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New case‑review manual draft presented to Boulder oversight panel; author seeks panel feedback
Summary
Farrah Muscadin presented a draft case‑review manual and optional worksheet aimed at standardizing how panelists review investigations. She offered a timeline for review and proposed a series of small feedback sessions before a final draft in late March.
Farrah Muscadin, who told the panel she is a former police monitor now assisting the panel, presented a draft case‑review manual that she said focuses on the panel’s core work: evaluating completed investigations and producing evidence summaries and recommendations.
Muscadin said the manual includes an optional case‑review worksheet, a checklist of steps, definitions for dispositions, and an appendix containing a discipline matrix pulled from internal general orders. “The intent is to give you a concrete worksheet and checklist to use while you’re doing your case review,” she said, describing the worksheet as optional and for panelists’ internal use.
Muscadin outlined a proposed timeline: a first draft to the panel by Feb. 21, a round of panel feedback and short (about 30‑minute) small‑group meetings, a discussion at the March 10 panel meeting, and a final draft by March 31. She said the condensed user version would likely include the worksheet, a brief summary, and a checklist for immediate use during reviews; the longer manual would be used for training.
Panel members suggested several review formats; one proposal from members was to hold two‑by‑two feedback meetings so ideas surface in conversation rather than in single‑person reviews. Muscadin said she would circulate the draft and then arrange short feedback sessions and would work with staff to provide the worksheet in formats panelists can use electronically or in print.
The manual presentation emphasized clarity on disposition definitions, alignment with the ordinance’s mandatory training topics, and practical tools (a sample evidence summary and recommendation template) to reduce uncertainty during case review. Muscadin said she had revised the draft after an initial meeting with a panelist and invited further edits from the full panel before the March 10 meeting.
