4948-22 Establishing A Process For Selection Of Community Police Review Board Office

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9. Council Members shall conduct an interview with an applicant prior to selecting that applicant as their nominee. 10. Before 5:00 pm on May 2, 2022, each Council Member shall select one nominee and provide that nominee's name, address and phone number via email to the Council Attorney and the Chair of the Community Relations Committee. 11. District members shall nominate a resident of their respective district, At-large members shall nominate a resident of the City of South Bend,resulting in nine (9) possible nominees and a nominee from each Councilmanic District. 12. If at anytime a Council Member fails or refuses to submit the name of a nominee as described in paragraph# 10, or if a District Council Member fails to submit the name of a resident of their respective Council district, then the Community Relations Chair shall call a public committee meeting prior to May 10, 2022 for the purpose of considering candidates and selecting nominee(s)to achieve a list of nine(9)nominees. 13. During the meeting described in the previous paragraph, all Council Members may provide the name and resume of a candidate for consideration and all Council Members may take part in a public roll call vote on all candidates in consideration. To be selected as a nominee, a candidate must receive at least five(5) votes from Council Members. Voting may take place in multiple rounds and candidates who do not receive at least one (1) shall be cut and removed from consideration for all later rounds. 14. If a Council Member names more than one (1) nominee as described in paragraph# 10, then the Community Relations Chair shall call a public committee meeting prior to May 10, 2022 for the purpose of that Council Members nominee down to only one (1) nominee. 15. During the meeting described in the previous paragraph, all Council Members may attend and may all take part in a public roll call vote choosing only one nominee. The nominees themselves may attend and introduce themselves. To be selected as a final one(1) nominee of that Council Member, a candidate must receive at least five (5) votes from Council Members. 16. The final list of all nine (9)nominees shall be made public by the Community Relations Chair via a media release within 24-hours of her/his receipt of a full list of nine (9) nominees. 17. Upon receiving nominees from Council, the Council Attorney shall create a background review packet for each nominee. The background check review packets shall remain in the possession of the Council Attorney and shall only be temporarily distributed to Council Members during an Executive Closed Door session discussed later. 18. The background review shall consist of a criminal Interstate Identification Index report (national criminal database,the most common used standard employer check) conducted by County Police Records Division at the request of the Council Attorney, a social media review report to be conducted by an outside company, and an Access to Public Records Act ("APRA") request to any former government employers to be conducted by Council Attorney. 19. The APRA of the Council Attorney shall request the information listed as public record by I.C. 5-14-34(a)(8), including information of dates of employment, information relating to the status of any formal charges against the employee and the factual basis for a disciplinary action in which final action has been taken and that resulted in the employee being suspended, demoted, or discharged.