Independent Monitor Peter Harvey and Urban League of Essex County to Host Community Forum on the Monitor’s Second-Year Reassessment

WHEN: Tonight, December 11 from 6:00 to 8:30 PM

WHERE: Central Assembly of God Church located at 92 S. 6th Street in Newark

TONIGHT, Peter Harvey, Independent Monitor of the Newark Police Division, the Urban League of Essex County, and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice will host a community forum to discuss the Independent Monitor’s Second-Year Reassessment. The conversation will occur from 6:00 to 8:30 pm at the Central Assembly of God Church located at 92 S. 6th Street in Newark, NJ.

Under the Consent Decree, Consent Decree Paragraph 182 requires that after the second-year anniversary of the Consent Decree, July 12, 2018, the Independent Monitor file with the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey a “comprehensive reassessment” of both the City of Newark’s

(the “City”)and Newark Department of Public Safety, Police Division’s(“NPD”)progress implementing Consent Decree reforms. Pursuant to Paragraph 182, the reassessment must include:  (A) areas of achievement and the “requirements that appear to have contributed to this success;”(B) “areas of greatest concern ;”and (C) “strategies for accelerating full and effective compliance,” which could include “modifications to the [Consent Decree] [that] are necessary for continued progress. ”This report is the Independent Monitor’s comprehensive reassessment as of July 12, 2018.

Please read the Second-Year Reassessment here.

In 2016, a federal court approved a panel of experts — led by Harvey — to serve as the Independent Monitoring Team of the Newark Department of Public Safety’s Police Division, in accordance with a settlement reached between the Department of Justice and the City of Newark. More information on the Consent Decree and the Independent Monitoring Team can be found at https://www.newarkpdmonitor.com/.