File #: OR-2023-0040    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 8/7/2023 In control: Board of Alders
On agenda: 3/20/2023 Final action:
Title: ORDINANCE AMENDMENT OF THE NEW HAVEN BOARD OF ALDERS TO SECTION 2-796 ET. SEQ. OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN UPDATING SECTIONS OF THE CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD ORDINANCE.
Attachments: 1. Schedule A _ DIVISION_10.___CIVILIAN_REVIEW_BOARD CLEAN 6.4.2024, 2. DIVISION_10.___CIVILIAN_REVIEW_BOARD CLEAN Passed Out of LEG 6.4.pdf, 3. DIVISION_10.___CIVILIAN_REVIEW_BOARD REDLINED Passed Out of LEG 6.4.pdf, 4. 240604 LEG CRB Handout, 5. 240604 LEG Ordinance Amendment Submitted by CRB 06.04.pdf, 6. 240604 LEG Ordinance Amendment Summary Submitted by CRB 06.04.pdf, 7. Ordinance Amendment and Supporting Documentation Submitted by CRB 11.15.2023, 8. Testimony for Morally Sound CRB Members_Whitfield, James, 9. Testimony for Training for CRB Members_CRB_Zola (DiLieto), Andrea, 10. Testimony in Support_CRB_Augustin, Oliver, 11. Testimony in Support_CRB_Berrios, Joshua, 12. Testimony in Support_CRB_Carlson, John, 13. Testimony in Support_CRB_Cross, Laura, 14. Testimony in Support_CRB_Fawcett, Nina, 15. Testimony in Support_CRB_Garlinghouse, Esq., Paul A., 16. Testimony in Support_CRB_Gruner, Dr. Patricia, 17. Testimony in Support_CRB_Jenkins, Jean, 18. Testimony in Support_CRB_Jenkins, Jean2, 19. Testimony in Support_CRB_Jenkins, Jean3, 20. Testimony in Support_CRB_Jurado, Crystal, 21. Testimony in Support_CRB_Jurado, LaShiya, 22. Testimony in Support_CRB_Kane, Loretta, 23. Testimony in Support_CRB_Kimbro, Germano, 24. Testimony in Support_CRB_Kimbro, Germano2, 25. Testimony in Opposition_CRB_OLR Director Ault-Battey, 26. Testimony in Support_CRB_Myers, Amy, 27. Testimony in Support_CRB_Roth, Abigail, 28. Testimony in Support_CRB_Sparks, Shane
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ORDINANCE AMENDMENT OF THE NEW HAVEN BOARD OF ALDERS TO SECTION 2-796 ET. SEQ. OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN UPDATING SECTIONS OF THE CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD ORDINANCE.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the New Haven Board of Alders that the Civilian Review Board Ordinance Section 2-796 be amended as follows below and attached hereto in Schedule A.

DIVISION 10. CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD

Sec. 2-796. Civilian review board.
(a) The Civilian Review Board has the authority to monitor, review, and conduct independent investigations of civilian complaints of police misconduct by police officers empowered to act with municipal police powers in the City of New Haven.
(b) The office and the professional staff that provide assistance to the Civilian Review Board shall be located in, the Office of the Commission on Equal Opportunities.
(c) The Office of the Civilian Review Board shall be funded permanently by annual allotments for personnel, services, equipment, supplies, and facilities in an amount no less than that of similarly sized existing departments, offices, and agencies of the City of New Haven.
(d) The Office of the Civilian Review Board may not be eliminated by any action of any part of the executive branch of government of the City of New Haven.
(Ord. No. 1853, ? 1, 1-7-19)

Sec. 2-797. Objectives.
The Civilian Review Board's function is to create a public, transparent, and impartial means by which to review, monitor and independently investigate any civilian complaints of police misconduct against a police officer employed by a police department empowered to act with municipal police powers in the City of New Haven.
(Ord. No. 1853, ? 2, 1-7-19)

Sec. 2-798. Membership.
(a) The Civilian Review Board shall consist of a number of members with no more than fifteen (15), and shall, at a minimum, consist of members selected as follows: one (1) member from each of the police districts in the City of New Haven, one (1) member of t...

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