Item B: Annual Meeting with Police Commission

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profession. A recommendation for topics to include in a civilian review board training curriculum was forwarded to the police auditor in October. In a related project, a task group met with the city attorney and police auditor to review draft definitions crafted for inclusion in the new oversight ordinance. Based on comments at that meeting, the definitions were revised and incorporated into the draft ordinance, which was presented in its entirety at the November Police Commission meeting. Members submitted suggestions to the proposed language, but the group took no formal action on the oversight ordinance. The commission did offer its assistance with other steps necessary to implement the model, such as reviewing complaint intake and classification procedures. Ms. Beamud shared these protocols with the group in January. For the third year in a row, Police Commissionrepresentatives attended the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) conference last September. The 2006 NACOLE conference, held in Boise, Idaho, was an exceptional opportunity for the commissioners to broaden their exposure to current issues in civilian oversight and to network with leading experts in the field. Maurie Denner and Angie Sifuentez who attended the conference, were not only able to learn about topics relevant to their work, they had an opportunity to meet with the newly hired police auditor prior to her formal employment with the City of Eugene. As another element of its work around oversight model implementation, the Police Commission re-examined its role and structure in relation to the Auditor’s Office and Civilian Review Board to streamline processes and promote compatibility between the three entities. Discussions around commission membership and functions occurred over the course of several meetings. As a result, several minor modifications to the commission’s enabling ordinance were forwarded to the City Council for its consideration. However, the Police Commission agreed that full implementation of the oversight model, with an opportunity for evaluation, was necessary before suggesting any substantive changes to the commission’s operating procedures. C. Challenges Two new endeavors planned for last year’s work plan did not gain the momentum expected and are being carried over into FY08. The commission formed a five-member policy screening team to assist in the monumental task of updating the entire police policy manual. The team met with staff to devise procedures for selecting policies for its review and for integrating its comments into the department’s policy revision and approval process. It was agreed that members would receive electronic drafts of all police policies being updated as part of the department’s policy manual transition process. For each draft policy, the committee members would: 1) provide individual comment to department staff on the draft policies, and 2) identify policies that may be of interest to the full commission and/or would benefit frommore public discussion prior to adoption. The Policy Screening Team has received the entire Lexipol draft policy manual and Oregon Accreditation standards as background information, but due to staff commitments on other projects (primarily legislative affairs), there have been no draft policies available for team review. In January, the commission revisited its work plan in an attempt to balance existing commitments with new priorities. Unwilling to postpone the family violence project entirely, the Page 3 of 8 2007 Police Commission Annual Report