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Police Commission adopts tighter timelines and monitoring for disciplinary hearings
Summary
After lengthy discussion, the commission approved amended procedural rules to speed disciplinary adjudications, tighten selection and monitoring of outside hearing officers, require earlier discovery, and mandate early face-to-face settlement conferences involving the chief or designee.
The San Francisco Police Commission voted on April 27 to adopt amended procedural rules intended to accelerate disciplinary adjudications and reduce backlog in administrative hearings.
Commissioner James Hammer, who led the drafting effort with the city attorney’s office, described the major changes: a commissioner monitor will be assigned to any case sent to an outside hearing officer; outside hearing officers must be selected and scheduled within a short timeline; hearings should begin within 90 days and finish within 120 days where practicable; hearing officers’ written reports will be subject to a 21-day…
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