COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE COMMISSION

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE COMMISSION NATHANIEL HAMILTON - CHAIR Tim Baack, Stephen Jansen, Pamela Malone, Camille Mays, Shawn Muhammad, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Amy Orta, Will Perry, Tammy Rivera, Jeff Roman, Fred Royal, Damien Smith, Jamaal Smith, Huezong Yang, and Gina Zarcone Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, 414-286-2231, lelmer@milwaukee.gov Legislative Assistant: Dana Zelazny, 414-286-8679, Dana.Zelazny@milwaukee.gov Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:00 AM City Hall, Room 301-A This is a virtual meeting. If you wish to participate, please e-mail lelmer@milwaukee.gov or call 414-286-2231. 1. Roll call. Meeting convened: 9:11 A.M. All members present except for Will Perry and Pamela Malone 2. Review and approval of the minutes of the July 29th meeting. Mr. Hamilton went over the minutes and the quorum issues that this body must comply with. Ms. Rivera has some corrections to item #8 - 4th line down towards the middle, the CCC task WAS to take those 11 findings. The following sentence: the 11 were divided into 4 categories, but the committee only had time to make recommendations to 2 of those categories. About halfway, "Mr. Royal said that this committee was named as the Oversight Committee for the ACLU lawsuit." about 1/4 from the bottom, Ms. Rivera recommended deleting one section. Ms. Orta moved, seconded by Mr. Smith, for approval of the minutes, as amended. There were no objections. 3. Discussion relating to the role of the Commission. Ms. Rivera read file 191106, the resolution that created the Commission. Mr. Royal noted that the Fire and Police Commission (FPC) also charged this body with creating the standard for Community-Oriented Policing, an item which will be on the next agenda. 4. Next steps to push for Community recommendations/Dept. of Justice recommendations. Mr. Royal said the report was submitted to the Fire and Police Commission and the only charge so far was the standard operating procedure (SOP) on Community City of Milwaukee Page 1 COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Meeting Minutes August 26, 2020 COMMISSION Oriented Policing (COP). MPD sent out a draft two days prior to requiring public response. Mr. Royal said a dialog needs to be started with the administration on how to co-create that document. Ms. Rivera said the FPC was to draft a letter of agreement with themselves and the CCC about co-creating this SOP. Mr. Royal thinks the conversation needs to start with Acting Chief Brunson. Mr. Royal has an appointment with AC Brunson as President of the NAACP today at 11:00 and he will address his concerns about how he needs to work with this group. Ms. Neumann Ortiz said it is important that the CCC as a body should address how COP should be addressed and moving forward. Ms. Orta asked if the Committee work that was done can be addressed with the Acting Chief if the CCC supports that work. Ms. Rivera would like an orientation to the Acting Chief with the CCC and she asks for discussion relating to transparency relating to his decision to the SOP for COP. Mr. Hamilton would like to reach out to AC Brunson and meet with him next week, if possible, to move forward with putting things in place. He will contact AC Brunson about meeting with him next week and a quorum of members. No members present were contacted by AC Brunson prior to his creation of a SOP for COP. AC Brunson can be present for a meeting next week. Mr. Jamaal Smith said MPD hosted 3 community hubs and he is curious as to why there was no regard for the CCC in any of this conversation at all about the COP SOP. AC Brunson told Ms. Rivera he had contacted a cross-section of the community and was directed to hold these listening sessions by those individuals. He was unwilling to disclose these individuals and he wanted to include other voices. Ms. Rivera wanted to include the chat texts as part of the minutes. Mr. Jansen would like to make it very clear that the CCC is going to be part of the process and making the AC aware of this and he would like to contact Mandy Potapenko, Community Justice Council Director, and create a joint letter with them to send to the AC. Ms. Neumann Ortiz would like to educate both the MPD and the community about the need for community involvement. Mr. Jansen will do an early draft to send to all members. Members will then send comments to Ms. Elmer to incorporate into the letter to the AC. The FPC will be cc'ed once the letter is finalized. There were no objections. Chair Hamilton thinks that the next step is to speak with AC Brunson and work on implementation of the COP SOP. Mr. Royal recommended looking at Tucson Oklahoma's web site to see what COP looks like when it's imbedded within a police department. Mr. Royal sees this as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change MPD culture to include community input throughout all its operations. Chair Hamilton asked about having Tucson, Oklahoma and 21st Century policing on the next agenda and members agreed. Ms. Neumann Ortiz also thinks the CCC needs to be critically involved in the selection of the next chief. Mr. Royal will forward the link to Tucson to the Chair and myself. Ms. Rivera would like on the next agenda to have an item that is accessible to the public, such as Facebook, to distribute on what this body is doing. She would like some interaction with the public and Ms. Neumann Ortiz also noted language barriers and the need to be inclusive. 5. Appointment of the co-chairs of the Executive Committee. Mr. Hamilton appointed Stephen Jansen and Camille Mays as co-chairs. Ms. Rivera recommended that one of the former Committee members be part of the Executive Committee. Mr. Hamilton believes the role of this body is to work as a smaller body on behalf of the full Commission and will work the approval of the full Commission. Ms.Rivera suggested creating work groups - that will be an item on the next agenda. Ms. Rivera noted she does not have time to serve in a leadership position; she is willing to coach and support. Ms. Neumann Ortiz is concerned that we discuss City of Milwaukee Page 2 COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE Meeting Minutes August 26, 2020 COMMISSION enforcement of oversight of the recommendations and the CCC's relationship with the FPC and MPD. Her other concern is that the FPC continues to maintain its strong independence in terms of its appointments. She is concerned the FPC does not have the power to implement the community's recommendations. 6. Set next meeting date and agenda topics. Creation of standards for community oriented policing (COP) Update to MPD re CCC and DOJ recommendations. Contact Nelson Soler so he understands who the new leadership is (he and Comm. Colcroft were spearheading the Committee's work). Creation of work groups AC Brunson reponse to letter and request to have him attend next meeting. Tucson and 21st Century policing models Creation of ongoing communication with the community Membership of the Executive Committee The chair will look at an evening meeting. 200315 Communication relating to the 2020 activities of the Community Collaborative Commission. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Meeting adjourned: 10:34 A.M. Linda M. Elmer Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 3