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Police oversight office defends investigating civil claim forms after POA objects; commissioners plan policy debate
Summary
Interim OCC Director Jean Field said the Office of Citizen Complaints is contacting claimants and allowing opt-outs after the department began forwarding government tort claims; the Police Officers Association urged the commission to halt OCC-initiated administrative complaints without claimant verification. Commissioners set a public agenda date for further discussion on June 23.
Interim Office of Citizen Complaints Director Jean Field told the San Francisco Police Commission that the OCC has begun receiving government tort claim forms from the police department and has updated procedures to investigate whether those pre-lawsuit claims raise administrative misconduct issues.
"We are getting all of them whether or not there has been an OCC complaint filed also separately," Field said, and described steps the office is taking to contact claimants by letter and telephone and to let complainants "opt out" of an OCC investigation when appropriate. She said the OCCwill report back with results of these cases in about two months.
The practice drew sharp criticism from Steve Johnson of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who said the OCC was "simply file[ing] complaints against the…
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