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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2021-03-01 | 11 | in those groups, what types of conduct would be expected and how it would be documented to ensure Officers know boundaries; the key question is what is the authoritative power; encouraged the Commission to think about how to present the work streams to the public and its impact on policing in Alameda : Matt Reid, Alameda. Commissioner LoPilato stated that she is impressed by the amount of volunteer work, collaboration and thoughtfulness that has gone into all the reports; she is deeply humbled by the valuable volunteer service the Committees have given to the City; she appreciated the level of attention given to both proposed policy changes and the implementation and accountability angles; everyone here cares about the access to information through the Public Records Act; she is very interested in the idea of hiring a full time Crime Analyst, which would improve data collection and transparency, while still having someone in a professional capacity to be sure privacy issues are respected; she thought there were a lot of interesting recommendations regarding the Police Oversight Board; there can be some rough roads at the intersection between board transparency and the privacy doctrines around Police employee records; if the Oversight Board moves forward, she hopes there can be an ongoing dialogue with the OGC to collaboratively and proactively work out kinks with respect to the Sunshine Ordinance; the focus on the Code of Conduct in the Policies and Practices Subcommittee report and the note about the social contract reason is spot on; she would like to ensure that compliance with the Code of Conduct is included in the accountability process as well as all the general performance assessments, evaluations for promotion, and other steps in the personnel life cycle; Officers who exemplify excellent compliance should be positively recognized; she urges the Subcommittees and staff to keep an eye on the rapidly developing State law, i.e., Assembly Bill (AB) 1506 from last year creates independent investigations into certain Police use of force; AB 998 deals a lot with a mobile mental health crisis team. Commissioner Shabazz stated that he has a lot of questions, but will try to keep his comments succinct; he worked as a journalist and has written extensively about Police in Oakland, Berkeley, BART, and even University of California Berkeley Police (UCBP); as an urban planner, he is very interested in policing as a form of social control; he has written about how civilian oversight is formed, including how Oakland's Police Commission was formed after the murder of Melvin Black; after Oscar Grant's murder, BART's hybrid model of an oversight board and auditor was formed; paraphrasing a comment by Dave Chappelle, the reason why he is an expert in policing is because he is a Black man in America; he had some early positive experiences with APD growing up in Alameda, but as he got older, his experiences were not as positive; he is grateful to not have had negative Police contact for a long time; he comes to the question about open government from a different position than other people who may have experienced policing differently; discussed a 1992 incident which became known as the "Mobile Digital Terminals" (MDT) incident where Alameda Police Officers were sending messages to each other about wearing Black face, dressing up as members of the Ku Klux Klan and going out and shooting Black people; in response to the incident, there was the Mayor's report on cultural diversity; he encourages folks to read the report because he already sees some parallels with some of the work the Committees have been doing; there are some unfinished efforts; under criminalizing survival, he is concerned about what Meeting of the Open Government Commission March 1, 2021 11 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2021-03-01.pdf |