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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />DECEMBER 15, 2020 <br />TITLE <br />ACCEPT INFORMATIONAL REPORT <br />RELATING TO POLICE OVERSIGHT AND <br />PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 11' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />/s/ Kristine Ridge FILE NUMBER <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Accept informational report and provide direction to staff. <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />At the September 15, 2020 City Council meeting, staff presented an informational report relating <br />to police oversight. Specifically, the report included the following information: examples of police <br />oversight models in place across law enforcement agencies in the United States, best practices, <br />overview of different models, and frameworks. In response, members of the City Council directed <br />staff as follows: <br />Provide an overview of police oversight models with investigatory powers and those without <br />investigatory powers, including average costs associated with each. <br />• Conduct a comparative analysis of cities with police oversight mechanisms with <br />investigatory and non -investigatory power. <br />• Review police oversight models from comparably sized cities. <br />• Contact the Orange County Sheriff's Department to seek feedback relating to the Sheriff's <br />Advisory Council and share findings. <br />• Conduct community engagement to seek preliminary feedback and ideas from the <br />community. <br />In the sections below, this report provides information in response to each of these topics, including <br />results from a 7 question community survey. Additionally, this report shares information relating to <br />National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE)'s resources and <br />guidance for local governments interested in establishing or revitalizing police oversight. <br />DISCUSSION <br />As referenced in the September 15, 2020 informational report, police oversight (also referred to as <br />"civilian oversight") is a form of oversight of law enforcement officer conduct, whose purpose is to <br />improve law enforcement performance and accountability. Police oversight mechanisms typically <br />serve as a source of external oversight over law enforcement agencies. Depending on the source, <br />practitioners and scholars cite that there are upwards of 125 police oversight mechanisms in the <br />65D-1 <br />