Police Oversight Panel: Community Engagement & Communications Committee

Legal basis

• BRC 2-11-9(a)(6) (2023-10-19) · authorizes · Panel Duties and Responsibilities source source
• Police Oversight Panel Bylaws, Article 11 (Committees) (2024-09-09) · governs source source
• Police Oversight Panel motion, March 11, 2024 (naming the subcommittee) (2024-03-11) · governs source source

Appointed by

Police Oversight Panel. A committee of the Police Oversight Panel. Panel members join it, and choose its chair, at panel meetings; the panel's co-chairs establish subcommittees under BRC 2-11-9(a)(6). source source as of 2026-05-11

How

Panel members volunteer for the committee at a panel meeting (a 'Committee Assignments' item); the chair is a panel member who volunteers or accepts the role. Since the 2024 bylaws every panel member is expected to take part in outreach, so the committee is a shared group rather than a fixed roster. source source as of 2024-10-14

Seats

not applicable: No fixed number of seats: since the September 2024 bylaws every Police Oversight Panel member is expected to take part, making it a shared committee of the whole panel (in March 2024 the minutes still spoke of an 'open seat', but no source gives a size). source source

Seat types

• Police Oversight Panel member (one acts as committee chair) designated

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Term

not applicable: An internal committee of panel members with no terms of its own: neither BRC 2-11 nor the panel bylaws give committee terms; members serve while on the panel, and the bylaws limit committees to tasks the panel delegates. source

Term limit

not applicable: No committee terms exist (see term_length); a member's service ends with their panel term, which BRC 2-11-13 limits to two consecutive terms (four years; two years for students). source

Staggering

not applicable: No committee terms exist (see term_length); staggering applies only to the parent panel's terms.

Powers

advisory. Decides: Nothing on its own: it plans the panel's community outreach and engagement events and communications, within tasks the panel delegates.. To council: Nothing directly; it reports to the full panel under the standing 'Community Outreach and Engagement' agenda item. source source

Council liaison

not applicable: City Council assigns no council liaison to this body: council's approved 2026 committee and board assignments (Jan 22, 2026, Attachment A) name no council liaison to any city board or commission, the same finding as for the Planning Board, and the panel's only liaison named in BRC 2-11-17(b) is the independent police monitor. source source

Staff liaison

Office of the Independent Police Monitor (City Manager's Office) · Sherry Daun source source as of 2026-10-23

Relations

• Police Oversight Panel: Community Engagement & Communications Committee recommends to Police Oversight Panel · Reports and proposes events to the full panel. source
• Office of the Independent Police Monitor staffs Police Oversight Panel: Community Engagement & Communications Committee · contact for the committee (the monitor) source source
• Police Oversight Panel: Community Engagement & Communications Committee subcommittee of Police Oversight Panel source

History

• 2024-03-11 · renamed · The panel's engagement subcommittee asked the panel to name it the Community Engagement and Communications Committee; the motion was made and seconded at the March 11, 2024 panel meeting. source
• 2024-10-14 · transitioned · Under the panel's new bylaws (adopted September 2024) the committee became a shared committee of the whole panel; its chairs Vialard and Diaz stepped down and Bill de la Cruz became chair. source