Civilian Police Review Board Meeting
Regular MeetingUrbana, IL · March 24, 2021
Minutes
APPROVED MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING
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URBANA CIVILIAN POLICE REVIEW BOARD
DATE: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: Virtually via Zoom
Urbana City Building
400 South Vine Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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MEMBERS PRESENT: Tony Allegretti, Ricardo Díaz, Scott Dossett, Katrina Kindle, Tony Rice
1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM
Ricardo Diaz called this meeting of the Urbana Civilian Police Review Board to order. Roll
was taken. A quorum was present.
2. APROVAL OF AGENDA
Scott Dossett made a motion to approve the agenda. Katrina Kindle seconded the motion.
The motion was approved by a roll call vote.
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Regular Meeting, December 17, 2020
Regular Meeting, February 24, 2021
Scott Dossett made a motion to approve minutes for December 17, 2021. Tony Allegretti
seconded the motion. The motion was approved by a roll call vote.
Scott Dossett made a motion to approve minutes for February 24, 2021. Tony Allegretti
seconded the motion. The motion was approved by a roll call vote.
4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Christopher Hansen shared concerns with trends and case law that the CPRB has been
developing over the past year or two. Katrina Kindle asked if Mr. Hansen had a list of
specific dates for incidents or if his complaints were just general. Mr. Hansen did not have
specific dates at this time, but would follow up with examples by email.
5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a. Status of Complaints and Appeals
Carol Mitten provided an update on the status of complaints and appeals. The numbers are
unchanged since the last meeting.
Chair Ricardo Diaz spoke about being prepared to do Taser reviews at the next meeting. He
verified that Ms. Kindle, Mr. Allegretti and Mr. Rice had all completed the proper training.
He also recommended that Scott Dossett and he went through a refresher of the training.
b. Discussion of changes to the qualifications for CPRB (specifically, exclusions of
those with past felonies and past police department service)
Chair Ricardo Diaz reminded everyone that at the last meeting members voted to say that
the Board recommend individuals with felonies be allowed to participate on the board and
that two board members volunteered to go to a City Council meeting to speak about it.
Carol Mitten asked for clarification on the purpose of bringing it up at a City Council
meeting and board members stated that they just want to bring awareness that this is the
intention. Scott Dossett and Tony Allegretti agreed to attend the April 5 City Council
meeting to address it.
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Discussion on what we, CPRB Board members, have learned from Hearings.
Katrina Kindle has learned how to formulate her questions better to make them relevant.
When she joined the Board, she was not familiar with all of the different sides in regards to
complaints and appeals and she is learning to connect the pieces together.
Tony Rice agreed with Katrina’s comments about learning things as a new member. He was
not familiar with processes when he became a new member, but he has become enlightened
on how things work.
Chair Ricardo Diaz has learned how people can submit a complaint is very important. He
had not realized how intimidating making a complaint directly to police officers about police
officers could be. Chair Diaz also discovered that there is a need for developing a process of
how to handle a complaint that is filed against the Chief of Police.
Scott Dosset shared his desire of creating a smoother process and movement of a complaint
through the City structure.
Chair Ricardo Diaz expressed his thoughts on the need for a definition of what a FOIA
procedure is and what it gives to people. His belief is a complainant should have as much
information as possible about their complaint.
Katrina Kindle asked for a clarification on timing requirements associated with filing
complaints and responding.
Chair Ricardo Diaz learned that any video related to a complaint gets frozen. There is a time
limit on how long videos can be kept so there needs to be a time limit on when a citizen can
file a complaint. He also spoke about how many factors can contribute to the delay of an
investigation and there are parameters on when an investigation can be conducted.
Tony Allegretti discussed the importance of the Board members having all of the
information and documentation related to a complaint and investigation before an appeal
hearing.
Scott Dossett agreed with Mr. Allegretti and shared his desire to have a checklist of things
that are routinely provided to Board members when a complaint comes in.
Chair Ricardo Diaz has learned that the categories for the way Board members vote in
hearings are inadequate and should be updated.
b. Discussion of what is needed to attract new members to the CPRB Board.
There are currently two vacant positions on the Board.
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Tony Allegretti asked if Chair Diaz gets notified when someone applies. Chair Diaz said yes
he does get notified and is invited to interviews. Mr. Allegretti also asked if the vacant spots
are a problem of people not applying or something else.
Chair Diaz suggested visiting churches, sending out letters, or placing a Facebook ad.
Tony Allegretti asked if there had ever been a student on the Board and suggested looking
into the possibility of reaching out to that demographic. Scott Dossett said there had not
ever been a student on the Board. He suggested placing an ad in the Daily Illini.
Chair Ricardo Diaz asked how other Board members had been recruited to the Board.
Answers included friends and Coworkers.
Scott Dossett said he would make a social media post encouraging people to apply. Chair
Diaz said he would work on language that can be used to encourage people to apply and
would announce the vacancies at different meetings.
c. Administrative review by the HREO/CPRB of citizens’ complaints.
Chair Ricardo Diaz expressed the importance of establishing a procedure.
Carol Mitten reviewed previous discussions regarding the tiering of complaints. She shared
council input and Board members desire to be involved with this process. Ms. Mitten
assured that nothing would be decided behind closed doors. She believes the board
members are in a better position to recognize the need for this tiering system.
Scott Dossett thought that the only option at this point was to make a motion and discuss
whether the ordinance should be amended to adopt a tiering procedure and that the Board
should be more involved.
Carol Mitten suggested putting together a package reviewing discussions that have taken
place in the past at CPRB meetings and Council meetings.
d. Use of Force enforcement policy discussion, final meeting on March 30, 2021.
Chair Ricardo Diaz provided a recap of efforts to update the Use of Force policy and
reminded Board members that the last meeting for those discussions would be
March 30.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Date for Taser reviews
Will most likely be a part of the meeting on April 28. Scott Dossett requested the
Board take both cases from start to finish and the Board gets full documentation
from those because most Board members have not reviewed one before.
b. Two CPRB vacancies (Resignation of Darrell Price)
Discussed previously in meeting.
c. Status of recruitment of new Human Rights and Equity Officer (HREO)
Process hiring a new HREO is progressing.
d. CPRB Appeals Hearing Dates
City staff is working on establishing possible future hearing dates.
e. Next Regular Meeting Date: April 28, 2021
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8. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Tracy Chong agreed that Board members having materials before hearings is a good idea.
Christopher Hansen added points to his case law discussed in the first session of public
input. He also stated that citizens do not trust the board or the complaint process.
Emily Klose shared her disappointment that only one complaint has been filed in 2021. She
believes it is because citizens do not trust the process.
9. ADJOURNMENT
Scott Dossett made a motion to adjourn. Katrina Kindle seconded the motion. The meeting
adjourned at 7:35 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Tamra Jane Corbin
Recording Secretary
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Agenda
Regular Meeting
Civilian Police Review Board
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DATE: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
TIME: 5 :30 pm
PLACE: *to be held virtually via Zoom, 400 S. Vine St., Urbana, IL 61801
AGENDA
1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS
a. Regular Meeting, December 17, 2020
b. Regular Meeting, February 24, 2021
4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a. Status of Complaints and Appeals
b. Discussion of changes to the qualifications for CPRB (specifically, exclusions of
those with past felonies and past police department service)
c. Date(s) for reporting to Council
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Discussion on what we, CPRB Board members, have learned from Hearings.
b. Discussion of what is needed to attract new members to the CPRB Board.
c. Administrative review by the HREO/CPRB of citizens’ complaints.
d. Use of Force enforcement policy discussion, final meeting on March 30, 2021.
7. ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Date for Taser reviews
b. Two CPRB vacancies (Resignation of Darrell Price)
c. Status of recruitment of new Human Rights and Equity Officer (HREO)
d. CPRB Appeals Hearing Dates
e. Next Regular Meeting Date: April 28, 2021
8. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
9. ADJOURNMENT
*Due to the Governor Pritzker and Mayoral Emergency Covid-19 Orders, the Urbana City Council
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*Definitions of Types of Language and Conduct That May Warrant Verbal Warning:
“Abusive” means harsh, violent, profane, or derogatory language which would demean the
dignity of an individual or which is intended to humiliate, mock, insult or belittle an individual.
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/abusive-language
“Harassing” means to annoy or bother someone in a constant or repeated way; to make
repeated attacks on another person.
https://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/harass
“Threatening” means to say that you will harm someone or do something unpleasant or
unwanted especially in order to make someone do what you want.
https://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/threaten
“Defamatory” means a statement or communication that tends to harm a person's reputation
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person's business. A statement that is likely to lower that person in the estimation of reasonable
people and in particular to cause that person to be regarded with feelings of hatred, contempt,
ridicule, fear, or dislike.
Black's Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019)
Citations that Authorize the Presiding Officer to Bar Offensive Language During Public
Comment:
The following citations provide the legal basis for adopting UCC Section 2-5(b)(1)(d) that allows
the presiding officer of a City Council, Committee of the Whole, or a City-sponsored board or
commission regulate “abusive, harassing, threatening, or defamatory language” during public
comment. The following Attorney General binding opinions and case law essentially classify
abusive, “harassing, threatening and defamatory language as “manner”, not “content”, of speech
that can be reasonably regulated under the First Amendment. UCC Section 2-5(c) (Ordinance
No. 2020-09-049. Attorney General binding opinion numbers 2019 PAC 59187, 2018 PAC
55462, 2016 PAC 45349; Milestone v. City of Monroe, Wisconsin, 665 F.3d 774, 783-784 (7th Cir.
2011); Vega v. Chicago Board of Education, 338 F.Supp.3d 806, 811 (N.D. Ill. 2018); Sandefur v. Vill.
of Hanover Park, 862 F.Supp.2d 840, 847 (N.D. Ill. 2012); I.A. Rana Enterprises, Inc. v. City of
Aurora, 630 F.Supp.2d 912, 920-923 (D.C. N.D. 2009).
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