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Volunteers, watchdog groups urge clearer timeline, community role for new police oversight system
Summary
Members of Portland volunteer oversight bodies and police-accountability organizations told the City Council they need a clear schedule and community input as the city transitions to the new system established by the 2020 ballot measure.
Portland volunteers and police-accountability advocates urged City Council on Jan. 15 to set a clear timeline and guarantee community participation in the transition to the city’s new police oversight system.
The requests focused on the Citizen Review Committee and the city’s new oversight architecture created after the 2020 ballot measure. Yume Delgado, chair of the Citizen Review Committee, said volunteers are shouldering demanding, traumatic work—reviewing officer-involved deaths and use-of-force cases—without the supports that were promised. “We have done this work to the best of…
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