 35 years, including having served as chief of police in five communities. He is a former president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and currently serves as the Deputy Monitor for the consent decree in Oakland. Mr. Reynolds is a recognized police practices expert for the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and has consulted on police organizational and management issues in 18 states and internationally. Consistent with his demonstrated support of NACOLE goals and values, as a member of the NACOLE Board of Directors, he helped establish, design, implement, and coordinate NACOLE’s Certified Practitioner of Oversight Program.
ST. LOUIS CITY ALDERMEN TERRY KENNEDY AND ANTONIO FRENCH Achievement in Oversight Award
St. Louis City Aldermen Terry Kennedy and Antonio French will receive NACOLE’s Achievement in Oversight Award for their commitment and tireless efforts to advance legislation establishing a civilian oversight board for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The passage of the bill marked a significant accomplishment that was more than 30 years in the making. In the process of passing the bill, Aldermen Kennedy and French were able to prevent attempts to strip the bill of some of its main provisions. The sustained efforts of Alderman Kennedy, and the support and advocacy of Alderman French, along with community support, were key in establishing oversight in St. Louis.
SAMARA MARION Achievement in Oversight Award
Samara Marion is a policy analyst and staff lawyer at the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints and will receive a NACOLE Achievement in Oversight Award for her collaborative efforts in successfully negotiating significant policy changes in the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). Two of Ms. Marion’s notable accomplishments came to fruition within the past year, and both are models for police and oversight agencies around the country which involved community members, law enforcement, and oversight working collaboratively to change procedures and practices impacting vulnerable members of the community. Ms. Marion wrote and negotiated a new policy concerning children of arrested parents. Additionally, in 2007, after seven years of effort by Ms. Marion, the SFPD adopted a formal policy on language access services for people with limited English proficiency. Further, Ms. Marion worked with members of San Francisco’s diverse communities and with the SFPD to create a training video, completed in 2014.
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Annual Conference Scholarship Fund
In 2012, NACOLE established a scholarship fund to offer financial support to individuals wishing to attend the Annual Conference; expanding the reach of civilian oversight; and promoting participation by individuals from a broad spectrum of social, economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. The Scholarship Fund supports and strengthens the work of civilian oversight practitioners and communities by providing access to a broad range of oversight information, best practices, and professional networks. The NACOLE Annual Conference Scholarship Fund is made possible by generous donations from individuals and organizations across the country.
2015 Scholarship Recipients
Founders’ Community Scholarship Award Recipients
DEBORAH JACOBS Deborah Jacobs has spent more than two decades as an advocate for civil liberties and human rights. She has held executive positions at the ACLU and the Ms. Foundation for Women. This includes 13 years as the Executive Director for the ACLU of New Jersey, where she pursued police practice reforms and developed a strategy for documenting police abuses in the Newark Police Department that resulted in a U.S. DOJ investigation.
She currently serves in the leadership of St. Louis’s Don’t Shoot Coalition, formed after the police shooting of Michael Brown. In this role she draws on her experience with police practices to advocate for policing reforms in the St. Louis region. In addition to police practices, she has expertise in First Amendment rights, privacy, open government, economic justice, reproductive rights, and women’s safety. She also serves as a trustee of the Ernest Becker Foundation, and volunteers for the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Journalists for Human Rights. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Skidmore College.
TORIN JACOBS Torin Jacobs is an educator and organizer from Columbus, OH. He originally became involved in police oversight through the national protests and local Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of Tamir Rice in Cleveland. In December of 2014, Mr. Jacobs founded Columbus Civilians for Police Review to develop a proposal for a strong and effective model of civilian oversight and then to use it as a city-wide ballot initiative for the 2016 election.
OLGA I. ORRACA-PARADES As a Puerto Rican, feminist, and open lesbian living in Puerto Rico, Olga Orraca-Paredes has dedicated more than 40 years to community work with grassroots organizations and socially and economic deprived communities. She is supportive of, and collaborates with, various efforts and initiatives as part of her commitment to peace and justice. She is an activist in different social movements and co-founder and coordinator of Taller Lésbico Creativo, a lesbian collective that uses creative work as its main tool.
She has been involved for decades with different issues related to law enforcement and the guarantee of civil and human rights. She is a member of the Community Working Group on Police Reform in Puerto Rico, a diverse group created to discuss common concerns and agendas regarding the Police Reform taking place in Puerto Rico. Ms. Orracca- Paredes is a speaker and facilitates workshops on repression, violence, health issues, gender violence (domestic), equality, diversity, intersectional and transversal analysis, gender, and LGBT rights, among others.
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MELISSA SMITH Melissa Smith started her career in law enforcement in 1988. While working in law enforcement, she discovered her passion for working with juveniles and having close contact with the public. During her career, she saw first-hand the problems that existed between the police and the community. To address these problems, Ms. Smith developed a mediation program that brought officers, juveniles, and their parents together and developed a mini boot camp program focusing on juveniles engaged in dangerous and destructive behavior. In addition, she developed additional programs such as the Lauderhill Empowerment College Tour that allows young members of the community to tour local colleges and learn of the benefits of a college education while having positive interactions with local police. She also developed the Youth Empowerment Camp, which works to increase interaction between officers and local youth.
Presidents’ Scholarship Award
LYNN ERICKSON Lynn Erickson is currently enrolled in the Masters of Criminal Justice program at Seattle University. Her work experience is with investigating discrimination complaints as an Equal Employment Opportunity investigator in the federal sector. Prior to that, Lynn worked as a criminal defense investigator in King County, WA. For her master’s degree, Lynn is focusing on civil rights issues in the criminal justice system and how to eliminate disparity. She has a keen interest in transparency and the importance of civilian oversight in building trust with communities. She has been learning about criminal justice theories related to civilian oversight, including procedural justice and police legitimacy. She has also been conducting research on police unions and how to build stronger internal organizational justice for officers.
MARIELLE A. MOORE Marielle Moore graduated magna cum laude from the University Of Miami School Of Law in May of 2014. During law school, she worked on several social justice legal issues, including permanent guardianship for incapacitated former foster youth, LGBT rights, and disability discrimination. As an intern at the District of Columbia’s Office of Police Complaints, she helped research and draft a policy recommendation for an effective Metropolitan Police Department on-body camera program. Her paper on the implications of body-worn camera programs on police administration will appear in an upcoming issue of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. Through an Emerging Professional Fellowship with the U.S.-Russia Social Expertise Exchange, Ms. Moore studied grassroots law enforcement oversight efforts in Moscow, Russia and presented on LGBT-Police interactions in the U.S. for Russian human rights professionals. After law school, she was an Attorney-Advisor with the Social Security Administration and in her free time, she volunteers as a Court- Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children in Washington, DC. She recently joined the staff of the OIG-NYPD.
Membership Scholarship Award
AISHA MILES Aisha Miles is from the city of Indianapolis where she has worked for the Department of Public Safety, Citizen’s Police Complaint’s office for over 11 years. Besides being a mother, being newly engaged, and being a hard worker for the City of Indianapolis, she is currently in school for Christian Ministry at Indiana Wesleyan University. She will graduate in June 2016, with her associate’s degree in Christian Ministry. After completing her associate’s degree, she plans on re- enrolling to get her bachelor’s degree in the same field.
RICHARD OLQUIN Richard Olquin serves as a commissioner for the city of Riverside’s Commission on Disabilities where his work includes advocating, representing, and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. Mr. Olquin is also an active member and key leader of the Inland Empire Disabilities Collaborative. This is an organization of over 1,000 nonprofits, government 9 | P a g e agencies, community leaders, employers, and stakeholders that meets monthly to collaborate and help move the disabled community forward through education and advocacy.
Mr. Olquin has over 30 years of management experience in both the non-profit and private sectors and has a long history of community activism and leadership throughout Southern California. He has served in various positions with organizations focused on at-risk youth, senior services, and nonprofit management support.
Mr. Olquin holds degrees in Political Science, Broadcast Communications, and Business Management. He earned the Masters Certification of Certified Fundraising Executive in 2005. In 2014, he began studying for his master’s degree in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling at California State University, San Bernardino.
Past Scholarship Recipients: 2014: John Chasnoff, Patrisse Cullors, Marquez Equalibria, Katie Freeman-Otte, Cheryl Hayward, and Melissa Trimble 2013: Kim Hendrickson, Sharon Kidd, Ellen LoCurto-Martinez, and Crista Noel
Additional information regarding the Annual Conference Scholarship Program may be found at www.nacole.org/special- programs/scholarship-program.
The NACOLE Annual Conference Scholarship Fund offers financial support to individuals to attend the Annual Conference, expanding the reach of civilian oversight and promoting participation by individuals from a broad spectrum of social, economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. The Scholarship Fund
cholarship Fund cholarship supports and strengthens the work of S civilian oversight practitioners and communities by providing access to a broad range of oversight information, best practices, and professional networks.
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Daily Schedule and Session Summaries
Sunday, October 4th 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. New Member, First-Time Attendee, and Mentor Program Open House
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Opening Reception at the Riverside County Superior Courthouse
Monday, October 5th 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Current & Emerging Issues 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Riverside’s Community Police Review Commission: Past, Present, and Future
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Many Roads to Reform
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
Current & Emerging Issues Current & Emerging Issues (Concurrent Session) (Concurrent Session) 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Racial Reconciliation & Building Oversight of Violence in Jails and Community Trust Part I: Prisons Building a Roadmap to Community Trust
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Racial Reconciliation & Building Prosecuting Police Misconduct Community Trust Part II: Racial Reconciliation, Truth–Telling, and Police Legitimacy
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. NACOLE Annual Conference Scholarship Fundraising Dinner (Additional Ticket Required)
Tuesday, October 6th Beginner/Intermediate Advanced Current & Emerging (Concurrent Session) (Concurrent Session) Issues (Concurrent Session) 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Effective Boards & Assessing Police Tactics International Commissions Perspectives on Police Oversight 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Civilian Oversight’s Past, Present, & Future: A Discussion with Southern California Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police
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12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Keynote Luncheon and NACOLE Awards Ceremony: Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. DOJ
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Community Engagement Effective Evaluation of Police Use of Emerging for Oversight Agencies: Officer-Involved Technology: Implications Why it Matters and How to Shootings for Oversight do it Right
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Legal Updates Early Intervention Strategies for Systems in Law Conducting Oversight Enforcement: Using Investigations at a Research and Experience Systemic Level to Guide Practice
Wednesday, October 7th Beginner/Intermediate Advanced Current & Emerging (Concurrent Session) (Concurrent Session) Issues (Concurrent Session) 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Assessing the Credibility of Part I: Changing Policies & Witnesses: Conducting Using Transparency and Implementing Programs effective interviews and Open Data to Enhance to End LGBTQ evaluating the statements Accountability Discriminatory Policing of complainants, witnesses Practices and officers
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Civilian Oversight and Part II: The Justice System and Community Participation Using Data to Challenge Mental Health Issues: and Representation and Change Police Policy Decriminalizing Mental Illness 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. What You Should Know The Role of Implicit Bias Policing & Homelessness About the Search and in Law Enforcement Seizure of Persons Decision-Making
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. NACOLE Annual Membership Meeting and Elections
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Sankofa Reception at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
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Thursday, October 8th Current & Emerging Issues Current & Emerging Issues (Concurrent Session) (Concurrent Session) 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. On-Body Cameras: Answering the The Role of De-escalation in the Citizen- Tough Questions from Empirical, Police Encounter Policy, and Legal Perspectives
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Developing Issues for Law Enforcement and Civilian Oversight
11:45 a.m. Closing Remarks
*Please note this schedule is subject to change without notice.
Color Legend
YELLOW Beginning / Intermediate Track
GREEN Advanced Track
BLUE Current & Emerging Issues
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Sunday, October 4th
First-Time Attendee and New Member Open House The Monterey Room, Mission Inn Hotel | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
NACOLE wishes to welcome all new members and first-time attendees to our conference. In that regard, NACOLE’s Membership Development and Engagement Committee is hosting an opportunity to meet other conference attendees and network, and learn more about NACOLE and its activities. In addition to meeting others, this is a wonderful opportunity for long-time NACOLE members that will be in attendance to learn about the work you are doing in your own communities.
We hope to see you there!
Opening Reception The Riverside County Superior Courthouse | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Please join us at the Riverside County Superior Courthouse as we welcome attendees to the 21st Annual NACOLE Conference. Welcoming remarks will be made and the Annual Gift in honor of our conference speakers will be presented to Operation Safehouse, an organization that provides emergency shelter, intervention, and outreach services to youth in crisis.
In addition, NACOLE will kick-off its efforts to raise funds for scholarships to the 2016 Annual Conference. On Sunday evening, we will auction off a ticket to the Scholarship Fundraising Dinner and two Riverside Gift Baskets which include items crafted in the Riverside area and gift cards to local restaurants. At this time attendees will also be invited to begin bidding on this year’s silent auction items. We have received two items from Albuquerque, NM, the site of our 2016 Annual Conference: a beautiful, handcrafted turquoise jewelry set and two gift certificates for a hot air balloon ride available for redemption during next year’s conference. Silent Auction bidding will be open until Wednesday, October 7th at 3:00 p.m.
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Monday, October 5th
Riverside’s Community Police Review Commission: Past, Present, and Future Current and Emerging Issues General Session 1 | 9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Riverside’s oversight body, the Community Police Review Commission (CPRC), was created following the 1998 death of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African American woman who was shot to death by Riverside police officers. In this session, you will hear from some of the key figures in the creation and early years of the CPRC, as well as the issues and concerns that prompted the need for oversight in Riverside. A detailed history of the research committee tasked with forming the CPRC will be given, focusing on the issues and concerns faced by the city prior to establishing an oversight body. Two of the original commissioners, appointed by the Riverside City Council in 2000, will speak on various issues experienced during the formative years, and the current manager of the CPRC will provide insight into current and future issues in the latter half of the Commission’s second decade. These experiences and the lessons learned will be valuable to all, and of special interest to anyone interested in the establishment or growth of a civilian oversight entity.
Speakers: Mike Gardner, City Councilmember, Riverside, CA Frank Hauptmann, Manager, CPRC, Riverside, CA Bill Howe, Former Commissioner, CPRC, Riverside, CA Maureen Kane, Chief of Staff for Mayor Rusty Bailey, Riverside, CA
Many Roads to Reform Current and Emerging Issues General Session 2 | 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
For every law enforcement agency that undertakes significant and effective reform, there are many parties that have a role in advancing those reforms, whether preparing the law enforcement agency to accept reform, getting politicians to embrace reform, or moving the public to demand reform.
Each party has distinct tools and powers to use based on its unique position. While sometimes these differences can lead to conflict, it is important not to judge the performance of one by the standards applied to another. Indeed, there is strength in having diverse approaches where each can benefit from the acts of the others.
To highlight this synergy, this panel brings together various parties from the Portland, OR, which has ongoing reform efforts. Reverend Bethel of the Albina Ministerial Alliance (AMA), Constantin Severe of the Independent Police Review Division, Ashlee Albies, an attorney who represents the AMA and others in lawsuits against the Portland Police, and Portland Police Bureau Assistant Chief Mike Crebs. They all are committed to reform but they each approach that task from different perspectives, with different sources of power to push reform, and different areas where their ability to act is limited.
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The panel will focus on what each individual sees as the strengths and weaknesses of trying to reform from his or her position. It will explore the strategic decisions made when deciding which reforms to champion and how best to achieve them, including situations in which the members of the panel have been able to agree and work together, and those in which, while still sharing the common goal of reform, they have differed in the approach.
Speakers: Ashlee Albies, Associate, Creighton & Rose PC, Portland, OR Rev. Dr. T. Allen Bethel, President, Albina Ministerial Alliance, Portland, OR Mike Crebs, Assistant Police Chief, PPB, Portland, OR Constantin Severe, Director, IPR, Portland, OR
Moderator: Ilana Rosenzweig, Principal, OIR Group & Immediate Past-President, NACOLE, Singapore
Lunch on Your Own 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Racial Reconciliation & Building Community Trust Part I: Building a Roadmap to Community Trust Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 3 | 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Building a community’s trust in its police department has been spoken about in relatively broad terms, leaving agencies with not enough guidance on how to build relationships between police officers and community members who don’t like or trust each other. Brian Center has taken lessons learned from years of experience in South Los Angeles working with law enforcement, municipal government, gang communities, and civil rights activists and distilled them into concrete steps that can be followed in any jurisdiction. The discussion will also demonstrate how better relationships translate into more effective policing. To give participants concrete examples about the process of building trust, the panel features four individuals – two former gang members and two police officers – who have successfully worked together through this process.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn from successful efforts that went beyond establishing programs to address the questions, "Are you talking to the right people? People who represent the community? Are you using a structured process?" At the end, participants will be able to engage in dialogue.
Speakers: Ray Bercini, Detective, LASD, Los Angeles, CA Donny Joubert, Community Member, Los Angeles, CA Alfred Lomas, Community Member, Los Angeles, CA Phil Tingirides, Commander, LAPD, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator: Brian Center, Founder, Center Solutions, Los Angeles, CA
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Oversight of Violence in Jails and Prisons Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 4 | 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
A recent U.S. DOJ investigation of Rikers Island, one of America’s largest jail systems, revealed significant patterns of violence against inmates by staff and inadequate supervisory controls to address the violence. This investigation prompted unprecedented public scrutiny of Rikers and renewed attempts at reform. While it is too early to assess those reform efforts, which are now underway, violence against inmates by staff and other inmates is not isolated to Rikers Island. Instead, violence is pervasive throughout many jails and prisons across the U.S., and most jurisdictions have yet to develop meaningful civilian oversight of correctional institutions.
This session will bring together several national experts to discuss the problem of jail and prison violence. We will use two case studies—Rikers Island and California state prisons—to assess the types of violence that currently exist, and various approaches to investigating and reducing it.
Speakers: Robert Barton, Inspector General, State of California, Sacramento, CA Michele Deitch, Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, TX Florence Finkle, Former Deputy Commissioner for Integrity and Policy, City of New York Department of Corrections, New York, NY
Moderator: Nicholas Mitchell, Independent Monitor, OIM & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, Denver, CO
Racial Reconciliation and Building Community Trust Part II: Racial Reconciliation, Truth-Telling, and Police Legitimacy Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 5 | 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
The evidence-based approach of the National Network for Safe Communities reduces violence and serious crime through collaboration between law enforcement and the communities they serve—largely poor communities of color. Before that collaboration can begin, many communities require a process of truth-telling and racial reconciliation to address historic tensions, grievances, and misconceptions between them.
The reconciliation process facilitates frank discussions between police and community members about how traditional enforcement has been ineffective and damaging, how communities have not spoken out against serious crime, and how to move forward together toward a partnership that improves public safety. When communities are furious with the police, they are often unable to speak publicly to their own members against serious crime. The aim of the reconciliation process is that communities and law enforcement come to see that: (1) they misunderstand each other in important ways, (2) both have contributed to harms neither desires, (3) in crucial areas, both want fundamentally the same things, and (4) there is an immediate opportunity for partnership that can benefit both the community and the authorities that serve it. In cities across the country, this process has uncovered common ground and strengthened troubled communities to articulate their own anti-crime norms as part of proven strategies to reduce serious crime.
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This presentation and discussion will describe the reconciliation process and how it contributes to crime reduction and police legitimacy. It will benefit a wide audience by addressing both the theoretical and practical applications of the racial reconciliation process and should benefit a wide audience.
Speakers: Rev. K. Edward Copeland, Pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Rockford, IL Tracie Keesee, Ph.D., Program Director, National Initiative for Building Community Trust & Justice, New York, NY David M. Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
Moderator: Brian Corr, Executive Secretary, PRAB & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, Cambridge, MA
Prosecuting Police Misconduct Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 6 | 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Recent events have brought significant attention to criminal prosecution of police. There is growing public demand for more rigorous, and even independent, prosecution. There is also considerable discussion of the role of grand juries and the processes they follow.
This panel will explore criminal prosecutions of police officers, and help attendees understand the range of federal, state, and local laws that can result in criminal liability for an officer, as well as how different prosecutors receive allegations and choose cases to prosecute. Panelists will also discuss the unique challenges in conducting such prosecutions, and address options for responding to calls for greater independence and transparency in the prosecutions of police officers.
Speakers: Paige Fitzgerald, Deputy Chief, U.S. DOJ, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, Washington, DC Marc Fliedner, Chief, Civil Rights Bureau, Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Brooklyn, NY
Moderator: Christian J. Klossner, Deputy Director, OPC & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, Washington, DC
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Annual Conference Scholarship Fundraiser Heroes Restaurant & Brewery | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Join your fellow attendees as we raise money to support the NACOLE Annual Conference Scholarship Fund. Participants will get to know each other, have fun, and support a great cause at this restaurant located in historic downtown Riverside. Funds raised at this event will be used to help NACOLE continue its effort to offer financial support to individuals to attend the Annual Conference, expanding the reach of civilian oversight and promoting participation by individuals from a broad spectrum of social, economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
Tickets must be purchased in advance to attend this event.
Heroes Restaurant & Brewery provides a unique dining & gathering experience in historic downtown Riverside, and offers hearty portions of great American food with enticing presentation. Heroes produces high quality hand crafted beers & has 2 full service bars. It’s all served up by the friendliest of staffs in an entertaining atmosphere stuffed full of Americana memorabilia and local personality.
3397 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, California
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Tuesday, October 6th
Effective Boards & Commissions Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 7 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Across the country, communities commonly call for citizen review boards and police commissions to be established to ensure greater accountability and oversight over their local police. With varying levels of authority and independence, community members serving on these boards or commissions often struggle with how to most effectively execute their responsibilities within the parameters they are given.
Even more, with almost no two boards or commissions alike, how is it possible to produce a list of tools for effectiveness that will apply universally? While some have independent investigatory powers, others rely on investigations done by the internal affairs divisions of their law enforcement agencies. Some have staffs and training budgets, while others are left with one or two staff members who split their time with other city agencies. Some have the ability to make policy recommendations or even have subpoena power, some do not.
Panelists will share information with attendees regarding training, community outreach, communicating with police and government officials, and ways to enhance the confidence the community has in the civilian oversight process. At the end of the session, attendees will have been exposed to approaches and strategies for effective oversight and gained additional tools and knowledge that will help them to maximize their impact.
Speakers: Cristina Beamud, Executive Director, CIP, Miami, FL Cameron McEllhiney, Director of Training & Education, NACOLE, Indianapolis, IN Ursula Price, Deputy Monitor, OIPM, New Orleans, LA
Assessing Police Tactics Advanced Track Concurrent Session 8 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
The session will focus on best practices in police tactics related to approaching suspects and making good decisions in advance of encounters to avoid escalation of conflict and the unnecessary use of force. Designed for those engaged in police oversight, this training will give an overview of the relevant law and customary policies that oversight personnel use to analyze tactics. Videos will help to explain best practices in common use of force scenario, and panelists will pay particular attention to assessing tactics used leading up to a use of force incident, rather than only focusing on tactics used when the use of force is imminent.
Speakers: Howard Rahtz, Captain (Ret.), Cincinnati Police Department, Cincinnati, OH Jody Stiger, Sergeant, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator: Julie Ruhlin, Principal, OIR Group, Los Angeles, CA
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International Perspectives on Police Oversight Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 9 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Civilian oversight continues to expand in countries around the world, and much like in the U.S., oversight exists in many forms with varying levels of authority. There are many communities around the world working to establish oversight as a means to enhance police accountability. Appreciating that there is much to learn from oversight efforts outside the nation’s borders, NACOLE has continually worked to include international perspectives at the Annual Conference and through other activities.
This year’s international panel includes colleagues from the north and south – experts working in established oversight systems in Canada and Trinidad and Tobago, and a colleague working through an organization seeking to extend civilian oversight mechanisms in Mexico. In addition, we will hear from an American oversight practitioner who visited Russia through the Eurasia Foundation U.S./Russia Social Expertise Exchange Fellowship Program to reflect on his experience exchanging information with our Russian colleagues. All four panelists will share their experiences and perspectives on oversight in the international arena and discuss ways we can share our knowledge about creating and enhancing police accountability and transparency.
Speakers: Brent Cotter, QC, Chair, Saskatchewan Public Complaints Commission & CACOLE President, Saskatchewan, Canada Joseph Lipari, Administrator, Citizens Review Board, Syracuse, NY Maria Elena Morera Mitre, President, Ciudadanos Causa en Común, Mexico City, Mexico David West, Director, Police Complaints Authority, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Moderator: Barbara Attard, Accountability Associates, San Francisco, CA
Civilian Oversight’s Past, Present, and Future: A Discussion with Southern California Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police Current and Emerging Issues General Session 10 | 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Law enforcement in Southern California is often looked to as a driving force in the nation’s policing standards and practices. This panel provides an opportunity for attendees to learn and hear from the chief law enforcement executives of municipal police agencies and county sheriff’s departments across Southern California – some who manage law enforcement organizations that have civilian oversight and some that do not.
In a moderated discussion format, panelists will share their experiences with civilian oversight, building public trust, and promoting effective policing, as well as offer insight into emerging issues that will impact their agencies and the communities they serve. Panelists will answer questions from the audience.
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Speakers: Charlie Beck, Chief of Police, LAPD, Los Angeles, CA Sergio Diaz, Chief of Police, RPD, Riverside, CA Sandra Hutchens, Sheriff, OCSD, Santa Ana, CA Jim McDonnell, Sheriff, LASD, Los Angeles, CA Phillip Sanchez, Chief of Police, PPD, Pasadena, CA Stan Sniff, Sheriff, RCSD, Riverside, CA
Moderator: Brian Buchner, Policy Director, Public Safety, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti & President, NACOLE, Los Angeles, CA
Keynote Luncheon: Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Community Engagement for Oversight Agencies: Why it Matters and How to do it Right Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 11 | 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Amidst heightened frustration and collective anger over the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others, it is more important than ever for oversight agencies to actively reach out, engage, educate, and empower community members. Establishing trust can be challenging when citizens are skeptical of the police and others who investigate misconduct. To ensure community buy-in and support, it is critical that oversight agencies establish and nurture relationships with the right stakeholders, a task that can be increasingly difficult when citizens lack confidence in the justice system.
Numerous oversight agencies have focused on building these deep relationships with community organizations, faith-based groups, and community leaders, and some agencies have had great success. Denver, CO, Kansas City, MO, and Washington, DC have strategized and evaluated this community engagement focus and believe that they have innovative models to share with NACOLE participants. Other communities from across the nation will have an opportunity to join this discussion and share their experiences in community engagement. The workshop will focus on the topics of: What community engagement means for community and oversight power, voice, and credibility Strategic planning to identify stakeholders and build meaningful relationships while being honest about our work and our constraints Innovative strategies to reach, educate, and involve the community Sharing oversight with the community: media, action items, and public reporting
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Speakers: Merrell R. Bennekin, Deputy Executive Director, Office of Community Complaints, Kansas City, MO Nykisha Cleveland, Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Police Complaints, Washington, DC Gia Irlando, Community Relations Ombudsman, Office of the Independent Monitor, Denver, CO Denise Maes, Policy Director, ACLU of Colorado, Denver, CO
Moderator: Gia Irlando, Community Relations Ombudsman, Office of the Independent Monitor, Denver, CO
Effective Evaluation of Officer-Involved Shootings Advanced Track Concurrent Session 12 | 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
This presentation will demonstrate how a systematic, process-based review can be employed to perform effective and comprehensive policy analysis of an officer-involved shooting incident. Two case studies will be presented: an example of an incident where officers performed within Department policy, and another where they did not to illustrate the concepts and methodologies being demonstrated.
Speakers: Django Sibley, Assistant Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, Los Angeles Police Commission, Los Angeles, CA Julio Thompson, Assistant Attorney General, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT
Police Use of Emerging Technology: Implications for Oversight Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session | 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
As law enforcement application of cutting-edge technology grows, police oversight agencies must keep pace with the practical, legal, and ethical questions these sophisticated tools raise about the balance of privacy and public safety. This session will give a technical overview of surveillance technology such as drones, license plate readers, facial recognition, Stingrays, and social media aliases. It will also review some of the cases that have come up around the country. Lastly, the session will address how civilian oversight investigations can ensure that proper policies are in place and adhered to by law enforcement agencies.
Speakers: Peter Bibring, Director of Police Practices, ACLU of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Dave Maass, Investigative Researcher, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Diego, CA Shawn Musgrave, Projects Editor, Muckrock.com, Boston, MA Ali Winston, Reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting, Oakland, CA
Moderator: Kelvyn Anderson, Executive Director, PAC, Philadelphia, PA
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Legal Updates Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 14 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This panel will provide an overview of recent and pending court decisions that are relevant to police oversight. Participants will hear from recognized legal experts about how courts are interpreting constitutional principles in reviewing cases involving search and seizure, detentions, and the use of force, with an emphasis on decisions rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Also covered will be lessons learned from federal civil rights investigations such as those in Cleveland and Ferguson, and prospective strategies for change in furtherance of increased police accountability.
Speakers: Ezekiel Edwards, Director, Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU, New York, NY Timothy Mygatt, Special Counsel, U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC
Moderator: Mark P. Smith, Independent Police Auditor, Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, San Francisco, CA
Early Intervention Systems in Law Enforcement: Using Research and Experience to Guide Practice Advanced Track Concurrent Session 15 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Law enforcement agencies around the country use early intervention (EI) systems to help identify officers who may be at risk of future misconduct and may benefit from intervention. While these standardized and data- driven tools are considered a best practice, a small body of research suggests that current systems could be enhanced in ways that will allow them to more accurately predict officer misconduct. Borrowing from the field of criminal justice risk assessment, researchers at the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor tested the predictive validity of the approach currently used by many agencies, and will share their findings in this session. A law enforcement executive and a national expert will reflect on their own experiences with EI systems and discuss opportunities for making these systems more effective. The topics to be covered will include: A review of current research and best practices on early intervention The findings from the Denver Independent Monitor’s analysis of the current approach to EI A discussion of the practical challenges faced by police agencies that have implemented EI systems Suggestions for modifications to EI systems going forward, based on research and practice
Speakers: Paul Figueroa, Assistant Chief, Oakland Police Department, Oakland, CA Jennifer Fratello, Policy Director, Office of the Independent Monitor, Denver, CO Julio Thompson, Assistant Attorney General, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT
Moderator: Joyce Hicks, Executive Director, Office of Citizen Complaints & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, San Francisco, CA
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Strategies for Conducting Oversight Investigations at a Systemic Level Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 16 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The LAPD OIG provides independent oversight of the LAPD. The LAPD OIG recently established the Special Investigations and Compliance Section, or SICS, which conducts investigations, audits, inspections, and research into all aspects of LAPD’s operations. To date, the SICS has launched investigations regarding patrol deployment practices, use of public resources for private events, crime classification, homicide clearance statistics, use of in- car video, and complaints against the chief of police, and more.
Highlighting a variety of strategies and approaches to conducting systemic investigations, this workshop will feature recent examples of the OIG’s investigations.
Speakers: Alexander Bustamante, Inspector General, LAPD OIG, Los Angeles, CA Camelia Naguib, Police Special Investigator, LAPD OIG, Los Angeles, CA Jim Willis, Assistant Inspector General, LAPD OIG, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator: Alexander Bustamante, Inspector General, LAPD OIG, Los Angeles, CA
Peace Officer • A Special Film Screening Grand Parisian Ballroom, Mission Inn Hotel & Spa | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Please join us for a special screening of Peace Officer, a film by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber. This feature documentary explores the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community and tackles larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.
SAVE THE DATE!
December 4, 2015
NACOLE, in partnership with the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, will be holding a one-day symposium discussing the importance of civilian oversight, its place in the national discussion surrounding police accountability, and its future.
Please visit www.nacole.org for program and registration information
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Wednesday, October 7th
Assessing the Credibility of Witnesses: Conducting Effective Interviews and Evaluating the Statements of Complainants, Witnesses, and Officers Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 17 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Assessing the credibility of complainants, witnesses, and officers is an essential skill for anyone investigating or making decisions about complaints against police. Relevant factors to consider include: an individual’s ability to perceive, recall, and describe an event; conscious or unconscious bias; motivation; attitude; demeanor; consistency of statements; and consistency with other evidence. More findings of “insufficient evidence” might have been resolved as “unfounded” or “sustained” if effective credibility assessments were made.
Making these assessments requires a thorough investigation, effective interviews, and critical analysis and evaluation of the evidence. This session will discuss how to accomplish this when conducting an investigation and how to recognize investigate gaps. It will describe how to evaluate and analyze contradictory accounts of an incident and how to conduct thorough interviews that allow an evaluation of a witness’ credibility.
Speakers: Pierce Murphy, Civilian Director, Office of Professional Accountability, Seattle, WA Jayson Wechter, Investigator, Office of Citizen Complaints, San Francisco, CA Noemi Zamacona, Monitor, Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General, Los Angeles, CA
Moderator: Jayson Wechter, Investigator, Office of Citizen Complaints, San Francisco, CA
Part I: Using Transparency and Open Data to Enhance Accountability Advanced Track Concurrent Session 18 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
One of the by-products of the controversies over the high-profile shootings in 2014 was the realization that there is very little knowledge about how often police officers kill civilians during encounters. With this most basic of data difficult to obtain in many locales, let alone at a national level, greater attention is now being paid to police department transparency. At the same time, there is a growing “open data” movement which seeks to make all non-confidential data created and held by government agencies accessible to interested parties and researchers.
This session will examine the current state of police department transparency in the areas of use of force, complaints, and officer discipline. Next, panelists will discuss the institutional and cultural challenges to opening policing data to the public and look at examples of the departments who have made great strides in doing so. A case study will also include efforts at bringing data transparency to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the effect Police Officer Bill of Rights laws have on the disclosure of information.
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Those attending this session will receive an introduction to the open data movement, learn what policing data has been shown to be the most important to get out in the open, the best practices to present that information to the public, and the role of oversight bodies in bringing the data into the light.
Speakers: Joshua Chanin, Ph.D., School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Max Geron, Major, DPD, Dallas, TX Mark Iris, Ph.D., Lecturer, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Emily Shaw, Deputy Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation, Washington, DC
Moderator: Walter Katz, Deputy Inspector General, LACo-OIG, Los Angeles, CA
Changing Policies and Implementing Programs to End LGBTQ Discriminatory Policing Practices Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 19 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Historically, police interactions with members of the LGBTQ community have been marked with discrimination that has largely gone ignored. In March 2015, the Williams Institute at UCLA Law published a report revealing that “discrimination and harassment by law enforcement based on sexual orientation and identity is an ongoing and pervasive problem in LGBT communities.” Amnesty International has found that LGBTQ people in the U.S. continue to be targeted for police abuse based on real or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression. Law enforcement officers often profile LGBTQ individuals as being criminals and selectively enforce laws against them. In particular, transgender individuals are profiled as “suspect,” even when going about their normal daily activities. Fortunately, as the LGBTQ community continues to raise awareness about these issues, many law enforcement agencies are changing their policies in an effort to end discriminatory practices.
From sensitivity training to new police procedures and rules, efforts are being made to improve the relationship between law enforcement officers and LGBTQ individuals. Panelists will: 1) identify discriminatory law enforcement practices; 2) highlight efforts taken by oversight and law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. to address and eradicate anti-LGBTQ practices and policies; and 3) provide oversight practitioners with information necessary to assist them with the crafting of similar policy recommendations or programs aimed at promoting respectful interactions between local law enforcement and LGBTQ complainants and suspects.
Speakers: Amira Hasenbush, Jim Kepner Law & Public Policy Fellow, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Nicole S. Junior, Esq., Attorney, CCRB, New York, NY Brian Sharp, CEO, Brian Sharp & Associates, LLC, Atlanta, GA
Moderator: Cristina Beamud, Executive Director, CIP, Miami, FL
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Civilian Oversight and Community Participation and Representation Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 20 | 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
The strength of NACOLE comes from the fact that it is “a big tent.” The organization includes grassroots community activists and organizers, paid practitioners who work within the government to effect oversight, and current and former law enforcement officials who understand the value of effective civilian oversight and work to improve their own law enforcement organizations.
This panel will feature a moderated conversation between individuals who, through different strategies and from different perspectives and with differing levels of success, promoted civilian oversight and greater police accountability across Southern California. The stories of community-based organizing in Anaheim, Fullerton, Los Angeles County, and Pasadena hold valuable lessons for anyone interested or engaged in police oversight.
Speakers: Michael Gennaco, Principal, OIR Group, Los Angeles, CA Elbie “Skip” Hickambottom, Coalition for Increased Civilian Oversight of the Pasadena Police & NAACP Pasadena, Pasadena, CA Mark-Anthony Johnson, Director of Health & Wellness, Dignity and Power Now, Los Angeles, CA Theresa Smith, Law Enforcement Accountability Network, Anaheim, CA
Moderator: Brian Buchner, Policy Director, Public Safety, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti & President, NACOLE, Los Angeles, CA
Part II: Using Data to Challenge and Change Policy Advanced Track Concurrent Session 21 | 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
The session presents jurisdictions in which analysis of data and statistical evidence allowed more effective investigations of state laws, department policies, and the actions of law enforcement or corrections officers in individual cases. Constitutional violations and deficient policies were identified and recommendations made regarding constitutional violations related to search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment.
Mr. Burbank will report on how the raw data analysis conducted by the Center for Policing Equity is impacting jurisdictions in the U. S. on searches, force application, and traffic stops. Ms. Davis will describe how the statistical data analysis was used in San Diego City Beat's multiyear investigative series on the high rate of jail deaths in San Diego. Mr. Maass will discuss how to dig through law enforcement statistical data to uncover misuse of law enforcement databases and abuse of pepper spray in correctional institutions.
Such analyses yield information and suggest reforms or policy changes that ca prevent similar losses and future liability. Participants will describe their work, providing models that can be used by oversight agencies as well as law enforcement and corrections departments.
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Speakers: Chris Burbank, Director of Law Enforcement Engagement, Center for Policing Equity, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Kelly Davis, Investigative Journalist, San Diego, CA Dave Maass, Investigative Researcher, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Moderator: Sue Quinn, Past-President, NACOLE, San Diego, CA
The Justice System and Mental Health Issues: Decriminalizing Mental Illness Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 22 | 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Many metropolitan areas are challenged by the issue of jail overcrowding. There is an increasing number of people with severe and persistent mental illness who are incarcerated due to a lack of alternative community diversion services. Traditionally, law enforcement incarcerates these individuals to “get them off the streets” and to “make communities safer.” Community leaders, local officials, behavioral health providers, homeless coalitions, and advocacy groups have come together over the past several years to address this issue with the shared belief that individuals with a mental illness can be better served, in lower-cost levels of care, while achieving better outcomes through alternatives to incarceration.
Gina Satriano, Bureau Director, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles, CA, and Jerry Vagnier, President/CEO, Helen Ross McNabb Center (a regional behavioral health center) of Knoxville, TN, will share what they are doing to create a different type of diversion program for mentally ill offenders that doesn’t include incarceration. The diversion programs include specific mental health training for officers to help them more easily assess situations involving mentally ill offenders and connect them with an appropriate program. This session will benefit both oversight practitioners and members of law enforcement, with practical tips to be shared for implementing such alternative programming.
Speakers: Gina Satriano, Central Operations Bureau Director, LADA, Los Angeles, CA Jerry Vagnier, President/CEO, Helen Ross McNabb Center, Knoxville, TN
Moderator: Avice Evans Reid, Executive Director, Police Advisory Review Committee & NACOLE Board Treasurer, Knoxville, TN
Lunch on Your Own 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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What You Should Know About the Search and Seizure of Persons Beginning/Intermediate Track Concurrent Session 23 | 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Reasonable suspicion? Probable cause? What do these mean in the progression of stopping a person, searching that person, and clearly indicating that he or she is not free to leave? And once someone is not free to leave, are they under arrest, or merely temporarily detained? Do police understand what the limits are and what they have to be able to articulate? Do civilians understand their rights?
Participants will gain a clearer understanding that stops, searches, and arrests are part of a continuum based on a well-established set of legal standards. They will learn what requirements must be met at each stage before police officers can lawfully interfere with the rights of a person.
Speakers: Laura Arnold, Deputy Public Defender, San Diego County Department of the Public Defender, San Diego, CA Carlos Monagas, Supervising Deputy District Attorney, Training Division, Riverside County, Riverside, CA
Moderator: Dawn Reynolds, Vice-President, Elite Performance Assessment Consultants, LLC & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, Dallas, OR
The Role of Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement Decision-Making Advanced Track Concurrent Session 24 | 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Implicit bias is often defined as the effect that our subconscious attitudes and stereotypes have on our everyday actions and decision making. Given the belief that we only have conscious access to about five percent of our brains, it is thought that many of us, even if we think of ourselves as fair and equitable, make decisions based on contradictory and biased beliefs that exist within our subconscious.
This panel will discuss the science of implicit bias, its impact on law enforcement decision making, and how to use training to minimize the impacts of implicit bias.
Speakers: Paul Figueroa, Assistant Chief, OPD, Oakland, CA Emily Gunston, Special Counsel, Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division, U. S. DOJ, Washington, DC L. Song Richardson J.D., Professor of Law, University of California Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
Moderator: Joyce M. Hicks, Executive Director, OCC & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, San Francisco, CA
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Policing & Homelessness Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session | 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Communities across the country grapple with the issue of how to handle their homeless population. Many communities rely heavily on their local police forces to remove individuals or their property from public places. Such strategies can often be at odds with the Constitution, and fail to address the underlying problems that lead to homelessness can also exacerbate homelessness both by forcing homeless individuals into health- threatening situations to avoid detection and creating arrest records that put further barriers between these individuals and access to the housing and services they need. For these reasons and others, international human rights monitors and domestic courts have condemned the criminalization of homelessness.
As an alternative, the federal government and a number of communities have demonstrated success in promoting and utilizing constructive approaches that are more effective and in some cases less expensive than an enforcement-based strategy. As police forces look to transition from warriors to guardians, civilian oversight entities can play a part in ensuring that this transition includes adopting policies that protect the rights of homeless individuals and provide for the evaluation of police enforcement efforts for their legality, as well as for their humanity and effectiveness.
This workshop will seek to provide attendees with an understanding of common constitutional issues that arise in interactions between police and homeless populations, the interplay with international human rights law regarding a right to housing, examples of laws and policing strategies, and suggestions for how police practices can be improved.
Speakers: Sharon Brett, Trial Attorney, U. S. DOJ Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC Eric S. Tars, Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Washington, DC Marsha Temple, Executive Director, Integrated Recovery Network, Los Angeles, CA
Annual Membership Meeting & Elections 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sankofa Reception The Galleria, Mission Inn Hotel & Spa | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sankofa is a West African concept and symbol that reminds us that we must go back to and remember our roots in order to move forward. It is a NACOLE tradition to honor those who have helped NACOLE and civilian oversight of law enforcement get to where it is today and those that will lead it into the future.
We hope that you will join us for our annual conference as we look back over what we have learned and discuss how we can continue to move forward.
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Thursday, October 8th
On-Body Cameras: Answering Tough Questions from Empirical, Policy, and Legal Perspectives Current and Emerging Issues Session 26 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
The rapidly increasing utilization of on-body cameras in policing continues to be a galvanizing issue for many segments of society across the nation. A panel at the 2014 Annual NACOLE Conference raised several of the myriad questions that must be carefully considered by any agency or community in developing a policy to implement and govern the use of on-body cameras. This discussion will seek to provide concrete answers to many of those questions, specifically through the lenses of empirical, policy, and legal analysis.
For each aspect of on-body cameras, what are the competing policy, logistical, and legal interests and how should police departments balance them? For example, is all video recorded by officers subject to disclosure pursuant to a public records request? What exceptions to disclosure are applicable, if any, and under precisely what circumstances? Does public disclosure violate the privacy interests of civilians who are captured on the video? Does it violate the privacy interests of officers captured on video? If video is to be disclosed, should it be redacted to avoid the display of otherwise private information, and who would be responsible for the process of redaction? With the parallel development of facial recognition technology, will we soon see a national database (akin to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s fingerprint identification system) containing digital images of people captured on local police officers’ videos? Are there any legal barriers to the development of such a database right now?
The goal of this discussion is to address many of the questions that have appropriately been raised surrounding the utilization of on-body cameras by law enforcement, specifically from empirical and legal points of view.
Speakers: Jordan Ferguson, Associate, Best Best & Krieger LLP, Los Angeles, CA Charles Katz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ Asim Rehman, General Counsel, OIG-NYPD, New York, NY
Moderator: Mark P. Smith, Independent Police Auditor, OIPA & NACOLE At-Large Board Member, San Francisco, CA
The Role of De-escalation in the Citizen-Police Encounter Current and Emerging Issues Concurrent Session 27 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
De-escalation may be one of the most important tools an officer possesses to ensure that a police-citizen encounter does not become a fatal use-of-force incident. Increasingly, the question has become not whether a use of force is legally justified but whether all approaches were taken to have prevented or limited the application of force. As the nation and the world learn of critical incidents occurring in communities from
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Ferguson to New York to Baltimore, the oversight community should be the leading voice on how we learn from these incidents to ensure they do not happen again. Integrating de-escalation techniques into a police department’s trainings and policies and considering it during departmental reviews of past incidents represent strong steps toward decreasing the number of future serious force Incidents.
Officer Kevin Stuckey is a 20-year veteran of the SPD who served on the Seattle Community Police Commission when the Commission drafted an officer de-escalation policy that centered on police-citizen dialogue as compared to less lethal force, exceeding consent decree requirements. Officer Stuckey will talk about the role de-escalation policy and training plays for a law enforcement officer in the field. Susan Hutson is the Police Monitor in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Hutson will speak about de-escalation from the perspective of a police monitoring agency and how the oversight community can strengthen its role in ensuring de-escalation is a tool on which a police department more readily relies.
Speakers: Susan Hutson, Police Monitor, OIPM, New Orleans, LA Kevin Stuckey, Police Officer, SPD, Seattle, WA
Developing Issues for Law Enforcement and Civilian Oversight Current and Emerging Issues General Session 29 | 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Attorney Eric Daigle will cover recent trends and significant events related to oversight of law enforcement, including the recent U.S. Supreme Court Kingsley decision, which creates a new constitutional protection against police abuse. Mr. Daigle will provide his insight on current police training and discuss recent police-citizen incidents that are changing how oversight agencies investigate and review police officers. Controversial use of force by police officers and current U.S. DOJ investigations will also be covered. Current developments with the President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, as well as important topics for agencies to consider regarding body worn cameras will be discussed. In addition, Mr. Daigle will address any late-breaking developments impacting law enforcement and law enforcement oversight.
Speaker: Eric Daigle, Managing Member, Daigle Law Group, LLC, Southington, CT
Closing Remarks 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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Core Competencies for Civilian Oversight Practitioners
NACOLE is committed to providing practitioners of oversight with the resources to develop the knowledge and skills needed for success. With this in mind, NACOLE adopted the Core Competencies for Civilian Oversight Practitioners to provide guidance for self-study as well as a structure to ensure that the Annual Conference provides quality training in key areas. These competencies were developed with input from the Board of Directors and NACOLE members, and serve as a guideline for training, conference planning, and other organizational tasks.
Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement Models History Current Trends Theories, Standards, and Practices
Investigations Basic investigative skills and techniques in the following areas (not an exhaustive list): o Interviewing o Writing clear, concise, well-organized, and thorough investigative reports o Communication o Planning o Collection and preservation of evidence o Conducting independent and objective investigations Review and/or Audit of Internal Investigations: o Using matrices, timelines, and relational database software to organize and conduct timely and thorough reviews of investigations o Basic auditing principles (Yellow Book)
The Public and Transparency Community Outreach: o Holding meetings and keeping stakeholders informed o Receiving and processing stakeholder input Public Reporting: o Tools/methods for making reports available to the public o Media relations o Public speaking
Law United States Constitution Important/Relevant Case Law for Civilian Oversight Peace Officer’s Bills of Rights/Labor law Public Records Acts HIPAA Ethics of law enforcement and oversight
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Policing/Law Enforcement Policies and Procedures Understanding of the criminal justice system/process, including basic policing models and tactics Technology Use of force (non-, less-, and lethal-force) Community policing Police accountability mechanisms (e.g., early intervention systems) and internal/external review Jail procedures
Remediation and Discipline Mediation Education-based discipline Early warning systems Disciplinary process including arbitration/grievance/appeal rights of officers and role of the police union in the disciplinary process
Join the growing community of individuals across the nation working to enhance accountability and transparency in policing and build community trust through civilian oversight.
Become a member of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement today! For more information please visit www.nacole.org.
Core Competencies and the Annual Conference
In an effort to make the core competencies applicable to the training that NACOLE provides and the practice of oversight, we have created the following grid that that lists the core competencies addressed at each conference session. This will allow all attendees to plan their attendance according to the areas they feel best address their current training needs.
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2015 Annual NACOLE Conference Core Competencies Addressed Policing/Law Civilian The Public Remediation Enforcement Session Session Title Oversight of Law Investigations and Law and Policies and Enforcement Transparency Discipline Procedures Riverside’s Civilian Police Review Commission: Past, 1 Present, and Future 2 Many Roads to Reform Racial Reconciliation and Community Trust Part I: 3 Building a Roadmap to Community Trust 4 Oversight of Violence in Jails and Prisons Racial Reconciliation and Community Trust Part II: 5 Racial Reconciliation, Truth-Telling, and Police Legitimacy 6 Prosecuting Police Misconduct
7 Effective Boards & Commissions
8 Assessing Police Tactics
9 International Perspectives on Police Oversight Civilian Oversight’s Past, Present & Future: A 10 Discussion with Southern California Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police Community Engagement for Oversight Agencies: 11 Why it Matters and How to Do it Right 12 Effective Evaluation of Officer-Involved Shootings Police Use of Emerging Technology: Implications 13 for Oversight 14 Legal Updates Early Intervention Systems in Law Enforcement: 15 Using Research and Experience to Guide Practice
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Policing/Law Civilian The Public Remediation Enforcement Session Session Title Oversight of Law Investigations and Law and Policies and Enforcement Transparency Discipline Procedures Strategies for Conducting Oversight Investigations 16 at a Systemic Level Assessing the Credibility of Witnesses: Conducting 17 effective interviews and evaluating the statements of complainants, witnesses, and officers Part I: Using Transparency and Open Data to 18 Enhance Accountability Changing Policies and Implementing Programs to 19 End LGBTQ Discriminatory Policing Practices Civilian Oversight and Community Participation and 20 Representation 21 Part II: Using Data to Challenge and Change Policy The Justice System and Mental Health Issues: 22 Decriminalizing Mental Illness What You Should Know About the Search & Seizure 23 of Persons The Role of Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement 24 Decision-Making 25 Policing & Homelessness On-Body Cameras: Answering the Tough Questions 26 from Empirical, Policy, and Legal Perspectives The Role of De-escalation in the Citizen-Police 27 Encounter Developing Issues for Law Enforcement and Civilian 28 Oversight
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Speaker Biographies
Keynote Speaker: Vanita Gupta Vanita Gupta currently serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. DOJ. Under Ms. Gupta’s leadership, the Division continues its crucially important work in a number of areas, including advancing constitutional policing and other criminal justice reforms, ensuring that individuals with disabilities are afforded an opportunity to live in integrated community settings, protecting the rights of LGBTI individuals, and combating discrimination in lending and voting.
Ms. Gupta is a longtime civil rights lawyer. Prior to joining the U.S. DOJ, she was Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and Director of its Center for Justice. While managing a robust litigation docket, Vanita also worked with law enforcement, departments of corrections, and across the political spectrum to advance evidence-based reforms to increase public safety by promoting greater fairness and trust in the criminal justice system. From 2006 to 2010, Vanita was a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program. She won a landmark settlement on behalf of immigrant children detained in a privately-run prison in Texas that led to the end of “family detention” at the facility. Prior to that, she worked at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where she successfully led the effort to overturn the wrongful drug convictions of 38 individuals in Tulia, TX, who were ultimately pardoned by Governor Rick Perry. She then helped negotiate a $6 million settlement on behalf of her clients. Vanita also served for several years as an adjunct clinical professor at NYU School of Law, where she taught and oversaw a civil rights litigation clinic.
Vanita has won numerous awards for her advocacy and has been quoted extensively in national and international media on civil rights issues. In 2011, the National Law Journal recognized her as a Top 40 Minority Lawyer Under 40. Vanita is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University and received her law degree from New York University School of Law.
J. Ashlee Albies J. Ashlee Albies’s legal practice focuses on civil rights and employee-side employment law. Ashlee also supports democratic workspaces and serves as an advisor to local consumer and worker cooperatives. She is co-chair of the Portland chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association with nationwide membership. Ashlee currently serves on the steering committee of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, and represents the AMA Coalition in litigation brought by the DOJ against the City of Portland alleging a pattern and practice of excessive force by the Portland Police Bureau against individuals with mental health issues.
In 2010, Ashlee was a part of a legal team honored with the "Law for the People Award" by the National Lawyers Guild for their work challenging the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretap program on behalf of a Southern Oregon Islamic charity and two of its lawyers. The Chief Judge of the Northern District of California, Judge Vaughn Walker, held the government accountable by finding the program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). His ruling, however, was overturned by the Ninth Circuit, which held the federal government immune from suit under the FISA.
Ashlee has presented at many public forums and continuing legal education seminars about the First Amendment, free speech, creative uses of the law, and civil rights litigation. A New Jersey native, Ashlee earned her undergraduate degree from Cook College at Rutgers University before moving to Oregon to earn her law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School.
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Kelvyn Anderson A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Kelvyn Anderson has worked as an investigative reporter covering police, courts, and government, a private investigator for attorneys and insurance companies, and as a congressional aide. Anderson was appointed Executive Director of Philadelphia's PAC in January 2013, and has worked for the agency as an investigator and Deputy Director since 2000, specializing in records management, database development, mapping, and other web-based tools for oversight. Anderson is also currently serving as a member of the Philadelphia Police Community Oversight Board. A former NACOLE Board member, Anderson is a longtime member of the NACOLE Website Committee and moderator of the NACOLE Listserv.
Laura Arnold Laura Arnold has been a deputy public defender for nearly 20 years. She was named a California Defender of the Year in 2013 due to her persistence and success litigating issues pertaining to post-conviction consequences of sex crimes, including registration and internet notification requirements and residency and presence restrictions pertaining to registered sex offenders. Over the past several years, she has presented to numerous defense organizations throughout the State of California, including the California Public Defender's Association, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, California Appellate Defense Council, and the San Diego Bar Association. She has presented to the community here in Riverside County and to professionals working with the indigent criminal population post-release in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino.
Barbara Attard Barbara Attard is an accountability and police practices consultant with over 30 years in oversight. She served for four years as the San Jose Independent Police Auditor and was employed for seven years as the director of the Berkeley PRC, one of the oldest oversight agencies in the nation. Barbara began her career in civilian oversight in 1983 with the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints. She is a licensed private investigator. Ms. Attard was a member of the NACOLE Board of Directors for over ten years, including seven years on the executive board serving as president, secretary, and vice-president.
Attard’s current projects include developing a manual for oversight investigations of police misconduct and, for the past three years, exchanging information about oversight of police in the U.S. and oversight of Russian jails and prisons with Russian non-governmental organizations. She has worked with jurisdictions to establish oversight across the U.S. and internationally and consulted with University of California, Davis to establish oversight of its campus police force. Attard has conducted training in the U.S. and several countries, including Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, and Russia.
Robert Barton Robert Barton is the Independent Inspector General with jurisdiction over the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He leads an agency that reviews and monitors several programs within the state prison system as well as the juvenile justice and parole departments. His jurisdiction includes medical care, inmate complaints, warden selection, rehabilitative programming, internal affairs, use of force, and other critical incidents such as unexpected deaths in custody and officer involved shootings. Mr. Barton began his career in law enforcement with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department where he worked patrol, detentions, undercover narcotics, and the bailiff division while also graduating from California State University, Fresno with a bachelor’s of science in Criminology. In 1985 he attended University of California, Davis’s King Hall School of Law, graduating and gaining admittance to the California Bar in 1988. He then worked for 17 years for the Kern County District Attorney’s office until 2005 when he was appointed as the Senior Supervising Assistant Inspector General for the Central California region, before his current Appointment in 2011 as the Inspector General. Mr. Barton also taught for several years for Bakersfield College and the California State University, Bakersfield in
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various criminal justice courses including media law, advanced criminal law, gangs and crime, and ethics in criminal justice. He has been involved with and attended NACOLE conferences since 2006.
Cristina Beamud Ms. Beamud was born and raised in New York City and graduated from The State University of New York at Albany in 1974. She became one of the first class of five women police officers in Rochester, NY in 1976 and was a patrol officer, an internal affairs investigator, and a criminal investigator. In 1987 she left to attend Northeastern University School of Law. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office for six years. She then worked as an Assistant City Solicitor and Legal Advisor to the Cambridge Police Department until 2006. In 2006, she became the first Police Auditor for the City of Eugene, OR and later became the first Executive Director of the Atlanta Citizen’s Review Board. She began her work in Miami in December of 2013. She currently serves at the Executive Director of the City of Miami Civilian Investigative Panel.
Chief Charlie Beck Chief Charlie Beck was appointed Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in November 2009. Chief Beck oversees the third largest police department in the U.S., managing nearly 10,000 sworn officers and 3,000 civilian employees, encompassing an area of 473 square miles, a population of approximately 3.8 million people, and an annual budget that exceeds one billion dollars. Having facilitated his predecessor's successful reengineering and reform effort, Chief Beck continues to evolve and refine those strategies. Major components of this endeavor include the mitigation of crime, the reduction of gang violence, the containment of terrorism, and the continuation of the reforms that brought the Department into compliance with the consent decree.
Chief Beck was born in Long Beach in 1953. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach. Chief Beck was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Department in March of 1977 after serving two years with the Los Angeles Police Reserve Corps. He was promoted to Sergeant in June of 1984, to Lieutenant in April of 1993, to Captain in July of 1999, and Commander in April of 2005. In August of 2006, he achieved the rank of Deputy Chief, the same rank his father, a retired Los Angeles police officer, had attained.
Chief Beck was a past Director and served as President of the Los Angeles Police Relief Association. He competes regularly in local motocross events. He is also a past Police and Fire Motocross National Champion and has won numerous medals in state, national, and international competitions. Chief Beck is married with three children. Two of Chief Beck's children are also Los Angeles police officers.
Merrell R. Bennekin Merrell Bennekin, J.D., is the Deputy Executive Director of the Board of Police Commissioners’ Office of Community Complaints in Kansas City, MO. In this role, he is responsible for the daily agency operations and facilitation of investigations into allegations of misconduct against members of the Kansas City Police Department. Merrell is also a Missouri Peace Officer Standards Training (POST) instructor at the Regional Police Academy in the areas of Mediation, Conflict De-escalation, and Interpersonal Communications. Since 2008, he has worked as an adjunct professor, providing instruction in the area of Criminal Justice at the Penn Valley and Maple Woods campuses of the Metropolitan Community College.
Merrell, a native of Eatonton, GA, received his bachelor’s degree in English from Morehouse College in 1998 and his J.D. from the University Of Illinois College Of Law in 2001. Merrell also completed the University of Kansas Certified Public Manager Program in 2010.
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In 2006, Merrell became the first African American to serve on the Center School District #58 Board of Education in Kansas City. During his initial term in office, he served as President from 2007-2010. He briefly left the board at the conclusion of his first term in 2010 to focus on personal and professional endeavors, but was re-elected in 2011 and began his third term of office in April 2014. He is a member the Kansas City Metro Cares Mentoring Movement Board of Directors, the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, and serves as presiding chair of the Metropolitan Community Service Program. Merrell is a 2007 graduate of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions Leadership Development Program, and served as Polemarch of the Independence Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated from 2011-2013. He had the honor of serving as Drill Master for the Johnson County Chapter of Jack & Jill of America Inc.’s Annual Beautillion in 2012 and 2013, and is currently a Youth Director at the Swope Parkway Church of Christ.
Ray Bercini Ray Bercini is an experienced detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He has taken on a wide array of assignments throughout his career, including patrol, gang investigations, and helping develop a first-of- its-kind Community Based Information System, allowing for multi-agency sharing of data to address the socioeconomic dynamics underlying troubled neighborhoods. He also is a founding member of the non-profit A Better LA, where he helped pioneer an innovative approach to reducing street violence. This approach included reaching out to, and developing strong relationships with, former gang leaders and other community leaders to act as partners with law enforcement to build community trust and reduce violence. He was instrumental in taking this approach from an idea to a structured approach successfully utilized throughout Los Angeles.
Rev. Dr. T. Allen Bethel Dr. Bethel serves as President of the Albina Ministerial Alliance (AMA), the largest ecumenical organization of churches and ministers in North and Northeast Portland, and as co-chairman of the AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, which works to ensure oversight of the Portland Police Bureau. In 2005, the Coalition called for and helped to obtain a U.S. DOJ investigation into the patterns, practices, and policies of the Portland Police Bureau regarding use of excessive and lethal force. The Coalition continues to meet, hold vigils, and call for more open investigations of deadly force shootings by Portland police. The Coalition was granted enhanced amicus status in the federal settlement agreement between the U.S. DOJ and the city of Portland, which allows it to participate in the federal proceedings. This is the first instance of a community grassroots organization having such a status in these cases.
Committed to building strong and equitable communities in Portland, Bethel serves on the boards of directors of TriMet, the International Institute for Christian Communication, the Portland African American Leadership Forum, Susan G. Komen, and Oregon League of Minority Voters. He served two terms as a founding member of the Portland Parks and Recreation Board for the City of Portland and the Board of Trustees of Warner Pacific College.
Bethel has received many awards. Among them are the Emerald Award from AKA, Inc., and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives' (NOBLE) Drum Major for Justice Award. In May of 2015, he was named the Ecumenist of the Year by the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon.
Peter Bibring Peter Bibring is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Southern California and director of its police practices work. He first joined the ACLU as a staff attorney in 2006. Peter works on a wide range of police-related issues, including race and bias in policing, gang injunctions, excessive force, search and seizure, police interference with First Amendment rights, national security, civilian oversight, and surveillance.
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Peter’s cases include: Vasquez v. Rackauckas, a successful due process challenge to enforcement of a gang injunction in the city of Orange, California; Fazaga v. FBI, a challenge to the FBI’s surveillance of mosques in Orange County; Nee v. County of Los Angeles, a suit on behalf of photographers unlawfully detained for photographing in public; Gordon v. City of Moreno Valley, a challenge to racially-targeted, warrantless raids on African American barbershops; and Fitzgerald v. City of Los Angeles, a lawsuit targeting unlawful searches and detentions in L.A.’s Skid Row area.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Peter worked in private practice, specializing in civil rights and workers’ rights. Peter clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He graduated from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor-in-chief of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, and from Harvard University.
Brian Buchner Brian Buchner has more than eleven years of direct experience working in civilian oversight of law enforcement, during which he has examined police and oversight practices across the nation. In that time, he has reviewed hundreds of sensitive law enforcement investigations, including those that arise in the aftermath of an officer- involved shooting, in-custody death, or other critical police-involved incident.
Currently, Mr. Buchner is a Policy Director in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of Public Safety, focusing on policing policy and liaising with the LAPD, the Los Angeles Police Commission, and the Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, he was a Police Special Investigator with the LAPD OIG, which provides civilian oversight of the LAPD. Before joining the LAPD OIG in 2007, Mr. Buchner was the Policing Specialist at the Police Assessment Resource Center, where he assisted Merrick Bobb, former Special Counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, in monitoring and critically reviewing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Mr. Buchner is the current president of NACOLE, the nation’s largest and premier police oversight organization. Mr. Buchner also serves as a subject matter expert for the U.S. DOJ and as an adviser to the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Police Investigations Project.
He has spoken about policing and oversight issues in a variety of forums, including testifying before President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Mr. Buchner has also participated on panels hosted by NACOLE, the ACLU, the American Society of Criminology, the California State Assembly, the Canadian Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, the Homicide Research Working Group, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, NOBLE, the Police Executive Research Forum, Seattle University, the United Nations, and the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as in communities across the country.
Mr. Buchner serves on the Board of Directors of the Integrated Recovery Network, a network of community- based outpatient treatment providers, community clinics, and permanent supportive housing organizations in Los Angeles County that systematically addresses the needs of homeless and formerly homeless people who have co-occurring mental illness and addiction. He served on the city of Santa Monica’s Social Services Commission from 2005 to 2015, including having served two terms as chair. Mr. Buchner holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in criminology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Chris Burbank Chris Burbank recently accepted the position as Director of Law Enforcement Engagement with The Center for Policing Equity (CPE). He has been involved with CPE since its inception, utilizing their research capability at the height of the immigration debate and supporting their efforts throughout the Nation. He is an unwavering advocate of the National Initiative and Justice Database as a solution to waning public trust and confidence in policing.
Chief Burbank was with the Salt Lake City Police Department from 1991 until his retirement in June of 2015. He was appointed to the position of Chief of Police in March of 2006. During his nine-year tenure as Chief, he distinguished himself as progressive and innovative, influencing not only the city of Salt Lake but also the profession of policing.
Chris Burbank is the Past First Vice President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, an assembly of the 75 largest policing agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Burbank has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Utah and is a graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute.
Alexander Bustamante Alexander Bustamante received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and then later obtained his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. Immediately upon graduating from law school, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army and served overseas with the Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. As a Judge Advocate General, Mr. Bustamante was responsible for advising senior military commanders and their staffs on a variety of domestic and international matters, including the rules governing international armed conflicts. While stationed overseas, he deployed to Gnjilane, Kosovo in support of Operation Joint Guardian, where he worked closely with international organizations in training police forces and establishing a judicial system in the war-ravaged region. During his deployment to Kosovo, he also conducted genocide investigations in coordination with representatives from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
After completing his service with the Army, Mr. Bustamante continued his public service as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he was responsible for some of the office’s highest profile prosecutions involving organized crime, civil rights, and corporate fraud. For his prosecution efforts in these cases and others, he has received awards and recognition from various local, state, and national agencies, including earning the Attorney General’s highest award for excellence for his civil rights prosecutions.
In 2011, following a nationwide search, Mr. Bustamante was selected as the Inspector General for the LAPD. In that capacity, he is responsible for providing oversight of all aspects of the LAPD, one of the largest municipal police departments in the country. Recently, the California State Legislature passed legislation designating his office as the oversight entity for the Los Angeles World Airport Police Division, which is charged with securing the sixth busiest airport in the world and the third busiest in the U.S.
Brian Center Brian Center, J.D., is the founder and principal of Center Solutions, a law enforcement consulting team made up of a blend of experts in law enforcement and organizational management. Mr. Center has a deep understanding of law enforcement from multiple angles: as a mediator; as a civilian overseer of police; as a department director in the LASD; as an aide focused on law enforcement issues for an elected official; and as executive
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director of an anti-gang non-profit with a mission that includes building relationships between law enforcement and community members in high-crime neighborhoods.
Mr. Center’s consulting work has covered a broad array of issues for both small and large departments. This includes reviewing and editing policies and procedures; analyzing gang strategies; reviewing uses of force and the quality of related internal investigations; assessing the quality of training; advising on organizational management; devising plans to build more trust between officers and the community; assessing a department’s efforts to minimize litigation costs; and assessing the overall efforts of a canine unit.
Over the past 20 years, Mr. Center has been active in a broad array of community activities. To name only a few, he has served as Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a volunteer mediator for the Federal District Court, and as a delegate to the Alliance of Youth Movements, an organization that brought together the State Department, activists and non-profits from around the world to combat extremism and violence.
Joshua Chanin Joshua Chanin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University (SDSU). He received his doctorate from the School of Public Affairs at American University. While at American University, he worked at the intersection of law, public administration, and criminal justice, and continues to do so at SDSU. Josh’s dissertation examines the implementation and institutionalization of federal efforts to remedy systematic police misconduct. Other general interests include public law, bureaucratic accountability, criminal procedure, police behavior (especially related to the use of force), and the relationship between public safety and individual liberty.
Nykisha Cleveland Nykisha Cleveland is the public affairs specialist for the District of Columbia’s OPC where she manages and executes the agency’s strategic communications plan. Prior to joining the OPC, Ms. Cleveland was the Associate Director of Communications for the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington. She received her bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and her master’s degree from American University.
Rev. K. Edward Copeland Rev. K. Edward Copeland serves as pastor of New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Rockford, IL. As a community organizer, he has worked closely with the Rockford Police Department to help implement innovative violent crime reduction strategies. In 2007 and 2009, he served on the organizing team for Rockford’s two Drug Market Intervention initiatives. Since 2008, he has been an independent consultant for Michigan State University’s College of Criminal Justice. In 2011, he and Rockford Chief of Police Chet Epperson collaborated to form the Fun Safe Summer Partnership, a network of over 15 community and county agencies and nonprofits committed to crime reduction activities in the most distressed neighborhoods of Rockford. Since 2013, he has served on the steering committee for the Rockford Area Violence Elimination Networks and moderates the monthly call-in meetings with citizens returning from the Illinois Department of Corrections on parole for violent offenses. Rev. Copeland holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; and a master’s degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. He is in the process of completing a Doctorate of Ministry at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Brian Corr Brian Corr has served as Executive Secretary of the Police Review & Advisory Board for the city of Cambridge, MA since September of 2010 and as Executive Director of the city's Peace Commission since 2008. The Police
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Review & Advisory Board is the city’s civilian oversight agency, while the Peace Commission works with other municipal agencies, communities of faith, nonprofit organizations, and the community as a whole to: build connections and strengthen relationships; promote positive dialogue and foster understanding; and coordinate compassionate community responses to support recovery and healing in the wake of traumatic events and violence affecting Cambridge and its residents. Before joining the municipal government, Mr. Corr worked as the first statewide field organizer for the ACLU of Massachusetts, where he organized "civil liberties task forces" across the state, including one focused on civilian oversight in response to allegations of police misconduct and racial profiling in the city of Lawrence, MA.
Mr. Corr has served on the Board of Directors of NACOLE since 2012, and served as the organization’s Vice- President in 2013 and 2014. He has attended the past six annual conferences of NACOLE, where he earned the Certified Practitioner of Oversight credential and served on the NACOLE Annual Conference Committee for the past three years.
In his community, Mr. Corr is a member of the Board of Directors of the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, a unique ballet organization with innovative programming, artistic excellence, and extensive community outreach to ensure that dance is meaningful and accessible to all parts of the community. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Corr served on the Board of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a Boston-area nonprofit that assists and empowers both families who have lost children to homicide and families whose children have taken a life while doing education and advocacy work to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of violence on individuals, families, and communities. Nationally, Mr. Corr served on the national Board of Directors of the American Friends Service Committee from 2007 to 2010, and was co-chair of the national Board of Directors of Peace Action from 2003 through 2007.
He holds certifications in Group Crisis Intervention and Post-Traumatic Stress Management/Psychological First Aid, and has completed the Police Chaplain Twelve Core Courses Training through the International Conference of Police Chaplains. Mr. Corr has a bachelor’s degree in Russian Literature and Language from the University of Michigan and has completed Negotiation and Leadership course at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
W. Brent Cotter Brent Cotter, QC, is Chair of the Saskatchewan Public Complaints Commission (PCC) and current President of the Canadian Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (CACOLE). The PCC receives, investigates, and reviews complaints against municipal police in the province and is responsible for ensuring that both the public and police receive a fair and thorough investigation of a complaint against the police or an investigation of a possible criminal offense by a police officer.
Mr. Cotter is a former dean of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. He obtained his bachelor’s degree with honors in marketing in 1971. In 1974, he obtained his bachelor of laws degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1977, he received his master of laws degree from Dalhousie.
From 1992 to 1997, Brent served as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for the Province of Saskatchewan. In July of 1997, Brent was appointed Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs, as well as Deputy Provincial Secretary. Brent is a current member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. In 2008, Brent was selected as the recipient of the CBA Saskatchewan Award for Distinguished Service.
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Mike Crebs Assistant Chief Mike Crebs is a third generation police officer with 34 years of law enforcement experience. He started his career in Salt Lake City, where he spent 11 years working in the metro areas and then moved to the Portland Police Bureau where he has spent the last 23 years. Assistant Chief Crebs has worked in various assignments over the years including patrol officer, school resource officer, gang enforcement, detective, motorcycle officer, and special weapons team. He also served in various ranks including officer, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, commander and, most recently, assistant chief.
Eric Daigle Eric Daigle is an attorney whose primary area of expertise is in civil litigation in both federal and state court with an emphasis on municipalities and municipal clients in civil rights actions, including police misconduct litigation. After serving with the Connecticut State Police, Mr. Daigle practiced with the firm of Halloran & Sage, LLP as an attorney in the Police Defense Group. In 2010, Mr. Daigle incorporated Daigle Law Group, LLC, which specializes in law enforcement operations. Mr. Daigle currently serves as a member of state and federal monitoring teams for agencies under a consent decree. As a lawyer with civil rights and law enforcement experience, Mr. Daigle brings to his position both the police perspective and the civil rights perspective when examining all compliance tasks.
Mr. Daigle works as a consultant and expert witness for law enforcement pattern and practice abuse. He works as a Police Practices Consultant with multiple departments across the country to revise and develop department policies; provide daily operational legal advice; evaluate and revise use of force and internal affairs operations; accreditation standards; and employment operations procedures.
Mr. Daigle is a law enforcement trainer presenting across the country on topics such as agency liability, supervision, management, and use of force standards. He serves as general counsel for the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association and conducts internal affairs training for the association. Mr. Daigle is the Vice Chairman of the Legal Officers Section of the International Association for the Chiefs of Police (IACP). He is also an active member of the Civil Rights Committee. He is a member of the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (AELE) Board of Directors, an instructor in the use of force seminar and holds AELE’s Certified Litigation Specialist (CLS) credential. Mr. Daigle was also recently named the AELE Chairman of the Association of Certified Litigation Consultants. Mr. Daigle is a retired Connecticut State Police trooper and a certified officer in the State of Connecticut.
Kelly Davis Kelly Davis is a freelance journalist based in San Diego who focuses on issues related to adult and juvenile incarceration. Until March of 2015, she was the associate editor at San Diego CityBeat, an alternative newsweekly that she helped start in 2002. Her work at CityBeat included investigations into the high rate of deaths in San Diego County jails and a spike in suicide attempts at county juvenile detention facilities. She has also written extensively about California’s sex offender laws and ongoing efforts to address San Diego's large homeless population. Her reporting has been honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and NACOLE.
Michele Deitch Michele Deitch is an attorney and a Senior Lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches graduate-level courses on criminal justice policy. She is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading experts on the issue of correctional oversight and has written and published extensively on this topic. Among other works, she helped edit and produce a law review volume titled
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Opening Up a Closed World: A Sourcebook on Prison Oversight. She co-chairs the American Bar Association’s (ABA) subcommittee on correctional oversight and helped draft the ABA’s policies on this issue, as well as the ABA’s standards on the treatment of prisoners. In 2005 to 2006, she was awarded a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship to conduct research on independent prison oversight, and she organized a conference that brought together 115 of the world’s top corrections and oversight practitioners to discuss ways to expand the use of oversight mechanisms.
Professor Deitch is regularly consulted by policymakers and organizations seeking to develop or enhance correctional monitoring bodies, and has provided testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, and the Los Angeles Citizens’ Jail Commission about correctional oversight. From 1987 to 1990, she was a full-time court-appointed monitor of conditions in the Texas prison system in the landmark class action case of Ruiz v. Estelle, and she has also consulted with a number of prison and jail systems, as well as juvenile confinement agencies, around the country to address conditions issues in their facilities. She has also conducted extensive research on conditions for juveniles confined in adult jails. Professor Deitch holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in Psychology from Oxford University, and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.
Chief Sergio Diaz Chief Sergio Diaz is an accomplished criminal justice leader who has transformed his professional philosophy of respect for all persons into a working practice of collaboration. In this collaboration, his goals are to achieve a higher degree of community safety through implementing practical solutions to reduce crime and fear and to continue to develop the leaders of the future. He is always working to increase the quality of life of the people he serves.
One of the country’s most respected criminal justice leaders, he is known for his responsive, purposeful, and innovative approach to contemporary policing issues. Chief Diaz accepted his current assignment as Chief of Police for the Riverside Police Department in July of 2010, after spending over 33 years with the LAPD in various positions.
Chief Diaz places the highest value on critical thinking and creative problem solving to proactively prevent and resolve crime and quality of life issues. A testament to these skills and his leadership are the various community enhancement programs, revisions to the police department training curriculum, and personal participation in countless successful and high profile public assemblies during his tenure with the LAPD.
Since becoming Riverside Police Chief, Chief Diaz has focused on reducing crime, enhancing the Department’s relationship with the communities it serves, developing personnel to ever-higher standards of service, and achieving greater efficiencies in the delivery of police services.
From humble beginnings as a refugee immigrant, Chief Diaz has a realistic understanding of the value of community support systems and the outcomes that can be achieved by seizing opportunity in the midst of crisis. His insight into leadership, mentoring, and education has made him a sought-after speaker at community meetings, commencement exercises, leadership forums, and criminal justice programs.
Chief Diaz earned his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice Administration from California State University, Los Angeles, while working full-time as a patrol officer. He subsequently obtained a master’s degree from California State University, Long Beach.
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Ezekiel Edwards As director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, Zeke has sought to advance criminal justice reform through strategic litigation and advocacy aimed at ending mass incarceration and over-criminalization, challenging law enforcement abuses of power, and advancing racial justice and drug law reform. As both director and previously as staff attorney, Zeke has worked on cases and campaigns on a wide variety of issues, including ending abusive police and prosecutorial practices, reforming indigent defense systems, ensuring and expanding right to counsel, advocating for and protecting the decriminalization of drug laws, challenging juvenile life without parole sentences, and reducing excessive sentencing. Mr. Edwards has written briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in cases covering a wide array of 4th, 5th, and, 6th Amendment issues. Prior to joining the ACLU, he was a staff attorney at the Innocence Project and a leading national expert on eyewitness identification reform; a public defender at the Bronx Defenders; a Criminal Justice Fellow at the Drum Major Institute of Public Policy; and an investigator at the Capital Defender Office in New York. Zeke earned his J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Public Interest Scholar, and his bachelor’s degree with honors at Vassar College.
Jordan E. A. Ferguson Jordan Ferguson provides legal services to cities, special districts, and private clients across Southern California. He is well versed in issues surrounding emerging technologies and the sharing economy, land use and planning laws, conflicts of interest, free speech regulations, privacy rights, sex offender regulations, the Brown Act, public safety regulations, and elections law matters. As an associate in the Municipal Law and Special Districts practice groups of Best Best & Krieger LLP, his practice involves city attorney and general counsel services.
Ferguson graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan School Of Law. While in law school, he served as a contributing editor of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review and worked as a judicial extern for a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. He also coached mock trial at a local high school.
Ferguson attended American University, where he received a master’s degree in public administration, as well as a bachelor’s degree in communications, legal institutions, economics, and government. While attending American University, Ferguson served as a federal relations intern for the National League of Cities, worked as an intern investigator for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and served as an intern for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). He also worked as a policy intern for Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge in Riverside, CA.
Ferguson grew up in Riverside, where he was a member of Poly High School’s Mock Trial team. He now lives in Los Angeles. In his spare time, Jordan writes about film and television for various publications, and recently completed Bartending School.
Paul Figueroa Paul Figueroa was born and raised in Oakland, CA. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from California State University, East Bay. He earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where he was recognized as the top student in his graduating class. In 2012, he graduated from the University of La Verne, in Southern California, with a Doctorate Degree in Organizational Leadership. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Session 231, the Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute of Policing Session #54, and he is a graduate of the prestigious California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training Master Instructor Development Program. Paul Figueroa started as an Oakland Police Cadet in 1991 and worked his way up the ranks at the Oakland Police Department.
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He now serves as the Assistant Chief of Police. He regularly lectures on the topics of trust, community policing, effective training, and police accountability.
Florence Finkle Florence Finkle most recently served as the Deputy Commissioner for Integrity and Policy at the New York City Department of Correction. From 2010 to 2014, Ms. Finkle managed the department’s Internal Investigation Division, Policy Compliance Unit, and Policies and Procedures Unit. She improved the quality of the department’s internal investigations by establishing a vertical investigative process, creating a training program for investigators, and instituting demanding standards for gathering, documenting, and analyzing evidence. Ms. Finkle instituted systemic suspension of officers captured on video using excessive force and referred force cases for criminal prosecution, leading to indictments of 22 correction officers. In addition, she developed and conducted the department’s first peer-review security audits, issued reports requiring that jails implement action plans to rectify deficiencies, and collaborated with subject matter experts to write policies implementing a new classification system and custody management plan.
Ms. Finkle began her career in 1987 as an assistant district attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s office. As a member of its Official Corruption Unit, she investigated and prosecuted New York police officers. From 1996 to 2007, Ms. Finkle led the New York City CCRB, the largest civilian police oversight agency in the U.S., first as its Deputy Executive Director and then as Executive Director. After 11 years with the CCRB, Ms. Finkle joined the New York State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which investigates, prosecutes, and files civil lawsuits against Medicaid providers, as its first assistant attorney general. Ms. Finkle graduated summa cum laude in 1984 from Tufts University and obtained her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1987.
Paige M. Fitzgerald Paige Fitzgerald has been a prosecuting attorney since 1999 in the Criminal Section of the U.S. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, where she investigates and prosecutes civil rights violations, including police misconduct cases. She currently serves as a Deputy Chief, heading up the Department’s Cold Case Initiative. She is also the Director of the Department’s Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers. Among Ms. Fitzgerald’s numerous awards are the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service (the DOJ’s highest honor), the John Marshall Award, the John Doar Award (the Civil Rights Division’s highest honor), the Walter W. Barnett Memorial Award, and Women in Federal Law Enforcement’s Top Prosecutor of the Year Award. Before joining the Criminal Section, she served for five years as a Deputy District Attorney in Riverside, CA and for two years as a law clerk to the Hon. G. Thomas Eisele in the Eastern District of Arkansas. She earned a bachelor’s degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Marc Fliedner Marc Fliedner began his prosecutorial career in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (Brooklyn, NY) immediately after graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1987. He served five years in that office’s Special Victims Bureau, working his way through the ranks from misdemeanors to grand jury to high-profile sex crimes and child abuse trials. From 1992 to 2001, he served as an Assistant Prosecutor with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey, where he served in and became Director of the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a senior litigation attorney with Kamensky Cohen & Associates, where he specialized in litigation relating to civil rights violations against minors who were sexually victimized in institutionalized settings, including schools and churches. Since returning to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in 2006, he has prosecuted high-profile sex crimes and homicides and served as Chief of the Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau. In September of 2014, Kings County District Attorney Kenneth Thompson asked him to develop and act as Chief of a newly-formed Civil Rights Bureau, which investigates and
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prosecutes hate crimes and acts of misconduct by members of the New York Police Department. In that capacity, he is currently prosecuting a police officer for Manslaughter in the Second Degree in relation to the shooting death of an unarmed civilian in the stairwell of a city housing development.
Jennifer Fratello Jennifer Fratello is the Policy Director for the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor. As the Policy Director, Jennifer is responsible for identifying and researching solutions to policy issues related to the Denver Police and Sheriff Department’s policies and practices. Before joining the Office of the Independent Monitor, Jennifer worked at the Vera Institute of Justice as a Research Director overseeing Vera’s work on juvenile justice, and race and prosecutorial decision-making. In that position, she worked closely with justice system policymakers in New York City and nationally to plan, implement, and measure the effect of a variety of large-scale justice system reforms. Jennifer earned a master’s degree in criminal justice from Temple University. She has published and presented extensively on police-community relations, risk assessment in criminal justice systems, race and law enforcement, and data-driven policy-making.
Mike Gardner Mike Gardner is Riverside’s Ward 1 City Council Representative. He was elected in November of 2007 and re- elected in June 2011 for a second term. Mr. Gardner is Chair of the City Council’s Development Committee, Vice Chair of the Utility Services/Land Use/Energy Development Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee. Mike is also the city of Riverside’s designated member seated on the following: the Agua Mansa Industrial Growth Association Executive Committee, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the March Air Reserve Base Joint Powers Commission. Mike is also a Governor’s appointee to the State Seismic Safety Commission.
Mr. Gardner is a 44-year resident of Riverside and has lived in the same house in the Grand Neighborhood for 41 years. He and his wife Joyce raised three children who graduated from Riverside public schools.
Mike holds a bachelor’s degree with a dual major in Anthropology and Geography from the University of California, Riverside. He spent 23 years with Southern California Edison Company, beginning as the first archaeologist hired by an electric utility in the country. During his career at Edison, Mike worked in Environmental Affairs, Governmental Affairs, Public Affairs, Customer Service, and Economic Development. Since leaving Edison, Mike has assisted local companies with his business and management expertise in a series of short-term “fix-it” assignments.
Mike has been an active volunteer with the Riverside Fire Department for over 10 years and sat on the Department’s Disaster Preparedness Committee, where he served as Vice Chair from 2000 to 2006. He served on the Mayor’s Advisory Committee and was Vice Chair of the Quality of Life Subcommittee. He was one of the original nine members of the Community Police Review Commission where he served two terms. Mike was asked by his fellow commissioners to serve an unprecedented third year as Chair. He is an active member of the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and served on a Division Board. In 2000, Mike was recognized by the city of Riverside as the Municipal Volunteer of the Year.
Michael Gennaco As a principal of OIR Group, Mr. Gennaco provides oversight services in the field of independent oversight, assists federal courts and special masters in developing remedial plans intended to cure defects in Constitutional policing, conducts independent reviews of critical incidents including officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths, conducts audits of law enforcement departments focusing on review of internal investigative processes
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and policies designed to promote Constitutional policing, and undertakes independent internal investigations for police agencies.
Mr. Gennaco has provided oversight for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and continues to provide recurring oversight for the Palo Alto, Anaheim, Burbank, and Fullerton Police Departments. Mr. Gennaco has also played a central role in creating independent oversight models for both the largest sheriff’s department and prison system in the U.S. Mr. Gennaco provided independent review of critical incidents and/or best practices audits and designed remedial recommendations for the city of Pasadena, Portland, Torrance, Spokane, Santa Monica, Santa Maria, Inglewood, Glendale, and Oakland police departments, as well as the San Diego and Orange County Sheriff Departments. In 2012, Mr. Gennaco received the NACOLE Flame award for distinguished service in the field of oversight.
Prior to his work in police oversight, Mr. Gennaco served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. As Chief of the Civil Rights Section, Mr. Gennaco was responsible for overseeing all investigations and allegations of federal civil rights violations and has prosecuted police officers, human traffickers, and white supremacists. Mr. Gennaco was also a federal prosecutor for the U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division and conducted grand jury investigations and prosecutions of abuse of authority under color of law in numerous jurisdictions. Mr. Gennaco received numerous recognitions for his accomplishments at the DOJ including the coveted Attorney General Distinguished Service award.
Max Geron Major Max Geron is currently assigned to the Support Services Division of the DPD and oversees the Communications Section, Detentions, Property Room, Auto Pound, and the Legal Services Unit. Prior to this, he oversaw the Police Media Relations Unit, the Planning Unit, and the Community Affairs Unit. Max has been with the DPD for 23 years. Max’s first experience in the Media Relations unit was when he served as a spokesman for the Department during the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, where he routinely dealt with local and national media and taught media relations to newly promoted first line supervisors. Max was promoted to Sergeant in 2006 and went on to serve as a supervisor and team leader on the elite Dallas SWAT team, overseeing all tactical negotiations, planning for dignitary protection events, and responding to tactical call outs. Max was promoted to Lieutenant in 2009 and he served in a number of positions including Unit Commander over the 9-1-1 Call Center.
Max is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security with a master’s degree in Homeland Security Studies. His thesis entitled “21st Century Strategies for Policing Protest: What major cities’ responses to the Occupy Movement tell us about the future of police response to public protest,” was nominated for “Best Thesis” and he received the Curtis H. “Butch” Straub award for excellence in academics and leadership. Max received his undergraduate degree in 2006 from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was a member of Alpha Phi Sigma (the National Criminal Justice Honor Society).
Emily Gunston Emily Gunston is a Special Counsel in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. The Special Litigation Section enforces the provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which allows the Justice Department to seek equitable relief to remedy a pattern or practice of civil rights abuses by law enforcement agencies. As Special Counsel, Ms. Gunston helps to manage and direct the Section’s nationwide enforcement of Section 14141. She played leadership roles in the investigations of the New Orleans Police Department and the Cleveland Division of Police, helped to draft and negotiate the consent decrees to reform those departments, and currently heads the teams that are enforcing those agreements.
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Prior to joining the DOJ, Ms. Gunston was a deputy public defender for eight years in Contra Costa County, CA. She represented clients in juvenile and adult court, and has conducted over 40 jury trials.
She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is originally from Massachusetts.
Amira Hasenbush Amira Hasenbush is the Jim Kepner Law and Policy Fellow at the Williams Institute. She works on a broad range of research topics, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, family law issues for transgender parents and children, and the legal needs of people living with HIV. As a lawyer with a background in public health, Amira combines her legal and social science training to conduct complex interdisciplinary research and analysis.
During her graduate studies, Amira was a Williams Institute Gleason/Kettel Fellow at the HIV and AIDS Legal Services Alliance where she helped build a medical-legal partnership in a community HIV clinic. Amira also interned for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau, and the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. In her final year of studies, Amira was chosen to teach an undergraduate seminar on public health law as a Collegium University Teaching Fellow.
Amira holds a J.D. and a master’s degree from University of California, Los Angeles, and she is admitted to the California State Bar. Prior to her graduate studies, Amira worked as an asthma health educator in the Oakland Unified School District. She holds her bachelor’s degree in Public Health from University of California, Berkeley.
Frank Hauptmann Frank Hauptmann is manager of the Riverside CPRC, and he comes to the position with exposure and expertise in policing for 35 years. Mr. Hauptmann has been employed by the Glendale and Garden Grove Police Departments in Southern California. In his most recent position as Chief of Police for the former Maywood/Cudahy Police Department, he became a “change agent” in reforming the Department by developing new policies, practices, and procedures. In addition, he restored public confidence and trust in the police department through enhancing community relations and outreach. His relevant expertise includes evaluating accountability processes, managing and directing staff, community policing strategies, budgeting, customer service, criminal investigations, internal investigations, developing policy and procedure, and terrorism threat assessments.
Mr. Hauptmann also served 15 years in the military reserves with the U.S. Naval Intelligence Command, possessing a U.S. DOJ Top Secret clearance and having worldwide intelligence experience in this position. Also in his capacity as a reservist, he spent 10 years as a federal credentialed agent with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Hauptmann is currently an adjunct instructor in the Advanced Officer Training Program at California State University, Long Beach. He has taught Internal Affairs Investigation in this program for the past 16 years, training over 3,000 police supervisors and managers throughout California. He has also taught courses in criminal justice at local colleges. As a police executive, he attended the prestigious West Point Leadership Command Program at the LAPD, the Law Enforcement Executive Development course at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA, and another in San Francisco.
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Elbie “Skip” Hickambottom Skip Hickambottom is a civil rights attorney who has practiced in the Pasadena area for 30 years. His primary practice area is employment litigation. He has also represented the city of Pasadena in litigation concerning racial discrimination in public housing.
He was an attorney in 1985 for community organizations and individuals who were being blocked by the owner of the Plaza Pasadena from petitioning activity – a case that established the leading California case requiring time, place, and manner regulations for shopping centers to accommodate petitioning and speech activities.
He is currently litigating on behalf of the Pasadena NAACP against the city of Pasadena and the Pasadena Police Officers Association to require public release of a report on the Pasadena police shooting of Kendrec McDade, a 19-year old unarmed African American man.
Skip is currently an active member in Citizens for Increased Civilian Oversight of the Pasadena Police (CICOPP), a coalition of individuals and community organizations advocating the hiring of an independent police auditor, and Pasadenans for a Livable Wage, a coalition of individuals and community organizations advocating an increase in the minimum wage in Pasadena.
Joyce M. Hicks Joyce Hicks is the Executive Director of the San Francisco OCC, a position she has held since November of 2007. The OCC was created by a voter adopted San Francisco City Charter amendment in 1982 with the mission of conducting fair and impartial investigations of civilian complaints of police misconduct or failure to perform a duty by members of the San Francisco Police Department. The charter also charges the OCC with making policy recommendations to the San Francisco Police Department on its policies and practices. The OCC receives and resolves approximately 800 complaints each year. The OCC’s voluntary mediation program provides an alternative to investigations and eligible San Francisco police officers have historically agreed to participate 90 percent of the time. The OCC’s 35-member staff is composed of civilians who have never been police officers in San Francisco.
Ms. Hicks was the Executive Director of the city of Oakland Citizens’ Police Review Board from 2003 to 2007. The Board hears civilian complaints of police misconduct filed against Oakland police officers. Ms. Hicks began her legal career in the Oakland City Attorney’s Office in 1977 where she served as one of two Chief Assistant City Attorneys for thirteen years, from 1987 to 2000.
Ms. Hicks obtained her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Law School, Boalt Hall, and her bachelor’s degree in Government from Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
Ms. Hicks has actively participated in NACOLE since 2003 as a conference attendee, moderator, panelist, committee member, and member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Hicks is a member of the Board of Directors of the International House of Berkeley and the Cal Alumni Association, a former trustee of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation, a past Chairperson of the Lawrence Hall of Science Advisory Council, and a past co-chairperson of the California State Bar Council of State Bar Sections.
Bill Howe William "Bill" Howe is a native of Bryn Mawr, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. In 1950, Bill enlisted in and spent 14 years with the U.S. Air Force before separating and joining the RCSD. Shortly thereafter, he enlisted in the Air Force Reserves and after serving an additional 28 years, Bill retired as a Lt. Colonel. Bill was with the RCSD for 12
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years when he became a Lieutenant with the Corona Police Department. After serving more than six years with the Corona Police Department, Bill became the Chief of Police for the University of California, Riverside Police Department. When he retired, Bill had spent 25 years in law enforcement.
Bill holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in Police Science and Administration from California State University at Los Angeles. He also attended post-graduate classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. Bill also taught Administration of Justice/Criminal Justice classes for 26 years. Schools at which he was an instructor include Riverside Community College, California State University at San Bernardino, Chaffey College, and San Jacinto Community College.
In 1998, an incident occurred where Riverside police officers shot and killed a 19-year-old African American woman. This tragedy made nationwide news and ultimately resulted in Riverside's creation of the Community Police Review Commission. Bill was one of the nine original community members selected by the Riverside City Council to serve on the Commission. He was also elected by his fellow commissioners as the Commission's first Chair.
Bill has served on many boards and committees in Riverside, receiving many awards for his military, church, and community involvement. Because of Bill's dedication to police accountability, good police practices, and oversight, the Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability, a local community group, created the "Bill Howe Award" in 2008.
Susan Hutson The city of New Orleans welcomed Susan Hutson as the Independent Police Monitor in June of 2010. Prior to accepting the position in New Orleans, Ms. Hutson worked at the LAPD OIG as an Assistant Inspector General from June of 2007 until May of 2010.
Ms. Hutson holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Tulane University School of Law. After law school, she joined a small firm of lawyers in general practice. She left private practice to join the Corpus Christi City Attorney's Office where she served as an assistant city attorney prosecuting cases in the Municipal Court. She became Chief Prosecutor and later moved to the Employment Section, where she advised city directors on numerous employment matters, including disciplinary, constitutional, discrimination, and compensation issues. Her primary responsibilities were consulting with the chief of police, the fire chief, and other supervisors on misconduct investigations and representing the city during arbitrations and civil service hearings.
Her experience in dealing with Internal Affairs and civil service law led her to the OPM in Austin, TX. She began as the Assistant Police Monitor in August of 2004 and took over as the Acting Police Monitor in January of 2006.
Mark Iris A native of Brooklyn, NY, Mark Iris received his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, a master’s degree from the University of Vermont, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. In 2004, Dr. Iris retired from his career with the city of Chicago. For twenty one years, he served as the Executive Director of the Chicago Police Board, a quasi-judicial forum responsible for conducting hearings in cases of Chicago police officers accused of misconduct. He is now a full-time member of the faculty at Northwestern, teaching courses in law and politics and the Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences program. In addition, he has taught seminars for the School of Law, the graduate program of the School of Continuing Studies, and the Center for Public Safety. His published works include articles on police discipline and arbitration.
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Gia Irlando Gia Irlando is the Community Relations Ombudsman for the Denver OIM. She is responsible for outreach to Denver residents and is charged with building relationships with elected officials, community leaders, and organizations to understand community concerns with regard to law enforcement issues. She also manages the nationally recognized community-police mediation program. Hearing the community call for better relations between youth and law enforcement, she spearheaded the Youth Outreach Project for the OIM, securing federal grant funding, developing a curriculum, and convening a community and expert advisory committee. Gia is a 2014 fellow of the National Hispana Leadership Institute and an Executive Leadership Program graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the Policy Chair of the Colorado Latino Forum and has served on various boards for community organizations.
Gia attended the University of California, Berkeley and California State University, Hayward focusing on politics, communications, and ethnic studies. From a young age, she participated in political campaigns as the child of union organizers. As a college student, she worked as a student senator to increase Latino faculty and student recruitment and retention. Gia eventually focused for many years on increasing representation for people of color in elected office. Gia has worked for numerous non-profits and campaigns throughout the Southwest. As a campaign manager and political consultant, she worked to seat the youngest Latino on the Denver City Council and the youngest Latina and first Latina Majority Leader in the Colorado State house. She has had the great opportunity to work for state legislatures, the Denver City Council and Denver Public Schools as a community engagement specialist and continues to consult on political and issue campaigns important to low-income communities of color.
Mark-Anthony Johnson As a licensed Acupuncturist and an experienced organizer, Mark-Anthony Johnson serves as the Director of Health and Wellness at Dignity and Power Now (DPN). In this capacity he provides strategic support for DPN's campaigns for a legally empowered and independent civilian oversight commission of the LASD and to stop Los Angeles' proposed $3.5 billion jail construction plan. He also leads the Building Resilience project of DPN, a collaboration of formerly incarcerated people, organizers, health care providers, and academics whose goal is to de-carcerate the county jails through the diversion of incarcerated people into community-based treatment.
Donny Joubert Donny Joubert is a community member from Watts who grew up in the middle of gang life. Over the years, he has become a well-respected mentor to thousands of young people and a leader in innovative gang intervention work, through which former gang members have acted as liaisons to build community trust with law enforcement and reduce street violence.
Nicole S. Junior Nicole Junior, Esq., earned her bachelor’s degree with High Honors from Smith College. After graduating from Smith, Nicole went on to earn her master’s degree in Education from Pace University and her J.D. from the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Upon graduating from Temple Law, Nicole joined the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office where, as an Assistant District Attorney, she prosecuted hundreds of Domestic Violence crimes ranging from attempted assault to attempted murder. Today, Nicole continues to serve the public interest as an attorney at the New York City CCRB, where she prosecutes members of the New York Police Department for misconduct, trains staff on working with LGBTQ complainants, and conducts outreach to members of New York City’s LGBTQ community. Nicole wrote an article titled, “OUT for Justice: A Call for Civilian Oversight Outreach in LGBTQ Communities,” that was published in the 2013 NACOLE newsletter. Nicole
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also has the honor of being the very first attorney from a U.S. civilian oversight agency to conduct an administrative trial against a police officer accused of misconduct.
Maureen K. Kane Maureen Kane served as Chief of Staff for Riverside Mayor William “Rusty” Bailey from 2012 to 2015. She is a board member of the California Ethics and Democracy Project. She is also the California Institute Director for the International Institute of Municipal Clerks in affiliation with the University of California, Riverside. Prior to her position with the city of Riverside, she served as a board consultant to the State of California Air Resources Board from 2004 to 2012.
Maureen was elected to the Riverside City Council from 1993 to 2002. During that time she was a member of the National League of Cities Finance, Administration, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and Chair of the California League of Cities Revenue and Taxation Committee. She served as a member of the March Air Base Joint Powers Authority; Mayor Pro Tem in 1994 and 1999; and chair of numerous city committees including Finance, Land Use, and Police Policy Review. In 1999, the Police Policy Review Committee researched and proposed the establishment of the Civilian Police Review Committee by ordinance. This action was later reaffirmed as a Charter Committee by the electorate of the city of Riverside.
Maureen has served as Chair or President of a variety of nonprofit organization boards including: the California Association of Leadership Programs, Riverside Leadership Program, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside County Philharmonic, Riverside County Law Enforcement Appreciation Committee, Junior League of Riverside, Riverside Art Alliance, and National Charity League. She continues to work actively in her local community as a member of the Riverside Art Museum Board of Trustees, Riverside County Philharmonic, Riverside Leadership Program Steering Committee, the Riverside County Law Enforcement Appreciation Committee, Historic Evergreen Cemetery Committee, and others.
Beginning her career as a Psychiatric Nurse, she practiced in New York City and Chicago before serving as an instructor in the registered nursing program of the Riverside Community College system. Maureen is a California licensed registered nurse. She has over 35 years of experience in the field of leadership training.
Charles M. Katz Charles Katz is Watts Family Director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety and a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1997. His research primarily involves collaborating with agencies to increase their organizational capacity to identify and strategically respond to crime and violence affecting local communities. He is the co-author of many peer-reviewed articles, monographs, and books including Policing Gangs in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Police in America (McGraw Hill, 2013). He recently served as a research partner to the Phoenix Police Department to evaluate their agency's SMART policing initiative. It was the first federally-sponsored evaluation of the effectiveness of police body-worn cameras on complaints, use of force, and arrest and prosecution of domestic violence. He recently served as one of two primary authors of the US DOJ Body-Worn Camera Toolkit.
Walter Katz Walter Katz joined the LACo-OIG as a Deputy Inspector General in 2014. As a member of the Review and Analysis Branch, he and his colleagues have conducted reviews and published reports on a broad range of areas, including policy recommendations for the implementation of body worn cameras, a steep rise in accidental discharges after the LASD converted to a new sidearm, and an analysis of LASD’s disclosure of accountability
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data, such as deputy-involved shootings. Before his current position, Mr. Katz was an attorney with the OIR. Prior to his roles in oversight, Mr. Katz served as an attorney with the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender. From 1999 through 2001, he was assigned to a unit that reviewed hundreds of convictions tainted by officers who were implicated in the LAPD Rampart CRASH scandal. Mr. Katz received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Nevada, Reno and graduated from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. He has also written about police accountability in The New York Times and the Harvard Law Review Forum.
Tracie Keesee Tracie Keesee is the Project Director of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice at the National Network for Safe Communities. A 25-year police veteran, she retired as a Captain of the Denver Police Department, where her final assignment was as deputy director of the Colorado Information Analysis Center. Ms. Keesee is also the co-founder and director of research partnerships for the Center for Policing Equity, which promotes police transparency and accountability by facilitating innovative research collaborations between law enforcement agencies and empirical social scientists. She has published several articles across a variety of collected anthologies and peer-reviewed scientific journals. Ms. Keesee holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Metropolitan State College, a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado at Denver, and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in Intercultural Communications. She is a graduate of the 203rd class of the FBI National Academy.
David M. Kennedy David Kennedy is the director of the National Network for Safe Communities, a project of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Mr. Kennedy and the National Network support cities implementing strategic interventions to reduce violence, minimize arrest and incarceration, enhance police legitimacy, and strengthen relationships between law enforcement and communities. These interventions have been proven effective in a variety of settings by a Campbell Collaboration evaluation, and are currently being implemented in Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Oakland, and many other cities nationwide. Kennedy’s work has won two Ford Foundation Innovations in Government awards, among many other distinctions. His latest book is Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America.
Christian J. Klossner Christian J. Klossner is the Deputy Director of the District of Columbia’s OPC. In this role, Christian oversees the agency’s investigative, outreach, and administrative activities. This includes designing the agency’s performance plans, compiling its annual reports, reviewing investigative files to determine if the allegations potentially warrant criminal prosecution, approving case dispositions, and representing the agency when dealing with the police department, elected officials, and the media. Prior to joining OPC, he worked as an assistant district attorney in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor of New York City and the Office of the Bronx District Attorney. He also served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at his alma mater, Fordham School of Law. Before law school, Christian worked as a campaign organizer, lobbyist, and staff supervisor with the New York Public Interest Research Group, a not-for-profit advocacy organization focused on environmental, consumer, and government accountability issues. Christian serves on the Board of Directors or NACOLE, co-chairing the Annual Conference Committee and serving as a member of the Elections and Bylaws Committee.
Joseph L. Lipari Joseph Lipari is the Administrator of the Citizen Review Board in Syracuse, NY. A native of south Louisiana, Lipari arrived in Syracuse from Chicago where he worked closely with community groups, non-profit organizations, the IPRA, police, and elected officials to help reform the city of Chicago’s police accountability mechanisms. Lipari
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formerly served as the Executive Director of Citizens Alert, a Chicago-based non-profit organization that worked to ensure effective civilian oversight and police accountability in Chicago. Prior to entering the field of civilian oversight of law enforcement, Lipari was an academic researcher and African American history instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he completed his master’s degree. His research and writing examined the evolution of policing in Chicago and its impact on the city’s African American communities. Lipari was in the process of completing his doctoral degree when he shifted careers and entered the field of civilian oversight. In his role as Administrator of the Citizen Review Board in Syracuse, Lipari handles all administrative and operational aspects of the office including complaint intake, investigations, reporting, analysis, policy and training recommendations, community outreach, and public relations.
Alfred Lomas Alfred Lomas is a former gang member from the largest gang in South-Central Los Angeles. A veteran of an elite U.S. Marine Corps Infantry unit, Alfred, upon his Military discharge, later operated as a freelance hired gun protecting criminal assets and working as a bodyguard for some of Los Angeles’s top gang leaders. After a radical and life changing experience, he has dedicated his life to serving the Los Angeles community through humanitarian aid and violence reduction and prevention.
Alfred has pioneered food distribution sites in rival Blood and Crip territories that are sworn enemies to his gang. These efforts have helped bridge communities devastated by multi-generational hatred and violence. Alfred risks his life to break the cycle of violence and forge peace with his gang rivals to stop the killings, rescue kids, and launch new economic models from within the community. He has been involved in programs working with the most at-risk youth who live in gang-infested neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.
Lomas is also currently working with a multi-agency collaborative that specializes in hardcore gang intervention strategies. This involves formalized training, to certify former gang members and community partners who all are working to end gang violence in Los Angeles.
Denise Maes Denise Maes is the Public Policy Director of the ACLU of Colorado. In that role, she oversees all legislative work that affects civil liberties at the state and local level. She is the primary person overseeing all legislative initiatives at the state Capitol during the legislative session. Denise also sits on various municipal boards and commissions that review police and jail-related matters. She is a frequent panelist on civil liberties-related matters and a frequent guest on local current events television programs. Before joining the ACLU, Denise was a staffer for Vice President Joe Biden and she also served as General Counsel for the Office of Administration under President Barack Obama.
Dave Maass Dave Maass uses transparency and public records to battle against injustice, censorship, and the surveillance state. Before joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dave worked as a writer for alternative weeklies in every state along the southern border, reporting on everything from San Diego Comic-Con to Texas death row. He has also moderated televised (dark horse) presidential debates; organized digital media on barely legal road rallies; performed spoken word on a British art-rock tour; revealed human-rights abuses in Ghanaian refugee camps; and uncovered embezzlement that ultimately put a New Mexico elected official in jail. He was a recipient of the Youth Law Center's Loren Warboys Unsung Hero Award, NACOLE's Contribution to Oversight Award, and multiple honors from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for his reporting. In 2013, the city
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council of San Diego created "Dave Maass Day" in recognition of his talent for annoying politicians and filing endless records requests.
Sheriff Jim McDonnell On December 1, 2014, Jim McDonnell took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 32nd Sheriff of Los Angeles County. Sheriff McDonnell is a Boston native who grew up in a working class neighborhood a stone’s throw from Fenway Park. He came to Los Angeles over three decades ago with little more than a dream to be part of protecting and serving the public. He was born to immigrant parents who instilled in him the values that have served as the guideposts throughout his life: hard work, integrity, and treating all people with respect. He began his law enforcement career in 1981 as a twenty-two-year-old graduate from the Los Angeles Police Academy.
Sheriff McDonnell served for 29 years at the LAPD; he earned LAPD’s highest honor for bravery, the Medal of Valor; and led the LAPD through the implementation of significant reforms. He helped create the blueprint for LAPD’s community-based policing efforts that have now become a model for law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. For five years, Sheriff McDonnell served as the Chief of the Long Beach Police Department. In that role, he implemented numerous improvements that resulted in safer communities, increased morale, and enhanced community relations.
From his first day on the job, Sheriff McDonnell has stressed the importance of treating all members of our community with respect, being transparent with, and accountable to, the individuals that the LASD serves, and creating an environment that recognizes and rewards character, competence, and compassion. He is committed to ensuring that safe streets and neighborhoods enable all residents and businesses in L.A.’s diverse County to thrive. He is also a believer in prevention-oriented strategies and dedicated to proactively addressing the root causes of crime, including mental illness, homelessness, and the challenges facing youth at risk.
Sheriff McDonnell is also a believer in the importance of education, both in the classroom and on the job. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH, and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Executive Institute and has completed executive education programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Nicholas E. Mitchell Nicholas Mitchell is the Independent Monitor of the Denver Police and Sheriff Departments. As Independent Monitor, Nick provides independent civilian oversight of all investigations into the approximately 2,300 sworn police officers and sheriff deputies in the City and County of Denver. He also conducts data-driven analyses of police and sheriff policies and practices, with a goal of ensuring constitutional law enforcement for all in Denver. Nick manages a staff of 13, including former federal and state prosecutors, a quantitative criminologist, a statistician, and a community outreach liaison. Nick is on-call 24/7, and responds to the scene of all officer- involved shootings in Denver, where he provides oversight of the police investigations into each shooting. Nick is a former Gates Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and is a founding board member of El Sistema Colorado. In 2014, Nick was elected to the Board of Directors of NACOLE. Before becoming Independent Monitor, Nick was a lawyer in private practice in New York City and Denver, representing companies and individuals in investigations by the U.S. DOJ and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is also a former investigator and supervisor with the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board.
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Carlos Monagas Carlos E. Monagas Jr. earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law in 1997. He joined the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office in 1997. As a trial prosecutor, he specialized in both sexual assault/child abuse cases and criminal gang prosecutions.
Mr. Monagas has served as a Supervising Deputy District Attorney since 2008. He currently oversees the District Attorney’s countywide Training Division, providing legal education to prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and community partners.
Mr. Monagas was raised in the city of Riverside and attended Riverside Poly High School. He is an active member of the Riverside community, serving as an attorney coach for the Poly High School Mock Trial Team and as a board member with Inland Empire Future Leaders, a Latino youth leadership development program.
Maria Elena Morera Ms. Morera has been an activist since 2001 when she and her family suffered a tragedy due to Mexico's public insecurity. After this event, she decided to work for a safer and fairer country and to fight for equal justice for all Mexicans. Her main goals are the strengthening of civil society and the improvement of relationships between law enforcement and citizens.
María Elena is President of Citizens for a Common Cause (Ciudadanos por una Causa en Común) a non-profit organization founded in 2010, which works on the observation and evaluation of the processes that shape the police development system in all the States of Mexico, the construction of citizenship, and the transformation of institutions.
From 2003 to late 2009, she chaired the social organization called Mexico United Against Crime (México Unido Contra la Delincuencia), where she encouraged public participation with the White March that was held on June 27.2004, giving a voice to more than one million Mexicans demanding a country without violence.
Currently, she is a columnist and a prominent opinion leader who has participated in national and international conferences. Her work and experience in security matters earned her a spot as a permanent guest at the National Public Security Council, as a member of the Evaluation Committee of the Anti-Kidnapping National Coordination, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Telecommunications Commission, as an adviser for the Social Attorney for Victims of Crime, and for many non-governmental organizations..
María Elena Morera is always looking to build new communication platforms between the citizens as well as between citizens and the government, for example the First and Second Citizen Summit and the National Network for Safety, where agreements and new proposals have been made with great impact on society.
For all of the above, and as a result of her important work as a social activist, in 2014 the Social Foundation: Share gave her the social leader award, and in 2015 the Supreme Court of Justice of the Federal District awarded her the “Merit of Law and Justice on Civil Society”.
Shawn Musgrave Shawn Musgrave is an investigative reporter at MuckRock, a Boston-based outlet that specializes in public records reporting. His work focuses on law enforcement technologies such as license plate readers, cell phone trackers, and drones, as well as on disclosure gaps surrounding these technologies. Shawn's state-by-state
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reporting on the Pentagon's 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to police nationwide and recently underwent review by the White House, pressured the Defense Department to release detailed data on equipment transfers late in 2014. His work on cell phone trackers has chronicled the evolution of the technology and its deployment by law enforcement, including non-disclosure requirements imposed by the FBI. Beyond MuckRock, Shawn's work has been published in The Boston Globe, The Marshall Project, VICE, and The Daily Beast, among other outlets.
Timothy D. Mygatt Timothy Mygatt is a Special Counsel in the Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division of the U.S. DOJ. He is one of the leaders in the Section’s efforts to enforce a law giving the Attorney General standing to investigate and bring suit to remedy patterns or practices of law enforcement misconduct. Mr. Mygatt supervised numerous investigations involving law enforcement agencies, including the SPD and the Cleveland Division of Police; oversaw the litigation and trial against Alamance County, NC Sheriff Terry Johnson for discriminatory enforcement against Latinos in United States v. Johnson; and formulated the DOJ’s statement of interest about the right to record public police activity in Sharp v. Baltimore City Police Department. He is currently leading the investigation of the Baltimore Police Department. Mr. Mygatt also leads the Section’s enforcement activities under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. In 2014, Mr. Mygatt was a recipient of the Director’s Award, the highest award for litigation given by the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, for his work on United States v. Seattle. A New York native, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Mygatt clerked for Judge John Marshall Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 2003.
Camelia Naguib Camelia Naguib has worked in the field of police oversight since 2006. She currently works as a Police Special Investigator at the Office of the Inspector General for the Los Angeles Police Commission, which provides civilian oversight to the LAPD. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director of the Police Assessment Resource Center, in which capacity she assisted in monitoring the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and worked on a number of research and consulting projects relating to police practices across the nation. Camelia has also worked as a program evaluator for a public school reform agency and as Assistant Program Director of a residential reentry program for ex-offenders. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ursula Price Ursula Price is acting Deputy Police Monitor for the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor. Ms. Price was appointed as Director for Community Relations in September of 2010 and began acting as a deputy in 2014. Ms. Price first came to New Orleans after completing her master's degree in International Relations from University of Chicago and a bachelor’s in Political Science from Millsaps College. She began working within the arenas of social and legal justice reform by serving Louisiana's indigent defendants at A Fighting Chance (AFC) and Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (LCAC). At both AFC and LCAC, she worked to protect constitutional rights in our criminal justice system by providing a fair and rigorous defense to Louisianans facing the death penalty and to support the Louisiana justice systems’ efforts toward transparency and accountability.
After Hurricane Katrina, she remained in New Orleans and earned a Soros Justice Fellowship, which she used to advocate on behalf of Katrina prisoners without a voice in the Orleans Parish Prison. She soon joined Safe Streets/Strong Communities as their Advocacy and Investigations Coordinator. Her work there ranged from policy advocacy to organizing the community around improving many aspects of New Orleans’ criminal justice
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system. After a one-year hiatus in Mississippi, where she worked with Southern Poverty Law Center defending children against the school-to-prison pipeline, Ursula returned to New Orleans.
Ms. Price values community engagement and democracy and considers them to be core elements of any police reform effort. As Director of Community Relations, she has helped develop a Police/Community Mediation Program, and a rights and responsibilities curriculum and guide, and helped organize New Orleans’ first public forum in which officers and civilians worked together to form anti-retaliation policy. Ms. Price is a Certified Practitioner of Oversight, Certified Internal Affairs Investigator, and is currently pursuing law enforcement auditing certification.
Sue Quinn Sue Quinn entered justice system employment in 1973 as a Probation staffer. She moved to civilian oversight in 1992 as one of two people opening San Diego County’s Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB) the week of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Her vocational commitment remains to work toward a justice system providing fair, firm, and consistent service to communities.
At CLERB, Ms. Quinn was first Special Investigator, then Executive Officer. Her work there ranged from complaint design to drafting its first subpoenas to seeing that subpoena power upheld by the California Supreme Court, conducting and supervising investigations of misconduct and deaths, and overseeing CLERB’s legal and bureaucratic tasks.
In the early 1990s, oversight professionals labored in isolation. In 1995, Ms. Quinn convened California’s oversight agencies to form “CALNET” so oversight practitioners might build an organization where oversight practitioners could teach, share, and learn together.
Leaving CLERB in 1997, Ms. Quinn worked with the NACOLE founders to merge CALNET with NACOLE, building a resource and tutoring network. Ms. Quinn served on NACOLE’s Board from 1997 to 2007, including as the first elected President from 2000 to 2002, and on various committees since. She established NACOLE’s formal minute keeping; helped grow budgeting practices and membership building; began the email ListServ; developed the early website and electronic resource management; authored resource papers; and shaped conferences.
Having mentored and been mentored by oversight peers, Ms. Quinn has relished seeing NACOLE’s exponential growth, fostering new resources, assisting agencies, educating communities and the media, and watching civilian oversight networks flow throughout the U.S., into Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia.
Howard Rahtz Howard Rahtz is a retired Captain who was in charge of training at the Cincinnati Police Department. He has written a book entitled, Understanding Police Use of Force, which is intended to help educate both the public and people in law enforcement about the myriad issues surrounding police use of force. His background includes experience with training, SWAT, community policing, and other aspects of policing.
Asim Rehman Asim Rehman is General Counsel for the OIG-NYPD, an independent office within the New York City Department of Investigation that is charged with investigating, reviewing, studying, auditing, and making recommendations relating to the operations, policies, programs, and practices of the NYPD. The goals of the OIG-NYPD are to
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enhance the effectiveness of the police department, increase public safety, protect civil liberties and civil rights, and increase the public's confidence in the police force, thus building stronger police-community relations. Mr. Rehman and his legal staff are responsible for advising OIG-NYPD on all legal matters affecting the operations of OIG-NYPD as well as providing legal support on investigations and policy reviews.
In July of 2015, the OIG-NYPD released the first comprehensive review of the NYPD’s body-worn camera pilot program. The report examined several critical issues concerning body-worn cameras and included 23 recommendations for improving the NYPD’s program.
Prior to joining the OIG-NYPD, Mr. Rehman was an attorney for a Fortune 500 corporation and two private law firms where he handled internal investigations, complex litigation, and regulatory defense. He has served as a Special Assistant District Attorney and a Federal District Court clerk in New York City. Mr. Rehman is also the Co- Founder and former President of the Muslim Bar Association of New York, through which he worked on various police accountability issues. Mr. Rehman received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his undergraduate degree from Haverford College.
Avice Evans Reid Dr. Avice Evans Reid is a native of Knoxville, TN. She received her primary and secondary education in the Knoxville School System, and is a graduate of Knoxville College (bachelor’s degree in Mathematics) and Covington Theological Seminary with a Master of Ministry and a Doctor of Ministry. She has also earned the Professional Project Management certification; and is a certified 21st Century Leadership Facilitator with Leadership Knoxville.
Dr. Reid retired after 34 years of service from the Tennessee Valley Authority in various capacities, including Mathematician, Systems Analyst, Senior Manager of Information Technology, and Senior Project Manager. She is currently employed by the City of Knoxville as the Executive Director of the Police Advisory and Review Committee. In preparation for this role, she served as a volunteer on the Committee for almost six years. Along with managing the day-to-day operations, Dr. Reid serves as a mediator between citizens and law enforcement officials; lectures to area organizations, community groups, and school systems about the role of a police oversight organization; and serves as a Citizen’s Advocate in the Court System.
Dr. Reid has attended the past six annual conferences of NACOLE, where she earned the Certified Practitioner of Oversight designation and served on the NACOLE Finance Committee for the past 2 years. She is also a graduate of the Force Science Institute.
She is very active in the Knoxville community and is serving or has served as a Director on boards such as Leadership Knoxville (Class of 1995); Home Federal Bank of Tennessee; The United Way of Greater Knoxville (Past Secretary); YWCA of Knoxville (Past President); Alpha Pi Omega Chapter Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Past President); Alpha Pi Omega Foundation (President); Knoxville Area Chapter of the American Red Cross (Past Treasurer); and the Helen Ross McNabb Foundation. She also serves as a member of the University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center Advisory Board; the ITT Technical Institute Knoxville Advisory Committee; the Leadership Knoxville Introduction Knoxville Committee; member of the Covenant Health System Quality Improvement and Professional Relations Committee; and the Executive Women's Association. Dr. Reid was recognized for her exemplary contributions to the community and leadership by the Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council as a 2009 Women of Achievement honoree, and as the Bronze Woman of the Year (2001 – 2002) by the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Incorporated. She is also a graduate of East Tennessee Regional Leadership, a member of The Links, Incorporated, and a member of the East Tennessee Civil Rights Working Group.
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Dawn Reynolds Dawn Reynolds is a licensed attorney involved in the area of public oversight of law enforcement and public safety. She is a Certified Law Enforcement Auditor and an active member of NACOLE where she serves as a member of its Board of Directors. Dawn has worked on NACOLE's Professional Standards and Strategic Planning committees and contributes to its Newsletter. She works with Elite Performance Assessment Consultants, LLC designing and implementing performance audits and training public safety and oversight managers in conducting and designing performance audits. As an attorney, Dawn served for many years on the ACLU's Board of Directors in Washington and was on the Federal Defenders appellate panels in Washington and Oregon.
L. Song Richardson L. Song Richardson is a Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Professor Richardson’s interdisciplinary research uses lessons from cognitive and social psychology to study criminal procedure, criminal law, and policing. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the legal and moral implications of mind sciences research on policing and criminal procedure. Professor Richardson’s scholarship has been published by law journals at Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, Southern California, and Minnesota, among others. Her article, “Police Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment” was selected as a “Must Read” by the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Her co-edited book, The Future of Criminal Justice in America, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
Professor Richardson’s legal career has included partnership at a boutique criminal law firm and work as a state and federal public defender in Seattle, WA. She was also an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Immediately upon graduation from law school, Professor Richardson was a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit in Brooklyn, NY. Professor Richardson has been featured in numerous local and national news programs, including “48 Hours.”
Professor Richardson is the 2011 Recipient of the American Association of Law School’s Derrick Bell Award, which recognizes a junior faculty member’s extraordinary contribution to legal education through mentoring, teaching, and scholarship. Richardson frequently presents her work at academic symposia as well as at non- academic legal conferences. She is a member of the American Law Institute.
Ilana Rosenzweig Ilana Rosenzweig currently serves as Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of NACOLE and is a Principal of OIR Group. She previously led the city of Chicago’s IPRA from the department’s creation in September 2007 until May 2013. IPRA is responsible for intake and investigation of all allegations of excessive force and other specified misconduct made against Chicago Police Department members, and of all officer- involved shootings and taser discharges – more than 2500 investigations per year. She also reviewed Chicago Police Department policies and training, recommending appropriate changes.
From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Rosenzweig was a founding attorney in the Office of Independent Review for Los Angeles County overseeing the LASD. Ms. Rosenzweig also worked with her colleagues at OIR as an expert consultant to the federal court monitoring the California state prisons to assist it in establishing independent oversight of the disciplinary system, and with the city of Oakland, investigating allegations of misconduct by the Internal Affairs Division of the Oakland Police Department. From 1996 to 2001, Ms. Rosenzweig served, pro bono, with Merrick J. Bobb, Special Counsel to the County of Los Angeles, contributing to reports regarding LASD, focused on gender discrimination, sexual harassment, use of force, and programs to promote gender equity.
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Ms. Rosenzweig has spoken about police oversight issues in a variety of forums, including panels hosted by NACOLE, the American Bar Association, NOBLE, the Fraternal Order of Police, and the DePaul University College of Law, Rule of Law Journal.
Julie Ruhlin Julie Ruhlin is a Principal of OIR Group. Previously, she was a Deputy Chief for the Office of Independent Review, where in addition to her regular responsibilities monitoring use of force incidents and other investigations into misconduct allegations, she prepared special reports on the LASD’s Training Academy, a controversial suicide in the county jail, and a review of the investigation into the death of Ruben Salazar. Ms. Ruhlin joined the OIR after working with Merrick Bobb at the Police Assessment Resource Center in Los Angeles, where she was responsible for investigating and drafting special reports to the County Board of Supervisors regarding policy and training deficiencies within the Sheriff's Department. Prior to working with Mr. Bobb, her private law practice focused on civil rights and criminal defense. She obtained her J.D. from University of Southern California in 1990.
Chief Phillip Sanchez Chief Phillip Sanchez is Chief of the Pasadena Police Department. Prior to his appointment as Chief, he served as Deputy Chief at the Santa Monica Police Department. He was the first Deputy Chief in the history of the department and held a variety of commands throughout his distinguished career, including: Operations Division, Criminal Investigations Division, Administrative Services Division, and Internal Affairs Section.
Chief Sanchez has an extensive background in police tactics and community policing. He has received the Santa Monica Police Department Medal of Courage twice for heroic actions during tactical operations. He served as the incident commander for several critical incidents, including a hostage situation at the Santa Monica Pier in 2004. He is also the recipient of the department’s Medal of Merit for development of SWAT. He has been honored as Officer of the Year by the Rotary Club of Santa Monica, the Optimist Club of Santa Monica, and the Santa Monica Elks.
Chief Sanchez earned his bachelor’s degree in management from the University of Redlands and his master’s degree in security studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, where he graduated with honors and received the Curtis H. “Butch” Straub Award for exemplary academics and leadership. He is also a graduate of the Senior Management Institute for Police, the FBI National Academy, and the California POST Command College for Executive Leadership, where he received the Hank E. Koehn Award for excellence in leadership.
Chief Sanchez is a strong proponent of education. For the past 10 years he has taught at the Orange County Sheriff’s Academy as an adjunct instructor and frequently lectures at local schools, colleges, and universities on a variety of topics including civil rights and the law, homeland security, and mass casualty response. He recently was selected to serve on an advisory commission that is exploring the development of a course in homeland security for Santa Monica Community College. He was also selected to serve on a Department of Homeland Security Work Group, which is responsible for developing an information sharing portal for emergency managers.
Gina Satriano Gina Satriano has been a Deputy District Attorney with the LADA since 1993. She graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1988 with bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Spanish and she earned her J.D. degree at Pepperdine University School of Law in 1992 where she also received a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ms. Satriano is currently the Director of the Bureau of Central Operations. In her current
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position, she oversees the Central Trials Divisions, Charge Evaluation Division, Preliminary Hearing Unit, Alternative Sentencing Courts programs, Witness Assistance Section, Trial Support Section, and the Law Library in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, and the District Attorney operations out of the East Los Angeles Courthouse. She participates on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project, which was established by District Attorney Jackie Lacey. She represents the LADA’s office at the Central District Case Management meetings which are chaired by the Supervising Judge of the Criminal Courts. Ms. Satriano also sits on a variety of subcommittees and working groups with the Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee and within the LADA’s office.
Prior to her current position, she was the Deputy-In-Charge of the Elder Abuse Section. She has specialized much of her 22-year career in the LADA’s office prosecuting special victim cases, primarily in the area of child sexual abuse. She was assigned to the Governor’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team. She has sat as a core member on many state and local task forces and multi-disciplinary teams, including the Elder Death Review Team (Co-Chairperson), the Elder Abuse Forensic Center, the USDOJ LA Health Care Fraud Working Group, the Stuart House and Rape Treatment Center, the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Financial Abuse Specialist Team, the CDAA Elder Abuse Committee, the Residential Placement Protocols Task Force, and the Elder Abuse Prevention Team. She also organized the LADA’s Office Elder Abuse Symposium.
Ms. Satriano has participated in the drafting of legislation and office policy, protocols, and manuals. She testified before the California State Assembly and Senate in favor of elder abuse legislation that was enacted into law in 2012. She has conducted over 75 trainings for prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, and multidisciplinary team members in the fields of elder and dependent adult abuse and child sexual abuse, including training for the DNA Awareness Forum, California Association of Criminalists, California District Attorneys Association, and POST. In 2010, Ms. Satriano was named among the Daily Journal’s Top Women Litigators.
Constantin Severe Constantin Severe is Director of the Portland Independent Police Review. Mr. Severe was born in Brooklyn, NY, and is the son of Haitian immigrants. He graduated from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy. Constantin received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2002. Prior to working for the city of Portland, he was a criminal defense attorney in the major felonies unit at Metropolitan Public Defender’s office in Portland. He has worked for Independent Police Review since 2008 and became Director in June of 2013.
Brian Sharp Brian Sharp is the founder and CEO of Brian Sharp & Associates, LLC. He has been serving in law enforcement for 15 years and currently patrols the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta as a Senior Police Officer with the Atlanta Police Department.
In 2010, amid unrest between local law enforcement and the LGBT community, Sharp was appointed as the Atlanta Police Department’s LGBT liaison. He developed and conducted the LGBT diversity training program that is still used by APD today. He also advised on police protocols that significantly improved interactions between police and members of Atlanta’s gay community. Brian was also instrumental in developing a transgender interactions policy that became part of the Atlanta Police Department’s Standard Operating Procedure in November of 2014. Since then, police officers have been educated and informed about respectful ways to interact with Atlanta’s transgender residents and complaints by transgender persons have significantly declined.
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Brian’s successes in Atlanta have led to training requests nationally and internationally. He recently led the International Law Enforcement Academy’s LGBT diversity and hate crimes training in El Salvador and he has conducted training for numerous American law enforcement agencies.
Brian was born in Rome, GA, and has lived in the city of Atlanta for eight years. When Brian is not working as a police officer or offering training and consulting to clients, he can be found hunting, fishing, and recording music. He and his partner Daniel King, who is also a police officer, do volunteer work for their community and enjoy organic farming.
Emily Shaw Emily Shaw is the Deputy Policy Director at the Sunlight Foundation, where she helps the organization led the charge to make useful public information available online. Emily writes and speaks regularly on topics related to public data access. She has presented before a wide variety of local and national audiences and regularly provides insights to media outlets across the country. Before coming to the Sunlight Foundation, Emily served as a professor of political science at Thomas College in Waterville, ME. She has worked for a range of civil and human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Emily holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and retains a great love for formal academics, but now sees the blog as her classroom and the world as her library.
Django Sibley Django Sibley holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Liverpool and a graduate degree from the University of Southern California. In his undergraduate and graduate studies, Mr. Sibley conducted extensive research regarding police-community relations and crime control. Mr. Sibley began his professional career as a police officer in Hull, England, and later worked for the Police Assessment Resource Center. Upon joining the LAPD OIG in 2004, Mr. Sibley served as a Special Investigator assigned to the Use of Force Section, which oversees the LAPD’s investigation and adjudication of categorical use of force incidents. Mr. Sibley assumed the position of Assistant Inspector General in 2007 and currently heads the Use of Force Section. Mr. Sibley regularly represents the LAPD OIG by presenting at national conferences. He also provides training to other law enforcement and law enforcement-oversight professionals, and has been published in professional law enforcement publications.
Mark P. Smith Mr. Smith has spent his entire professional career in the field of civilian oversight of law enforcement. Experiencing the value of an organization like NACOLE first-hand, he has been a strong supporter through his attendance at six annual conferences, his participation on various conference panels, and his status as a Certified Practitioner of Oversight. Mr. Smith is a founding donor to the NACOLE scholarship fund, and he currently co-chairs the Board of Directors’ Membership, Development & Engagement Committee.
In 2011, Mr. Smith was appointed as the first-ever Independent Police Auditor for BART, where he has been working to develop the OIPA from the ground up. Among other things, OIPA is responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct, reviewing BART Police Department investigations, recommending policy changes, and developing a complaint mediation process.
Before working at BART, Mr. Smith was the First Deputy Chief Administrator of Chicago’s IPRA, where his responsibilities included establishing internal policies to effectively and efficiently allow IPRA to meet its goals, supervising the day-to-day operations of the office, reviewing investigations for quality and completeness,
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representing IPRA at community events and meetings with other law enforcement agencies, and acting as the head of the office in the absence of the Chief Administrator.
Prior to joining IPRA, Mr. Smith was a Special Investigator for the LAPD OIG. While at the LAPD OIG, Mr. Smith’s responsibilities included analyzing investigations involving members of the LAPD ranging from complaints of misconduct to officer-involved shootings; recommending alternate adjudications of those investigations where appropriate; and interacting with the public to intake complaints of misconduct against members of the LAPD.
Mr. Smith received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
Theresa Smith Theresa Smith is the founder and lead organizer for the Law Enforcement Accountability Network, a grassroots organization committed to connecting and collaborating with families and organizations to share information, stories, and ideas regarding police brutality and accountability in Anaheim, CA. Theresa started the organization after her son, Caesar Cruz, was shot and killed by Anaheim police officers on December 11, 2009.
Sheriff Stan Sniff, Jr. Stanley Sniff, Jr. has served as the 13th Sheriff of Riverside County, CA since October 2, 2007. He was subsequently re-elected in 2014 to a second full four-year term. He is the third Sheriff to also serve as Coroner- Public Administrator after that Department was merged in 1999. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was created in 1893 and is the second largest Sheriff’s Department in California, with 4,600 full-time staff and over 1,600 volunteers. He oversees countywide patrol operations, jail operations, court security, and coroner investigations. The department has an operating budget of over $640 million for the current fiscal year.
Sheriff Sniff has over 38 years of law enforcement experience and is the eldest grandson of one of the pioneering date and citrus families of the Coachella Valley and grew up in the Indio area. He joined the Coachella Police Department in 1975 after graduation from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Academy and then transferred to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1979, initially assigned to the Indio Station, and serving across the Coachella Valley. His initial expertise was in traffic enforcement and accident investigation, and he was instrumental in creating the department’s first specialized traffic safety programs. He has held subsequent assignments in uniformed patrol operations in Riverside, the San Gorgonio Pass area, and Southwest Riverside County. As a Captain, he held command assignments of the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, the Banning Sheriff’s Station, and the Ben Clark Training Center. As a Chief Deputy he held assignments over Training and Personnel, East and West county patrol operations. As an Assistant Sheriff he was assigned oversight of all county court operations, jail operations, and patrol operations divisions. A retired colonel in the Army Reserve, Stanley Sniff was commissioned as an Armor officer out of the OCS program in 1973 at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA. He served 30 years in a variety of military staff and command assignments in infantry, armor, and cavalry units.
Jody Stiger Jody Stiger is a sergeant with the LAPD with over 20 years of experience in law enforcement. He has worked numerous assignments, including patrol, gangs, undercover narcotics officer, and tactics and use of force instructor for in-service training. Currently he serves as the aide to the Inspector General. Prior to his assignment with the LAPD OIG, he coordinated and oversaw training for all patrol divisions within Operations- South Bureau (approximately 1600 officers). He also provided POST mandated perishable skills training for LAPD
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personnel. He instructed officers in basic patrol tactics such as vehicle stops, pedestrian stops, and building searches. Jody also reviewed all use of force incidents and pursuits within South Bureau.
Kevin Stuckey Officer Kevin Stuckey has been with the SPD for 20 years. He greatly enjoyed his years as a school emphasis officer, which focus on education and mentoring to help at-risk youth stay in school. Kevin has maintained relationships with many students even after their graduation and is very proud of their success as young adults. Kevin is currently assigned to the East Precinct community police team. He is a Seattle Police Officers Guild board member and fills the seat on the Seattle Community Police Commission reserved for that organization. The Seattle CPC charge is to represent a broad range of community perspectives and to reach out and engage communities directly, to get critical feedback, and to then recommend changes to the SPD’s policies and practices. The Seattle CPC has specifically recommended de-escalation be integrated into the SPD’s Use of Force Policy.
Eric Tars Eric Tars serves as Senior Attorney at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, focusing on human rights, civil rights, and children’s rights through trainings, litigation, and policy advocacy at the national and local levels. Before coming to the Law Center, Eric was a Fellow with Global Rights’ U.S. Racial Discrimination Program and consulted with Columbia University Law School’s Human Rights Institute and the U.S. Human Rights Network. Eric received his J.D. as a Global Law Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center, his bachelor’s degree in political science from Haverford College, and he studied international human rights at the Institute for European Studies and at the University of Vienna.
Julio Thompson Julio Thompson is an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, where he serves as Director of the Office's Civil Rights Unit, which enforces the state’s hate crimes and anti-discrimination laws. He also serves as hate crimes instructor for the Vermont Police Academy. Julio has nearly 24 years of experience in police oversight, focusing on areas such as use of force, early intervention systems, training, and internal investigations. Julio worked as Deputy Special Counsel on a blue-ribbon commission that investigated excessive force and lax discipline at the LASD and subsequently implemented reforms. He served as a consultant to the U.S. DOJ in connection with its investigation of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department and implementation of the consent decree that resulted. Julio has analyzed police agencies and provided best practices advice in a variety of jurisdictions such as Denver, Detroit, Oakland, Phoenix, and Portland. He currently serves on the Monitoring Team for the Seattle – U.S. DOJ consent decree.
Phil Tingirides Commander Phil Tingirides began his career with the LAPD in February of 1980 and was promoted to Captain in 2006. In July of 2007, he was promoted to commanding officer of Southeast Area. Commander Tingirides was instrumental in directing and managing the innovative and nationally recognized Community Safety Partnership Program in the South Los Angeles community of Watts, through which LAPD officers developed deep relationships with the community to build trust and reduce crime. He and his wife, an LAPD sergeant, were honored by the White House for their extraordinary work.
Jerry Vagier Jerry Vagnier is a native of Atlanta, but has spent his academic and professional career in Knoxville, TN. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology and graduated magna cum laude, from Maryville College and his master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Tennessee. He has held an independent license
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since 1991. Jerry has been an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work, clinical supervisor for student placements, and has provided clinical supervision to professionals in the field throughout his career.
Mr. Vagnier has demonstrated both clinical and administrative acuity rising from student to clinician, and later from clinical director to President/CEO of one the largest community mental health centers in the state of Tennessee. He is currently employed by the Helen Ross McNabb Center based in Knoxville, providing regional services in East Tennessee including coverage area from Chattanooga to Knoxville and adjoining counties. Mr. Vagnier has participated in various leadership programs as well as holds leadership responsibility at multiple non-profit entities.
Mr. Vagnier currently serves on the board of the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Organizations; is Chairman of the Community Mental Health Center Political Action Committee; is a board member of the Helen Ross McNabb Foundation; is a member of the University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Associate Program; and he serves his community church through work in the children’s department, foreign missions, and lay leadership. Mr. Vagnier was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 2011 by the statewide mental health association for his contributions to the field.
Jayson Wechter Jayson Wechter is an Investigator with the OCC, and has had extensive experience during his 17 years with that agency and 17 years conducting litigation investigations assessing witness credibility. Jayson was a panelist on the last NACOLE session addressing this subject, “Examining Credibility of Witnesses,” at the 2007 Annual NACOLE Conference in San Jose, and has made presentations at NACOLE conferences on basic investigative skills, planning and prioritizing investigations, and investigating use of force incidents.
David West David West graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School in 1996 after which he worked in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions until 1999 where he left to work in the Ministry of the Attorney General, Central Authority Unit.
Mr. West is a former Head of the Central Authority Unit with over ten years’ experience in dealing with extradition and mutual legal assistance. Mr. West was also responsible for drafting the amendments to Trinidad and Tobago’s Extradition Act, 1985 (Act No. 12 of 2004).
Mr. West was the Director Designate of the Financial Intelligence Unit from March 2010 up until September 12th 2010. He was a member of the Cabinet-appointed committee on Anti-Money Laundering and, together with the other members, was responsible for drafting the Financial Intelligence Unit Act 2009, Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Act, 2009, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2010, and the Financial Obligations Regulations, 2009. Mr. West was Junior Counsel to Andrew Mitchell, Q.C., who prosecuted the first money laundering case in Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2011, Mr. West earned the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist designation. In July of 2015, he was awarded the designation of Certified Financial Crime Specialist.
Mr. West was in private practice during the period 2008-2014 in El Dorado Chambers where the late Ms. Dana Seetahal, SC was Head of Chambers. On the November 7, 2014, the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago appointed Mr. West Director of the Police Complaints Authority.
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Ali Winston In addition to his role as a reporter and contributor for the Center for Investigative Reporting, Ali Winston is a reporter for Reveal covering surveillance, privacy, and criminal justice. His writing has won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the New York City Community Media Alliance, the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, and the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Originally from New York, he is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. Winston is based in Reveal's Emeryville, CA office.
Noemi Zamacona Noemi Zamacona is a monitor with the LACo-OIG. Prior to joining the LACo-OIG, she was a Mitigation Specialist with the Riverside County Public Defender’s Office assigned to the Complex Litigation Unit. A large part of her investigative practice involved conducting investigations on behalf of indigent defendants. Before joining the Riverside Public Defender’s Office, Ms. Zamacona worked as a Criminal Defense Investigator for Biggam Christensen & Minsloff in Santa Cruz, CA, where she investigated a wide variety of serious felony cases. She also obtained custodial care experience at a juvenile hall working as a Group Supervisor for the Santa Cruz County Probation Department.
Ms. Zamacona received her bachelor of arts. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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2015 Annual Conference Attendees
Robert Aaronson Elizabeth Aaronson Jane Adams Independent Police Auditor Principal Vice-Chair Cities of Santa Cruz & Davis, CA Aaronson Law Offices Community Police Review Commission 3565 El Camino Real 3565 El Camino Real 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Riverside, CA 92522 (650) 565-8800 (650) 565-8800 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Horacio S. Aguirre Elisabeth Albert J. Ashlee Albies Chairperson Investigator Attorney at Law Civilian Investigative Panel Civilian Investigative Panel Creighton & Rose, PC 1910 S.W. 13th St. 970 S.W. 1st St., Ste. 305 815 S.W. Second Ave, Ste. 500 Miami, FL 33125 Miami, FL 33130 Portland, OR 97204 (305) 613-5880 (305) 960-4954 (503) 221-1792 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jennifer Albright John Alden Deseret Alvarez Strategic Advisor II Attorney at Law Chief Deputy Inspector General Seattle Police Department San Francisco Police Department, Internal Affairs Office of the Inspector General 610 Fifth Ave., P.O. Box 34986 Division 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Seattle, WA 98124 1245 Third St., 4th Fl. Sacramento, CA 95827 (206) 233-2655 San Francisco, CA 94158 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] (415) 837-7156 [email protected] Moira Amado-McCoy [email protected] Anderson Mark Andres Member Executive Director Commissioner Civilian Police Oversight Agency Police Advisory Commission Community Police Review Commission P.O. Box 1293 990 Spring Garden St., 7th Fl. 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Albuquerque, NM 87103 Philadelphia, PA 19123 Riverside, CA 92522 (505) 553-1818 (215) 685-0891 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mona Andrews George Anthony Juan Pablo Arango Orozco Chief Investigator Secretary Investigador Office of Police Complaints Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Causas en Comun 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Varsovia 44 Washington, DC 20005 Detroit, MI 48226 Distrito Federal, 06600 (202) 727-3838 (313) 596-1830 52552081479 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Laura Arnold Paul Ashton Barbara Attard Deputy Public Defender Police Complaints Board Member Police Accountability Consultant Riverside Public Defender Office of Police Complaints Accountability Associates 30755-D Auld Rd., Ste. 2233 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 60 - 29th St., #616 Murrieta, CA 92563 Washington, DC 20005 San Francisco, CA 94110 (951) 304-5651 (202) 558-7974 (415) 994-5944 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Eddie Aubrey Jeannette Baca Shannon Bagley Chief Prosecuting Attorney Member Inspector Renton City Attorney's Office Civilian Police Oversight Agency Kalamazoo Dept. of Public Safety 200 Mill Ave. S, 6th Fl. P.O. Box 1293 150 E. Crosstown Pkwy Suite A Renton, WA 98057 Albuquerque, NM 87103 Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (425) 430-6489 (505) 573-1439 (269) 337-8101 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Steve Ball Erick Baltazar Caroline Bañuelos Acting Senior Investigator Deputy Director County of Sonoma Office of Citizens Complaints Office of Citizens Complaints 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 104A 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 Santa Rosa, CA 95403 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 (707) 565-3786 (415) 241-7711 (415) 241-7711 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Victor Barajas Gimenez Barbara Mike Barletta Commissioner Member Commander City of National City Civilian Investigative Panel San Diego County Sheriff's Department 1243 National City Blvd. 7001 Biscayne Blvd., 2nd Fl. 9621 Ridgehaven Ct., Rm. 367 National City, CA 91950 Miami, FL 33138 San Diego, CA 92123 (619) 730-9883 (305) 336-5629 (858) 974-2426 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Caluha Barnes Mike Barnett Robert Barton Principal Analyst Commander Inspector General County of Sonoma San Diego County Sheriff's Department Office of the Inspector General 575 Administration Dr., Ste. 104A 9621 Ridgehaven Ct. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Santa Rosa, CA 95401 San Diego, CA 92123 Sacramento, CA 95827 (707) 565-3085 (858) 974-2295 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Pamela Basler Cristina Beamud Andrew E. Beaumont Executive Director Executive Director Manager, Inspections & Monitoring Anchorage Equal Rights Commission Civilian Investigative Panel Police Civilian Oversight Authority 632 W. 6th Ave., Ste. 110 970 S.W. 1st St., Ste. 305 1 A North Ave., Kingston Gardens Anchorage, AK 99519 Miami, FL 33130 Kingston, C.S.O (907) 343-4342 (305) 960-4952 (876) 948-8627 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Charlie Beck Larry Becker Eric Behrens Chief of Police Board Member University Counsel Emeritus Los Angeles Police Department Citizens' Police Review Board University of California Office of the President, 100 W. 1st St. 80 New Scotland Ave. Office of the General Counsel, 1111 Franklin St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Albany, NY 12208 Oakland, CA 94607 (213) 486-0150 (518) 445-3257 (510) 987-9723 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Willie E. Bell Cathleen Beltz Merrell R. Bennekin Commissioner Assistant Inspector General Deputy Executive Director Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General Office of Community Complaints 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 312 S. Hill St. 635 Woodland Ave., Ste. 2102 Detroit, MI 48226 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Kansas City, MO 64106 (313) 596-1830 (213) 974-6100 (816) 889-6643 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ray Bercini Anna Berlin Linda Bernard Detective Examining Attorney Attorney Los Angeles Sheriff's Department NYC DOI / CCPC Detroit Board of Police Commissioners 211 W. Temple St. 17 Battery Pl., Ste. 327 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Los Angeles, CA 90012 NY, NY 10004 Detroit, MI 48226 (213) 229-1700 212615-8970 (313) 596-1830 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] T. Allen Bethel Anne Bettesworth Peter Bibring President Policy Analyst Sr. Staff Attorney/Director of Police Practices Albina Ministerial Alliance Community Police Commission ACLU of Southern California 4222 N.E. 12th Ave. P.O. Box 94765 1313 W. 8th St. PORTLAND, OR, OR 97211 Seattle, WA 98124 Los Angeles, CA 90017 (503) 288-7243 (206) 684-8078 (213) 977-9500 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Russell Bloom Becca Boatright Jana Boccalon Police Investigator Assistant City Conference Rehabilitation Analyst Office of the Independent Police Auditor Seattle City Attorney's Office Office of the Inspector General 300 Lakeside Dr., 14th Fl. 701 Fifth Ave., Ste. 2050 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Oakland, CA 94612 Seattle, WA 98104 Sacramento, CA 95827 (510) 874-7477 (206) 233-2166 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lylyana Bogdanovich Bonnie Bokenfohr Dana Boldt City of Anaheim Complaint Director and Legal Counsel Deputy Chief Attorney 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Edmonton Police Commission Office of the Independent Monitor Anaheim, CA 92805 1803 Scotia Pl., Tower 2 9150 E. Imperial Hwy., Ste. A-105 (714) 765-5162 Edmonton, AB T5J 3R8 Downey, CA 90242 [email protected] (780) 414-7510 (562) 940-2746 [email protected] [email protected]
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Gerald Bonito Valencia Boyd William Bozarth Senior Assistant Inspector General Community Liaison Vice Chair Office of the Inspector General Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General Citizen Review Board 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 312 S. Hill St. 55 Trinity Ave. Sacramento, CA 95827 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Atlanta, GA 30303 (916) 255-1102 (213) 974-6100 (404) 865-8622 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] James "Mickey" Bradley Ann Brayfield Sharon Brett Board Secretary Member Trial Attorney Citizens' Police Review Board Emerson Realty LLC U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division 80 New Scotland Ave. 18991 Park Commons Dr. 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Albany, NY 12208 Bend, OR 97703 Washington, DC 20530 (518) 445-3257 (603) 494-7066 (202) 305-1091 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sherri Bridgett Lendel Bright Elizabeth Brooks Investigator Civilian Police & Community Relations Commissioner Citizen Police Review Board City of St. Petersburg-Community Affairs Detroit Board of Police Commissioners 816 Fifth Ave., Ste. 400 P.O. Box 2842 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 St. Petersburg, FL 33731 Detroit, MI 48226 (412) 765-8023 (727) 893-7229 (313) 596-1830 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kisha A. Brown Susanne Brown Kisha A. Brown Director Member Director Office of Civil Rights Civilian Police Oversight Agency Office of Civil Rights 7 E. Redwood St., 9th Fl. P.O. Box 1293 7 E. Redwood St., 9th Fl. Baltimore, MD 21202 Albuquerque, NM 87103 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 396-3141 (505) 515-1204 (410) 396-3141 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Andrea Brown Adrian Brown Brian Buchner Chair Assistant U.S. Attorney President Police Conduct Oversight Commission U.D. Dept of Justice NACOLE 350 S. Fifth St., Rm. 239 1000 SW Third Ave. P.O. Box 87227 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Portland, OR 97232 Tucson, AZ 85754 (612) 673-5506 (503) 727-1000 (317) 721-8133 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chief Chris Burbank (Retired) Alexander Bustamante Otarah Byfield-Nugent Director of Law Enforcement Engagement Inspector General Legal Counsel / Corporate Secretary Center for Policing Equity Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector Police Civilian Oversight Authority 6629 Franz Hall, Department of Psychology, Box General 1 A North Ave., Kingston Gardens 951563 201 N Figueroa St., #610 Kingston, C.S.O Los Angeles, CA 90095 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (876) 948-8327 (801) 381-7290 (213) 482-6833 [email protected] [email protected] Cabrera [email protected] Campbell Candace M. T. Carpenter Member Assistant Commissioner Investigator Civilian Investigative Panel INDECOM Office of Citizens Complaints 115 S.W. 42nd Ave., #208 1 Dumfries Road 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 Miami, FL 33134 Kingston, 10 San Francisco, CA 94102 (305) 546-7354 (876) 968-8875 (415) 241-7711 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lisa Carter Doug Case Brian Center Commissioner Second Vice Chair Principal Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Citizens' Review Board on Police Practices Center Solutions 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 5444 Reservoir Dr., #20 2007 Stratford Ave. Detroit, MI 48226 San Diego, CA 92120 South Pasadena, CA 91030 (313) 596-1830 (619) 286-5571 (626) 590-4388 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Joseph W. Chaffin Joshua Chanin Eric Charrette Investigator Professor Police Lieutenant Police Advisory Commission San Diego State University Riverside Police Department 990 Spring Garden St., 7th Fl. 5500 Campanile Dr. 10540 Magnolia Ave., Ste. B Philadelphia, PA 19123 San Diego, CA 92182 Riverside, CA 92505 (215) 685-0880 (619) 594-1948 (951) 353-7271 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Erroll Chattoo Evelyn Cheatham Jenelle Chow Director of Complaints County of Sonoma Police Performance Auditor III The Independent Commission of Investigations 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 104A Los Angeles Police Department 1 Dumfries Rd. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 221 N. Figueroa St., Ste. 300 Kingston, 10 (707) 565-3786 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (876) 968-8875 [email protected] (213) 202-5444 [email protected] [email protected] Nykisha Cleveland Patricia Cole-Tindall Yahaira Colon-Rodriguez Public Affairs Specialist Director Legal Advisor, Legislation and Legal Education Office of Police Complaints King County Office of Law Enforcement Oversight Division, Legal Aid Society of Puerto Rico 1400 I Street NW, Ste. 700 401 5th Ave., Rm. 131 Apartado 21490 Washington, DC 20005 Seattle, WA 98104 San Juan, PR 00928 (202) 727-3838 (206) 263-2878 (787) 765-3875 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Debra Conklin Brian Connell Stephen Connolly Commissioner Deputy Executive Director for Administration Executive Director Spokane Police Ombudsman Commission Civilian Complaint Review Board Office of Independent Review 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. 100 Church St., 10th Fl. 320 N. Flower St. Spokane, WA 99202 New York, NY 10007 Santa Ana, CA 92703 (509) 625-6229 (212) 912-2001 (714) 834-4631 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Michelle Contreras Edward Copeland Lesley Cordner Senior Administrative Assistant Lead Pastor Assistant Chief City of Albuquerque New Zion Baptist Church Seattle Police Department One Civic Plaza 604 Salter Ave. 610 5th Ave. Albuquerque, NM 87103 Rockford, IL 61102 Seattle, WA 98124 (505) 924-3771 (815) 964-3114 (206) 684-4804 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Adam Cornils Brian Corr Brent Cotter Burbank Police Department Executive Secretary President 200 N. Third St. Police Review & Advisory Board Canadian Association for Civilian Oversight of Burbank, CA 91502 51 Inman St., 2nd Fl. Law Enforcement (CACOLE) (818) 238-3220 Cambridge, MA 02139 15 Campus Dr. [email protected] (617) 349-4694 Saskatoon, SK S7N0N2 [email protected] (306) 966-2983 Reginald Crawford Mike Crebs [email protected] Cremins Commissioner Assistant Chief Burbank Police Department Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Portland Police Bureau 200 N. Third St. 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 1111 S.W. 2nd Ave., Ste. 1526 Burbank, CA 91502 Detroit, MI 48226 Portland, OR 97204 (818) 238-3220 (313) 596-1830 (503) 823-9900 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ainsley Cromwell Catherine Crosby Eric Cruz Supervising Investigator Executive Director Member Board of Police Commissioners Human Relations Council Civilian Police Oversight Agency 65 Cadillac Sq., Ste. 4000 371 W. 2nd St., Ste. 100 P.O. Box 1293 Detroit, MI 48226 Dayton, OH 45402 Albuquerque, NM 87103 (313) 596-2479 (937) 333-1395 (505) 804-2536 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lisa Cupid Craig Cupid Charles Curry Commissioner - District 4 Baker Hostetler Community Outreach Specialist Cobb County Government 1180 Peachtree St., Ste. 1800 Atlanta Citizen Review Board 100 Cherokee St., Ste. 300 Atlanta, GA 30309 55 Trinity Ave. Marietta, GA 30090 (404) 256-8230 Atlanta, GA 30303 (770) 528-3311 [email protected] (404) 865-8622 [email protected] [email protected] Eric Daigle Theresa Dang Sherry Daun Attorney Policy Analyst Supervising Investigator Daigle Law Group LLC OC May Day Coalition Independent Police Review Authority P.O. Box 123 P.O. Box 133 1615 W. Chicago Ave. Southington, CT 06489 Santa Ana, CA 92702 Chicago, CA 60622 (860) 270-0060 (714) 898-5608 (312) 746-3609 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Christopher Davidson Lorenzo Davis Mary Davis Investigator Supervising Investigator Chair City of Albuquerque Independent Police Review Authority Citizens Oversight Board One Civic Plaza 1615 W. Chicago Ave. 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 Albuquerque, NM 87103 Chicago, IL 60622 Denver, CO 80202 (505) 924-3773 (312) 746-3609 (720) 913-3306 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kelly Davis Randall Davis John Davis Freelance Investigative Reporter Chief of Police City of Kalamazoo 3548 Florida St., #2 City of South Gate 150 E. Crosstown Pkwy Suite A San Diego, CA 92104 8620 California Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (619) 850-4231 South Gate, CA 90280 (269) 337-8101 [email protected] (323) 563-5408 [email protected] [email protected] Pamela Davis-Drake Julie Dean Michele Deitch Chief Investigator Associate Deputy Inspector General Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Office of the Inspector General University of Texas at Austin 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 2304 Toro Canyon Rd. Detroit, MI 48226 Sacramento, CA 95827 Austin, TX 78746 (313) 596-1830 (916) 255-1102 (512) 296-7212 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Wendi Delmendo Anitra Dempsey Eric Deroian Chief Compliance Officer Executive Director Burbank Police Department University of California, Davis City of Long Beach 200 N. Third St. One Shields Ave., Mrak 412 333 W. Ocean Boulevard, 13th Fl. Burbank, CA 91502 Davis, CA 95616 Long Beach, CA 90802 (818) 238-3220 (530) 752-6550 (562) 499-9246 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sergio Diaz J Michael Diaz Eduardo I. Diaz, Ph.D. Police Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Past-President Riverside Police Department DOJ - U.S. Attorney's Office NACOLE 4102 Orange St. 700 Stewart St. 13625 S.W. 82nd Ct. Riverside, CA 92501 Seattle, WA 98105 Miami, FL 33158 (951) 826-5940 (206) 553-4358 (305) 255-5817 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Debo Dingler Ellen Dolese Irene Dominguez Board Member Investigator Deputy Inspector General Citizen Review Board Office of Citizens Complaints Office of the Inspector General P.O. Box 1946 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Key West, FL 33041 San Francisco, CA 94102 Sacramento, CA 95827 (305) 909-3887 (415) 241-7711 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sheryl Dubsky Laura Dunhoff Tom Dunn Deputy Sheriff Investigator Public Safety Board Orange County Sheriff's Department Office of Municipal Investigations 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. 320 N. Flower St. 414 Grant St. Anaheim, CA 92805 Santa Ana, CA 92703 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (714) 765-5162 (714) 318-6104 (412) 255-2805 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kimberly Edds Robert Edmonds Ezekiel Edwards Director of Communications and Public Affairs County of Sonoma Director, Criminal Law Reform Project Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 104A American Civil Liberties Union 1314 W. Fifth St. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 125 Broad St., 18th Fl. Santa Ana, CA 92703 (707) 565-3786 New York, NY 10004 (714) 285-2800 [email protected] (212) 549-2610 [email protected] [email protected] Steve Eggert Justin Eklund Lynn Erickson President Captain Seattle University King County Police Officers Guild Sacramento Police Department 901 12th Ave. P.O. Box 80665 5770 Freeport Blvd., Ste. 100 Seattle, WA 98110 Seattle, WA 98108 Sacramento, CA 95822 (206) 914-5714 206957-0934 (916) 808-0811 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Belinda Escobosa Helzer Richard Evans Kate Eves Director Senior Director Head of Prisons Suicide & Homicide ACLU of Southern California Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the Investigations 1851 E. First St., Ste. 450 RCMP UK Prisons Ombudsman (currently on Santa Ana, CA 92705 P.O. Box 1722, Station B sabbatical) (714) 450-3964 Ottawa, ON K1P 0B3 511 Ashbury St. [email protected] (613) 952-8038 San Francisco, CA 94117 I. Pearl Fain Stephanierichard.evans@crcc Felesky-ccetp.gc.ca Jordan(616) 560 Ferguson-2652 Executive Director Commissioner [email protected] Office of Community Complaints Calgary Police Commission Best Best & Krieger LLP 635 Woodland Ave., Ste. 2102 650-615 MacLeod Tr. SE 300 S. Grand Ave., 25th Fl. Kansas City, MO 64106 Calgary, AB T2G4T8 Los Angeles, CA 90071 (816) 889-6641 (403) 428-8914 (213) 617-8100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Paul Figueroa Florence Finkle Anthony Finnell Assistant Chief of Police 165 Perry St., Apt. 3C Executive Director Oakland Police Department New York, NY 10014 Citizens' Police Review Board 455 7th St. (347) 515-9378 250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Ste. 6302 Oakland, CA 94607 [email protected] Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 238-3365 (510) 238-7401 [email protected] [email protected] Andrew Fisher Paige Fitzgerald Michael Flad Board Member Acting Chief City Manager Citizens Police Review Board DOJ Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section City of South Gate 701 E. Broadway, 2nd Fl. 601 D St. NW, Rm. 5200 8650 California Ave. Columbia, MO 65205 Washington, DC 20004 South Gate, CA 90280 (573) 817-5024 (202) 616-3926 (323) 563-9503 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Marc Fliedner Christina Fogg Linda Fonze Chief, Civil Right Bureau Assistant United States Attorney Principal Management Analyst Kings County District Attorney's Office U.S. Attorney's Office - Western District of Riverside Police Department 350 Jay St., #12V Washington 4102 Orange St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 700 Stewart St., Ste. 5220 Riverside, CA 92501 (718) 250-2963 Seattle, WA 98101 (951) 826-5521 [email protected] (206) 553-4299 [email protected] Roberto Fortes [email protected] Frampton Margo Frasier Attorney Board Member Police Monitor Office of Citizens Complaints King County Police Officers Guild Office of the Police Monitor 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 P.O. Box 80665 P.O. Box 1088 San Francisco, CA 94102 Seattle, WA 98108 Austin, TX 78767 (415) 241-7711 206957-0934 (512) 974-9110 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jennifer Fratello Bob Frutos Emily Gabel-Luddy Policy Director Mayor Council Member Office of the Independent Monitor City of Burbank City of Burbank 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 275 E. Olive Ave. 275 E. Olive Ave. Denver, CO 80202 Burbank, CA 91510 Burbank, CA 91510 (720) 913-3306 (818) 238-5751 (818) 238-5751 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Robert Galbraith Francisco "Cisco" Gallardo Anna Galvan Sergeant Board Member Deputy Inspector General Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Citizens Oversight Board Office of the Inspector General 901 Corporate Center Dr., Ste. 310 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Monterey Park, CA 91754 Denver, CO 80202 Sacramento, CA 95827 (323) 307-8334 (720) 913-3306 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Wendy Gamble Michelle Gamble Mike Gardner Los Angeles Police Department Investigator City Council Member - Ward 1 100 W. First St., Rm. 973 Citizen Police Review Board City of Riverside Los Angeles, CA 90012 816 Fifth Ave., Ste. 400 3900 Main St., 7th Fl. (213) 486-7674 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Riverside, CA 92522 [email protected] (412) 765-8023 (951) 826-5242 [email protected] [email protected]
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Carolyn Gaskin Michael Gennaco Max Geron Assistant Executive Director Principal Major Citizen Police Review Board OIR Group Dallas Police Department 816 Fifth Ave., Ste. 400 7142 Trask Ave. 1400 S. Lamar Dr., 5th Fl. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Playa del Rey, CA 90293 Dallas, TX 75215 (412) 765-8023 (323) 821-0586 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Valerie Gettis Oliver Gilliam Kay Godefroy Police Sergeant President Commissioner Los Angeles Police Department Police Civil Service Commission Community Police Commission 100 W. First St. 555 Polk St. P.O. Box 94765 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Gary, IN 46402 Seattle, WA 98124 (213) 202-5444 (219) 882-4319 (206) 323-9583 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Buddy Goldman Nita Gonzales Louis Gonzales Chief Board Member Assistant Police Monitor Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Citizens Oversight Board Office of the Police Monitor 4700 Ramona Blvd. 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 P.O. Box 1088 MONTEREY PARK, CA 91754 Denver, CO 80202 Austin, TX 78767 (323) 526-5712 (720) 913-3306 (512) 974-9090 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Enrique Gonzalez Charles Goodbee Suzann Gostovich Commissioner Board Member Senior Assistant Inspector General Community Police Commission Citizens' Police Review Board Office of the Inspector General P.O. Box 94765 80 New Scotland Ave. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Seattle, WA 98124 Albany, NY 12208 Sacramento, CA 95827 (206) 329-9442 (518) 445-3257 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Michael Grady Betsy Graef Nikki Greer Hermeth Board Member Community Police Commission Complaint Investigator II Citizens' Police Review Board 600 4th Ave. Citizen's Police Review Board 80 New Scotland Ave. Seattle, WA 98104 250 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Ste. 6302 Albany, NY 12208 (206) 300-5725 Oakland, CA 94608 (518) 445-2329 [email protected] (510) 238-2148 [email protected] [email protected] Rashidah Grinage Dale Gronemeier Carol Grubb Coordinator Attorney Complaint Intake Specialist Coalition for Police Accountability Gronemeier & Associates Citizens Police Complaint Office 3920 Lyon Ave. 1490 Colorado Blvd. 200 E. Washington St., Ste. 1921 Oakland, CA 94601 Eagle Rock, CA 90041 Indianapolis, IN 46204 (510) 306 0253 (323) 254-6700 (317) 327-3440 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Emily Gunston Vanita Gupta Heather Hake Special Counsel Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Management Analyst U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division U. S. Department of Justice Los Angeles Police Department 601 D St. NW, 5th Fl. 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 100 South 1st St., Ste. 134 Washington, DC 20757 Washington, DC 20530 Los Angeles, CA 91206 (202)305-3203 (202) 514-4609 (213) 202-5475 [email protected] [email protected] Laurinda Hall Helen H. Hamada Leslie A. Hampton Director Commissioner Executive Assistant Citizen Complaint Oversight Panel Honolulu Police Commission Police Advisory Commission 9201 Basil Ct., Ste. 466 1060 Richards St., Ste. 170 990 Spring Garden St., 7th Fl. Largo, MD 20774 Honolulu, HI 96813 Philadelphia, PA 19123 (301) 883-5042 (808) 723-7581 (215) 685-0891 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Renee Hansen Edward Harness William Harrison Deputy Inspector General City of Albuquerque Board Chair Office of the Inspector General 4864 North Elkhard Ave Citizen Review Board 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Whitefish Bay, WI 53217 55 Trinity Ave. Sacramento, CA 95827 (414) 861-1225 Atlanta, GA 30303 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] (404) 865-8622 [email protected] [email protected]
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Amira Hasenbush Bradford Hauk Frank Hauptman Kim Kepner Law & Policy Fellow Deputy Inspector General CPRC Manager The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law Office of the Inspector General Community Police Review Commission 385 Charles E. Young Dr. E 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Los Angeles, CA 90095 Sacramento, CA 95827 Riverside, CA 92522 (310) 825-1198 (916) 255-1102 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Bobby Hawkins Michael Heider Cynthia Hernandez Commissioner Special Assistant Inspector General Chief Attorney Community Police Review Commission Office of the Inspector General Office of the Independent Monitor 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 9150 E. Imperial Hwy. Riverside, CA 92522 Sacramento, CA 95827 Downey, CA 90242 (951) 826-5509 (916) 255-1102 (562) 940-2730 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Elbie Hickambottom, Jr. Joyce Hicks Liisa Hill Attorney Executive Director Case Investigator Gronemeier & Associates Office of Citizen Complaints Department of Civil Rights 1490 Colorado Blvd. 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 350 S. Fifth St., Rm. 239 Eagle Rock, CA 90041 San Francisco, CA 94102 Minneapolis, MN 55415 (323) 254-6700 (415) 241-7711 (612) 673-2093 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Peter Holmes Nina Horton Bill Howe Seattle City Attorney Youth Project Coordinator History Panel Speaker City of Seattle Office of the Independent Monitor Community Police Review Commission 701 Fifth Ave., Ste. 2050 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Seattle, WA 98104 Denver, CO 80202 Riverside, CA 92522 (206) 684-8288 (720) 913-3306 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abel Huerta Abel Huerta Patrick Hunter Commissioner Commissioner Executive Officer Community Police Review Commission Community Police Review Commission Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 555 W. Beech St. Riverside, CA 92522 Riverside, CA 92522 San Diego, CA 92101 (951) 826-5509 (951) 826-5509 (619) 238-6762 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Max Huntsman Bruce Hupe Sandra Hutchens Inspector General, Los Angeles County Office of Investigations Coordinator Sheriff-Coroner the Inspector General University of California, Davis Orange County Sheriff's Department 312 S. Hill St. One Shields Ave., Mrak 420 550 N. Flower St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Davis, CA 95616 Santa Ana, CA 92703 (213) 974-6100 (530) 752-6550 (714) 647-7000 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Susan Hutson Daysi Ibanez Tracey Ibarra Police Monitor Special Investigator II Pasadena Police Department Office of Independent Police Monitor Office of the Inspector General 207 N. Garfield Ave. 525 St. Charles, Ste. 300 19724 Shadow Glen Cir. Pasadena, CA 91101 New Orleans, LA 70130 Porter Ranch, CA 91326 (626) 744-7875 (504) 681-3275 (818) 675-8008 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mark Iris Gia Irlando Robin Jackson Lecturer Community Ombudsman Chair Northwestern University Office of the Independent Monitor Community Police Review Commission 555 Clark St., Rm. 224 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Evanston, IL 60645 Denver, CO 80202 Riverside, CA 92522 (847) 467-2664 (720) 913-3306 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Desiree Jackson LaDonna Jackson Deborah Jacobs Associate Deputy Inspector General Monitor Don't Shoot Coalition Office of the Inspector General Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General 210 N. 17th St., Apt. 302 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 312 S. Hill St. St. Louis, MO 63103 Sacramento, CA 95827 Los Angeles, CA 90013 973432-6868 (916) 255-1102 (213) 974-6100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Torin Jacobs Mark-Anthony Johnson Phillip Johnson Columbus Citizens for Police Review Dignity and Power Now City of Kalamazoo 5406 Paladim Rd. 3655 S. Grand 150 E. Crosstown Pkwy Suite A Columbus, OH 43232 Los Angeles, CA 90007 Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (614) 440-4493 (213) 745-7135 (269) 337-8101 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Abram Jones Kate Jones Donny Joubert Chair Jail Observer Vice President Police Accountability Board, University of South Clara County Office of Human Relations Watts Gang Task Force California, Davis 2310 N. First St., Ste. 100 1590 E. 114th St. One Shields Ave., Mrak 412 San Jose, CA 95131 Los Angeles, CA 90059 Davis, CA 95616 (408) 792-2304 (213) 361-9754 (530) 752-2071 [email protected] [email protected] Junior, Esq. Maureen Kane Charles Katz Attorney, Civilian Complaint Review Board, History Panel Speaker Director & Professor Administrative Prosecution Unit Community Police Review Commission Arizona State University 100 Church St., 10th Fl. 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 411 N. Central Ave., Ste. 680 New York, NY 10007 Riverside, CA 92522 Phoenix, AZ 85004 (212) 912-2001 (951) 826-5509 (602) 496-1471 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Walter Katz Tracie Keesee Alan Kelley Deputy Inspector General, Los Angeles County Project Director, National Initiative for Building Secretary / Treasurer Office of the Inspector General Community Trust and Justice King County Police Officers Guild 312 S. Hill St. 524 W. 59th St. P.O. Box 80665 Los Angeles, CA 90013 New York, NY 10019 Seattle, WA 98108 (213) 974-6100 (212) 393-6004 (206) 957-0934 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rusty Kennedy David Kennedy Sharon Kidd CEO Director Chairperson Orange County Human Relations National Network for Safe Communities BART Civilian Review Board 1300 S. Grand, Bldg. B 524 W. 59th St. 815 Jones St. Santa Ana, CA 92705 New York, NY 10019 Berkeley, CA 94710 (714) 480-6570 (212) 393-6317 (501) 701-2253 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Kim Pamela King E. Dorsey Kleger-Heine Deputy Executive Director for Investigations Acting Director Deputy Inspector General, Los Angeles County Civilian Complaint Review Board Citizen Complaint Authority Office of the Inspector General 100 Church St., 10th Fl. 805 Central Ave., Ste. 610 312 S. Hill St. New York, NY 10007 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Los Angeles, CA 90013 (212) 912-2001 (513) 352-3150 (213) 974-6100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Christian Klossner Eric Koenigshofer Alvin LaCabe Deputy Director Attorney Consultant Office of Police Complaints 2389 Bohemian Hwy. KRW Associates 1400 I Street NW, Ste. 700 Occidental, CA 95465 6751 Quartz Way Washington, DC 20005 (707) 874-2389 Arvada, CO 80007 (202) 727-7158 [email protected] (303) 432-2259 [email protected] [email protected] John Larkin Anthony Lawrence Loan Le Chief of Investigations Senior Investigator President Independent Investigations Office of BC Office of Police Complaints Institute for Good Government and Inclusion 13450 102nd Ave., 12th Fl. 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 1300 Clay St., Ste. 600 Surrey, BC V3T5X3 Washington, DC 20005 Oakland, CA 94612 (604) 586-5681 (202) 727-3838 (510) 846-4717 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sergio Ledezma Katherine J. Lee Sylvia Lemus Investigator PRC Officer County of Sonoma Office of Police Complaints Police Review Commission 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 104A 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 1947 Center St., 3rd Fl. Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Washington, DC 20005 Berkeley, CA 94704 (707) 565-3786 (202) 727-3838 (510) 981-4950 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Judge Anne Levinson (Ret.) Janna Lewis A. D. Lewis Independent Auditor Deputy Ombudsman Performance Analyst Office of Professional Accountability King County Ombudsman Office of the Inspector General 5512 S.W. Lander Pl. 516 Third Ave. 740 N. Sedgwick, Ste. 200 Seattle, WA 98116 Seattle, WA 98104 Chicago, IL 60654 (206) 938-0951 (206) 477-1053 (773) 478-3411 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Joseph Lipari Michael Loarie Robin Lolar Administrator Captain Senior Investigator Citizens Review Board Escondido Police Department Citizens Review Board 201 E Washington St., Ste. 705 1163 N. Centre City Pkwy. 55 Trinity Ave. SW Syracuse, NY 13202 Escondido, CA 92026 Atlanta, GA 30303 (315) 448-8750 (760) 839-4706 (404) 865-8623 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Alfred Lomas Minty LongEarth Fe Lopez Founder/Executive Director Community Engagement & Communications Specialist Executive Director Inner City Visions Community Police Commission Community Police Commission P.O. Box 26081 P.O. Box 94765 P.O. Box 94765 Los Angeles, CA 90026 Seattle, WA 98124 Seattle, WA 98124 (213) 505-6125 (206) 233-2664 (206) 684-5175 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Michael Lucas Bob Lurry Kalei Luyben Analyst Vice-President Retired Civilian Investigative Panel King County Police Officers Guild Concerned Citizen 970 S.W. 1st St., Ste. 305 P.O. Box 80665 7455 S.W. Kelly Ave. Miami, FL 33130 Seattle, WA 98108 Portland, OR 97219 (305) 960-4955 206957-0934 (503) 452-0014 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ted Luyben Dave Maass Michael Maddox Retired Investigative Researcher Senior Deputy Inspector General Concerned Citizen Electronic Frontier Foundation Office of the Inspector General 7455 S.W. Kelly Ave. 815 Eddy St. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Portland, OR 97219 San Francisco, CA 94109 Sacramento, CA 95827 (503) 452-0014 (415) 436-9333 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Denise Maes Thomas Mahoney Mina Malik, Esq. Public Policy Director Director of Investigations Executive Director ACLU of Colorado Office of the Inspector General Civilian Complaint Review Board 303 E. 17th Ave., Ste., 350 80 Maiden Ln. 100 Church St., 10th Fl. Denver, CO 80212 New York, NY 10038 New York, NY 10007 (720) 402-3121 (212) 806-5200 (212) 912-2001 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mike Mansanarez Steve Marcin Maria Mari Board Member Lieutenant Project Director King County Police Officers Guild Anaheim Police Department Espacios Abiertos P.O. Box 80665 425 S. Harbor Blvd. P.O. Box 9024270 Seattle, WA 98108 Anaheim, CA 92805 Old San Juan, PR 00902 206957-0934 (714) 765-3833 787622-1120 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] André Marin Samara Marion James C. Martin Ombudsman Attorney Chair Ombudsman Ontario Office of Citizens Complaints Citizens Police Review Board 483 Bay St., 10th Fl., South Tower 25 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 700 701 E. Broadway, 2nd Fl., P.O. Box 6015 Toronto, ON M5G2C9 San Francisco, CA 94102 Columbia, MO 65205 (416) 586-3347 (415) 241-7711 (573) 817-5024 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Catherine Martinez Ericka Martinez Ernesto Masson Special Assistant Inspector General City of Anaheim Sergeant-Deputy Sheriff Office of the Inspector General 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., Ste. 733 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Anaheim, CA 92805 901 Corporate Center Dr., #310 Sacramento, CA 95827 (714) 765-5162 Monterey Park, CA 91754 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] (805) 559-3256 [email protected] [email protected]
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Brian Maxey Lauren Maxilom Douglas Mayer Senior Police Counsel Management Analyst Member Seattle Police Department City of National City Civilian Investigative Panel 610 5th Ave. 1243 National City Blvd. 2130 N.W. 13th. St. Seattle, WA 98124 National City, CA 91950 Miami, FL 33125 (206) 714-1903 (619) 338-9759 (305) 761-8030 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Alison McCrary Diane McDermott Jim McDonnell Mediation Coordinator Investigator Sheriff Office of the Independent Police Monitor City of Albuquerque Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 525 St. Charles Ave. One Civic Plaza 211 W. Temple St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Albuquerque, NM 87103 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (504) 681-3211 (505) 924-3727 (213) 229-1700 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Stephen McKean Ian McPhail Les Mensinger Case Investigator Chair, Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for Vice-Chair Department of Civil Rights the RCMP BART Police Citizens Review Board 350 S. Fifth St., Rm. 239 P.O. Box 1722, Station B 300 Lakeside Dr., 14th Fl. Minneapolis, MN 55415 Ottawa, ON K1P 0B3 Oakland, CA 94604 (612) 673-5505 (613) 952-8038 (510) 657-5056 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Russell Michael Aisha Miles Rob Miller Special Investigator Intake Specialist Assistant Inspector General, Los Angeles Police Advisory Commission Citizens Police Complaint Office County Office of the Inspector General 990 Spring Garden St., 7th Fl. 200 E. Washington St. #1921 312 S. Hill St. Philadelphia, PA 19123 Indianapolis, IN 46204 Los Angeles, CA 90013 (215) 685-0891 317327-3845 (213) 974-6100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Gerry Misquez Nicholas Mitchell Beth Mohr Burbank Police Department Independent Monitor Member 200 N. Third St. Office of the Independent Monitor Civilian Police Oversight Agency Burbank, CA 91502 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 P.O. Box 1293 (818) 238-3220 Denver, CO 80202 Albuquerque, NM 87103 [email protected] (720) 913-3306 (505) 450-2818 [email protected] [email protected] Carlos Monagas Marielle Moore Amanda Moore Supervising Deputy District Attorney Attorney / Advisor Manda Writes Things Riverside County Social Security Administration 10455 N. Central Expy., #109-134 3960 Orange St. 1718 Woodlawn Dr. Dallas, TX 75231 Riverside, CA 92501 Woodlawn, MD 21207 (214) 609-7122 (951) 955-5400 (202) 230-4797 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ricardo R. Moore Ma Elena Morera Miltre Nigel Morgan Commissioner Presidenta Director of Complaints Detroit Board of Police Commissioners Causas en Comun The Independent Commission of Investigations 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Varsovia 44 1 Dumfries Rd. Detroit, MI 48226 Distrito Federal, 06600 Kingston, 10 (313) 596-1830 52552081479 (876) 968-8875 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Antoinette Morris Sharmaine Moseley Eric Muellenbach Attorney, Office of Independent Monitor--LA Executive Director General Counsel County Probation Citizens' Review Board on Police Practices Independent Police Review Authority 9150 E. Imperial Hwy., Ste. A-105 1010 2nd Ave., Ste. 1325, MS 613 1615 W. Chicago Ave., 4th Fl. Downey, CA 90242 San Diego, CA 92101 Chicago, IL 60622 (562) 417-2803 (619) 533-6387 (312) 746-3609 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tess Mullarkey Pierce Murphy Shawn Musgrave Investigative Auditor Director MuckRock Office of Law Enforcement Oversight Office of Professional Accountability P.O. Box 55819 401 5th Ave., Rm. 131 720 Third Ave., 18th Fl., P.O. Box 34986 Boston, MA 02205 Seattle, WA 98104 Seattle, WA 98124 (520) 820-6615 (206) 263-8868 (206) 684-8797 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Natasha Myers Timothy Mygatt Camelia Naguib Special Investigator Special Counsel Special Investigator City of Long Beach U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Office of the Inspector General 333 W. Ocean Blvd. 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 1646 N. Harvard Blvd. #9 Long Beach, CA 90802 Washington, DC 20530 Los Angeles, CA 90027 (310) 701-0946 (202) 305-3534 (213) 202-5695 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Toye Nash Stacey Nelson Abdullah Nelson CEO / Law Enforcement Early Intervention Monitor Supervising Investigator Specialist, TLConsulting & Training, LLC Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General Detroit Board of Police Commissioners 9524 W. Camelback Rd., Ste. C-130, #190 312 S. Hill St. 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Glendale, AZ 85305 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Detroit, MI 48226 (602) 290-8693 (213) 974-6100 (313) 596-1830 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rowena Nelson Robert Nelson Crista Noel Head Compliance Officer City of Anaheim Public Safety Board Founder / CEO Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 200 S Anaheim Blvd Women's All Points Bulletin 901 Corporate Center Dr., #310 Anaheim, CA 92805 P.O. Box 5323 Monterey Park, CA 91754 (714) 765-5162 Chicago, IL 60680 (323) 307-8323 [email protected] (312) 213-6353 [email protected] [email protected] Byron Norris James North Elva Nunez PRC Investigator Sergeant Chief Assistant Inspector General Police Review Commission Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Office of the Inspector General 1947 Center St., 3rd Fl. 901 Corporate Center Dr. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Berkeley, CA 94704 Monterey Park, CA 91754 Sacramento, CA 95827 (510) 981-4966 (323)307-8333 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shivaun Nurre Maureen Obie Kris Ockerhauser Assistant Director Coordinator Board Member Independent Police Auditor Citizens' Police Review Board ACLU of Southern California, Pasadena Chapter 75 E. Santa Clara St., Ste. 93 80 New Scotland Ave. 316 W. California Blvd. San Jose, CA 95113 Albany, NY 12208 Pasadena, CA 91105 (408) 794-6226 (518) 445-3257 (620) 792-0657 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Steve Oliveira Richard Olquin Kathryn Olson Lieutenant Executive Director Partner / Consultant Sacramento Police Department Change Riverside, Inc. Sanford, Olson and Scales 5770 Freeport Blvd., Ste. 100 11359 Dole Ct. 13197 Madison Ave. NE Sacramento, CA 95822 Riverside, CA 92505 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (916) 808-6130 714345-1955 (206) 890-5932 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Erin O'Neil Erin O'Neill Olga Orraca-Paredes Investigator Assistant Director Taller Lésbico Creativo; GRUCORPO City of Albuquerque Independent Police Auditor P.O. Box 9021003 One Civic Plaza 75 E. Santa Clara St., Ste. 93 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009021003 Albuquerque, NM 87103 San Jose, CA 95113 787640-6129 (505) 924-3792 (408) 794-6226 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Miroslava Ortiz Flores Justin Ostrowe Sergio Padilla Onate Directora de Programa Senior Policy Manager Investigador Causas en Comun Office of the Inspector General Causas en Comun Varsovia 44 80 Maiden Ln. Varsovia 44 Distrito Federal, 06600 New York, NY 10038 Distrito Federal, 06600 52552081479 (212) 806-5200 52552081479 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Joe Pais Linda Pasek Ryan Patrick Board Member Community Member Legal Analyst Citizen Review Board 1546 San Fernando Dr. Department of Civil Rights P.O. Box 1946 Corona, CA 92882 350 S. Fifth St., Rm. 239 Key West, FL 33041 (951) 751-0754 Minneapolis, MN 55415 (305) 809-3887 [email protected] (612) 673-5501 [email protected] [email protected]
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Sandeep Pednekar Attendee Pending John Perez Board Member Pending Commander Citizen Law Enforcement Review Board Civilian Complaint Review Board Pasadena Police Department 125 N. Main St., Ste. 700 100 Church St., 10th Fl. 207 N. Garfield Ave. Memphis, TN 38103 New York, NY 10007 PASADENA, CA 91101 (212) 912-2001 (626) 744-7368 [email protected] [email protected] Celenia Perez Dr. Linda L. Petersonn Erin Playman Special Investigator Secretary Investigator City of Long Beach Police Civil Service Commission Independent Police Review 333 W. Ocean Blvd. 555 Polk St. 1221 SW 4th Ave., Rm. 140 Long Beach, CA 90802 Gary, IN 46402 Portland, OR 97204 (714) 348-2702 (219) 882-4319 (503) 823-0146 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Will Pletcher Laura Powell Ursula Price Burbank Police Department Attorney Deputy Police Monitor 200 N. Third St. Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard Office of the Independent Police Monitor Burbank, CA 91502 400 Capitol Mall, 27th Fl. 525 St. Charles Ave. (818) 238-3220 Sacramento, CA 95814 New Orleans, LA 70130 [email protected] (916) 321-4500 (504) 681-3246 [email protected] [email protected] James V. Puscian Raul Quezada Sue Quinn Division Chief Chief of Police Past-President Aurora Police Department City of Anaheim NACOLE 15001 E. Alameda Pkwy. 425 S. Harbor Blvd. 4131 Lymer Dr. Aurora, CO 80112 Anaheim, CA 92805 San Diego, CA 92116 (303) 739-6020 (714) 765-5162 (619) 293-0614 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Timothy Raboy Howard Rahtz William Ramirez Deputy Inspector General Captain (Ret) Executive Director Office of the Inspector General Cincinnati Police Department American Civil Liberties Union of Puerto Rico 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Cincinnati, OH 416 Avenida Ponce de Leon, Ste. 1105 Sacramento, CA 95827 [email protected] San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 (916) 255-1102 (787) 753-8493 [email protected] [email protected] Jane Rands MaryNell Regan Asim Rehman Police Oversight Proposal Committee Executive Director General Counsel 716 W. Wilshire Ave. Police & Fire Commission Office of the Inspector General Fullerton, CA 92832 200 E. Wells St., Rm. 706A 80 Maiden Ln. (714) 325-5223 Milwaukee, WI 53202 New York, NY 10038 [email protected] (414) 286-5000 (212) 806-5200 [email protected] [email protected] Avice Reid Patrick Resignalo Charles Reynolds Executive Director Investigator Deputy Monitor Police Advisory & Review Committee Office of Municipal Investigations Police Performance Solutions, LLC 400 Main St., Ste. 538, P.O. Box 1631 414 Grant St., Rm. 901 P.O. Box 396 Knoxville, TN 37901 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Dover, NH 03821 (865) 215-2536 (412) 255-2804 (603) 781-0168 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dawn Reynolds L. Song Richardson Sarah Richardson Vice-President Professor of Law Police Performance Auditor III EPAC, LLC University of California Irvine - School of Law City of Los Angeles 880 Hampshire Rd., Ste. X 401 E. Peltason Dr. 23900 Hatteras St. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 Irvine, CA 92697 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 (503) 951-4224 (949) 824-4158 (213) 482-6833 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tim Rieger David Ring III Dale Roberts Senior Assistant Inspector General Member Commissioner Office of the Inspector General Civilian Police Oversight Agency Community Police Review Commission 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 P.O. Box 1293 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Sacramento, CA 95827 Albuquerque, NM 87103 Riverside, CA 92522 (916) 255-1391 (505) 412-3950 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Derek Rodrigues Will Rogers Ilana Rosenzweig Captain Council Member NACOLE Portland Police Department City of Burbank 115 Holland Grove View 1111 S.W. 2nd Ave., Ste. 1201 275 E. Olive Ave. , 276272 Portland, OR 97051 Burbank, CA 91510 323578-9944 (503) 823-0237 (818) 238-5751 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ken Rotker David Rozen Nancy Ruano Commissioner Vice-Chairman Operations Assistant III Community Police Review Commission Citizens' Police Review Board Los Angeles Sheriff's Department 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 80 New Scotland Ave. 901 Corporate Center Dr., Ste. 310 Riverside, CA 92522 Albany, NY 12208 Monterey Park, CA 91754 (951) 826-5509 (518) 445-3257 (323) 712-7710 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Julie Ruhlin Kelly Ruidas Tania Salas Principal Chair Sergeant OIR Group Maui Police Commission Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department 321 Loma Ave. 5 Mahalani St. 800 Madison St. Long Beach, CA 90814 Wailuku, HI 96793 Oakland, CA 94607 (562) 335-5443 (808) 244-6440 (510) 464-7029 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Raul Salinas Phillip Sanchez Lucienne Sanchez-Resnik City Attorney Chief of Police Retired City of South Gate Pasadena Police Department Former Berkeley Commissioner 8650 California Ave. 207 N. Garfield Ave. 3109 Grand Ave., #288 South Gate, CA 90280 Pasadena, CA 91101 Coconut Grove, FL 33133 (323) 563-9538 (626) 744-4501 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shami Sandhu Gina Satriano Mark Scharman Chair Director Director of Internal Audits Edmonton Police Commission Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office Office of Independent Review 10060 Jasper Av., Ste. 1803 211 W. Temple St., Ste. 1200 2600 Fresno St. Edmonton, AB T5J3R8 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Fresno, CA 93721 (780) 414-7510 (213) 257-3061 (559) 621-8617 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mark Scott Damon Scott Beverly C. Sealey City Manager Administrator Board Member City of Burbank Office of Professional Standards Police Review & Advisory Board 275 E. Olive Ave. 205 W. St. Clair Ave., Ste. 301 51 Inman St., 2nd Fl. BURBANK, CA 91502 Cleveland, OH 44113 Cambridge, MA 02139 (818) 238-5800 (216) 664-2144 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Alexis Serio Constantin Severe Larry Sewell Supervising Investigator Director Deputy Inspector General Independent Police Review Authority Independent Police Review Office of the Inspector General 1615 W. Chicago Ave. 1221 S.W. 4th Ave, Rm. 140 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Chicago, IL 60622 Portland, OR 97204 Sacramento, CA 95827 (312) 746-3609 (503) 823-0146 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Larry Sewell Jordan Shannon Diane Shapiro Deputy Inspector General Office Manager / Law Student Special Assistant Inspector General Office of the Inspector General Office of the Independent Police Monitor Office of the Inspector General 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 525 St. Charles Ave. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Sacramento, CA 95827 New Orleans, LA 70130 Sacramento, CA 95827 (916)255-1102 (504) 681-3203 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Brian Sharp Emily Shaw Richard Shelby CEO Deputy Policy Director Commissioner Brian Sharp & Associates, LLC Sunlight Foundation Detroit Board of Police Commissioners 1926 Hosea L. Williams Dr. NE, Unit 170404 1818 N St., NW, Ste. 300 1301 Third St., Ste. 767 Atlanta, GA 30317 Washington, DC 20036 Detroit, MI 48226 (470) 231-4669 (202) 742-1520 (313) 596-1830 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Roger Sherman Pheobe Sherron Howard Shikaze Chair Senior Office Specialist Commissioner Citizens Oversight Board Community Police Review Commission Calgary Police Commission 201 W. Colfax, Dept. 1201 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 650-615 MacLeod Tr. SE Denver, CO 80202 Riverside, CA 92522 Calgary, AB T2G4T8 (720) 913-3306 (951) 826-5509 (403) 428-8914 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Russell Shimmin Django Sibley Ryan Siemantel Sergeant Assistant Inspector General Special Assistant Inspector General San Diego County Sheriff's Department Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General 9621 Ridgehaven Ct. 201 N. Figueroa St., Ste. 610 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 San Diego, CA 92123 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Sacramento, CA 95827 (858) 974-2246 (213) 216-3264 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Alessandra Sienra-Canas Rochelle Silver Paul Skotchdopole Senior Policy Manager Member Lead Investigator Office of the Inspector General Community Oversight Advisor y Committee City of Albuquerque 80 Maiden Ln. 1221 S.W. Fourth Ave., Ste. 220 One Civic Plaza New York, NY 10038 Portland, OR 97204 Albuquerque, NM 87103 (212) 806-5200 (503) 823-3008 (505) 480-2460 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rev. Dr. Edward B Smart Melissa Smith Mark Smith Chair Retired Independent Police Auditor Citizens' Police Review Board Retired Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) 80 New Scotland Ave. 844 N.W. 25th Ave. 300 Lakeside Dr., 14th Fl. Albany, NY 12208 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 Oakland, CA 94612 (518) 445-3257 754224-8053 510874-7477 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Natasha Smith Darryl Smith Greg Smith Investigator Manager Board Member Commissioner Office of Police Complaints Citizens Police Review Board Community Police Review Commission 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 701 E. Broadway, 2nd Fl., P.O. Box 6015 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. Washington, DC 20005 Columbia, MO 65205 Riverside, CA 92522 (202) 727-3838 (573) 817-5024 (951) 826-5509 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Theresa Smith Eddie Snelling Stan Sniff Organizer Attorney Sheriff-Coroner LEAN Cobb County Government Riverside County Sheriff's Department 319 Camarillo St. #B 100 Cherokee St., Ste. 350 4095 Lemon St. Placentia, CA 92870 Marietta, GA 30090 Riverside, CA 92501 (714) 299-8121 (770) 528-4014 (951) 955-2400 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jose Soltero Lisa Sorce Christopher P. Soules Inspector, Los Angeles County Office of the Chair Examining Attorney Inspector General Citizens Review Board on Police Practices Department of Investigations, Commission to 312 S. Hill St. 1010 2nd Ave., Ste. 1325, MS 613 Combat Police Corruption Los Angeles, CA 90013 San Diego, CA 92101 17 Battery Pl., Ste. 327 (213) 974-6100 (619) 533-6387 NY, NY 10004 [email protected] [email protected] (212) 825-8968 Sue Stengel Jody Stiger [email protected] Strader Independent Assessor Sergeant Police Performance Auditor III Los Angeles Board of Fire Commissioners Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles Police Department 200 N. Main St., Ste. 1840 201 N. Figueroa St., #610 221 N. Figueroa St, #300 LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 978-3837 (310) 809-9872 (213) 486-7345 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kevin Stuckey Kevin Tanaka Eric Tars Office, Seattle Police Department Vice-Chair Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Community Police Commission Maui Police Commission Homelessness & Poverty P.O. Box 94765, 600 4th Ave., 6th Fl. 5 Mahalani St. 2000 M St. NW, Ste. 210 Seattle, WA 98124 Wailuku, HI 96793 Washington, DC 20036 (206) 267-3077 (808) 244-6440 (202) 638-2535 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Marsha Temple Diana M. Teran Tristy Terwillinger Executive Director Constitutional Policing Advisor Independent Police Auditor Integrated Recovery Network Los Angeles Sheriff's Department City of Tucson 1200 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 650 211 W. Temple St., 8th Fl. 320 N. Commerce Park Loop Los Angeles, CA 90017 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tucson, AZ 85754 (213) 977-9447 (213) 229-3092 (520) 837-4003 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Julio Thompson Dylan Thompson Renaldi Thruston Assistant Attorney General; Director Civil Rights Policy Analyst Police Sergeant Office of the Vermont Attorney General OC May Day Coalition Santa Monica Police Department 109 State St. P.O. Box 133 333 Olympic Dr. Montpelier, VT 05609 Santa Ana, CA 92702 Santa Monica, CA 90401 (802) 828-5519 (949) 910-3671 (310) 458-8414 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Natashia Tidwell Paula Tillman Phillip Tingirides Ombudsman BTExpress Trucking , Inc. Commander Boston Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel 713A E. Rogers Ave., P.O. Box 1017 Los Angeles Police Department P.O. Box 190189 Beverly Shores, 46301 7600 S. Broadway Roxbury, MA 02119 (312) 735-2575 Los Angeles, CA 90003 (617) 201-5975 [email protected] (323) 786-5080 [email protected] [email protected] Michael Tobin Tanee Tobin Robin Toma Executive Director Rehabilitation Analyst Executive, County of Los Angeles Office of Police Complaints Office of the Inspector General Commission on Human Relations 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 3175 W. Sixth, Ste. 400 Washington, DC 20005 Sacramento, CA 95827 Los Angeles, CA 90020 (202) 727-3838 (916) 255-1102 (213) 639-6089 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] John Torres Francine Tournour Eric Trapp Inspector Director Lieutenant Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector Office of Public Safety Accountability Anaheim Police Department General 915 I St., Fifth Fl. 425 S. Harbor Blvd. 312 S. Hill St. Sacramento, CA 95814 Anaheim, CA 92805 Los Angeles, CA 90013 (916) 808-7947 (714) 765-1521 (213) 974-6100 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Turpen Catherine Twigg Susan Upchurch Public Safety Board Investigator District Director 200 S. Anaheim Blvd. Office of Police Complaints County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors Anaheim, CA 92805 1400 I Street NW, Ste. # 700 575 Administration Dr., Rm. 100A (714) 412-9910 Washington, DC 20005 Santa Rosa, CA 95403 [email protected] (202) 727-3838 (707) 565-2241 [email protected] [email protected] Victoria Urbi Jerry Vagnier Jennifer Valdez Complaint Investigator II President / CEO Deputy Inspector General Citizens' Police Review Board Helen Ross McNabb Center, Inc. Office of the Inspector General 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Ste. 6302 201 W. Springdale Ave. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Oakland, CA 94612 Knoxville, TN 37921 Sacramento, CA 95827 (510) 238-3059 (865) 637-9711 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Nancy Alice Vaughn Veronica N. Velez Acevedo Christopher Vicino Member Director, Legislation and Legal Education Division Assistant Chief Citizens' Review Board Legal Aid Society of Puerto Rico Riverside Police Department 4753 Adair St. Apartado 21490 4102 Orange St. San Diego, IN 92107 San Juan, PR 00928 Riverside, CA 92501 (619) 222-5069 (787) 765-3875 (951) 826-5940 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mikael Villalobos Loren Vinson Catherine Wagner Associate Chief Diversity Officer Board Chair Staff Attorney / Fellow University of California, Davis Citizen Law Enforcement Review Board ACLU of Southern California One Shields Ave. 555 W. Beech St., Ste. 505 1313 W. 8th St., Ste. 200 Davis, CA 95616 San Diego, CA 92101 Los Angeles, CA 90017 (530) 752-1964 (619) 238-6762 213-977-5206 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Leonard Waites Harriett Walden Samuel Walker Member Commissioner Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha - Civilian Police Oversight Agency Community Police Commission School of Criminology P.O. Box 1293 P.O. Box 94765, 600 4th Ave., 6th Fl. 60th & Dodge Streets Albuquerque, NM 87103 Seattle, WA 98124 Omaha, NE 68182 (505) 975-4951 (206) 233-2664 (402) 554-3590 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Deborah Walker Karmisha Wallace John Wallace Director Senior Assistant to the City Manager Deputy Chief Office of Municipal Investigations City of Durham Riverside Police Department 414 Grant St., Rm. 901 101 City Hall Plaza 4102 Orange St. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Durham, NC 27701 Riverside, CA 92501 (412) 255-2804 (919) 560-4222 (951) 826-5940 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] David Walters Jayson Wechter Roy Wesley Captain Investigator Chief Deputy Inspector General Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Office of Citizen Complaints Office of the Inspector General 901 Corporate Center Dr., Ste. 310 912 Cole St., # 223 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Monterey Park, CA 91754 San Francisco, CA 94117 Sacramento, CA 95827 (323) 307-8301 (415) 241-7767 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] David West Lori White Karen Williams Director Executive Director Senior Legal Analyst Police Complaints Authority Citizens Police Complaint Office Office of Community Complaints Tower D, Level 24, International Water Complex 200 E. Washington St., Ste. 1921 635 Woodland Ave., Ste. 2102 Port of Spain, Indianapolis, IN 46204 Kansas City, MO 64106 (868) 624-6494 (317) 327-3440 (816) 889-6644 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Joey D. Williams Sherry Williams Ken Willis City Commissioner Board Member Deputy Inspector General City of Dayton Commission Officer Citizen Review Board Office of the Inspector General 101 W. Third St. 55 Trinity Ave. 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Dayton, OH 45402 Atlanta, GA 30303 Sacramento, CA 95827 (937) 333-1400 (404) 865-8622 (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jim Willis Mae Wilson Jeffrey Wilson Assistant Inspector General, Los Angeles Police Citizen Review Committee Chair Member Department Office of the Inspector General City of Portland Independent Police Review Civilian Police Oversight Agency 201 N. Figueroa St., Ste. 610 1221 S.W. 4th Ave., Room 140 P.O. Box 1293 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Portland, OR 97204 Albuquerque, NM 87103 (805) 657-9722 (503) 823-0146 (505) 250-2134 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shelly Wilson Ali Winston Todd Wollard Special Assistant, Los Angeles County Office of Center for Investigative Reporting Deputy Inspector General the Inspector General 1400 65th St., Ste. 200 Office of the Inspector General 312 S. Hill St. Emeryville, CA 94608 10111 Old Placerville Rd., Ste. 110 Los Angeles, CA 90013 (510) 809-2215 Sacramento, CA 95827 (213) 974-6100 [email protected] (916) 255-1102 [email protected] [email protected] Catharine Wright Tony Ybarra Phil Young Inspector, Los Angeles County Office of the Commissioner Police Auditor Inspector General Community Police Review Commission City of Akron 312 S. Hill St. 3900 Main St., 6th Fl. 146 S. High St. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Riverside, CA 92522 Akron, OH 44308 (213) 974-6100 (951) 826-5509 (330) 375-2705 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Noemi Zamaconi Marisol Zarate Matthew Ziemba Monitor, Los Angeles County Office of the Community Liaison Sergeant Inspector General Los Angeles County Office of the Inspector General Anaheim Police Department 312 S. Hill St. 312 S. Hill St. 425 S. Harbor Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Los Angeles, CA 90013 Anaheim, CA 92805 (213) 974-6100 (213) 974-6100 (714) 765-1556 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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