Welcome to the Citizens Police Review Board.

And as we normally do, we will start with Lieutenant here on the left, if you just want to introduce so everyone knows everyone.

Lieutenant Clinton Sinclair with the Columbia Police Department.

Okay.

I'm Penny Coon Snarr, and I am the Human Rights Commission appointment for this board.

Lynn Bergen, member.

Steve Jeffrey, Vice Chair.

Denise Blazik, member.

Stephanie Coleman, board member.

Earl Krause, City Law Department.

Payne Oliver, City Manager Fellow.

Stephanie Brown, Staff Liaison.

Right.

Very nice.

Number three regarding the agenda.

Has everyone had a chance to look at today's agenda?

And if so, anybody want to entertain a motion?

Sure.

Motion.

Motion to approve.

Approve.

I'll second Coleman.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

All right.

So on number four.

Uh the previous minutes.

Obviously, last month we did not meet, so it would be the minutes from the uh 8 April meeting.

Any questions, any comments, any concerns there?

Otherwise I'll entertain a motion to approve.

I motion that they be approved.

Okay.

Motion.

Anybody second?

Coleman, I'll second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Those opposed.

I'll abstain as I was not here.

Okay.

Duly duly noted.

Okay.

Uh any old business uh to discuss report.

Uh just an update on the um requested aggregated report for CPD complaints.

Um the police department is still working on it.

I don't know if Lieutenant Sinclair has an update, but uh uh assistant chief Parrell is working on it.

And so you can let me know if you want have a time frame or if you're fine with them to continue work on it at the pace they are.

Okay.

And is it is there a a due date?

Uh we don't have a due date um other than the this board requested it, so if you wanted it by a certain time, you can just let us know.

Okay.

And I can let assistant chief Arrell know.

Yeah.

Is that coming along so far as you know?

Yeah, as far as I know.

Okay.

No idea as to completion.

No, I don't I don't have that timeline for you.

Okay.

Comments from anyone up here.

Stephanie, anything?

Good.

All right.

Uh then we move to number six new business.

Um so we're obviously short, a couple of members.

Uh is the posting out.

Yes.

So there are two applicants uh for originally we have, of course, Doug Hunt resigned and then Charles Ugg.

And so we do have two applicants for the two vacant positions that council will possibly uh interview and vote on on Monday, June fifth, uh June 15th, uh that council meeting, pre-council meeting.

Um and they will post again for the third vacant position.

Um the agenda for pre-council is pretty full, so council may choose to move one of the items to the next meeting, which the next council meeting will be July twentieth, um, because the July eighth meeting is or wait, not eighth, but whichever the first Monday in July is canceled.

Okay.

So just to give a heads up.

And we're not meeting next month either, correct?

Correct.

Only if you decide to, or if we have an appeal, we may have to talk about it.

And I did find out uh uh that one C could be available for us to use for the open portion so that we can go into two A if you you know for an appeal if we have one.

But based upon current schedule, we're due to meet again in August.

August.

Okay.

So we do have a couple of months to get some new bodies on the on the board.

And then ultimately we have to uh at some point elect uh a chairperson.

And so my thought is to wait to see what next month uh and then when we meet again in in August, um, short of anything else that comes up, then that will give us some more time and some more bodies to get our get our people back.

Does that sound good by everyone?

Okay.

No, I'm good with that.

Do we need to vote on that or is that uh no?

You if you're simply electing not to take this item up uh today because you're gonna wait for additional board members, that's fine.

Okay.

We'll just make a note of that in the minutes.

Okay.

That's good.

Okay.

Uh so number seven, the reports by the human rights commission.

Any any f updates, Benny?

I don't have any updates.

Um I think the only thing that we wanted to let you all know is that we are just continuing to find innovative ways to inform folks about what the work is that we do on the Human Rights Commission and uh let folks know that they can bring complaints uh to us for a resolution and uh that we've been actively doing work to promote the human rights enhancement program funding information, so our app our HRAP funding availability.

And we have been getting lots of requests for those.

Um so if you see um the funding uh information out there, there's been several of those applications recently.

So lots of information and movement on that.

So and we want to support this group in any way that we can.

Good.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Apologies.

Okay.

Um so we're on number uh number eight in the vision's pretty good, but they love us.

Uh general comments by public.

I hear the applause.

Going on.

Yes, yes, yes.

Um any comments here by public, by members or by staff.

Any thing that we've missed, Harry, did you have anything you want to do?

No, not at all.

Okay.

I do have uh one item from staff.

Um this is Peyton's last meeting.

It's actually his last day today.

And so thanking him for his service that he's done for the board as well as many other boards in function in the city.

Uh so we're going to have a gap job review this next week, though.

I already know who's going to take your place and all that.

I'll be doing his functions still.

In my functions.

At least if it's to see if it works.

So with that being said, if you'll um email both me and Earl anytime you have any notifications, um, that'll be helpful.

Congratulations.

Yep.

Anyone else?

Any other comments?

I know that um in the past, and I I don't know if we just haven't talked about it in a while, but like updates on how things are going in the department.

I know with um why can't I think of what it's called?

The dual um for the mental health what was the that part.

Yeah, the dual response.

Um we hadn't really heard anything more about that.

And then there was like, I know you guys have a new academy and seeing how like recruits are doing, how's the process going, just anything maybe to update?

And I mean, if you know it now, great, but if not, we can hold off until August.

But just kind of giving us an update.

Yeah.

Um as far as I know, the the co-responder program, I think you mentioned.

Um last I heard the city was struggling to fill those spots and actually have not filled any of them.

I know they budgeted um I think five or six responders and a supervisor.

And I don't think that ever got off the ground.

Um along those lines with with that, we're we've actually implemented a new uh crisis response model at the department that we've trained department wide and we've implemented into our academies.

It's called um ICAT integrating communications assessment and tactics, and it's through the police executive research forum.

Uh it's a decision-making model that we're giving officers uh the tools to better approach situations and focus on making good decisions based on a wide variety of factors.

Um we will hopefully be putting out a video about that soon.

We that's been in the works.

Um we've been working with Creative Services to kind of start a little bit of public facing information about that program.

It's a nationwide program that a lot of agencies are adopting.

Um Academy, actually, that's something that I oversee.

Uh it's going very well.

We have our fourth class, we're about halfway through our fourth uh academy class right now.

Um and our fifth one's already planned.

We have a start date for that and getting that filled up with applicants.

Um applicants uh are we're struggling to get those right now.

Um that's just kind of been the trend that we've been facing for several years.

Uh we've we very significantly dug out of the hole uh that we were in about two years ago.

Um and then looking forward, we're we're kind of the the chief has already asked for numerous more officers and identified a lot of the needs of the department, so we're we're kind of focused on on that right now.

But the academy's going very, very well.

We're getting great feedback.

Um the officers are better trained to police our community because we're teaching them everything we want them to know now rather than waiting for them to get trained by somebody else and then come back to us.

So it's I think we're we're having a great success rate.

We have a um 92 percent graduation rate uh so far through their first three classes, and of those uh 94 of them, 94 percent of them are completing our field training program and getting out on the street.

So only one, I think we've a couple that have not finished the academy and a couple or one, only one actually.

That that 94%, there's only been one officer that didn't complete field training.

Uh we're great things that the technology package that we purchased with Axon.

Um that's going well.

We're we're tracking things a lot easier internally with how officers are handling their body worn camera videos and things like that.

Great.

So the dual responder, though, you mentioned that hadn't none of the positions have been filled, filled, is that correct?

Not to my knowledge.

I think that that's kind of gone on the back burner right now.

Um with just some of the struggles of getting those those positions filled.

No, that was something we've talked about for at least a year.

I feel like that I it was gone getting started last year.

Or maybe even longer, but I appreciate it.

I hadn't heard anything more, so I'm like, well, I'll just ask.

So staff, do you know anything more about the the dual responder role?

I don't have any additional information.

Okay.

What did you say the program was that you guys were on the clock?

It's called ICAT.

That's the acronym for it.

Um, but it's integrating uh communications assessment and tactics.

And that is a program that was created by the police executive research forum.

Uh we call that PERF.

Uh there's lots of literature and stuff out there about that.

Okay, sweet.

Thank you.

And if you'd like, I can inquire about more about the dual program for the next meeting if you're interested.

Sure.

Okay.

Just to see what you know, was it posted, just no applicants?

Just curious.

All right.

Any other comments, questions by staff members?

If not, I will entertain a motion to go into closed session to discuss records which are protected from disclosure by law pursuant to sections 610.021 perens one four and 590.502 RISMO.

I make a motion to go into closed session.

Okay.

So move.

Anyone second it's a a voice vote?

Roll call.

Okay.

Any?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Jeffrey, yes.

Yes.

Coleman, yes.

Okay.

So we'll adjourn the meeting and head to closed session.