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Measure would create review board
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Citizens will soon decide
whether to authorize the Eugene
City Council to staff a citizen re
view board for police misconduct.
The Ballot Measure 20-99,
which would establish the board,
will come up for a vote during the
Nov.3 election.
If passed, the amendment will
allow the City Council to appoint
seven people to the citizen review
board. Currently police miscon
duct complaints are reviewed by
the Eugene Police Department af
ter being Tiled at the City of Eugene
Human Rights Commission or the
police department.
The new system would add
more accessible filing places, said
Ron Chase, treasurer for Commu
nity and Police Partnership Politi
cal Action Committee, CAPP-PAC.
“There will be another half
dozen places around town,”
Chase said. "A lot of people are in
timidated by the current process.”
The board’s auditor would
monitor complaints and follow
the progress of the city’s internal
investigations of complaints.
Currently, an internal affairs of
ficer handles all investigations.
The new board could commis
sion a professional investigation
of complaints with $20,000 of its
projected $155,000 yearly budget.
The money for operations will
come from the city’s general fund.
No additional taxes would be as
Measure 20-99
WHAT: Ballot Measure 20-99, an
amendment that would allow City
Council to appoint community
members to a seven person po
lice review board. The board
would monitor complaints against
police officers and would review
investigations, hiring a full-time
auditor.
HOW MUCH: About $155,000 for
a full-time auditor, half-time clerk
and supporting paperwork. Mon
ey would come from the general
fund.
WHEN:Measure 20-99 comes to
vote on Nov. 3.
SOURCE: University Accounting
sessed, although the specific line
item has not yet been budgeted.
If passed, the board will not inter
fere with police policy, said Jan Pow
er, public information spokesperson
forthe police department.
“Passage of the bill will not im
pact the way officers do work,”
Power said.
But the Citizen Review Board
will have the ability to make rec
ommendations to the City Manag
er about how complaints of mis
conduct should be resolved.
The process toward Measure 20
99 has been long one, said Polly Nel
son, education director of the Ore
gon American Civil Liberties Union.
"Some people in this town have
been working on and off on this is
sue for 10 years,” Nelson said.
“The concern that rose out of June
1 brought it to a head. ”
On June 1,1997, police and pro
testers clashed downtown over
the removal of some trees.
The following July, the City
Council formed a 20-person task
force to develop a system with citi
zen input. In February 1998, the Ex
ternal Review Advisory Committee
voted unanimously the city should
adopt a Citizen Review Board plan.
External review systems similar
to Eugene’s are used by Portland
and in San Francisco. The review
systems encouraged a more open
dialogue between police and the
community.
"When San Francisco put in
their review board, complaints
nearly doubled,” Chase said.
City Councilman Bobby Lee
said he encourages students to
vote for measure 20-99.
“I think students should sup
port it,” Lee said. If the measure
passes, he added, “there’ll be a
process for students to take their
complaints to a neutral party.”
Aaron Durand, a freshman from
Portland, thought the board was a
good idea but could be abused by
some students.
“People will be more willing to
go out and have fun,” Durand said.
“That might be it’s downfall,
though. They’d probably throw
bigger parties and when the cops
come, they’d just file complaints.”
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