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Ombudsman commission asks city to fix unclear ordinance language before adding members
Summary
The Spokane Office of Police Ombudsman Commission voted unanimously to authorize its chair to draft a resolution asking City Council to fix ambiguous language in Spokane Municipal Code 4.32.150(D) that affects how the commission could expand beyond five members.
The Spokane Office of Police Ombudsman Commission voted unanimously Feb. 18 to ask the City Council to correct ambiguous language in the municipal code that governs how the commission can add members.
The commission authorized Chair Jenny Rose to draft and transmit a resolution to City Council requesting clarification and correction of Spokane Municipal Code 4.32.150(D). Commissioners said the code’s current text is unclear about who would nominate or appoint additional members and includes an apparent drafting typo.
Legal counsel Brennan Schreiberman told the commission he had traced the language back to the ordinance enactment in 2013 and called the subsection “an absolute mess,” noting the text as…
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