the the thing that I can tell you is
that anything that's made on social
media we are aware of it and we do
monitor it but unless the um comments or
things that are made on social media is
something that affects a policy or
procedure at this point it's nothing
that we can do about it but we are
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aware for today's video I'd just like to
ask you a question and in the comments
below please provide your opinion in a
recent civilian review board meeting the
Inspector General of the city of
Columbus Department of Public Safety
Jacqueline M Hendricks stated that in
order to avoid public scrutiny of her
investigators she will no longer be
releasing the investigators names when
they are requested via public records
the question that I have for you is this
legal any comments from our Review
Committee or questions from the board I
have one I think on this particular one
right here the investigator's name was
not on the
case and I think that uh that we should
have known who the investigator of the
case
was yep and that so we have have went to
a new format in which we no longer put
the investigators names on the reports
the report strictly comes straight from
the office and that has a lot to do with
um I would say a lot of things that are
being put on social media which is
affecting my investigators by
intimidating them and putting their
names out there their pictures and I
would say you know I signed up for this
so I don't mind my name being out there
but I really want to protect my
investigators because the investigations
that they that are conducted are
reviewed by me and approved so that's
the reason why we've actually decided to
remove their names from the
investigations
um one of one of the questions I think
it's just thank you for that that
response just if you could um maybe
explain just kind of a high level
overview of the current process I mean
working of aware but just so that folks
know the process that goes through with
the set of investigators who review a
case and it goes through your team you
just want to give a a nice high level
overview of that okay so all
investigations that are done goes
through once the investigations are
completed we have two supervisors in
place and each Supervisor has a team so
once the investigation are done they
actually go through a peer review among
themselves they also meet weekly and
discuss the cases which is kind of good
it allows them to share the information
um among some of the cases that are
being conest that are being done but the
review goes through the supervisors once
the supervisor finishes their review
then it goes to the deputy inspector for
his review and then once he's done with
his review then that review comes to me
I do the final review and then it's once
we're commit done with it then we submit
the review to the um civilian review
board for you to have that final review
and approval but it does go through
layers of review and that's not just
reviewing the reports it's reviewing the
documents it's reviewing whatever audio
it's reviewing body cam I mean it's it's
an extensive review just to make sure
that everything is accurate and thorough
and reflects not only what the complaint
is but also reflects whatever
allegations we're looking at and
whatever policy and procedures that
we're investigating to see whether or
not there was a violation excellent
thank you have one more question uh
going back to the question that I
previously asked you about um the
investigator's name not being on the
case is this something that's going to
be uh policy for all investigators or is
it just for some investigators oh no
this is going forward this is something
that we implemented in February so what
you might find is some cases that still
have the names on there were probably
cases that were submitted prior to us
going to this new format in um February
is when we went to the new format and
then we had some additional training so
going forward you won't see the
investigators names on the case but what
we do want is for the board to really
just kind of focus on like the
investigation and see whether or not we
do know who the investigators are so we
will definitely monitor um if there is
an issue or something that we see
consistently with an investigator but
going forward we just don't have their
name on the final report that's
submitted thank you for that and so um
you had mentioned that there's been um
kind of statements on social media and
others about individual investigators
um maybe you don't have to elaborate too
much on that but could you maybe explain
in the sense of I don't know in terms of
the whether the city uh you know how to
how you handle that uh as a as your
office aside there's this approach is
there other efforts being made in terms
of just getting Clarity over the office
and and what's happening in terms of
maybe statements that are made on social
media the thing that I can tell you is
that anything that's made on social
media we are aware of it and we do
monitor it but unless the um comments or
things that are made on social media is
something that affects a policy or
procedure at this point it's nothing
that we can do about it but we are aware
we are monitoring it and then if there
becomes something that we're able to do
we we will you know make sure that we
can do something we have actually also
talked with the attorney's office to see
if there's some other um Avenues in
which we can pursue but at this point in
time we feel the best way to pursue that
is to um remove the investigator's name
from the report to kind of provide that
layer of protection of their name and
face being brought out there excellent
thank you um and then part of this just
as Clarity one of the statements that
happened earlier as a process that we
decided on as a board is in terms of
when we're reviewing out these cases not
uh revealing the names of the officers
or the complainants in the cases now
that can be found via public records
request but that was a decision that was
made as well so it's it's consistent
with that broader practice um the next
uh case number any other questions on
the on on that particular case I'm I'm
not going to go to the next one I'm
going to explain this one sorry about
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that