TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 3, 2023

The staff of Nashville’s Community Oversight Board will likely stay on board even after it is reconstituted as a Civilian Review Board, WPLN reports. The legislature earlier this year took away much of the power the boards held to monitor police departments, but newly elected mayor Freddie O’Connell has said he thinks civilian oversight is still important and will keep the staff in place to get the new Civilian Review Board “up and running as quickly as possible.”