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City Manager Office www.santa-ana.org/cm Item # 38 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report April 5, 2022 TOPIC: Police Oversight AGENDA TITLE: Police Oversight Ad Hoc Committee Informational Report RECOMMENDED ACTION Accept informational report and provide direction to staff. DISCUSSION Background Police oversight has been a topic of discussion at various City Council meetings. Most recently, this discussion began as a councilmember requested item at the June 16, 2020 City Council meeting (requested by Mayor Pro Tem Bacerra, with support from Mayor Sarmiento and Councilmember Penaloza). Subsequently, staff presented informational reports to the City Council on September 15, 2020, December 15, 2020, and September 7, 2021. Concurrently, staff engaged the community through two community feedback surveys and a community forum that included a moderated panel of subject matter and experts. The data collected from the surveys, along with comments submitted during the community forum, were shared with the City Council for their consideration as they discussed police oversight. The informational reports have included staff presentations that provide overviews of the various models of police oversight, structure, scope of authority, staffing, and access to information. While there appears to be consensus among the City Council to support police oversight in Santa Ana, the City Council is interested in narrowing the scope of what a police oversight mechanism might look like in Santa Ana. To that end, on September 21, 2022, Mayor Sarmiento appointed Mayor Pro Tem Bacerra, Councilmember Hernandez, and Councilmember Lopez to the Police Oversight Ad Hoc Committee to discuss those details. To date, the Ad Hoc Committee meetings have consisted of in-depth discussions of variations in police oversight models, the Peace Officer Bill of Rights (POBR), and initial recommendations on a police oversight mechanism for Santa Ana.