APD and the police officer union postponed arbitration scheduled for this month until late fall. Union officials say the mutual decision was made in hopes of resolving policy disputes without outside help.
Word of the postponed arbitration first surfaced Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the municipal Public Safety Committee. Police Chief Michael Kerle and Deputy Chief Sean Case said only that arbitration scheduled for April had been pushed back to the fall, without elaborating on why.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the change means for when the body cameras will be rolled out. A decision was expected this fall, had arbitration gone forward as originally planned. Now, if the department and union can’t resolve their issues, arbitration will start at some unspecified time this fall, with a decision not expected until months later.
Case did not provide specifics about what the issue was. When Evans was asked Thursday about what new issue had come up, he said the disagreements were “more of the same” but provided no specific details. Along with the voter-approved tax increase that also funded upgrades to the department’s computer-aided dispatch and record management systems, an additional $250,000 was allocated to the department by the Assembly and APD was awardedFormer Police Chief Kenneth McCoy brought forward several drafts of the policy in 2021 and asked for public feedback. Theamid concerns from the city’s law department about how the policy would interact with standing privacy statutes.
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