File #: 2025-0352    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: In Committee
File created: 11/25/2025 In control: Employment and Administration Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A MOTION reappointing Tamer Abouzeid as the director of the office of law enforcement oversight.
Sponsors: Sarah Perry
Indexes: Appointments, Law Enforcement, Oversight
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Drafter

Clerk 11/20/2025

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A MOTION reappointing Tamer Abouzeid as the director of the office of law enforcement oversight.

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                     WHEREAS, Section 265 of the King County Charter states that the director of the office of law enforcement oversight ("OLEO") shall serve a four-year term and until a successor is appointed, and

                     WHEREAS, K.C.C. 2.75.030 states that the director of OLEO shall be selected by the council through a nationwide search using a merit-based selection process, and

                     WHEREAS, the council conducted an extensive and public merit-based selection process, and as a result appointed Tamer Abouzeid to serve a four-year term as the director of the officer of law enforcement oversight effective September 20, 2021, and

                     WHEREAS, the council wishes to reappoint Tamer Abouzeid to serve as director of the office of law enforcement oversight for an additional four-year term; and

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     Tamer Abouzeid is hereby reappointed as the director of the office of law enforcement oversight, to a four-year term ending December 31, 2029.