Police Oversight Task Force

Legal basis

• City Council motion, April 2, 2019 (Police Oversight Task Force Charter) (2019-04-02) · creates · Establishment of a Task Force for analysis of and recommendations to the city council concerning the creation of a Community Oversight Board for the city of Boulder Police Department source source source
• City Council approval of membership, May 7, 2019 (2019-05-07) · authorizes · Review of Recommendations for appointments to the Community Police Oversight Task Force source

Appointed by

City Manager, City Council. The charter has the city manager appoint the task force with the advice and consent of City Council. In practice a subcommittee of two council members and three Boulder County NAACP representatives reviewed 48 applications and recommended members, and Council approved the membership on May 7, 2019; the subcommittee added a thirteenth member on May 24, 2019. source source source as of 2019-05-07

How

Open call for applications after the charter was adopted (deadline April 26, 2019); 48 applied to the city manager. A council-NAACP subcommittee recommended 13 members and two ex-officio members; Council voted in 12 of them on May 7, 2019 (it did not seat the recommended candidate one subcommittee member opposed). After council asked the two council subcommittee members to revisit the applicant pool for Latinx representation, Michelle Denae was added as the final member on May 24, 2019. · one-time recruitment, April-May 2019 · city-council (May 7, 2019) source source source source as of 2019-05-24

Seats

13 source source as of 2019-05-24

another source differs

11 source

The March-April 2019 draft charter proposed 11 members plus one ex-officio member; council then formed an 11-to-13-member task force and seated 13.

Seat types

• Boulder Police Officers Association representative ×1 designated
• University of Colorado Boulder and/or Naropa University representative or students designated
• Residents with a demonstrated interest in criminal justice or racial equity; at least half identifying as a person of color, Latinx, disabled, unhoused or LGBTQ qualified
• Ex officio: Boulder County District Attorney's Office and Public Defender's Office ×2 ex-officio

source source source as of 2019-05-07

Term

not applicable: An ad hoc task force: members served from appointment (May 2019) until the final report; the charter did not set terms. source

Term limit

not applicable: No terms: a one-time task force that ended with its final report (October 2019), with members continuing in the 2020 Implementation Team.

Staggering

not applicable: No terms to stagger: all members were appointed together in May 2019 for the life of the task force.

Powers

advisory. Decides: Nothing binding: it studied police oversight models and wrote a final recommendation report.. To council: Its final report (study session October 10, 2019) recommended an auditor/monitor with a community oversight panel; Council adopted Ordinance 8361 on October 29, 2019 to enact it. source source

Council liaison

Mary Young (2019-05-24) source source

Staff liaison

City Manager's Office · Aimee Kane, Pam Davis source source source as of 2019-10-15

Relations

• City Council appoints Police Oversight Task Force · Council approved the membership on May 7, 2019 source
• City Manager appoints Police Oversight Task Force · with the advice and consent of City Council source
• Police Oversight Task Force recommends to City Council · Final recommendation report, October 2019 source
• City Manager's Office staffs Police Oversight Task Force · primary staff (2019) source
• Police Oversight Task Force succeeded by Police Oversight Panel · Its recommendations created the Police Oversight Panel (Ord. 8361, 2019; first panel met February 11, 2021); task force members continued as the 2020 Implementation Team. source source
• Police Oversight Task Force succeeded by Police Oversight Panel Selection Committee · Task force members formed the 2020 Implementation Team, which became the initial Selection Committee. source

History

• 2019-04-02 · created · Council approved the task force charter after the March 1, 2019 incident; members approved May 7, 2019; first meeting May 30, 2019. source source
• 2020-01 · transitioned · After Ordinance 8361 (adopted October 29, 2019), task force members continued as the Police Oversight Implementation Team with city staff, convened in January 2020, which drafted Ordinance 8430 (2020). source source
• 2021-02 · dissolved · The Implementation Team and the Selection Committee it became concluded their operations in February 2021. source