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Contact: Toshiko Hasegawa,
Communications Manager, OLEO
206-477-3795
toshiko.hasegawa@kingcounty.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
County Watchdog
Announces Report Assessing Sheriff’s Office Handling
of Use of Force Complaints
Key findings include
lack of thoroughness and inconsistency in following policies and procedure
The Office of
Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO) will present a report TODAY to the
King County Council Law & Justice Committee regarding the King County
Sheriff’s Office’s internal review of public complaints regarding the
unnecessary or excessive use of force by officers.
The report, Use of Force Complaint
Processing in the King County Sheriff’s Office, looks at whether complaints
are investigated in a thorough and consistent manner, such that the public can
have confidence in the investigations conducted.
Kathryn Olson
of Change Integration Consulting will brief the committee on the report, which
identifies key findings in the Sheriff’s Office handling of use of force
complaints filed against officers, and recommends measures to improve
consistency in investigations, documentation, interviewing witnesses, and being
responsive to members of the public.
The report
was produced by a team of experts in police practices including Kathryn Olson,
Michael Gennaco and Robert Miller of the OIR Group, Robert Scales of Police
Strategies LLC and Matthew Hickman of Seattle University.
WHEN: TODAY,
August 28, 1:30 p.m. during the meeting of the Metropolitan King County
Council’s Law and Justice Committee.
WHO: Deborah Jacobs, Director, OLEO
Kathryn
Olson, Change Integration Consulting, Principal
WHERE: Council Chambers, 10th
floor King County Courthouse, 516 3rd Ave.
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