POLICE OVERSIGHT FOCUS GROUP BACKGROUND:
See an ACLU mailer announcing the City Council meeting, an earlier ACLU mailer on the topic, a side-by-side analysis of the original negotiated POFG agreement with the gutted version produced by APD, and letter to the Austin city council by the webmaster. See also an explanation why the City Manager's claims that legal problems made him scuttle the agreement are untrue, and talking points distributed at the city council meeting. Or take a look at the original POFG compromise (off-site link) the union originally agreed to last spring. And keep in mind, community groups compromised a great deal just to get the POFG; see a list of Pros and Cons of the POFG as originally proposed, as well as Additional Proposals developed by the Sunshine Project and the ACLU. Click on this off-site link to see the Austin Chronicle's 2-16 coverage of this issue.