Campaign for JUSTICE, SAFETY & JOBS
Consent Decree Monitor Applicant Survey Responses
The Monitor Applications are available here. Members of the public are invited to review and submit written comments and recommendations on the Applications (click here to view the notice).
Members of the public can submit written comments either via email to
Baltimore.Consent.Decree@usdoj.gov or mailed to the address below:
Puneet Cheema
United States Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section
950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20530
To ensure full consideration by the Parties, submissions should be made no later than July 17, 2017. Email submissions are encouraged.
The Parties will compile the public submissions, forward them to the Court, and publish them on the websites for DOJ, the BPD, and the City. The Parties will not forward or post submissions that contain irrelevant, threatening, or inflammatory material, or any submissions that reveal confidential information.
CJSJ invited all monitor applicants to respond to a brief survey and to participate in our town hall meeting on July 6, 2017. Here are the results from the applicants who replied:
Initial Responses
Follow-Up Responses
CJSJ Survey Questions
1. Why is your firm applying for the monitor position in Baltimore? Who are the members of the proposed monitoring team, names and affiliation? How many community liaisons are on your team, who are they and what are their connections to Baltimore residents, particularly impacted communities? Please explain how they will function on your team.
2. Are any members of your team experts in addressing biased policing, including racial and gender biases held by law enforcement? If so, please describe how this team member successfully addressed the problem in other jurisdictions.
3. Do members of the proposed monitoring team have any connections to Baltimore? If so, please describe.
4. Has your firm and/or its members monitored a DOJ consent decree or private settlement agreements in the past? If so, please explain.
5. How will your firm fulfill its requirement under the consent decree to engage Baltimore residents in the outcome assessment, including the annual community survey (see paragraph 459 of the consent decree)? How will your team be accessible to Baltimore residents? How often will your team hold in-person meetings with Baltimore residents?
6. Is your firm willing to subcontract the community survey or other assessment requirements to a Baltimore community-based entity or resident? What is your team's comfort and experience with that? What role is your team expecting and to what extent is your team willing to let community owned and controlled technologies (both human and high tech technology) aide significantly in this effort?
7. How will your team engage ALL of Baltimore's residents? What plan do you have to engage hard-to-reach communities that have a stake in police reform including youth, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ communities?