File #: 2022-0069    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/22/2022 In control: Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/15/2022
Enactment date: 3/25/2022 Enactment #: 19411
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the public safety advisory committee; and amending Ordinance 19249, Section 1, as amended.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: Committees, Public Safety
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19411, 2. A. Public Safety Advisory Committee Members, 3. 2022-0069_PSAC2ndAmd_SR
Related files: 2021-0113
Staff: Bowman, Nick

Title

AN ORDINANCE relating to the public safety advisory committee; and amending Ordinance 19249, Section 1, as amended.

Body

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  Ordinance 19249, Section 1, is hereby amended to read as follows:

                     A.  The King County public safety advisory committee is hereby established.

                     B.  The purpose of the committee shall be to:

                       1.  Engage with and receive input from community stakeholders directly impacted by the department of public safety and provide guidance to the council and the executive in the selection, appointment and confirmation process for appointment of the chief officer of the department of public safety in accordance with Ordinance 19249, Section 3; and

                       2.  Engage with and receive input from community stakeholders directly impacted by the department of public safety regarding the values stakeholder communities hold on how law enforcement services should be provided and ways the county could improve the delivery of law enforcement services to preserve and enhance public safety, and to provide guidance to the council and the executive on those matters in accordance with Ordinance 19249, Section 4.

                     C.1.  The committee shall include thirteen members of the public, who represent the geographic, ethnic and economic diversity of the department of public safety's service area.  Two members of the committee shall represent overpoliced communities.  Two members of the committee shall represent rural unincorporated communities.  Two members of the committee shall represent urban unincorporated communities.  Two members of the committee shall represent cities which contract with the department of public safety for police services.  Two members of the committee shall have knowledge of, or experience related to, law enforcement reform work.  One member of the committee shall represent the Puget Sound Police Managers Association.  One member of the committee shall represent the King County Police Officers Guild.  One member of the committee shall represent the community advisory committee for law enforcement oversight.

                       2.  The executive and the council shall each select one member representing the following communities or expertise:

                         a.  overpoliced communities, which, for the purposes of ((this o))Ordinance 19249, are those communities that have simultaneously experienced the greatest infringement of personal liberty and the greatest under-protection from law enforcement.

                         b.  rural unincorporated communities, which, for the purposes of ((e))Ordinance 19249, are those areas located in the rural area of the county;

                         c.  urban unincorporated communities, which, for the purposes of ((this o))Ordinance 19249 are those located in the in the urban growth areas of unincorporated King County; and

                         d.  a person with knowledge of or experience related to law enforcement reform work.

                       3.  The oversight committee, established by the interlocal public safety services agreements with the cities, shall select two members to represent the contract cities on the advisory committee.  The Puget Sound Police Managers Association and the King County Police Officers Guild shall each select one member from their respective organizations to represent their organizations on the committee.  The community committee for law enforcement oversight shall select one member to represent it on the advisory committee.

                       4.  Committee members selected by the executive and those members selected by the council to represent the communities as described in subsection C.2. of this section and those members selected by the organizations as described in Ordinance 19249, subsection C.3. of this section are included in Attachment A to ((this ordinance))this ordinance.  After the effective date of this ordinance, a designee to replace a committee member who resigns or becomes permanently unable to serve on the committee shall be approved by motion.  The person or entity that selected the committee member for whom a replacement is required shall select the replacement designee to be approved by motion. An approved designee must represent the communities or expertise of the committee member for whom the replacement designee has been selected.

                       5.  Once fully constituted, the committee, with assistance from the facilitators described in Ordinance 19249, Section 6, shall determine its rules and operating procedures, including, but not limited to, the frequency of committee meetings, the method by which the committee will determine what to include in the final report required by Ordinance 19249, Section 5((, as amended)).