Oversight advocates and city workers say it’ll be costly and weaken police transparency
City Council could approve a new contract between the city and the Austin Police Association one week from today, but pressure against it is mounting.
Police oversight advocates have focused on one piece of the contract that they fear would allow the city to preserve the “G file,” where records relating to officer misconduct investigations are kept confidential. They interpret the contract language as preserving confidentiality for certain misconduct records created before the contract, even though a Travis County judge recently ruled that the city maintaining a G file was unlawful due to the Oversight Act.
Justice advocates warn that this is the APA’s real goal, to dismantle the Oversight Act through contract grievances – a tactic theythe oversight system established in the 2018 police contract. “The City cannot approve the current agreement because it’s clear that no agreement exists,” board members of Equity Action, the justice advocacy organization that authored the Oversight Act, wrote in a letter to City Manager T.C. Broadnax, Oct. 1.Council Member Chito Vela shares Equity Action’s concern.
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