Committee forwards charter compliance directive after debate over MPD report release

The Public Health and Safety Committee on Oct. 29 voted to forward to full council a legislative directive that seeks options to enforce the Minneapolis City Charter after the Office of Community Safety (OCS) and Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) did not present an internal review of the shooting of resident Davis Matori as council authors had requested.

Vice Chair Wansley, who introduced the walk-on directive, said the motion responded to a refusal by the Fry administration and OCS to release an internal MPD review that the council had asked for in a legislative directive passed Oct. 9 and signed by the mayor Oct. 15. Wansley said the city auditor'led after-action review does not preclude MPD or OCS from releasing their internal findings and asserted that withholding the report has delayed the auditor'led work.

The motion'and the debate around it'centered on two separate issues: (1) whether OCS/MPD complied with the Oct. 9 directive to present their internal review to this committee by Oct. 29, and (2) whether the committee should expand tools to address charter noncompliance more broadly. Council Member Palmisano and Council Member Rainville raised concerns about the timing of a walk-on item and whether releasing an internal MPD report might compromise an independent auditor after-action review, and they said they would defer to the auditor and OCS on those process…