December 2015 Report of the Police Intelligence Audit Pursuant to Ordinance 108333 (Seattle Municipal Code 14.12).
If the bill passes and the chair will sign it. Okay. Agenda Items eight through 12 short titles. Agenda Items eight 312 Quick File 314339315 340 314 317 three one 4374 and 314 351st December 2015. Report of the Police Intelligence Order Pursuant to Orders 108333 Response of the Police Chief to the December 2015 Report Chief of Police Audit Report to select files obtained through Police Departments Membership to the Law Enforcers Intelligence Unit Seattle Police Chief 2016 Annual Report concerning activities regulated by Ordinance 108333 and Chief of Police Audit Report as selected files obtained through the Police Department's Membership and Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit, the Commission recommends that all these files be placed on file. Thank you. These five click files relate to reports received routinely by the Seattle City Council from the Seattle Police Department regarding the intelligence auditor ordinance. And they date from 2015 and 2016 and include responses from the Seattle Police Department Chief of Police with regard to compliance with the intelligence auditor ordinance. And the committee heard reports related to the findings by the intelligence auditor and the Chief of police's response to those findings. And the Committee recommends that the full council file these clerk files. Are there any comments? That's Mercyone. Thank you. President Gonzalez. I intend to vote yes on this agenda item along with the next several agenda items, because these votes only accept the clerk files, they are not an endorsement of their content. These files contain the audits of the Seattle Police Department's surveillance and similar activities. However, last year, excellent reporting by Ansel Herz demonstrated that the audit process itself is totally perfunctory and is not a process capable of uncovering abuses of the system if there are any. For example, the auditor requests files and they are provided by the Seattle Police Department. But there is no system whereby the auditor can systematically look through the files that have not been provided or investigate topics that have not been provided for. So I will vote yes on filing the closed files because they should be on file. But I continue to support a more expansive audit process. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Excellent. And then just on that point, that's part of the reason why we in the Police Accountability Ordinance folded. The intelligence auditor functions into what will hopefully be the new Office of Inspector General is precisely the issues that you have highlighted. So we we talked about that during our committee hearing and looking forward to having a more robust, systemic way of being able to identify those system issues. But thank you for highlighting that today. Okay. Any other comments? Okay. All right. This is. Okay. So is this like a resolution, Amelia? Oh. Those in favor of filing clerk files 314339314340314373314374 and 314351 vote i. I. Those oppose vote no. The motion carries in the files are placed on file. Keep the report of the Energy and Environment Committee.