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The proposed legislation, announced in a press release on the morning of Dec. 3, comes on the heels of the release of an OPA Case Closed Summary in which all allegations were sustained against an officer who ran into a woman’s car and lied about it. In this particular case, the OPA was unable to secure the testimony of a witness officer.
The document, which was issued in November of last year, outlines the allegations of misconduct, summarizes OPA findings, and issues an imposed discipline, in this case: 'termination.'

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Seattle Police Department Office of Professional Accountability OPA Closed Case Report Apr June 2014 9 Case Summary Case Finding 13-0524 The complainant, a supervisor within the Department, alleged the named employee failed to report a Use of Force statement made by an officer of another agency that was heard while assisting in taking a suspect into custody. The Office of Police Accountability (OPA) is an independent office within the Seattle Police Department (SPD) which investigates complaints of police misconduct made by members of the community and complaints made internally by members of the Seattle Police Department.

A Closed Case Summary is created for every OPA investigation and posted online after the case has been completed. Closed Case Summaries provide information regarding the complaint, the specific allegations investigated, the OPA Director's findings, and discipline imposed by the Chief of Police, if applicable. A Closed Case Summary also includes.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s police watchdog agency says city police officers didn’t violate any policies when they wore badges with black bands and kept their body-worn cameras turned off during protests this spring and summer.

The Seattle Times reports the Office of Police Accountability made the determiniation in new reports released Wednesday.

Particularly during the earliest Seattle protests this year in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis, protesters and others had accused officers of trying to conceal police misconduct by not recording their actions and by using black tape on their badges, which protesters said obscured officers’ serial numbers.

However, OPA determined complaints about officers’ badges were unfounded and officers’ recordings were “lawful and proper” per the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) policy on body-worn cameras in place at the time.

Closed case summaries on the complaints and a dozen others were posted to the OPA’s website Wednesday. As of October, OPA had received 19,000 complaints about officer behavior and SPD’s response to protests and opened 128 investigations.

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Though the complaints about badges and bodycams were not sustained by OPA, both cases led to policy changes in the department, with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issuing an executive order in June that SPD create a new policy requiring officers to record protests when officers anticipate they will have contact with the public, according to OPA’s case summaries.

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On the badge issue, OPA determined the black tape officers wore over their badges was not meant to conceal officers’ identities but was worn to memorialize recently deceased officers from local law enforcement agencies.

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As for bodvy cameras, OPA researched the City Council’s historical records and determined the city has a longstanding prohibition against photographing peaceful protests for law enforcement purposes that stemmed from news reports in the 1960s and 1970s that Seattle police had maintained files on community leaders and civil rights advocates.