Q&A
Discussion on potential changes to Intro 1020-2024
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer engages in a Q&A session with Ivey Dyson from the Brennan Center for Justice and David Siffert from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project regarding potential changes to Intro 1020-2024.
- Dyson suggests limiting transparency requirements to closed investigations to address concerns about ongoing investigations.
- Siffert expresses willingness to work on language that achieves the goals of increased transparency without compromising the OIG's work.
- The discussion focuses on finding a balance between transparency and operational needs of the OIG-NYPD.
Gale A. Brewer
2:01:24
Thank you very much.
2:01:25
I appreciate your story and all the work that you've done.
2:01:28
I have a quick question for those working on 10/20, which is, you heard from the commissioner who kindly is still here that there is some opportunity to work to come up with something.
2:01:39
Are there places I mean, there's the 90 days, I suppose.
2:01:42
Are there places where you think, absolutely, this cannot change, and then there are places where maybe we could negotiate?
Ivey Dyson
2:01:51
I think that the it sounds to me like one of the commissioner's concerns is on the issue with, transparency into police department, obstruction or, cooperation sharing documents.
2:02:04
I think something that could change there is I I believe as the bill's currently written, it doesn't limit that to investigations that have been closed and and a report has been issued, and I think that that's a place where, a place where the language could change to be limited to so that information about ongoing investigations isn't released because I think that that was, one of the concerns.
2:02:26
I do think providing information about investigations that have been open for more than 3 years, there I think there are different concerns there with the OIG NYPD than with investigations, for other units and squads within DUI specifically because these aren't necessarily investigations of misconduct.
2:02:48
They're policy and practice, investigations, which have, I think, different levels of just need a different level of discretion.
Gale A. Brewer
2:02:56
Okay.
2:02:57
You want to add something?
David Siffert
2:02:58
And I'll just add, by and large, I would defer to Ivy on this issue because she's done so much work on it.
2:03:03
But I will say from STOP's perspective, there are goals of this legislation, which is to increase transparency to ensure that the, OIG can do their job, and the language of the bill is less of our concern than achieving those goals, and we would be more than happy to work with your office and OIG to find language that accomplishes the goals without putting them out.
2:03:25
Okay.
2:03:26
Thank