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aPolice Review Commission 2019 Annual Report Page 22 <br />Ad -hoc (temporary) subcommittees are established as needed to address BPD policy <br />issues and policy complaints by members of the community, and to research and provide <br />recommendations to the full Commission pertaining to other police -related issues or to <br />respond to referrals from the City Council. <br />Each subcommittee is comprised of two to four commissioners, appointed by the PRC <br />Chairperson. The PRC Ordinance allows for members of the general public to serve on <br />subcommittees. Representatives from the Berkeley Police Department often attend PRC <br />subcommittee meetings. The following subcommittees were active in 2019: <br />Lexipol Policies <br />Commissioners Perezvelez (Chair), Ramsey, Yampolsky, Mikiten <br />This subcommittee began its work in mid-2018, and in 2019 met 17 times to continue its <br />sizeable task of reviewing the BPD's operational and administrative policies, rules, and <br />procedures, as they are transitioned from General Orders, Police Regulations, and <br />Training and Information Bulletins to the Lexipol policy format. Lexipol policies are <br />standardized to ensure adherence with state law and best practices, but also allow for <br />tailoring to local agency needs and standards. <br />The subcommittee is reviewing the converted policies by comparing them to the former <br />policies and probing BPD staff, present at all subcommittee meetings, about new policies <br />or substantive policy changes. Groups of policies approved by the subcommittee are <br />periodically brought to the full Commission for further review and approval. From 2018 <br />through 2019, the Commission had considered nearly 100 policies. The Lexipol <br />Subcommittee's work will proceed well into 2020. <br />Probation & Parole Searches <br />Commissioners Calavita (Chair), Allamby, Roberts <br />This group was established to study two issues: whether detainees should be asked, as <br />a routine matter, whether they are on probation or parole; and whether non -consent <br />searches should be performed on all probationers and parolees. These are two of several <br />areas for policy change that have been identified as necessary for fair and impartial <br />policing. <br />The subcommittee's examination into the issues included review of practices in, and <br />hearing directly from, other jurisdictions, especially the city of Oakland, which had recently <br />revised its policies in these areas. The group's recommendations on the issue of asking <br />65D-39 <br />