Bring the public safety committee to order.

Roll call, please.

Committee members Coleman here.

Johnson, Joast.

Here, Kim here.

Acre.

Yang here.

Chair Bowie.

Here.

Five presidents, two absent being members Naker and Johnson who are excused.

Well, welcome to our second public safety committee meeting of this year, and happy Black History Month, everyone.

So we are light but mighty with our topics.

So that was supposed to be on this uh month's agenda.

Um, we want to just give the new administration some time to present to us a comprehensive plan.

So that would be um um coming along.

But nevertheless, if you have any items that you wish to review in the public safety meeting, please share those topics with me or the chief of um our policy officer, uh, Tim as well.

So moving on to our agenda, I just want to share with you all that I'm so glad to invite our exec our postboard executive director, Eric Missel.

Um, and he, like I mentioned, being the executive director is here to discuss the standards process and procedures in educating the council, particularly around their jurisdiction and their role.

Um topic has came about in the aftermath of the ICE process um that took place on November twenty-fifth on Rose Avenue on the Payne Phelan um neighborhood, and council unanimously voted to do three things um on December tenth, which was to conduct the analysis, including a public discussion on the ordinance um four three sixteen.

Um, also to work with the post board to conduct a thorough investigation into SPPD's use of force during the November 25th incident.

And the third thing was to direct the Office of Financial Services to perform an audit of SPPD personnel, operations, equipment, and supplies, which we have received.

So last month we had a chance to hear from PCR, particularly around their process and how they took a vote to authorize an investigation.

So we now have here the executive director to review not the specifics of the um investigation in our resolution, but to talk about their role and their function as a board and to ask any questions, particularly around the process.

So nevertheless, we're gonna just read into the record um their agenda item and also welcome um Mr.

Missal to the to the stand, you might read it.

Okay.

Okay, so as our two of the post board and investigation process.

Welcome, Mr.

Mistel.

Okay.

Um I'm told I don't need to touch the mic, so I'll leave them alone.

Um little shocked, it's not a full gallery.

I thought this was gonna be the huge topic of the week, but uh nonetheless, um thank you for having me and give me the opportunity to um talk about the board, talk about what we do, and most importantly, uh kind of set the um set the ground level uh assessment, if you will, of what we do and what we don't do, what we can do and what we can't do.

So that's my purpose, and then of course, to answer any questions you you have.

Um I just need to be clear about one thing uh before I get started.

I cannot um speak about any ongoing investigations.

I can't speak to any complaints we may or may not have received uh or their status.

That is all private data, um, which I'll talk about a little bit in the presentation just so you know.

Um the only time we can talk publicly about uh such issues are when and if uh there's final discipline issued by the board.

So um thank you for that.

Please just uh yeah, keep that in mind.

Okay.

So uh very quickly, I won't spend a ton of time on this, but just to give you some background.

Um we the post board itself was created in 1977 by legislation.

Um as I understand it, one of the first licensing boards for police officers in the in the country.

Um so we're very similar to uh, as you'll hear many times, uh nursing uh board, the bar, um uh medical practice, cosmetology, you name it.

So we're purely a licensing board uh in that respect.

Um many states use certification as their uh baseline, not licensing.

So uh Minnesota's a little bit unique in that in that regard.

Um 626.84 is our enabling legislation.

If you ever wonder what authority the board has or what we do or why certain policies um are required, it's all in 626.84.

Um that's everything, uh both the limits and the uh scope of what we can do.

Uh chapter 214 of uh Minnesota statutes governance licensing boards uh generally um and administrative procedures.

There is a section in there on the that where the post board is called out specifically, the majority of it applies to all licensing boards in terms of how investigations are done and so on and so forth, including the provision for due process under the administrative procedures act.

Um chapter 6700, that is our administrative rules, just like the DNR and just about any other um government agency out there.

Um we have a set of administrative rules.

The statutes, as you'll read in 626, are fairly broad, and they'll say things like the board shall promulgate rules in this area, and then we do the rules uh from there.

Um we're comp we did a comprehensive review, or I should say update of the rules, particularly as they were um pertain to officer misconduct um in 2023.

Um, and you can imagine why that was.

That was of course post-2020 and George and the George Floyd murder and so on.