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Families, civil-rights groups press POST to investigate Vallejo officers in packed public comment session
Summary
Dozens of community members, families of people killed in police encounters and civil-rights advocates urged POST to aggressively investigate current and former Vallejo Police Department officers; ACLU said it filed a formal complaint naming nine officers and asked POST to use discretionary decertification authority.
Dozens of residents and family members of people killed in encounters with police urged the Peace Officers Standards Accountability Advisory Board on Oct. 17, 2024 to investigate and decertify officers from the Vallejo Police Department.
Why it matters: Many speakers described long-standing community distrust of the department and said local accountability mechanisms have failed. Several families — some of whom said their relatives were shot by Vallejo officers — asked POST to use its decertification authority to prevent officers alleged to have committed serious misconduct from becoming officers elsewhere.
What speakers said - Marshall Arnoy, legal policy advocate for the ACLU of Northern California, said the organization had submitted a formal complaint naming nine officers and asked POST to use statutory authority for decertification: "Public records show that there are current…
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