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<br />4. Article 17, Community Police Review Board, is added to San Leandro Municipal
<br />Code Chapter 1-3, Boards and Commissions, as follows:
<br />1-3-1700 Short title and Purpose.
<br />This article shall be known as the City of San Leandro "Community Police Review Board
<br />Ordinance." The purpose of the board is to increase public trust, increase
<br />accountability, ensure that police operations reflect community values, and, in
<br />cooperation with the Independent Police Auditor, ensure prompt, impartial, and fair
<br />investigations of complaints brought by members of the public against San Leandro Police
<br />Department employees, including but not limited to complaints under California Penal
<br />Code section 832.5.
<br />1-3-1710 Establishment.
<br />There is created and established an appointed body of the City Council to be known as the
<br />Community Police Review Board and hereinafter called "board” or “CPRB."
<br />1-3-1720 Membership and Conditions of Holding Office.
<br />(a) The board shall consist of nine (9) members. The membership shall include one member from
<br />each of the six (6) Council Member Districts, an at large member appointed by the Mayor
<br />pursuant to Section 1-3-110 of this Code and two Student Members, as defined by San Leandro
<br />Municipal Code section 1-3-110.
<br />1. Each member shall be a resident of the city.
<br />2. Subject to the receipt of enough qualified applicants, the Council must appoint a majority
<br />of members to the board who reflect the diversity of the City, by including members who
<br />represent the City’s diverse geographic areas and socio-economic, cultural, racial,
<br />ethnic, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and age differences, and who have
<br />differing personal backgrounds, education, occupations, and life experiences.
<br />3. To ensure the board’s independence from the San Leandro Police Department and other
<br />law enforcement agencies, no current or former employee of a police department or other
<br />law enforcement agency may serve on the board. In addition, no immediate family or
<br />household member, defined as the parent, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, child, or
<br />cohabitant, of a law enforcement officer, who works or worked for a law enforcement
<br />agency, may serve on the board. For purposes of this prohibition, law enforcement
<br />agencies include police departments of all cities, as well as all public agencies, county,
<br />state, and federal law enforcement officers, and city, county, state, and federal
<br />prosecutors and public defenders.
<br />4. Practicing attorneys who handle, or are members of firms or entities that currently handle
<br />criminal or civil matters involving law enforcement agencies are ineligible to serve on the
<br />board.
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<br />(b) Board members are expected to comply with all of the duties and obligations required or
<br />expected of board members by this Article. A board member may be automatically removed
<br />from office by the Council for two unexcused absences in a calendar year. An excused absence
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