Washington police oversight agency has yet to open an investigation

Washington police oversight agency has yet to open an investigation ... Three years after its founding, the Office of Independent Investigations ...

Three years later, no investigations started by WA police oversight ...

Reformers are displeased with the Office of Independent Investigations, which says it is hiring investigators and trying to get up to speed.

A slow start for Washington office tasked with probing police violence

But reform advocates who pushed the legislation are criticizing the office's slow pace in opening investigations, its focus on hiring ...

Melanie Henshaw | Cascade PBS - Crosscut

Washington police oversight agency has yet to open an investigation ... Three years after its founding, the Office of Independent Investigations has not moved ...

New WA agency seeks to end practice of police investigating ...

A new Washington agency is seeking to remove police from the long-held and conflict-ridden practice of investigating themselves when they ...

New Washington agency now accepting requests to review cases of ...

The Washington State Office of Independent Investigations is accepting requests to review prior cases where law enforcement officers used ...

New Washington state office for investigating police is slow to start

A new civilian office designed to investigate police uses of deadly force in Washington won't be ready to start its work by July 1 as originally expected.

State agency will investigate police shootings in SW Washington

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A new Washington state agency is set to take over investigations into fatal police shootings and other deadly ...

Agency works to change investigations on deadly police force - KREM

Washington's Office of Independent Investigations is considered the first independent agency that will take use of force investigations out ...

Washington State's Office Of Independent Investigations To Reopen ...

A new Washington state office to scrutinize police uses of force is still not fully up and running, but it's taking suggestions from the public ...

Tacoma could get police oversight. Is what it has now working?

Members of the Community Police Advisory Committee say they lack access to evidence in investigations of complaints filed by the public, have no ...

Chapter 43.102 RCW: OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS

The legislature does not intend to create a new type of investigation or that the office should be involved in any administrative review of conduct or ...

New push to 'hold police accountable' gains steam in Washington ...

Washington state already has an independent office to investigate deadly use of force. The bill to create an independent prosecutors office ...

No guns, no uniforms: Meet WA's new investigators of police force

The Office of Independent Investigations is a first-ever attempt by a state to erase — or at least diminish — the “thin blue line” controversy ...

A New Agency Seeks to Hold Washington's Killer Cops Accountable

Last week, the skeleton crew of employees staffing Washington's new Office of Independent Investigations (OII) finally moved into their offices.

Police Oversight in Spokane, Washington

Under the recently ratified police contract in March 2021, a new path to an independent investigation has been added but both are still very ...

Office of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO) - King County

In November 2015, King County citizens voted to give OLEO the authority to conduct investigations of police uses of deadly force and misconduct complaints. That ...

No more police investigating the police - support ESHB 1267

Indeed, it takes time and practice. although it has been the custom that people with law enforcement conduct these investigations. In fact, ...

AG Investigations - HB 1445 — Washington Coalition for Police ...

Currently, the primary way to bring an investigation into systemic issues at a department is to request one from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which ...

State Proposal Creating Community Oversight Boards for Police ...

A bill that would create a framework for civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies across Washington state is making its way toward a vote ...