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CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD
Regular Meeting via Zoom virtual meeting
Wednesday September 9, 2020
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1. Aaron Rodriguez called the meeting to order at 5:35 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL
Board Members Present: Aaron Rodriguez, Dennis Hanno, Mark Partridge,
Melissa Rosas, Sally Harris
Absent: Cassandra Moore
Staff Present: Jenny Lopez-Filkins, Adam McCambridge, Christine Macrina
Guest: Joel
3. AGENDA REVIEW – no changes
4. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION - none
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Mark Partridge mentioned he was glad to comments were captured from the
participants. Mark moved to approve the minutes of August 12, 2020; Sally Harris
seconded the motion.
Vote roll call:
Dennis Hanno – Aye,
Mark Partridge – Aye
Melissa Rosas – Aye
Sally Harris - Aye
Aaron – Aye
Motion passed
6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a. The sub-committee has the case files for PSU 2020-042 and will be scheduling a
time to review. A survey sent to subcommittee for September 13 or 14, 2020.
Aaron asked what would be needed for a remote subcommittee that would
accommodate an executive session. Jenny or Christine could set up 2 meetings.
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7.NEW BUSINESS
a.Voicemail: None
b.E-mail:
•D. Williams emails – written complaint filed case number PSU 2020-017
•Stephen Fowler Civilian Review Board at the Office of Equity and Civil Rights in
Baltimore, Maryland – requests budget info
•L. Powers – requested info about applying for the board
c.D. Williams – A formal written complaint filed after the verbal complaint. Can the
board review this type of case? Aaron asked the board if a review was needed of
City Code regarding what types of complaints CRB can review and are
changes needed to CRB website.
Jenny shared her screen to show Division 8 – Citizen Review Board Sec. 2-139.3
and mentioned Division 8 was also contained in the CRB Binder.
In Paragraph 2 section 3 after the case has been investigated by Police Services.
The City Manager and the Chief of Police have the authority to refer the case to
the CRB.
•D Williams filed decent amount of evidence and was in within the 1-year
requirement. Mr. Williams sent information via email, but this information
has not yet been shared with Internal Affairs. Adam McCambridge stated
that the intent was once internal affairs received the request, the case
would be prepared for CRB. We need the trigger to make that occur.
d.Aaron Rodriguez asked the board to be prepared to discuss 2021 work plan at the
October meeting. Asked if the board would be interested in training regarding
reviewing investigations and what process could be improved. If the board were
interested, it would not be done until 2021. Discussion of Incident Investigation
procedures and if we want to create a template for our sub-committees to follow
with follow up procedures.
Melissa Rosas thought this would be a good discussion in the next meeting.
e.Random Subcommittee Drawing for Case #PSU2020-051.
1.Cassandra Moore – Subcommittee Chair
2.Aaron Rodriguez – Subcommittee Vice Chair
3.Mark Partridge
4.Dennis Hanno - Alternate
5.Sally Harris - Alternate
6.Melissa Rosas – Alternate
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f. Adam McCambridge asked if there was any information out about new members,
Melissa’s term will expire 12/31/20. Aaron Rodriguez stated that it takes about 2
months before reappointment.
Joel (our guest) shared that he would like to apply.
g. Adam asked what kind of training the board would like to see. Would it be helpful
for new members to have an overview of police services? It would take about 30
to 40 minutes to familiarize the board. Aaron agreed this would be a good idea.
h. Aaron asked Sally if they could review workplan for 2020 and if there were items
unable to attend to in 2020.
1. New board members should be given training for mock subcommittee
meeting and file review
2. Defensive Tactics
3. Mental Health
4. 3 months less lethal and best broken into separate trainings.
Could training be scheduled in October and November, an overview in October. In
November some defensive and less lethal training.
Mark Partridge let the board know that he will be out of town for the next meeting on
October 8.
8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS – None
9. OTHER BUSINESS – None
10. ADJOURNMENT – Dennis Hanno moved to adjourn the meeting; Melissa Rosas
seconded. Aaron adjourned the meeting at 6:07