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City Manager Office www.santa-ana.org/cm i Item # 34 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report September 7, 2021 TOPIC: Police Oversight Informational Report AGENDA TITLE: Informational Report Relating to Police Oversight RECOMMENDED ACTION Accept informational report and provide direction to staff DISCUSSION At the December 15, 2020 City Council meeting, staff presented an informational report relating to police oversight. At that meeting, members of the City Council directed staff to conduct additional research and activities as follows: • Further examine the Auditor/Monitor Model. • Further examine the Investigation -Focused model. • Explore police oversight mechanisms from the cities of Berkeley, Riverside, Oakland, and Anaheim. • Explore costs associated with police oversight, including expenditures relating to the use of subpoena. • Explore the make-up of board/commission/committee/groups with regard to the eligibility criteria, appointments procedure, term limits, and scope of work. In the sections below, this report provides information in response to each of those topics. Introduction to Police Oversiaht Police oversight (also referred to as "civilian oversight") is a form of oversight of police officer conduct, whose purpose is to improve police performance and accountability. Police oversight mechanisms typically serve as a source of external oversight over police agencies. Police oversight mechanisms in the United States operate in a variety of political and socioeconomic environments and exhibit variation in terms of their formal authority, level of professional ization, staffing, budgetary authority, and style of oversight. They are often created through local government ordinance or an amendment to the local government charter. City Council 34 — 1 9/7/2021