News and events in civilian
oversight and police accountability.
In this Edition...
• Early Registration Deadline Approaching for 21st Annual
Conference
• Purchase Your Annual Scholarship Fundraising Dinner
Tickets Today
• Nomination Period Open to Run for the NACOLE Board
• Announcing 2015 NACOLE Award and Scholarship Recipients
• BART Police Department Adopts Transgender Policy
• NACOLE Attends 39th Annual NOBLE Conference in
Indianapolis
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Early Registration Deadline
Approaching for 21st Annual Conference
The early registration deadline for the 2015
Annual NACOLE Conference is JULY 31, 2015. All paid registrations received on
or before this date will qualify for the reduced rate. To guarantee your
discount, register today!
REGISTER NOW
This year’s conference will feature a
conference schedule with more topics, more speakers, and more opportunities to
contribute to the growing national dialogue around civilian oversight.
For a copy of the complete 2015 conference
schedule, go to the website
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Purchase Your Annual
Scholarship Fundraising Dinner Tickets Today
Join us for our annual
scholarship fundraising dinner at Heroes Restaurant and Brewery, located in
downtown Riverside. In addition to good food and good conversation, you will be
supporting NACOLE’s efforts to offer financial support to those wishing to
attend the Annual Conference, to increase the reach of civilian oversight, and
to promote participation by individuals from a broad spectrum of social,
economic, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Seats to this event are limited
and WILL NOT be available for purchase at the conference. Make sure to purchase
your tickets today!
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Nomination Period Open to Run
for the NACOLE Board
The nomination period to run
for the NACOLE Board of Directors is open until September 6, 2015. File your
declaration today! Serving on the Board is an exciting way to help shape the
direction of the association, to work closely with your oversight colleagues,
and to support communities across the country looking to establish or improve
oversight of the police.
To be eligible, candidates shall have been
association members in good standing for one year; they must have attended at
least one of the two previous annual conferences; and their membership dues
must be current. This year, the membership will elect the President, the
Vice-President, and two Board members at the Annual Meeting on October 7, 2015.
How to file: Send your signed declaration form
(and bio and photo) to the Election and Bylaws Committee by no later than
September 6, 2015. Please mail or email your declaration to: Ainsley Cromwell,
Chair, NACOLE Election Committee, 1063 Trevor Place, Detroit, MI 48207, or
cromwellac@yahoo.com.
All election-related material and information
can be found HERE on the NACOLE website.
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Announcing 2015 NACOLE Award
and Scholarship Recipients
NACOLE is pleased to announce
the recipients of its 2015 Flame Award and Achievement in Oversight Awards.
They are:
Charles D. Reynolds, recipient of the 2015
Flame Award, is a court-appointed consent decree monitor, a former chief of
police in five communities, a past-president of an international police
executive organization, a recognized expert on police organizational and
management issues, and a past NACOLE board member.
St. Louis City Aldermen Terry Kennedy and
Antonio French serve their community with distinction as elected
representatives of their wards on the Board of Aldermen and are together
recipients of one of this year’s Achievement in Oversight awards.
Samara Marion, a policy analyst and staff
lawyer with the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints, is a recipient of
the second Achievement in Oversight award.
NACOLE is also pleased to
announce the recipients of the 2015 Scholarship Awards in the following
categories:
Founders’ Community Scholarship Award: Deborah
Jacobs, Melissa Smith, Olga Orraca, Torin Jacobs
Presidents’ Scholarship Award: Lynn Erickson,
Marielle Moore
Membership Scholarship Award: Richard Olquin,
Aisha Miles
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BART Police Department Adopts
Transgender Policy
As a result of a recommendation
made by its Civilian Review Board, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police
Department adopted a policy on interactions with individuals identifying as
transgender.
The policy aims to increase awareness among
officers and to support the need for all members of the community to be treated
fairly and with respect.
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NACOLE Attends 39th Annual
NOBLE Conference in Indianapolis
NACOLE President Brian Buchner and Cameron
McEllhiney, NACOLE’s Director of Training & Education, attended the 39th
Annual Conference of the National Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) in Indianapolis,
Indiana. NOBLE invited Mr. Buchner to participate in the Opening Plenary
Session where the Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Loretta
Lynch delivered the Keynote address. As an invited guest, NACOLE was also given
free booth space in the Exhibition Hall, which turned out to be a great
opportunity to meet and speak with law enforcement officials and NOBLE members
about NACOLE and civilian oversight. It was a good opportunity to build a
relationship with NOBLE and its members, as there is alignment between what
NOBLE and NACOLE have been working toward for many years. NOBLE’s 40th
anniversary conference will be held in 2016 in Washington, DC. More information
about NOBLE is available on its website, www.noblenational.org.
Our mailing address is:
NACOLE
P.O. Box 87227
Tucson, AZ 85754
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