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South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND South Bend City Clerk Dawn Jones has said she’ll take Joshua Reynolds’ word that his prior suspensions as an Indianapolis police officer amounted to retaliation for his reporting of other officers’ misconduct, but it became clear Monday night the common council won’t.
The council can’t fire Reynolds, but it appoints the citizen board to whom he would present his investigation findings and it controls his office’s budget, said council attorney Bob Palmer.
At a special meeting of the council’s Rules Committee, the committee voted unanimously to ask the full council, at its next regular meeting Monday July 26, to subpoena Community Police Review Board Director Reynolds’ internal affairs files from his former employers, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Butler University, if he won’t agree to release them himself.
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South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND As the new director of the South Bend community police review board prepares to step into his role in the coming weeks, some community groups and a Common Council member say they wished the public would have had more input into his hiring.
Last week, South Bend City Clerk Dawn Jones announced the hiring of Joshua Reynolds, a former police officer who runs an investigative firm in Indianapolis, as director of the newly formed civilian oversight board for the South Bend Police Department.
Reynolds said at a Monday press conference, his goal is to “build greater trust and transparency and safety to the citizens of this city.”