City of Boulder · office · IPM
Office of the Independent Police Monitor
“The Council created the role of the Monitor to review the handling of complaints, to analyze trends in policing and to recommend improvements to police practices, as well as to increase transparency around police oversight.” source as of 2026-10-30
Who runs it
AI-read · unreviewed read by a model from the city's pages, the Charter, the code and the budget books; every quote checked against its saved source; not reviewed by a person. Hover a source for its words.Researcher's note: The office's pages print the monitor's name with her personal city email as the only contact; that address is not used. Phone: none printed on the office's or the Police Oversight pages.
- Head
- Sherry Daun, Independent Police Monitor as of 2026-10-30 source
- Part of
- City Manager's Office
- Answers to
- City Manager. The Monitor's Office is headed by a professional police monitor hired by and accountable to the city manager; its findings and recommendations must reflect the monitor's independent judgment. It is budgeted as a program of the City Manager's Office. Head appointed by City Manager. source source
- Legal basis
- Contact
- PoliceOversightPanel@bouldercolorado.gov · contact page source as of 2026-10-30
Boards and commissions it staffs
- Police Oversight Panel · liaison and administrative support source source
- Police Oversight Panel Selection Committee · staff (the then monitor, with an Assistant City Manager and the Equity Program Manager) source
- Police Oversight Panel: Community Engagement & Communications Committee · contact for the committee (the monitor) source source
Budget
from the city's approved budget books; each figure printed, to the dollar, in its source (hover a source for its words). A year may come from a different book or table than the next: the table says what each covers| Year | Basis | Amount | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | approved | $212,833 | The Independent Police Monitor program line inside the City Manager's Office table; the office is not a separate department in the budget books. FY2024 budget, 2026 book's Department Budget by Expense Type table; the PDF text prints the program names and figures apart, read in printed row order (Independent Police Monitor is the last program row, before the total). The book's FY2026 program pie chart leaves this program out. source |
| 2025 | approved | $314,067 | The Independent Police Monitor program line inside the City Manager's Office table: FY2025 budget, 2026 book's Department Budget by Expense Type table (row order as for 2024). source |
| 2026 | approved | $285,954 | The Independent Police Monitor program line inside the City Manager's Office table: FY2026 budget, 2026 book's Department Budget by Expense Type table (row order as for 2024; the six program lines add to the printed total). source |
Divisions
in the city's own words; heads only where an official source names themnot applicable: An office inside the City Manager's Office with no divisions: the monitor is the office's administrative head (BRC 2-11-5), and its budget is a single City Manager's Office program. source
What a resident can do here
services and programs, linked to the city's pages- Police Oversight “The monitor assists the panel by providing summaries of complaints and complaint investigations, data on monthly statistics, analysis of local policing trends and access to national best practices.” source source
- Police Complaint Form “The Independent Police Monitor (IPM) , a professional civilian monitor, categorizes the allegations within each complaint, prior to assignment for investigation, and may observe officer, complainant, and witness interviews.” source source
- Police Commendations & Complaints “The IPM will have access to relevant case files and may make recommendations for additional investigation as well as disposition and disciplinary recommendations to the Chief of Police.” source source