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From YouTube: OPAT Commission Community Meeting - October 4, 2021
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OPAT Commission Community Meeting
A
A
We
are
joined
by
the
honorable
leslie
harris,
who
also
is
a
commissioner
member
along
with
myself,
never
executive
director
of
opet
so
bear
with
us
for
a
few
minutes.
You
all
joined
in
on
mute
and
we'll
go
over
some
housekeeping
with
you
all
in
a
few
minutes,
but
we're
just
going
to
wait.
A
few
more
minutes,
like
I
said
until
others
have
a
few
minutes
to
join
the
meeting
did
start
at
5
30.
A
One
more
minute
and
we
will
begin
the
program
again
welcome
to
all
those
who
have
just
joined
in
we'll
start
at
5
35,
I'm
just
giving
people
a
few
minutes
to
join.
I'm
stephanie
everett
joining
me
on
the
opec
commission.
Is
the
honorable
judge,
leslie
harris
okay.
So,
let's
begin
again
welcome
to
the
first
quarter
community
report
out
of
the
opec
commission.
A
As
many
of
you
know,
the
opat
office
itself
was
put
in
place
last
november
through
the
work
and
efforts
of
many
people
on
the
boston
police
task
force,
reform
task
force,
in
that
there
were
three
boards
commissions
and
panels
that
were
formed
as
a
result.
In
the
opat
office
there
is
the
civilian
review
board
the
internal
oversight
panel,
as
well
as
the
opec
commission.
That
includes
myself
and
the
honorable
judge.
A
Leslie
harris
who
is
here
with
me
today
and
part
of
that
responsibility
is
to
report
out
to
the
community
once
per
quarter,
and
that
is
what
we
are
doing
here
today.
So
we
have
a
series
of
things
that
we
need
to
report
out
to
you
all.
But
before
I
begin,
I
think
it's
important
for
us
to
go
through
a
little
bit
of
housekeeping
for
those
who
are
here
and
also,
more
importantly,
acknowledge
those
who
may
need
some
language
interpretation
services
today.
A
E
F
A
Next,
I'm
going
to
go
over
a
few
housekeeping
rules,
everyone
has
come
in
underneath
a
muted
status
and
we
are
using
webex,
I'm
workbex,
unlike
zoom.
I
know
everyone's
used
to
zoom
and
where
you
can
mute
or
mute
yourself
with
webex.
Once
you
mute
yourself,
you
cannot
unmute
yourself,
including
myself.
I
need
to
get
a
little
bit
of
permission
to
get
a
muted,
so
please
bear
with
us.
When
we
get
to
the
comment
phase
we
will,
when
you
ask
to,
if
you
have
a
comment,
we
will
on
youtube.
A
So
just
give
us
a
second,
but
you
will
have
to
accept
to
be
unneeded
when
we
get
to
that
phase
and
also
we
are
recording
this
hearing.
It's
not
a
hearing
community
meeting,
my
apologies,
and
so
we
do
have
a
website
now,
and
so
you
will
be
able
to
see
this.
If
you
miss
any
part
of
this
meeting,
it
will
be
on
our
website,
which
is
on
the
city
of
boston's
website,
city
of
boston
opad.
A
I
believe
cityboston.gov
slash
opac,
and
you
will
be
able
to
find
this
meeting
there
and
this
meeting
again
is
being
recorded
and
you
are
muted
and
you
will
not
be
able
to
unmute
yourself.
Once
you
are
muted,
you
will
have
to
seek
permission
to
be
unmuted
and
please
look
for
the
bar.
I
believe
it's
in
the
right,
lower
right
hand,
corner
and
sometimes
it'll
appear
in
the
middle.
For
me,
it
appears
in
the
middle.
When
you
seek
to
be
unmuted,
we
will
definitely
have
you
being
muted
at
that
point.
A
So,
let's
go
on
with
the
program.
Part
of
what
we
need
to
report
out
to
you
is
how
many
complaints
that
we
have
received
in
opac.
Since
we
came
in
existence,
the
ordinance
went
into
effect
on
july
1st,
and
in
that
time
we
did
receive
one
complaint
and
that
complaint
was
an
abuse
of
power
complaint.
It
was
received
by
a
male
by
a
black
male
and
that
complaint
is
underway.
A
A
One
alleged
misuse
of
police
overtime,
general
complaints
about
one
of
them
was
a
general
complaint
about
the
police
as
overall
and
another
one,
a
possible
use
of
force
complaint
that
we
just
received
this
week
that
we
have
begun
to
look
at
in
my
house
and
what
we
will
report
out
as
we
have
started
to
build
out
our
office
is
every
time
that
we
have
these
meetings.
We
will
identify
perfect
audience:
the
race,
the
ethnicity,
the
gender,
sexual
orientation,
if
known
and
the
age
of
the
complainant.
A
If
known
that,
that's
the
information
that
the
onus
does
require
us
to
report
out
and
for
anonymous
letters.
The
reason
why
I
decided
to
include
those
because
we
have
been
getting
those-
I
do
think
that
they
are
important.
They
do
provide
information
and
we
do
encourage
information
to
come
in
from
the
community
in
any
form
to
help
guide
the
work
that
we
are
doing
at
opat
in
the
office.
A
Again,
as
stated,
the
ordinance
took
effect
on
july
1st
and
I'm
happy
to
report
that
we
also
have
been
hiring
and
on.
This
call
now
are
three
key
members
of
my
staff
that
recently
joined
my
executive
assistant,
karen
alecantra
alicantara,
who
is
somewhere
in
the
background.
I
can't
see
everyone
on
here.
Reynolds
grace,
who
is
the
chief
of
staff
and
john
steese
who's
is
the
deputy
director
who
is.
You
may
have
heard
him
when
you're
doing
language,
who
is
also
helping
run
the
show
tonight.
A
So
please
join
me
in
welcoming
them.
We
also
have
job
descriptions
that
are
up
right
now
for
investigators,
and,
if
you
know
anyone
who's
looking
to
be
or
yourself
are
looking,
I
encourage
you
to
apply.
We
are
still
growing
the
office.
We
will
be
looking
for
intake
workers
as
time
goes
on
and
hoping
to
have
a
permanent
home
by
the
end
of
this
month
that
we
will
happily
be
sharing
the
good
news
on
and,
as
I
stated,
we
do
have
a
website
now
our
email
is
opat.
A
Backslash
opad
we
also
last
week
you
may
have
heard
the
mayor
has
made
some
appointments
to
the
slovenia
review
board.
So
there
are
nine
appointees
in
total
on
the
slovenia
review
board,
four
of
which
was
appointed
last
week,
and
that
is
a
great
news
to
begin.
The
work
on
the
slovenian
review
board
and
also
judge
harris
was
appointed
to
serve
on
the
internal
affairs
oversight
panel,
rounding
out
the
five
members
that
serve
on
that
panel.
A
So
we
will
have
a
total
of
14
members
that
will
do
the
good
work
and
getting
some
good
trouble
to
better
serve
the
work
of
opat
in
our
community
and
that's
the
work
we'll
be
doing
going
forward.
In
the
time
that
I
have
been
the
executive
director.
What
we
have
been
doing
is
working
on
the
reforms
in
the
implementation
of
that
today,
the
boston
police
department
did
post
on
their
website.
A
A
The
state
on
august
27th
held
a
hearing
on
some
regulations
on
the
use
of
false
policies,
not
the
city
that
included
crowd
control
at
mass
demonstrations
and
reporting
complaints
to
the
post,
that
the
city
of
boston
started
doing
as
well,
working
with
the
boston
police
to
make
sure
that
we
were
in
compliance
with
what
is
required
by
the
state
reforms.
Now,
as
well
as
the
recommendations
and,
what's
required
by
the
ordinance,
that's
a
lot
of
the
work
we've
been
focusing
on
and
also
what
we've
been
doing
locally.
A
A
They've
also
worked
to
with
their
retention
policy
so
that
they
actually
were
wearing
them
longer
than
what
they
were
wearing
them
prior.
When
they
first
started
to
institute
the
body
one
camera
program,
they
have
an
accountability,
transparency
website
and
dashboards.
There
were
seven
dashboards
that
were
introduced
in
early
june
that
are
currently
up
on
their
website.
A
A
We
have
in
my
office,
really
worked
to
streamline
when
that
policy
would
actually
be
in
effect,
and
so
we're
looking
at
a
deadline
to
get
that
really
finalized
and,
in
effect,
in
the
next
couple
of
weeks,
so
that
we
can
roll
that
out.
There
was
a
new
section,
12
process
that
bpd
did
and
again
a
lot
of
these
reforms
in
a
more
comprehensive
update
of
what
bpd
has
been
doing
in
response
to
the
police.
A
Reforms
are
located
on
their
accountability,
transparency
website,
and
you
can
find
that
at
boston.gov
news
to
get
more
information
about
that
stuff.
There
is
there's
a
lot
of
stuff.
That's
going
on
with
the
task
force
reforms
that
I
do
want
to
highlight.
There's
a
lot
of
work
that
we
still
have
to
do.
I,
in
the
five
months
that
I've
been
there.
A
I
will
say
that
there's
been
a
significant
amount
of
effort
from
my
office
in
the
mayor's
office
and
bpd
to
move
things
along,
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
everyone
is
aware
that
we,
we
are
pushing
the
envelope
really
hard
and
fast
to
get
these
things
completed
and
that
they
are
actually
being
done
in
the
spirit
in
which
that
they
were
created
by
the
task
force
is
why
I'm
very
excited
to
have
judge
harris
on
the
eternal
oversight
panel.
I'm
I'm
excited
to
see
the
civilian
review
board
members
come
in.
A
It's
also
what
happened.
The
matrix
with
the
commissioner
is
looking
at
different
models
to
actually
start
looking
at.
Putting
that
in
place.
The
matrix
is
what
the
slovenia
review
board
will
look
at
for
discipline
and
recommendations
when
we
do
get
complaints,
I
will
also
say
in
the
next
few
weeks.
One
of
the
things
that
you
will
see
on
our
website
is
how
complaints
will
come
in
to
opec.
A
One
of
the
things
that
I'm
very
proud
of
is
that
our
office
will
take
complaints.
We
will
be
able
to
have
a
way
for
you
to
file
complaints
online.
You
can
walk
in
and
do
complaints.
You
can
also
mail
and
complain.
So
all
those
options
will
be
available
to
the
public
soon
and
because
we
are
hiring
investigators.
A
The
complaints
will
be
investigated
by
opac
staff
and
we're
looking
forward
to
being
a
another
avenue
for
our
community
to
engage
and
help
us
really
do
the
work
that
the
task
force
recommendations
really
set
for
in
the
spirit
of
their
work,
to
get
this
work
done.
So
I'm
going
to
turn
this
portion
over
to
judge
harris
to
work
on
the
community
comment
portion.
A
Yeah
john
will
unmute
yes,
so
you
can
believe
you
can
put
your
comments.
We'd
rather
you
put,
you
know,
ask
the
comments,
while
you're
here
you
can
actually
email
them
to
us.
If
you
don't
feel
comfortable
doing
it,
and
I
understand
public
speaking
is
not
everyone's
forte
feel
free
to
email
them
to
us
later.
You
can
always
call
into
our
office
and
have
a
conversation
with
me
and
or
again
email
mail
them
in.
G
B
A
A
I
also
want
to
recognize
julian
mundell,
I
believe
was
in
the
the
room.
Am
I
missing
and
chris,
and
so
jillian
mandela's
is
also
part
of
the
internal
oversight,
internal
affairs
oversight
panel,
christina
miller,
who's
part
of
the
internal
oversight,
internal
affairs
oversight
panel,
I
just
say
iops.
A
So
the
names
of
the
for
all
so
the
eternal
affairs
oversight
panel
they're,
not
new
appointees,
the
the
only
new
appointee
would
be
judge
harris.
The
eternal
affairs
oversight
panel
were
originally
the
co-op
board
and
through
ordinance
with
the
creation
of
this
office,
they
dramatically
moved
over
to
iop,
and
so
they
are
not
new.
H
Here
with
us-
yes,
indeed,
sir,
so
a
couple
of
points
of
clarification,
so
one
when
you
say
that
the
the
people
on
on
on
on
iop
are
not
new
and
transfer
transferred
over
from
the
co-op.
You
know,
maybe
not
new
to
us
new
to
the
general
public,
because
those
people
were
not
even
known.
There
was
a
transition
period
before
that
co-op,
so
those
people
who
had
just
got
into
their
thing
were
not
even
known
to
the
general
public
in
general.
H
H
Well
me
as
a
guy
who
is
pretty
intuitive,
didn't
see
these
right
and
as
what
just
happened
with
this
very
meeting
here,
while
the
city
is
saying
these
things
are
out
there
there's
some
sort
of
breakdown
with
the
public,
so
we
have
to
do
a
better,
a
better
job,
because
to
this
day
I
don't
believe
people
know
that
the
opat
exists.
They
definitely
don't
know
that
there's
a
civilian
review
board.
H
A
Thank
you,
and
so
I
so
with
the
our
website.
Just
went
live
today,
and
so
there
will
be
no
information,
everything
that
you're
saying
will
come
from
our
website
and
there
is
definitely
differences
between
all
three,
the
opec,
commission,
crb
and
iaop,
and
we
will
make
those
distinctions
both
on
our
website
but
also
through
myself,
and
making
sure
that
there
is
a
public
education
piece
so
that
everyone
knows
what's
going
on.
A
And
for
those
who
don't
know,
the
slovenia
review
board
in
the
simplest
form
are
the
nothing
simple
about.
I
shouldn't
say
the
simplest
form.
The
civilian
review
board
are
the
boards
that
will
see
complaints
that
come
into
the
office
they're,
the
ones
who
will
get
the
complaints
and
make
recommendations
for
discipline
of
those
complaints
about
police
officers.
A
Homicides
that
happened
by
the
police
that
are
just
automatically
reviewed
by
the
iop
and
those
are
reviewed
by
the
eternal
affairs
oversight
panel.
The
old
pac
commission
are
when
we
hear
when
you've
heard
on
the
news
that
this
subpoena
power-
this
is
where
the
subpoena
power
lies.
It
lies
in
the
opec
commission
and
that
is
made
of.
We
also
do
the
regulations
of
the
the
opec
staff
they
command.
What
my
office
does
and
they
they
figure
out
where
things
go,
so
complaints
will
not
be
listed
somewhere
gin.
A
I
see,
because
there
is
some
privacy
to
those
things.
Witness
information
is
protected,
and
so
they
they
won't
be
listed.
The
information
that
I
laid
out
earlier
today
who
the
comp
you
know
the
complainant
information
is
what
is
we
we're
required
to
report
out,
but
you
can
imagine
there
are
populations
of
people
who
have
never
gone
to
the
police
because
populations
of
people
that
I've
in
communities
I
belong
to
that
have
never
gone
to
the
police
because
they
did
not
feel
comfortable
going
to
the
police.
To
complain
about
the
police.
A
Oppat
is
a
place
where
they
can
safely
come
to
the
police
and
feel
that
they
can
safely
come
to
the
police.
So
we
will
not
be
posting
complaints
or
witness
information
online
because
they
should
feel
safe
coming
here,
and
that
does
not
mean
that
we're
trying
to
collect
protect
police
officers.
It
means
that
we
are
protecting
the
people
who
are
complaining
about
what
happened
to
complainants,
who
are
who
are
stating
not
complaining
who's,
saying
what
happened
to
them.
A
I
A
Yes,
so
we
have
a
calendar
that
my
team
and
I
are
hoping
to
put
out
in
the
next
couple
of
months.
We
just
have
to
meet
with
everyone
so
that
we
can
finalize
that,
but
we
will
have
a
calendar
that
we
will
put
out
so
that
we
can
hopefully
get
this
on
everyone's
calendar
and
have
set
dates
that
you
all
can
look
forward
to.
For
example,
we
know
that
december
17th
is
when
we
want
to
have
our
next
community
meeting
for
the
opec
commission.
A
A
G
J
A
A
A
We
would
collect
similar
evidence,
as
you
would,
as
bpd
would
collect
if
they
were
doing
the
same
type
of
investigation,
so
it
every
type
of
investigation.
This
is
not
a
evidence
where
I
would
go.
Collect
dna
this
right
now
we
that's
not.
I
don't
know.
What
do
you
mean?
What
evidence
do
we
collect?
What
materials
do
we
get
from
bpd
we
would,
it
depends
on
every
case
would
be
different.
A
A
Yes,
please.
Currently
we
have
two
investigator
positions:
open
we're
hoping
to
hire
a
total
of
four.
We
also
are
looking
for
intake
workers,
so
we
will
be
looking
to
hire
four
more
before
and
take
workers,
and
those
who
have
who
are
bilingual
would
be
great
to
make
sure
that
when
you
walk
into
the
office
again
that
you
see
a
piece
of
yourself
when
you
walk
into
the
office.
I
Okay,
michael
reiskin,
from
jamaica
plain
again.
I
know
that
the
state
has
a
facial
recognition,
special
facial
recognition.
Commission
has
the
boston,
police
reform
task
force
and
opat
come
up
with
any
policies
about
facial
recognition,
specifically
for
the
police
department
and
or
drones.
I
have
a.
J
A
A
A
K
Hi,
yes,
I
just
had
a
question
about
body
camera
compliance
and
if
you
get
any
complaints
about
officers,
not
turning
on
their
body
cameras
is
that
something
you
guys
would
be
looking
into,
and
would
you
guys
is
there
anyone
who
will
discipline
any
of
the
officers
for
not
using
their
body
cameras?
Are
you
know,
pressing
record.
A
So
we
have
not
received
any,
but
yes
any
complaint
that
comes
in,
we
will
look
at,
but
we
have
not
received
any
complaints
about
it.
I
know
one
of
the
issues
that
they
were
having
is
there
were
a
couple
of
complaints.
Is
one
was
a
battery
life
in
that
if
they
worked
overtime
or
took
it
was,
I
think
it
was
a
different
shift
or
something
that
they
did
not
have
a
camera.
So
they
did
do
a
second
rollout
of
the
body.
A
One
cameras
that
allowed
the
cameras
to
have
they
to
do
a
different
to
get
a
second
battery.
So
now
they
do
have
the
ability
to
have
them
on
longer,
but
we
would
investigate
those
and
they
would
be
a
complaint
that
would
come
in
if
someone
filed
a
complaint
or
if
there
was
a
policy.
One
of
the
things
I
do
want
to
stress
is
that
I
am
a
person
who
believes
that
there
should
be
policy
and
procedure.
A
So
it's
not
enough
for
me
to
just
say
that
there's
a
policy
to
have
body-worn
cameras
that
should
also
actually
be
a
procedure
that
goes
with
it.
So
if
we
find
out
that's
one
of
the
good
things
about
the
commission
is
if
we
find
out
that
this
policy
is
not
working
in
the
pacifi,
and
we
see
that
there
needs
to
be
better
procedure.
The
commission
would
go
in
and
figure
out
what
that
looks
like.
We
don't
have
to
wait
per
se
for
a
complaint
to
come
and
we
can
initiate
as
well.
A
So
for
that
recommendation,
so
there
is
a
new
policy
coming
out
for
domestic
violence
with
bpd
and
that
would
be
classified
as
excessive
force.
That
is
a
conversation
that
is
ongoing.
There
is
a
new
policy
that
was
just
sent
to
me
that
I
need
to
review.
I
know
that
there
is
a
conversation,
that's
going
on
about
it
being
classified
as
excessive
horse,
but
I
don't
know
what
you
mean
by
enforced.
A
So
I
I
have
to
yeah,
I'm
so
I'll,
read
over
it
and
see
how
I
dress.
I
know
that
we
have
definitely
had
conversations
about
that
language
and,
but
I
I
have
the
I
just
received
the
policy,
so
I
have
to
read
over
it
to
see
where
we
are
with
that.
But
it's
definitely
something
that
we've
had
a
conversation
with.
A
Any
more
comments
or
questions
from
anyone
again,
I
do
want
to
encourage
those
who
don't
want
to
come
into
the
chat,
or
I
have
conversations
right
now
openly
and
I
completely
get
that
for
whatever
reason,
even
if
you're
in
the
language
room,
you
can
send
it
in
the
language,
you
feel
comfortable
and
don't
feel
like
you
have
to
send
it
in
a
different
language.
Please
feel
free
to
email,
us
at
opat,
boston.gov
feel
free.
A
To
give
me
a
call,
and
can
you
put
this
phone
number
also
in
the
chat
as
well
john,
so
that
the
office
number
so
that
we
can
make
sure
everyone
has
that
phone
number
as
well?
So
there
is
enough
contact
available.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
all
for
coming
out
today
again.
The
next
meeting
that
we're
going
to
have
is
on
december
17th.
A
We
are
charged
by
ordinance
and
because
of
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
doing
the
work
for
this
community
to
come
out
into
the
community
and
report
out
on
the
complaints,
we'll
pull
it
out
on
the
work
that
we're
doing
in
opat
and
the
work
that
two
boards
are
doing
four
times
a
year.
But
we
are
available.
A
You
know
whenever
you
have
any
questions
or
want
to
talk
to
me
about
ways
that
we
could
do
better
at
getting
community
information
to
you,
and
this
is
what
the
point
of
this
meeting
is
for-
is
to
get
information
to
you,
but
also
to
receive
information
from
you.
So
please,
email
us
call
us
set
up
time
to
meet
with
me
or
any
member
of
my
staff.
A
A
Judge
harris-
and
I
have
also
spoke
about
the
the
two
in
the
spring-
to
have
them
happen
in
the
community
and
hopefully
in
person
spaces,
so
that
I
can
actually
see
judge
harris
again-
and
I
think
it'd
be
great
for
us
to
be
back
in
person
in
community
and
really
having
face-to-face
one-on-one
conversations
with
everyone.
So
I
do
thank
you
for
your
time.
If
I
don't
see
any
more
hands
raised
anymore
questions,
we
can
enjoy
adjourn
this
meeting
and
see
you
all
again,
either
on
email,
phone
or
neck.
A
A
Lindsey
butler
was
instrumental
in
helping
to
get
appointments
onto
the
slovenia
review
board
she's
the
deputy
director
of
policy
from
the
mayor's
office
and
she
dropped
a
lot
of
the
information
in
the
chats
about
where
you
can
find
out
information
of
what's
going
on
in
the
mayor's
office
as
far
as
appointments,
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
acknowledge
lindsay
or
dr
butler
in
this
this
space,
and
if
I
missed
anyone
else,
I
apologize.
I
can't
see
everyone's
name
on
the
process.
Participants
list
from
this
view
again.