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OCC director highlights grand jury report and outlines recent sustained complaints and charter amendment measures
Summary
OCC Director Joyce Hicks told the Commission the civil grand jury released a report calling for timelier, more transparent investigations of fatal officer-involved shootings; she reviewed April–May OCC statistics, recent sustained findings and possible Charter amendments that would rename OCC the Department of Police Accountability and give it audit authority.
Joyce Hicks, director of the Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), told the Police Commission that the San Francisco civil grand jury published its report, "Into the Open: Opportunities for More Timely and Transparent Investigations of Fatal San Francisco Police Department Officer-Involved Shootings," and that the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee is expected to hold a hearing on the report in September.
Hicks summarized two pending charter amendment measures that could affect civilian oversight: a measure sponsored by Supervisor Malia Cohen that would, among other changes, rename the…
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