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AGENCY TESTIMONY
New protest settlement monitoring unit
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Commissioner Strauber introduces a new DOI project related to monitoring NYPD's policing of protests following the settlement agreement in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
- DOI has a mandated oversight role in the settlement agreement relating to NYPD's policing of protests
- A new protest settlement monitoring unit is being formed with 5 additional staff members
- The unit will review 12 First Amendment activities protests over a 36-month period
- The review will determine NYPD's compliance with settlement terms, report findings, and issue recommendations
- This unit is separate from OIG-NYPD but will operate with guidance from Inspector General Barrett and DOI's executive staff
Jocelyn Strauber
0:24:56
I wanna speak for a moment about another related project, that DOI is undertaking.
0:25:02
We have a mandated oversight role in the settlement agreement relating to NYPD's policing of protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
0:25:12
As part of phase 2 of that settlement agreement, DOI has the primary role of reviewing 12 First Amendment activities protests to be selected by a collaborative review committee with the which the DOI commissioner will chair.
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We will conduct that review at specified intervals during a 36 month time period, which will include determining the department's compliance with settlement terms, reporting findings, and issuing recommendations.
0:25:43
To that end, DOI received funding for 5 additional staff to form a new protest settlement monitoring unit consisting of an inspector general, 2 special counsels, and 2 counsels, and 2 investigators.
0:25:56
Those staff have been hired and will join the agency in March.
0:26:00
Due to the discreet and time sensitive nature of their work, which is also time limited over a 3 year period, they are a separate unit from the OIGNYPD, but they will operate with guidance and input from inspector general Barrett as well as, of course, DOI's executive staff.
0:26:18
Let me now turn to the pending legislation before us today.