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Council sends Rampart oversight motion to Public Safety Committee; immediate DOJ briefing request fails
Summary
After extensive debate over outside review of the Rampart scandal and recent press reports, the City Council voted to send a motion on joint investigations to the Public Safety Committee but rejected an immediate council-level request that the U.S. Department of Justice brief the full council.
The Los Angeles City Council on Feb. 29 made two separate procedural decisions after multi-hour debate about the Rampart police scandal and media reports alleging federal-agency involvement.
The council voted 8–3 to send a motion asking for a joint local/state/federal task-force investigation of Rampart-related allegations to the Public Safety Committee for study and recommendations. A separate proposal — a direct letter from the council president requesting a full briefing to council by Department of…
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