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Kalamazoo oversight board approves 2025 annual report; inspector reports five PCRs so far in 2026
Summary
The Kalamazoo Citizens Public Safety Review and Appeal Board approved its 2025 annual report at the March 10 meeting and heard an Office of Professional Standards update that recorded five professional conduct reviews in the first two months of 2026; no public comments were received.
The Kalamazoo citizens public safety review and appeal board voted March 10 to approve and post its 2025 annual report after receiving an update from the Office of Professional Standards.
The annual report, provided to the board and available on the city's transparency page, summarizes department activity across divisions and records roughly 136,000 calls for service in 2025 — about 400 calls per day, according to the report. The report also notes that the Office of Professional Standards investigated 30 complaints in 2025 that produced 55 allegations, which the board identified as the lowest complaint volume in the past four years.
Inspector Chuck Mason of the Office of Professional Standards presented the board with a preliminary PCR (professional conduct review) report for the first two months of 2026. "You have before you the PCR report for the first two months of 2026," Mason said. He told the board there were five PCRs to date (with a possible sixth pending follow-up), two of which had been closed; the remaining cases were open and under investigation. Mason also said closure letters for then-pending 2025 matters were sent in early January.
Board members and the report highlighted training and community outreach in 2025. The board said ten citizens served during the year, listed membership changes and reappointments, and described outreach including National Night Out, neighborhood association meetings, events with the metropolitan Kalamazoo branch of the NAACP, and forums on criminal justice and domestic violence awareness. Subcommittees reviewed KDPS Policy 339 (camera integration and monitoring) and KDPS Policy 606 (unmanned aerial systems), and the board received presentations including one from Jeff Williams, identified in the report as the chief assistant prosecuting attorney.
A motion to approve the 2025 annual report and post it to the board's website was moved, seconded and approved by the board. After the vote, a committee member praised the document as thorough and well written, quipping that "AI had nothing to do with this." Another committee member thanked Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety personnel for their response to a prolonged fire on King's Highway, saying the incident lasted more than 16½ hours and involved "over a million gallons of water," and that, to the speaker's understanding, there were no fatalities.
The board opened a public-comment period, noted speakers would have three minutes and that callers could join by phone, but the clerk reported no in-person comments and no incoming calls. The board was reminded of upcoming meetings on April 14 and May 12, 2026, and then adjourned.
What happens next: the 2025 annual report will be posted to the board's website as approved; outstanding PCRs reported by Inspector Mason remain under investigation.
