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Applicant for Maplewood police oversight board cites ER social-work experience
Summary
During public comment Corinne Char introduced herself as an applicant for the police oversight board, citing roughly a decade as a social worker and five years in emergency psychiatry responding to officer-involved incidents and mental-health crises as relevant experience.
At the meeting’s public-comment period, Corinne Char introduced herself and said she would like to be considered for Maplewood’s police oversight board. Char said she has been a social worker for nearly a decade, with about five years working in the emergency department at Barnes Hospital, during which she responded to numerous officer-involved shootings and other violent incidents.
Char said those experiences, combined with her training exposure during a Maplewood police simulator exercise, gave her perspective on the range of responses police face and would inform her contributions to an oversight body. She told the council she values community-based policing and wants to help the city preserve that approach while contributing to oversight functions.
No appointment action was recorded during the meeting; Char’s remarks were entered as part of public comment for council consideration.
