The Board shall consist of five (5) residents of the District of Columbia, one of whom shall be a member of the MPD and four (4) of whom shall have no current affiliation with any law enforcement authority. Members of the Board shall be uncompensated and shall serve terms of three (3) years or until a successor has been appointed. A Board member may be reappointed, as provided by D.C. Official Code § 5-1104(b).
The Board shall meet as frequently as it determines necessary, but it shall meet at least quarterly. Public notice of regular Board meetings and the location of the meetings shall be made in the D.C. Register and on the OPC website. Similar notice will be provided for any rescheduled or special meeting of the Board.
All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public, unless the Board determines that the meeting, or portion thereof, should be closed. Closure is appropriate only when the matter subject to discussion would, if written, be exempt from disclosure under D.C. Official Code § 2 -534. No resolution, rule, act, regulation, or other official action of the Board shall be effective unless taken, made, or enacted at an open meeting.1
A quorum for the transaction of business shall be three (3) members of the Board.
An audio recording and minutes shall be kept for all such meetings and shall be made available to the public.
The Board shall conduct periodic reviews of the citizen complaint review process, and shall make recommendations, where appropriate, to the Mayor, the Council, the Chief of MPD, and the Director of the District of Columbia Housing Authority ("DCHA Director") concerning the status and the improvement of the citizen complaint process. The Board shall, where appropriate, make recommendations to the above-named entities concerning those elements of management of the MPD affecting the incidence of police misconduct, such as the recruitment, training, evaluation, discipline, and supervision of police officers, as provided by D.C. Official Code § 5-1104(d).
The Board may monitor and evaluate MPD's handling of, and response to, First Amendment assemblies, as defined in § 5-333.02, held on District streets, sidewalks, or other public ways, or in District parks, as provided by D.C. Official Code § 5-1104 (d-1).
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 6, r. 6-A2102