In memo, Broadnax outlines steps needed to eliminate G file
More than a year after voters approved the Austin Police Oversight Act and supporters sued to force the city of Austin and the Austin Police Department to fully implement it, officials are taking steps to fulfill one of the Oversight Act’s key mandates – elimination of a secret file where some police misconduct records had been kept.
Elimination of the G file has been a key goal of police oversight advocates for decades, because they argue it is a place for APD to conceal proven allegations of misconduct that the department doesn't want the public – or civilian investigators working at the Office of Police Oversight – to know about.
These two portions of state law create a dynamic in which a police chief could look at the results of an Internal Affairs investigation into officer misconduct that proves misconduct occurred and decide, for whatever reason they want, not to discipline the officer . If that were to happen, the records could be locked away in the G file, totally inaccessible to anyone outside of the department – including members of the public and the civilian investigators at OPO.
The Austin Police Association and their statewide counterpart, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, have fiercely protected the G file for decades because they say it protects officers by shielding records relating to frivolous or retaliatory complaints that are proven untrue. APA President
Austin Police Oversight Act Equity Action G File Office Of Police Oversight T.C. Broadnax
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