The Toledo Community Coalition, led by Reverends Otis Gordon and Robert Culp, is calling for Toledo Police disciplinary records to be open. Currently under union contract they are not available to the public. Like teachers who are shifted from one job to another after being released for disciplinary reasons, officers could in effect go to any other city and apply for work without their records following them.
The coalition has other demands which will be presented to the full group at a meeting this Thursday.
- Maintain all complaints of officer misconduct as public records regardless of who makes the complaint or whether they are found sustained.
- Shift the duties of the Civilian Police Review Board to reviewing all internal affairs investigations and jointly with department leadership recommend discipline before it is rendered, subsequently providing an appeals process through the city safety director and then the Lucas County Common Pleas Court.
- Indefinitely maintain officers’ disciplinary records and applicable internal affairs investigatory records;
- Keep records of any disciplinary investigation in which an officer resigns or retires before termination in that officer’s public personnel file.
Do you believe that officers should have their disciplinary records made public? TUESDAY 60 MINUTE POLL