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Oversight commission re-elects Latanya Reeves as chair and Paul Olsen as vice chair
Summary
The Community Commission on Police Oversight re-elected Latanya Reeves as chair and Paul Olsen as vice chair in roll‑call votes; both retained their posts with 10 ayes, 1 nay and 1 abstention recorded for each vote.
The Community Commission on Police Oversight re‑elected Latanya Reeves as chair and Paul Olsen as vice chair at its Aug. 11 meeting by roll‑call votes.
Bridget Stewart nominated Reeves for chair. The commission then conducted a roll‑call vote and the clerk recorded 10 ayes, 1 nay and 1 abstention; the clerk announced that Reeves "are still the chair."
For the vice‑chair position Commissioner Paul Olsen was nominated and confirmed in a separate roll‑call vote, which the clerk also recorded as 10 ayes, 1 nay and 1 abstention. After the vote, Olsen thanked the commission and said he looked forward to continuing the work.
No formal motions to change the commission’s leadership structure were proposed or discussed at the meeting. The votes were conducted publicly by roll call as part of the meeting's agenda; commissioners used their standard meeting titles during the roll call.
The meeting record shows the vote totals and that one commissioner explicitly voted "nay" during the chair election. The clerk recorded the tallies and announced the winners at the meeting.
Record of formal actions: the commission adopted the agenda and accepted the previous meeting's minutes earlier in the meeting by roll call votes before the officer elections.
